The Meccan Revelations
Konya manuscript
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
باب الزكاة
الباب السبعون في أسرار الزكاة
أخت الصلاة هي الزكاة فلا تقس
النص في هذي وتلك على السواء
قامت على التثمين نشأتها لذا
حملت على التقسيم عرش الاستوا
و لذاك تقسم في ثمانية من الأصناف
شرعا وهو حكم من استوى
جاء الكتاب بذكرهم وصفاتهم
و على مقامهم العلى قد احتوى
فزكت بها أموالهم وذواتهم
و تقدست بصلاة من أخذ اللوا
ذاك النبي محمد خير الورى
في جنسه وله العلو على السوي
نال المحبة من عنايته فما
يشكو القطيعة والصبابة والجوى
In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Ever-Merciful.
The Chapter on Almsgiving
Chapter 70 on the Secrets of Almsgiving
Almsgiving is prayer’s sister, so do not apply
the textual prescription to this and that on equal terms.
Its constitution is founded upon eightfoldness, and so
by division it bears the Throne of Establishment.
Thus it is divided among eight classes
by Law, the ruling of the One established above.
The Book has mentioned them and their attributes
and encompassed their lofty station.
By it their wealth and their persons grew pure
and were sanctified by the blessing of the bearer of the banner,
that Prophet, Muhammad, best of creatures
in his kind, exalted above others.
Through His solicitude he attained love and thus
complains of neither estrangement, longing, nor love’s pain.
Translator’s note TN2305-1: The eightfold structure links the eight classes receiving almsgiving with the image of the Throne’s bearers. The first couplet links their sisterhood with a warning against applying the textual prescription on equal terms. Its syntax is compressed.
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