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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

الفصل الخامس في المنازلات

الباب الرابع والثمانون وثلاثمائة في معرفة المنازلات الخطابية

وهو من سر قوله عز وجل: ﴿وما كانَ لِبَشَرٍ أَنْ يُكَلِّمَهُ الله إِلَّا وَحْياً أَوْ من وَراءِ حِجابٍ﴾ [الشورى: ٥١]، وهو من الحضرة المحمدية

منازلات العلوم تبدي

حقائق الحق والعباد

بلا تغال ولا مراء

وَلا جدال ولا عناد

فقل لعقلي اقصِرْ فنقلي

يهدي إلى العِلْمِ والرشاد

فكل ذكري إلى صلاح

وَبَعْضُ فكري إلى فساد

فَأَنْفَعُ العلم علم فقري

للسيد الواهب الجواد

(معنى المنازلة ونسبة النزول)

اعلم، أيدك الله وإيانا،

In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the Merciful

Section Five: Mutual Encounters

Chapter Three Hundred and Eighty-Four: On Knowing the Mutual Encounters of Address

It belongs to the secret of His saying, mighty and majestic is He: “It is not for a human being that God should speak to him except through revelation or from behind a veil” [al-Shūrā 42:51]. It belongs to the Muhammadan Presence.

The mutual encounters of the sciences reveal

The realities of the Real and the servants,

Without excess or disputation,

Without argument or obstinacy.

Say to my intellect: Refrain! For my transmission

Guides toward knowledge and right guidance.

All my remembrance leads to soundness,

While some of my thought leads to corruption.

The most beneficial knowledge is knowledge of my poverty

Toward the Master, the Bestower, the Generous.

(The Meaning of Mutual Encounter and the Relation of Descent)

Know, may God support you and us,