The Meccan Revelations
Konya manuscript
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
الباب الثالث والخمسون وثلاثمائة في معرفة منزل ثلاثة أسرار طلسمية حكمية تشير إلى معرفة منزل السبب وأداء حقه وهو من الحضرة المحمدية
قل للإمام أبي إن كنت تأنس بي
فإن أنسي بربي لا بأشكالي
أنسي بربي لا بالوالدين ولا
بالأهل إن وجود المثل أمثالي
مني هربت ومني استوحشت خلقي
فكيف آنسُ بالماضي وبالحال
و كيف يؤنسني من لا يناسبني
و لا يناسبه شيء من أحوالي
و المثل ضد فكيف الأنس يا سكني
و العقل يمنعه فالحال كالحال
لما جهلت الذي لا شيء يشبهه
سواي أخطرته جهلا على بالي
In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the Especially Merciful
Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-Three: On Knowing the Abode of Three Talismanic Mysteries of Wisdom Indicating Knowledge of the Abode of the Cause and Rendering Its Due, Which Belongs to the Muhammadan Presence
Say to the imam, my father: If you take comfort in me,
My comfort is in my Lord, not in my peers.
My intimacy is with my Lord, not with parents, nor
With family: the existence of a like is among my likes.
From myself I fled, and from myself my created being felt estranged:
How, then, shall I find intimacy with the past and the present?
How shall one having no affinity with me give me intimacy,
When nothing of my states has affinity with him?
A like is an opposite: how intimacy, O my repose,
When intellect forbids it? State is like state.
When I was ignorant of Him whom nothing resembles
Except me, I brought Him into my mind through ignorance.
Translator’s note: The opening poem is compressed. Abī is rendered ‘my father’; the phrase about ‘the existence of a like’ and the attachment of khalqī, ‘my created being,’ remain uncertain. The exception ‘except me’ follows the source's wording.
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