The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 24 · Page 11

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Arabic

لنا حبيب نزيه لا أسميه

وهو الحبيب الذي حار الورى فيه

إن قلت هٰذا فإن الحد يحصره

أو قلت هو فكلام لست أدريه

كيف السبيل إلى غيب وأعيننا

في كل حين تراه من تجليه

أو قلت عندك جاء الظرف يطلبه

و الظرف حق ولكن ليس يحويه

ما إن رأيت وجودا لست أدريه

إلا الذي أنا معنى من معانيه

قد حرت فيه وحار الكون في وكم

أذناي قد سمعت من قولة فيه

هٰذا الذي وجلال الحق أمرضه

فهل له عوض منه فيشفيه

هو الشفاء هو الداء فأين أنا

العين واحدة وكلنا فيه

ضمير «أمرضه» يعود على الكون.

(الإلهام وختم الوحي التشريعي)

واعلم أن لنا من الله الإلهام، لا الوحي، فإن سبيل الوحي قد انقطع بموت رسول الله ص، وقد كان الوحي قبله، ولم يجيء خبر

English

We have a transcendent beloved whom I do not name:

The beloved concerning whom creation is bewildered.

If I say ‘this,’ the limit confines Him;

If I say ‘He,’ it is speech I do not know.

How is there a way to an unseen, when our eyes

See Him at every moment through His self-disclosure?

If I say ‘with you,’ the container comes seeking Him;

The container is real, but does not contain Him.

I have seen no existence I do not know

Except that among whose meanings I am a meaning.

I am bewildered concerning Him, and engendered being concerning me. How many

Sayings concerning Him my two ears have heard!

This, by the Real's Majesty, is what made it sick:

Has it a substitute for Him that might heal it?

He is the cure, He the illness: where am I?

The entity is one, and all of us are within Him.

The pronoun in ‘made it sick’ returns to engendered being.

(Inspiration and the Seal of Law-Giving Revelation)

Know that inspiration belongs to us from God, not revelation. The path of revelation was cut off through the Messenger of God's death, God's blessings and peace be upon him. Revelation existed before him, and no divine report has come

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