The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 28 · Page 136

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Arabic

منزل الآلاء والنعم

عنده مَفاتِحُ الكرم

و له الحدوث ليس له

قدم في رتبة القدم

و هو حكم عينه عدم

ما له في الكون من قدم

(المعية والصحبة وسريان الحياة)

قال الله تعالى: ﴿وهُوَ مَعَكُمْ أَيْنَ ما كُنْتُمْ﴾ [الحديد: ٤]، والمعية صحبة، وصح عن رسول الله ص، المترجم عن ربه بلسان حق لا ينطق عن هوى، لكونه شديد القوى: «اللهم أنت الصاحب في السفر»، فاتخذه صاحبا له في سفره، والسفر من الإسفار، وهو الظهور، فهو ظاهر الصحبة من الوجه الذي يليق به، ويطلق عليه.

فاعلم أن سر الحياة الإلهية سرى في الموجودات، فحييت بحياة الحق، فمنها ما ظهرت حياتها لأبصارنا، ومنها ما أخذ الله بأبصارنا عنها في الدنيا، إلا الأنبياء وبعض أولياء الله، فإنه كشف لهم عن حياة كل شيء.

والمحجوبون يدركونها بالإيمان، إذا كانوا مؤمنين، وأما من ليس بمؤمن، فلا يدرك ذٰلك، لا بالكشف، ولا بالإيمان، نسأل الله العصمة من الكفر.

ولسريان هذه الحياة في أعيان الموجودات، نطقت كلها مسبحة بالثناء على موجدها.

(انكشاف نسبة الحياة إلى الحق)

إلا أنه صحبت الدعوى في هذه الحياة لكل حي ابتداء، فيتخيلون أن حياتهم لهم ﴿حَتَّى إِذا فُزِّعَ عَنْ قُلُوبِهِمْ﴾ [سبأ: ٢٣]، فرأوا الأمر على خلاف ما اعتقدوه.

وهو رؤيتهم أن الحياة

English

The Abode of blessings and bounties—

With it are the keys of generosity.

Origination belongs to it; it has

No foot in the rank of beginninglessness.

It is a ruling whose entity is nonexistence;

It has no footing within engendered being.

(Withness, Companionship, and the Pervasion of Life)

God, exalted is He, said: ﴿He is with you wherever you are﴾ [al-Ḥadīd 57:4]. Withness is companionship. It is authentically related from the Messenger of God, God's blessings and peace be upon him, who interprets his Lord with a tongue of truth, not speaking from caprice, for he is mighty in powers: ‘O God, You are the Companion on the journey.’ He thus took Him as a companion on his journey. Journeying, safar, derives from unveiling, isfār, which is manifestation. He is therefore manifest in companionship from the aspect that befits Him and may be applied to Him.

Know that the mystery of divine life has pervaded existing things, and they have come alive through the life of the Real. The life of some has appeared to our eyes; from the life of others God has withheld our eyes in this world, except for the prophets and some of God's friends, to whom He has unveiled the life of every thing.

The veiled perceive it through faith, if they are believers. As for one who is not a believer, he perceives this neither through unveiling nor through faith. We ask God for protection from unbelief.

Because this life pervades the entities of existing things, they all speak, glorifying their Existentiator with praise.

(The Unveiling of Life's Attribution to the Real)

Yet from the outset, a claim to this life accompanies every living thing: they imagine that their life belongs to them, ﴿until, when terror is lifted from their hearts﴾ [Sabaʾ 34:23], they see the matter to be contrary to what they believed.

This is their seeing that the life

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