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The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 31 · Page 39

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Arabic

المعبود من وجه بنسبتين مختلفتين، ﴿والله يَقُولُ الْحَقَّ وهُوَ يَهْدِي السَّبِيلَ﴾ [الأحزاب: ٤].

الباب الرابع وخمسمائة في معرفة حال قطب كان منزله ﴿قُلِ الله ثُمَّ ذَرْهُمْ﴾، إلى هنا كان هجير شيخنا أبي مدين رحمه الله، وزاد بعضهم قوله تعالى ﴿في خَوْضِهِمْ يَلْعَبُونَ﴾ [الأنعام: ٩١]

إلى الله من كوننا المهرب

و إياه في رفعه أرغب

ذر الكل في خوضه يلعب

فليس لنا غيره مذهب

فإنك إن جئته تقرب

و فيه الورى كله يرغب

و لما رأيت الذي يعجب

من الله فزت بما أطلب

(الإفراد والجمع في العبادة)

اعلم أيدنا الله وإياك ﴿بِرُوحٍ مِنْهُ﴾ [المجادلة: ٢٢] أن هٰذا الباب قريب من الذي قبله؛ فإن الله وصف نفسه

English

and the worshipped in another, through two different relations. ﴿God speaks the truth, and He guides the way﴾ [The Confederates 33:4].

Chapter Five Hundred and Four: On Knowing the State of a Pole Whose Abode Was ﴿Say: God; then leave them﴾—up to this point was the constant invocation of our shaykh Abū Madyan, God have mercy on him. Some added His saying, exalted is He: ﴿Playing in their plunging discourse﴾ [Cattle 6:91]

To God is the flight from our being,

And Him I desire to lift it away.

Leave all to play in their plunging discourse;

We have no way other than Him.

If you come to Him, you draw near;

All creatures desire Him.

When I saw what causes wonder

From God, I attained what I seek.

(Singularity and Gathering in Worship)

Know—may God strengthen us and you ﴿with a spirit from Him﴾ [The Pleading Woman 58:22]—that this chapter is close to the preceding one, for God has described Himself

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