The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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Chapter: | On knowing the station of hunger and its secrets. |
Page 187 - from Volume Two (Display Image)His scene is always sad forever [ The station of grief is accompanied by the servant as long as he is obligated, and in the Hereafter as long as he does not enter Paradise ]And it is a station that is accompanied by the servant as long as he is obligated, and in the Hereafter as long as he does not enter Paradise, for in the Hereafter they have the grief of being rejected, not the grief of greater fear. It is empty and the home does not give joy because it is a denial of divine love from those who carried it out, and nothing removes sadness except knowledge, especially His saying, so let them rejoice. ? ( Chapter One Hundred and Five on Leaving Grief )The truth gave everything *** its creation and then guidance So what you see who has missed *** has passed, the sadness is in vain Sadness is a reality ruling *** for nothing and nothing else Do not worry about this *** for it is the rule of initiation [ No one is left out of the station of grief except for one who lives in a position of deprivation of descriptions ]It is a state and not a station, and it leads to the ruin of hearts, and there is a divine deception within it, except for the knower, for he does not depart from the station of sadness except for the one who lives in a position that robs him of descriptions. When he asked him how, and it is for the situation, and he is one of the mothers of the four demands and has divine lineage, we will devote ourselves to you, O weighty ones, on the recitation of the Kasai, and every day is a matter, and the premium is reduced and raised. [ The morning and evening are for God, and He is Most High, who is bound by the attribute .]As for Abu Yazid, he did not intend to praise this saying, but rather intended to define his condition, for the morning and evening are for God, not for him, and he is restricted to the Almighty by the attribute, and the racist slave is restricted to the morning and the evening is not restricted to the attribute. Because they are possessed by attribute and Abu Yazid has no attribute. So whoever has no knowledge of the station imagines that Abu Yazid is deified in this saying and he did not mean that, may God be pleased with him. Rather, it is better than that such interpretation be attributed to him in this saying. He was deified in his saying by saying: I laughed for a time and cried for a while, and today I neither laugh nor cry, so know that then he appeared laughing, and I did not see anyone on this path from among the people of laughter except one who was called Ali Al-Salawi. There has never been a tongue of guilt, and as for those who weep, I did not see any of them except for one of them, Yusuf al-Ghawar al-Jala a in the year eighty-six and five hundred in Seville. [ Abu Yazid s transmission of laughter and crying ]As for the fact that Abi Yazid moved from these two stations to the station between them, then they are among the opposite matters that have no intermediary between them, such as negation and affirmation, not such as existence and non-existence, hot and cold, for between them there is an intermediary that is taken from each side in a proportion that distinguishes it from the two parties. Like the case of slander for the people of God, he is neither laughing nor crying, so he described it as slander and slander for those who are obligated, so he wanted to define what he wanted to praise. ( Chapter one hundred and six on knowing the required hunger )Hunger is a white death *** and it is one of the signs of guidance As long as it does not affect dementia *** it is medicine and it is da So judge by it, and you will be successful with it [ The Four Deaths on the Path of the People of God ]Hunger is an ornament of the people of God, and by that I mean the hunger of habit, which is the white death, for the people of God put four deaths on their way, one of them and a green death, which is the clothing of the patchwork, except for the garments. Red, which is a violation of the self in its purposes, and it belongs to the people of blame [ The required hunger for the walkers ]The hunger that is required on the way is for those on the road, a hunger of choice to reduce the curiosity of nature and to seek stillness from movement to need. |
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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. |