The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 17 · Page 229

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Arabic

العالم تعظيم المحدثات. ولا سيما وقد أيد ذٰلك في بعض المحدثات بقوله: ﴿ومن يُعَظِّمْ شَعائِرَ الله﴾، وهي محدثات، ﴿فَإِنَّها من تَقْوَى الْقُلُوبِ﴾ [الحج: ٣٢].

ومن صفات الحق الغيرة، فحجر من كونه غيورا علينا أن نقسم بغيره، مع اعتقادنا عظمة الغير بتعظيم الله. فهٰذا التحجير دواء نافع لما أورثه القسم بالمحدثات في القلوب الضعيفة البصائر عن إدراك الحقائق من العلل والأمراض. والأقسام كثيرة، ولا فائدة في ذكرها مع ما ذكرناه من الأمر الجامع لها، فهو يغني عن تفصيلها، فإن الكتاب يطول بذكرها.

وكل إنسان إذا وقف على قسم منها عرف فيما وقع، وما نفس الله به، وعمن نفس الله به من أول وهلة. وإنما ينبغي لنا أن نذكر ما يغمض على بعض الأفهام أو أكثرها، لحصول الفوائد العزيزة المنال عند أكثر الناس.

وصل

(الاجتهاد ومراعاة الاختلاف)

ومن نَفَس الرحمن تشريع الاجتهاد في الحكم في الأصول والفروع، ومراعاة الاختلاف، وثبوت الحكم من جانب الحق بإثباته إياه أنه حكم شرعي في حق المجتهد تحرم عليه مخالفته، مع التقابل في الأحكام. فقرر الحكمين

English

in magnifying originated things, especially since He supported this concerning some originated things through His saying, “Whoever magnifies God’s rites”—which are originated things—“that is from the Godwariness of hearts” [al-Hajj 22:32].

Jealousy is among the Real’s attributes. Through being jealous He forbade us to swear by other than Him, despite our belief in that other’s greatness through God’s magnifying it. This restriction is a beneficial medicine for the ailments and diseases that oaths by originated things produce within hearts whose insight is too weak to perceive realities. Oaths are many, and mentioning them adds no benefit after the encompassing principle we have mentioned. It dispenses with detailing them, which would lengthen the book.

When any human being encounters one of these oaths, he knows at once what it concerns, what God brought relief through, and whom He relieved through it. We should mention only what is obscure to some understandings or most of them, to obtain benefits most people find difficult to attain.

Section

(Independent Judgment and Regard for Difference)

From the Breath of the All-Merciful also comes prescribing independent judgment in ruling upon roots and branches, regard for difference, and the ruling’s establishment on the Real’s side by His affirming it as a revealed ruling for the one exercising independent judgment, who is forbidden to oppose it, despite the opposition between rulings. He thus affirmed the two

Notes

Translator’s note TN5239-1: Independent judgment translates ijtihād, with mujtahid rendered ‘one exercising independent judgment.’ The text expressly treats both roots (uṣūl) and branches (furūʿ), and retains the prohibition on the practitioner’s opposing the ruling reached.

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