The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 21 · Page 32

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وإما فاسدة، وهي غير المخلقة.

وظهرت هذه الأعمال في صور مراكب، فإن كانت صالحة صعدت به إلى عليين. قال تعالى: ﴿إِلَيْهِ يَصْعَدُ الْكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ﴾، أي الأرواح الطيبة فإنها كلمات الله مطهرة. قال تعالى: ﴿وكَلِمَتُهُ أَلْقاها إِلى مَرْيَمَ﴾ [النساء: ١٧١] وقال: ﴿والْعَمَلُ الصَّالِحُ يَرْفَعُهُ﴾ [فاطر: ١٠].

كذٰلك إذا كان العمل فاسدا يهوي به إلى أسفل سافلين. قال تعالى: ﴿ثُمَّ رَدَدْناهُ أَسْفَلَ سافِلِينَ﴾ [التين: ٥]، أي هوى به مركبه وقد كان في أحسن تقويم. ﴿إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحاتِ﴾.

فإن عمله يصعد به إلى عليين فيكون له ﴿أَجْرٌ غَيْرُ مَمْنُونٍ﴾ [التين: ٦]، وهو الأجر المكتسب، ولا يكون الأجر إلا مكتسبا.

فإن أُعطي ما هو خارج عن الكسب لا يقال فيه أجر، بل هو نور وهبات؛ ولهٰذا قال في حق قوم: ﴿لَهُمْ أَجْرُهُمْ ونُورُهُمْ﴾ [الحديد: ١٩].

فأجرهم ما اكتسبوه، ونورهم ما وهبهم الحق تعالى من ذٰلك حتى لا ينفرد الأجر من غير أن يختلط به الوهب حتى يشغل ذٰلك الوهب العبد عن معاينة سلطان الاستحقاق الذي يعطيه الأجر، إذ كان معاوضة عن عمل متقدم مضاف إلى العبد.

فلا أجر إلا ويخالطه نور لما ذكرناه؛ فإن النشأة على هٰذا الأصل قامت.

وذٰلك أن الجسم الطبيعي لما تركب وظهر بروحه الحساس، لو ترك مستقلا لأهلكته الدعوى، ولكن جعل الله له روحا ربانيا من نَفَس الرحمن

English

or corrupt, which are unformed.

These acts appear in the forms of mounts. If righteous, they ascend with him to ʿIlliyyin. He, exalted is He, said, “To Him ascends the good word,” meaning the good spirits, for they are God’s purified words. He said, “And His word, which He cast to Mary” [al-Nisaʾ 4:171], and “Righteous action raises it” [Fatir 35:10].

Likewise, if the act is corrupt, it plunges with him to the lowest of the low. He said, “Then We returned him to the lowest of the low” [al-Tin 95:5]: his mount plunged with him, although he had been within the finest constitution. “Except those who believe and do righteous acts.”

His act ascends with him to ʿIlliyyin, so he has “an undiminished wage” [al-Tin 95:6]. This is the earned wage, and a wage is only earned.

If he receives something beyond earning, it is not called a wage, but light and gifts. Hence He said concerning some people, “They have their wage and their light” [al-Hadid 57:19].

Their wage is what they earned; their light is what the Real, exalted is He, gifted them of this, so wages never stand alone without a gift mingled with them. That gift occupies the servant away from beholding the authority of entitlement that wages impart, since wages are an exchange for a previous act ascribed to the servant.

No wage is without mingled light, for the reason we mentioned. The constitution was established upon this root.

When the natural body was composed and appeared with its sensing spirit, had it been left independent, its claim would have destroyed it. God, however, gave it a lordly spirit from the Breath of the All-Merciful,

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