The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 14 · Page 9

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Arabic

ص. فقالت عائشة: «ما كان الله ليعذّب قلب نبيّه ص، والله ما مات رسول الله ص حتى أُحِلَّ له النساء».

فمن عرف قدر النساء وسِرّهن لم يزهد في حبّهنّ، بل مِن كمال العارف حبّهنّ: فإنّه ميراث نبويّ وحُبٌّ إلهّي. فإنّه قال ص: «حُبِّب إليّ» فلم ينسب حبّه فيهنّ إلّا إلى الله -تعالى-. فتدبَّر هذا الفصل تَرَ عجبا.

وأمّا المريدون الذين هم تحت حكم الشيوخ، فهم بحكم أشياخهم فيهم. فإن كانوا شيوخا حقيقة مقدَّمين من عند الله، فهم أنصحُ الناس لعباد الله. وإن لم يكونوا؛ فعليهم وعلى أتباعهم الحرج من الله. لأنّ الله قد وضع الميزان المشروع في العالم، لتوزَن به أفعال العباد. والأشياخ يُسألون، ولا يُقتدى بأفعالهم إلّا إن أَمروا بذلك في أفعال معيّنة. قال -تعالى-: ﴿فاسألوا أهل الذكر﴾ [النحل: 43] وهم «أهل القرآن، أهل الله وخاصّته». وأهل القرآن هم الذين يعملون به؛ وهو الميزان الذي قلنا.

ولا ينبغي أن يُقتدى بفعل أحد دون رسول الله ص. فإنّ أحوال الناس تختلف؛ فقد يكون عينُ ما يصلح الواحد، يفسد به الآخر

English

may God bless him and grant him peace. ʿAʾishah said, “God would not torment His Prophet’s heart, may God bless him and grant him peace. By God, the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, did not die until women had been made lawful for him.”

Whoever knows women’s worth and secret does not renounce loving them. Loving them is part of the knower’s perfection, a prophetic inheritance and divine love. He, may God bless him and grant him peace, said, “Were made beloved to me,” attributing his love for them only to God, exalted is He. Consider this section and you will see something wondrous.

As for aspirants under the masters’ authority, they are subject to their masters’ judgment concerning them. If those are true masters appointed by God, they are the most sincere counselors to God’s servants. If not, they and their followers face constraint from God, for God placed the prescribed balance within the world to weigh the servants’ acts. The masters are to be asked, and their acts are not followed unless they command this concerning particular acts. He, exalted is He, said, “Ask the people of remembrance” [al-Nahl 16:43]. They are “the people of the Qurʾan, God’s people and His elect.” The people of the Qurʾan are those acting upon it; it is the balance we mentioned.

No one’s act should be followed apart from the Messenger of God’s, may God bless him and grant him peace. People’s states differ. The very thing beneficial to one may corrupt another

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