The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 19 · Page 3

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Arabic

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

الباب السبعون ومائتان في معرفة منزل القطب والإمامين من المناجاة المحمدية

منزلة القطب والإمامة

‏ منزلة ما لها علامة

يملكها واحد تعالى

عن صفة السير والإقامة

يعلوه في لونه اصفرار

في أيمن الخد منه شامة

خفية ما لها نتو

أيده الله بالسلامة

توجه الله بالمعالي

في عالم الأمر في القيامة

اعلم، أيدك الله بروح منه، أن ممن تحقق بهٰذا المنزل من الأنبياء صلوات الله عليهم أربعة: محمد، وإبراهيم، وإسماعيل، وإسحاق، عليهم السلام.

ومن الأولياء اثنان، وهما الحسن والحسين سبطا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وإن كان لمن عدا هٰؤلاء المذكورين منه شرب معلوم على قدر مرتبته من الإمامة.

(أسماء الأقطاب والإمامين)

فاعلم أن الأقطاب والصالحين إذا سموا بأسماء معلومة لا يدعون هناك إلا بالعبودية إلى الاسم الذي يتولاهم

English

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful.

Chapter Two Hundred and Seventy: Knowing the Abode of the Pole and the Two Imams, from Muhammadan Intimate Discourse

The rank of the Pole and the Imamate

is a rank possessing no sign.

One alone possesses it, exalted

above the description of wayfaring and abiding.

A yellow pallor overspreads his complexion;

upon his right cheek is a mole,

hidden, with no protrusion.

May God support him with well-being.

God crowned him with lofty things

in the world of command at the Resurrection.

Know—may God support you through a spirit from Him—that four prophets, God’s blessings upon them, realized this Abode: Muhammad, Abraham, Ishmael, and Isaac, peace be upon them.

Two friends of God did so: al-Hasan and al-Husayn, the Messenger of God’s two grandsons, God bless him and grant him peace. Those other than the ones mentioned have a known draught from it according to their rank of Imamate.

(The Names of the Poles and the Two Imams)

Know that when the Poles and the righteous are named with known names, there they are called only through servanthood to the name that takes charge of them.

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