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إلا الذاكر؛ وذٰلك أن الذاكر هو الذي كان له علم بأمر ما ثم نسيه لما جبل عليه الإنسان من النسيان كما قال الله عز وجل: ﴿نَسُوا الله فَنَسِيَهُمْ﴾ [التوبة: ٦٧] وصورة نسيانهم أنهم توهموا بما أضاف الله إليهم من الأعمال والأموال والتمليك، أن لهم حظا في الربوبية أو ضرب الله لهم بسهم فيها، بقوله: ﴿أَوْ ما مَلَكَتْ أَيْمانُكُمْ﴾ [النساء: ٣].

فلما اعتنى الله تعالى بمن اعتنى منهم وآتاه رحمة من عنده، ذكر اسم ربه والله يقول: «أنا جليس من ذكرني». والذاكرون هم جلساء الحق؛ فأورثه الذكر مجالسة الحق، وأورثته المجالسة مشاهدة الحق ورؤيته في الأشياء. يقول الصديق: «ما رأيت شيئا إلا رأيت الله قبله»، عمر (يقول): «معه»، غيره (يقول): «بعده»، غيره (يقول): «فيه»، غيره (يقول): «ما رأيت شيئا»، من غير ارتباط بشيء.

وأورثته رؤية الحق تأخره عما كان يتوهم من أن الله تعالى ضرب له بسهم في الربوبية وأنها من نعوته وله فيها قدم بوجه ما، فتأخر عن ذٰلك بالذكر، فقال: ﴿وذَكَرَ اسْمَ رَبِّهِ فَصَلَّى﴾ [الأعلى: ١٥]، أي تأخر إلى مقام عبودته وأفرد الربوبية لله تعالى فأفلح من جميع وجوهه. وليست هذه الصفة مشاهدة لغير الذاكر؛ فالذاكر عبد مخلص لله تعالى.

(التكذيب والتأخر عن الدعوى)

ألا ترى إلى ما قال (الله) في الذي اتصف بنقيض هذه الحال لما جاءه ذكر

except the rememberer. The rememberer is one who possessed knowledge of an affair, then forgot it through the forgetfulness upon which the human being is naturally disposed, as God, mighty and majestic is He, said, ‘They forgot God, so He forgot them’ [al-Tawba 9:67]. The form of their forgetting is that, through the acts, properties, and ownership God attributed to them, they imagined they possessed a share of Lordship or that God allotted them a portion within it, through His saying, ‘Or what your right hands possess’ [al-Nisaʾ 4:3].

When God, exalted is He, cared for those He cared for among them and gave them mercy from Him, the person remembered his Lord’s Name. God says, ‘I am the sitting companion of whoever remembers Me.’ The rememberers are the Real’s sitting companions. Remembrance bequeaths sitting with the Real, and sitting together bequeaths witnessing the Real and seeing Him within things. The Truthful One says, ‘I saw nothing without seeing God before it.’ ʿUmar (says), ‘With it’; another (says), ‘After it’; another (says), ‘Within it’; and another (says), ‘I saw nothing,’ without attachment to anything.

Seeing the Real bequeaths his withdrawal from what he had imagined: that God allotted him a share of Lordship, that it was among his attributes, and that he possessed some footing within it. Through remembrance he withdrew from that. He said, ‘He remembered his Lord’s Name and prayed’ [al-Aʿla 87:15]—that is, stepped back to the station of his servanthood, and made Lordship exclusively God’s, exalted is He. He prospered in every aspect. This attribute is witnessed by none other than the rememberer. The rememberer is a servant devoted purely to God, exalted is He.

(Denial and Withdrawing from Claim)

Do you not see what (God) said concerning one possessing the opposite of this state when his Lord’s remembrance came to him,