The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the number of secrets that appear to the viewer at the interview and the deviation, and how much does he deviate from the interview. |
Page 58 - from Volume Two (Display Image)Poverty with the presence of the name of the rich that is restricted to him and appears in it. If it is called rich, it is valid for him because he gives goodness and favor, and he is the giver who gives to be blessed and may give to be worshiped. Not to give a gift and a favour, and to give a gift is to give livestock, not to a request of thanksgiving, nor to a reward. I created the jinn and mankind only to worship Me, so the status of their creation is to Him what is the status of their creation for them, so He created them for them from the names of purification and for them from the names of simile, and this amount is sufficient for the purpose (Question twenty-fifth) What is the beginning of the revelation? The answer is the revelation of abstract, rational meanings into restricted sensory patterns in the presence of the imagination, whether in sleep or wakefulness. As the Messenger of God, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, realized knowledge in the form of milk, and so was his first vision. It is what God has kept over Muslims, and it is one of the parts of prophecy [ The prophecy that was raised and the prophecy that was kept ]Prophecy was not exalted entirely, and that is why we said that the prophecy of legislation was only exalted, so this means that there is no prophet after him. Likewise, whoever memorizes the Qur an has included prophecy among his two sides. Prophecy has undoubtedly fulfilled him. So we knew that his saying There is no prophet after him i.e. there is no legislator in particular, not that there will be no prophet after him. This is like his saying if Khosrau perished, then there is no Khosrau after him, and if Caesar perishes, there is no Caesar after him, and Khosrau and Caesar were none other than the king of the Romans and the Persians. He, peace and blessings of God be upon him, for the legislation sent down from God by revelation after him, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, ceased to exist. The mujtahid is his guide, and he is the one that God has authorized. [ The True Vision and Revelation ]If I say this is what the Messenger of God, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, began with, from where do we say that the revelation began, then we say there is no doubt and there is no secret among the believers and the saints that Muhammad, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, was singled out by God with perfection in every virtue. and he His saying, peace be upon him, I have been given all the words He was sent in general, and there was no portion of the revelation left except that it was revealed to him. When he was in this position and the beginning of the vision, may God s prayers and peace be upon him, in his revelation for six months, we knew that the beginning of the revelation was a vision and that it was part of the forty-six parts of prophecy because it was six months, and his prophethood was twenty-three years and six years. The most famous part of the forty-six and it does not have to be for every prophet, for it was revealed to a prophet, not from the beginning of the revelation, which is the vision, but with another kind of revelation. And peace in the place was given that the beginning of the revelation be what the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and so it should be, for the beginning for us is what suits the senses first and then rises to abstract matters outside the senses, so it was only a dream, whether it was sleep or wakefulness, and revelation here is legislation. The laws of being a prophet or a messenger, whatever he was [ Inspiration and Revelation ]And all of this if his question is about the revelation revealed to humans. If his question is about the beginning of the revelation in terms of revelation, or about the beginning of the revelation in the case of every class of those who are revealed to him, such as angels and non-humans of the animal race, such as his saying, and your Lord revealed to bees and other than the animal race, like offering the trust to The heavens, the earth and the mountains, for it was a revelation and the likeness of His saying, and He revealed in every heaven its affair and the likeness of His saying, and a soul and everything else, and it is the soul of every obligated person. For mankind and the jinn inspire immorality and piety. We all extend these and these from the gift of your Lord. And the giving of your Lord is not prohibited. If he wants to initiate revelation in every category, a class and a person, then he is the inspiration, for there is no person where revelation is devoid of an answer, and it is the beginning of revelation. |
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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. |