The Meccan Revelations
Konya manuscript
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
الباب التاسع والستون في معرفة أسرار الصلاة وعمومها
وكم من مصل ما له من صلاته
سوى رؤية المحراب والكد والعناء
وآخر يحظى بالمناجاة دائما
وإن كان قد صلى الفريضة وانتدى
وكيف وسر الحق كان إمامه
وإن كان مأموما فقد بلغ المدى
فتحريمها التكبير إن كنت كابرا
وإلا فحل المرء أو حرمه سوا
وتحليلها التسليم إن كنت تابعا
لرجعته العليا في ليلة السري
وما بين هذين المقامين غاية
و أسرار غيب ما تحس وما ترى
In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Ever-Merciful.
Chapter 69 on Knowing the Secrets of Prayer and Its Universality
How many people pray and get from their prayer
only the sight of the prayer niche, toil, and weariness.
Another is granted intimate discourse without cease,
though he has finished the prescribed prayer and gone to sit apart.
How could it be otherwise when the secret of the Real was his imam?
Though he followed an imam, he reached the farthest limit.
The declaration of God’s greatness opens its sacred state, if you are one who magnifies Him.
Otherwise, outside or inside that sacred state, a person is the same.
The greeting of peace releases you from it, if you follow
his supreme return on the night of the Journey.
Between these two stations lies a goal,
and secrets of the unseen that you neither sense nor see.
Translator’s note TN1575-1: The opening and closing acts are takbīr, saying “God is greater,” and taslīm, the concluding greeting of peace. The first puts the worshipper under the restrictions of prayer, and the second releases him from them. The syntax links the greeting with a return in the Night Journey, though the pronoun’s referent is implicit.
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Ibn al-Arabi, The Meccan Revelations — Manuscript volume 6 · Page 3 — https://www.futmak.com/english/konya/pages.php?id=1575&text=both
