The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 30 · Page 240

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Arabic

في الوجود.

فمنها ما يقع عن سؤال من الكون، ومنها ما يقع عن غير سؤال، بل يقع بانتهاء مدة الحكم فيكون نسخا. فكما انطلق على العلماء من المحدثات اسم الخشية لله، انطلق على الأسماء الخشية لله.

(السؤال والعزل والتولية)

ولسؤال المحدثات في رفع أحكام الأسماء الإلهية، صارت الأسماء الإلهية التي لها الحكم في الوقت تخشى سؤال المحدثات الله في رفع حكمها عن ذٰلك المحل، كقول أيوب ع: ﴿إِذْ نادى رَبَّهُ أَنِّي مَسَّنِيَ الضُّرُّ﴾ [الأنبياء: ٨٣]، يطلب عزل الاسم الضار وإزالة حكمه. فعزل الله حكمه، فانعزل بزوال حكمه، وتولى موضعه الاسم النافع، فكشف الله ما به من ضر.

فصارت الأسماء الإلهية تخشى الله لما بيده من العزل والتولية، وتخشى العالَم لما عنده من السؤال وعند الله من القبول لسؤال العالَم، ولا سيما أهل الاضطرار. ثم تنظر إلى انتهاء مدة أحكامها، فتترقب العزل كما أيضا ترجوه لمشاهدتهم التولية.

فلا شيء من الأسماء أكثر خشية من المنتقم، فإنه يرى ويشاهد زوال حكمه فعلا، ولا يبقى له حكم في الوجود ويكون بالقوة في الحق، ومن جرى مجراه من الأسماء الإلهية.

(اختلاف الصور والنسب)

فتفطن لخشية الأسماء الإلهية العالَم، فإنك إذا كوشفت عليه رأيت أنه لو لا ما هو حق بوجه ما صح أن تخشاه الأسماء الإلهية. لأنه لا يخشى ولا يرجى

English

in existence.

Some of this occurs through a request from a created being, and some without a request, occurring instead when the ruling’s term ends and thus constituting abrogation. Just as the name of fear of God applies to the knowledgeable among temporally originated beings, fear of God applies to the Names.

(Request, Removal, and Appointment)

Because temporally originated beings request the lifting of the divine Names’ rulings, the divine Names that exercise the ruling at the time fear that temporally originated beings will ask God to lift their ruling from that locus. Such is Job’s saying, peace be upon him, ‘When he called upon his Lord: Harm has touched me’ [al-Anbiya’ 21:83], seeking the removal of the Name the Harmer and the elimination of its ruling. God removed its ruling, and it was removed through its ruling’s disappearance; in its place the Name the Benefiter took office. Thus God lifted the harm afflicting him.

The divine Names therefore fear God because removal and appointment are in His hand, and fear the world because it possesses asking, while God possesses acceptance of the world’s request, especially that of people in dire need. Then they look toward the end of the terms of their rulings and await removal, just as they also hope for it because of their witnessing appointment.

None of the Names has greater fear than the Avenger, for it sees and witnesses its ruling cease in actuality. No ruling remains to it in existence, and it is potential within the Real, as are divine Names of the same kind.

(The Difference of Forms and Relations)

Attend closely to the divine Names’ fear of the world. If this is unveiled to you, you see that, were the world not Real in one respect, the divine Names could not fear it. For in reality none is feared or hoped for

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