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الله؟» قال: «الذين إذا رءوا ذكر الله».

أي لتحققهم بالله يغيبون به عنهم وعن عيون الخلق؛ فإذا رآهم الناس، لم يروا غير الله؛ فتذكرهم بالله رؤيتهم مثل الآيات المذكرات.

وهٰذا هو المقام الذي سأله رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في دعائه: «واجعلني نورا».

فأجاب الله تعالى دعاءه، فأخبرنا أنه بعثه إلى الناس ﴿مبشرا ونَذِيراً وداعِياً إِلَى الله بِإِذْنِهِ وسِراجاً مُنِيراً﴾ [الأحزاب: ٤٥، ٤٦]؛ فجعله نورا كما سأل.

فإن قوله لربه: «واجعلني نورا»؛ فأكون بذاتي عين الاسم الإلهي النور.

ومن كان الحق سمعه وبصره ولسانه ويده ورجله ولا ينطق عن الهوى، فما هو هو، وما بقي لمن رآه ما يرى إلا الله، عرف ذٰلك الرائي أو لم يعرفه؛ هكذا يشاهدونه أهل العلم بالله من المؤمنين.

الخلفاء (من) يظهر في العالم والسوقة، بصفات من استخلفه.

قالت بلقيس في عرشها: ﴿كَأَنَّهُ هُوَ﴾ [النمل: ٤٢]، وما كان إلا هو، ولكن حجبها بعد المسافة وحكم العادة وجهلها بقدر سليمان عليه السلام عند ربه؛ فهٰذا حجبها أن تقول: «هو هو»؛ فقالت: ﴿كَأَنَّهُ هُوَ﴾.

وأي مسافة أبعد من ﴿لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ﴾ [الشورى: ١١] ممن مثله أشياء؟ قال الكامل

friends?” He said, “Those who, when seen, cause God to be remembered.”

That is, through their realization in God, they disappear through Him from themselves and from the eyes of creation. When people see them, they see only God. Seeing them thus reminds them of God, like signs that bring remembrance.

This is the station the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, asked for in his supplication, “Make me a light.”

God, exalted is He, answered his supplication and told us that He sent him to the people as “a bearer of good news, a warner, one who calls to God by His permission, and an illuminating lamp” [al-Ahzab 33:45–46]. He made him a light as he had asked.

His saying to his Lord, “Make me a light,” means that in my own self I may be the very divine name the Light.

Someone whose hearing, sight, tongue, hand, and foot are the Real, and who does not speak out of desire, is no longer himself. Whoever sees him has nothing left to see except God, whether the viewer knows it or not. This is how the believing people of knowledge of God witness him.

Deputies are those who appear in the world and among the common people with the attributes of the One who appointed them.

Bilqīs said of her throne, “It is as though it were the same” [al-Naml 27:42]. It was indeed the same, but the great distance, the rule of habit, and her ignorance of Solomon’s rank before his Lord, peace be upon him, veiled her from saying, “It is the same.” She therefore said, “It is as though it were the same.”

What distance is greater than that between One of whom “Nothing is like Him” [al-Shura 42:11] and one whom things resemble? The complete one said,