someone in a state of direct seeing. He then knows who is the very reality of these created beings and individual entities.
Continuation on Visiting the One in Retreat, Who Remains with God through One Name and Is Sought by Other Divine Names in Created Entities to Manifest Their Sovereignty in Him in Rivalry with the Name with Which He Remains
Al-Bukhārī relates from Ṣafiyyah, the wife of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, that she came to visit the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, during his retreat in the mosque in the last ten nights of Ramadan. She spoke with him for a while, then rose to leave. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, rose to accompany her until she reached Umm Salamah’s door, and so on in the hadith.
This was a divine name moving Ṣafiyyah to visit him, until she came. Through her, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, received something of remaining with the divine name that had brought her.
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, remained with this name during his conversation with her. It then brought him out of his place of sitting when he escorted her. This is a kind of travel, indeed travel itself, a man’s kindness to his wife in honoring her sanctity and her intention.[36] Travel is a passage, and he moved from his place only under the ruling of that name over him.
When the one in retreat goes to answer a human need, such as
Notes
[36]
(The spelling of bi-imraʾatihi, “to his wife,” was joined by comparison with the newer edition, in the context of a man’s kindness to his wife.)
Translator’s note TN2845-1: The clause about what the Prophet receives through Ṣafiyyah is compressed. The following paragraph explicitly says that he remains with the divine name during their conversation. The translation follows that connection without specifying an omitted object.
