The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 14 · Page 47

Konya manuscript

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Arabic

وثلاث درجات.

وهو نعت إلهي، فإنه يقول: ﴿عَجَّلْنا لَهُ فِيها ما نَشاءُ لِمَنْ نُرِيدُ﴾ [الإسراء: 18]، وكذٰلك الحرص نعت إلهي أيضا، وهو الذي يقتضيه قول الله لملائكته في المتشاحنين: «أنظروا هذين حتى يصطلحا»، وتسخير الملائكة في حق المؤمنين بالاستغفار والدعاء لهم، فهٰذا من ثمرته، وإن لم يرد الإطلاق اللفظي به.

(الاسم والفعل والأثر في النسبة الإلهية)

فإن هذه الأمور على قسمين[15]: منهما ما ورد إطلاق اللفظ بأسمائها على الجناب الإلهي، ومنها ما وجد منه آثارها ولم يطلق عليه منها اسم، ومنها ما نسب الفعل الذي يكون منها إليه ولم يطلق عليه منه اسما، ومنه ما أطلق عليه منه اسما في جماعة بحكم التضمين.

فمثل ما نسب إليه الفعل ولم يطلق الاسم قوله: ﴿الله يَسْتَهْزِئُ بِهِمْ﴾ [البقرة: 15] وقوله: ﴿سَخِرَ الله مِنْهُمْ﴾ [التوبة: 79]، ومثل ما نسب إليه الفعل وأطلق عليه الاسم في جماعة بحكم التضمين قوله: ﴿ومَكَرَ الله والله خَيْرُ الْماكِرِينَ﴾ [آل عمران: 54]، ومثل ما أطلق عليه منه اسم قوله: ﴿وهُوَ خادِعُهُمْ﴾ [النساء: 142]، ومثل ما وجد منه آثارها ولم يطلق عليه منها اسم ولا فعل قوله: ﴿عَجَّلْنا لَهُ فِيها ما نَشاءُ﴾ [الإسراء: 18].

الباب الثامن عشر ومائة في مقام التوكل

من يتخذ رب العباد وكيلا

سلك الصراط وكان أَقْوَمُ قِيلًا

Notes

[15]

(ورد «قسمين» ثم تفرعت صور متعددة في التفصيل؛ أُبقي العدد والبيان كما وردا في المصدر.)

English

and three degrees.

It is a divine description, for He says, “We hasten for him within it what We will, for whomever We desire” [al-Israʾ 17:18]. Avidity is likewise a divine description, required by God’s saying to His angels concerning two people estranged from one another, “Defer these two until they reconcile,” and by His employing the angels for believers in seeking forgiveness and supplicating for them. This is among its fruits, although its literal designation has not been transmitted.

(Name, Act, and Effect in Divine Attribution)

These matters have two divisions.[15] Some have the names designating them applied to the divine domain. Some have their effects found from Him without a name being applied to Him from them. Some have the act arising from them attributed to Him without a name being applied to Him from it. Some have a name applied to Him within a group, through inclusion.

An act attributed to Him without the name being applied is “God mocks them” [al-Baqara 2:15] and “God scoffs at them” [al-Tawba 9:79]. An act attributed to Him with a name applied within a group through inclusion is “God devised, and God is the best of devisers” [Al ʿImran 3:54]. A name applied to Him is “He is their deceiver” [al-Nisaʾ 4:142]. Effects found from Him without either a name or an act being applied to Him are “We hasten for him within it what We will” [al-Israʾ 17:18].

Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen: On the Station of Trust

Whoever takes the servants’ Lord as agent

has followed the path and is more upright in speech.

Notes

[15]

(“Two divisions” occurs before several forms branch out in the details. The number and explanation are retained as they occur in the source.)

Translator’s note TN4109-1: The source says ‘two divisions’ and then elaborates several cases; its count and sequence are retained. The examples distinguish an explicit name, an attributed act, an effect without either, and a name applied within a group.

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