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ما انتقص منها. والله لا يقبلها ناقصة فيضم بعض الصلوات إلى بعض فإن كانت له مائة صلاة وفيها نقص كملت بعضها من بعض وأدخلت على الحق كاملة؛ فتصير المائة صلاة مثلا ثمانين صلاة أو خمسين أو عشرة أو زائدا على ذٰلك أو ناقصا عنه هكذا هي صلاة الثقلين.

وصل (وصف الحق نفسه بالصلاة وما وصف نفسه بالتسبيح)

قال الله تعالى: ﴿أَ لَمْ تَرَ أَنَّ الله يُسَبِّحُ لَهُ من في السَّماواتِ والْأَرْضِ والطَّيْرُ صَافَّاتٍ كُلٌّ﴾ [النور: ٤١]، أي كل هٰؤلاء، ﴿قَدْ عَلِمَ صَلاتَهُ﴾ [النور: ٤١] الضمير يعود على الله^[13] من قوله: «صلاته»، أي صلاة الله عليه بنفس وجوده ورحمته به في ذٰلك وقوله: ﴿وتَسْبِيحَهُ﴾، الضمير يعود في «تسبيحه» على «كل»، أي ما يسبح ربه به وهو صلاته له. فوصف الحق نفسه بالصلاة وما وصف نفسه بالتسبيح؛ فعم بهذه الآية العالم الأعلى والأسفل وما بينهما.

وصل (من غيرة الله أن تكون لمخلوق على مخلوق منة، لتكون المنة لله)

من غيرة الله أن تكون لمخلوق على مخلوق منة، لتكون المنة لله ما خلق مخلوقا إلا وجعل لمخلوق عليه يدا بوجه ما؛ فإن أراد الفخر مخلوق على مخلوق بما كان منه إليه، نكس رأسه ما كان

the extent of that deficiency. God does not accept it incomplete. Some prayers are therefore joined to others. If he has a hundred prayers with deficiencies, some are completed from others and brought before the Real complete. The hundred prayers may thus become eighty, fifty, ten, more, or fewer. Such is the prayer of the two weighty kinds.

Continuation on the Real’s Describing Himself with Blessing and Not Describing Himself with Glorification

God Most High said, “Do you not see that God is glorified by whoever is in the heavens and the earth, and the birds with wings outspread? Each” [al-Nur 24:41], meaning each of these, “has known His blessing” [al-Nur 24:41]. The pronoun in “His blessing” refers to God.^[13] It means God’s blessing upon it through its very existence and His mercy to it in that. In His words “and its glorification,” the pronoun in “its glorification” refers to “each,” meaning that by which it glorifies its Lord, which is its prayer to Him. The Real thus described Himself with blessing without describing Himself with glorification. Through this verse He included the higher and lower worlds and what is between them.

Continuation on God’s Jealousy That One Creature Should Claim Favor over Another, so That Favor Belongs to God

Out of God’s jealousy that one creature should claim favor over another, so that favor belongs to God, He created no creature without giving another creature some claim upon it in one respect or another. If a creature wishes to boast over another because of what it has done for it, what it has received