The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the secrets of Prayer. |
Page 496 - from Volume One (Display Image)From it, as there is no text in that, so some of them chose twenty rak ahs apart from the witr, and some of them preferred thirty-six rak ahs, and the witr is three rak ahs. There is no timing in it. If it is necessary to follow the example, then follow the example of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, in that, for it was proven from him, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, that he did not exceed thirteen rak ahs with Witr at all, neither in Ramadan nor at any other time, except that he used to lengthen them and improve them, so this is what he chose to combine. Between praying Ramadan and following the example of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace ( Consideration reached in this chapter ) Ramadan is one of the names of God Almighty, so the qiyaam in this month is for the sake of this name, because if it comes, it is necessary to stand for it. Whoever attributes the truth is a rule that no one else has, and it is the obligation of fasting on the servants of God, and it is a steadfast characteristic in which a person is free from food, drink, marriage and backbiting, and these are all divine attributes that characterize a person when he is fasting. At the time of breaking the fast, to know that he is a poor and nourished slave, and that is not a real walk. [ Every deed of the son of Adam is for him except fasting, which is for God .]For this reason, the Almighty told us in the hadith narrated about him that fasting is for him, and all the work of the son of Adam is for the son of Adam. He says that abstaining from food, drink and marriage is for me, not for you, O My servant, because I am the one standing by myself. food, and I impoverished you for it, to warn you that I am the preserver of your existence, so that your poverty may be correct with you [ Singing of truth and lack of slave ]And with this lack, you became oppressed, arrogant, arrogant, and magnified in yourself, and I said to someone who is like you, I am your Lord the Most High. Nevertheless, you are rewarded, so the qiyaam of Ramadan is standing in the presence of God, so whoever the truth is a circumstance for him, then God is encompassing everything. About food and women s clothing throughout the day, which is half the life of your existence, then you face the night, and you depart from your lordship that is free from food and marriage, to your servitude with the breaking of the fast and all of Ramadan. [ Fasting is like prayer divided in two halves between the servant and his Lord ]You are in Ramadan as you are in prayer from He said: I divided the prayer between me and My servant in two halves, so half of it is for me and half for my servant Likewise, Ramadan divided it between him and his servant in two halves, one half of it Saying fasting to me It is the time of day and half for the servant, and the night is the time when he breaks his fast He said in prayer that it is light And the He said during fasting that it is Diya And the light is the light, the Almighty said, It is He who made the sun a brightness, and He made the sun a lamp. If our intentions are true *** in secrets we unite [ Health of spells and union of secrets ]Determination and intention and intention are a condition in fasting from the night, so we are in fasting with the truth, as Belqis said in her throne, as if he and he were him, but her ignorance entered sufficient analogy, so is the ignorance of man saying I am fasting, and how should the one who is nourished be fasting in no way. God said fasting is for me, not for you So he removed from him the claim of fasting, just as he removed from Balqis the analogy of the throne to her throne, so I knew after that that he is nothing else. This is the meaning of our statement. If our intentions are true *** in secrets we unite [ Union is the correctness of the ratio for each of the contenders ]If you say the fasting person is the person, you are correct. ? I'm not me and I'm not him *** who am I and who is he O he, say you are me *** and I am he you are him No and I am what I am *** nor is it what is If he was what *** our eyes looked for him |
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This is the book of the Meccan Revelations, by the Greatest Master Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi The pagination is in agreement with the Cairo edition (Dar al-Kutub al-Arabiya al-Kubra) - al-Maymaniya - known as the Standard Edition. Subtitles have been added within square brackets. |