The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the secrets of Charity. |
Page 576 - from Volume One (Display Image)It is charity for the needy [ Wisdom should not be transgressed by its people ]The Almighty said, Did he not find you an orphan and take refuge, and he found you lost, so he guided? There is no progress that calls for a service from him in etiquette, veneration, and subjugation in exchange for what is better for him. He said that if a Muslim spends on his family and is counting on it, it is charity for him, meaning it falls into the hands of the Most Merciful. ( Access in the chapter on secular and acquired knowledge ) [ gifted knowledge has no balance ]Knowledge is a gifted and acquired knowledge, so gifted knowledge has no balance, and acquired knowledge is what happened from piety and good deeds, and it interferes with balance and appointment. He does not fear God, and every piety has a special action and a special knowledge that comes to those who have this piety [ A man's spending on himself for which he is given is charity ]So the spending of a man on himself for whom he has charity is what nourishes it with these acquired knowledge by which his eternal life in this world and the hereafter is because every good deed is charity, and the people of kindness in this world are the people of goodness in the hereafter and there is no known thing but God. [ The mentor himself is the one who protects his honor ]So the one who advises himself is the one who protects his honor, for it is from his alms to himself and the protection of honor that no slander is applied to him from the side of truth and nothing else, so he is praised by the tongue of the Sharia and by every divine tongue, be it king, animal, plant, metal, astronomy and everything except the two weighty things and some of the two weighty things. This is inconceivable, because the principle that is God does not leave his width from the tongues of his creation, except that he can rise above the width and if possible, he has protected himself, which is his offer to have an impact on himself, not that he protected his honor to be said in him, which is the meaning of his saying and you spent nothing He is behind him [ God's expending hand and his taking hand ]If he spends, I wish he was glorified in the tongues of creation, then he is for what he spent. If he wants to re-praise God as he is the family of God, then he spends in this regard and does not see that he is the spender and spends in disobedience to Satan and does not see infallibility and spending except from the hand of God. This is his condition and his taste, so he does not find reward for the one who returns except to the one who gives him, the hand of God is spent, and the hand of the merciful is taken from it The hand of God is spent *** and the hand of the merciful is taken What is for generosity is empty *** and what is for a slave is idle His verses are separated in wonder *** and they are connected to the eyes If you see it in its volatility *** and it is in the roaming universes I said my things are disposed of *** and she is still, with proof [ Every good deed is a charity ]What we have mentioned is supported by what he is referring to His saying, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, every good thing is charity, and what a man spends on himself and his family is written for him as charity. Abd al-Hamid said, and he is the one who was narrated by Abu Ahmad. ( He arrived at the separation between slavery and freedom ) [ The station of slavery is more honorable than the station of freedom in respect of human rights ]Adding a person by servitude to his Lord or to servitude is better than adding him with freedom to others, by saying that he is free from the slavery of the Gentiles, for freedom from God is not correct. Worshiping him together, for the station of servitude is more honorable than the position of freedom in respect of human rights, and servitude is more honorable than servitude The Prophet, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, referred to something similar in the hadith of Maymoona bint al-Harith when she freed her daughter during the time of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and she mentioned that to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he said, If you had given her your uncles, |
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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. |