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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

الفصل السادس في هجيرات الأقطاب ومقاماتهم المحمدية

الباب الثاني والستون وأربعمائة في الأقطاب المحمديين ومنازلهم

اليثربي الذي لا نعت يضبطه

ولا مقام ولا حال يعينه

مرخى العنان على الإطلاق نشأته

قامت فلا أحد منا يبينه

من قال إن له نعتا فليس له

علم به عند ما يبدو مكونه

فعلمنا إن علمناه يُشِينُ به

وجهلنا هو في علمي يزينه

قال الله تعالى عن الملائكة والملأ الأعلى: ﴿وما مِنَّا إِلَّا لَهُ مَقامٌ مَعْلُومٌ﴾ [الصافات: ١٦٤] وقال: ﴿يا أَهْلَ يَثْرِبَ لا مُقامَ لَكُمْ﴾ [الأحزاب: ١٣]، فأشبه ﴿لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ﴾ [الشورى: ١١]؛ أي تشبه هذه الآية الآية الأخرى.

(معنى القطب وروحه وصورته)

وأصل باب الأقطاب

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

Section Six on the Poles’ Constant Invocations and Their Muhammadan Stations

Chapter Four Hundred and Sixty-Two: On the Muhammadan Poles and Their Abodes

The Yathribi whom no attribute confines,

nor station nor state defines—

his formation arose with reins let loose, unrestricted,

so none among us can delineate him.

Whoever says that he has an attribute has no

knowledge of him when his Producer appears.

Our knowledge of him, if we know him, blemishes him,

while our ignorance, in my knowledge, adorns him.

God Most High said of the angels and the Highest Assembly, “None among us but has a known station” [al-Saffat 37:164]. He also said, “People of Yathrib, you have no station” [al-Ahzab 33:13]. It thus resembles “Nothing is like Him” [al-Shura 42:11]: that is, this verse resembles the other verse.

(The Meaning of the Pole, His Spirit, and His Form)

The foundation of the subject of the Poles is