The Meccan Revelations

Manuscript volume 32 · Page 28

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Arabic

حضرة السلام الاسم الإلهي السلام

لما تسمى بالسلام لخلقه

كان السلام له المقام الشامخ

و الحكم فيهم بالذي قد شاءه

و العز والمجد التليد الباذخ

إن السلام تحية من ربنا

فينا ومن أَسمائهِ نرجو السلام

و لنا التأخر عن علو مقامه

و له التقدم والتحكم والأمام

لما تسمى بالسلام لخلقه

حارت عقول الواصلين من الأنام

(سلامة العارف ومشاهدة المرآة)

قال الله تعالى: ﴿لَهُمْ دارُ السَّلامِ﴾ [الأنعام: ١٢٧]، وهي دار ﴿لا يَمَسُّهُمْ فِيها نَصَبٌ﴾ [الحجر: ٤٨]، فهم فيها سالمون.

واعلم أن السلامة التي للعارف هي تنزيهه من دعوى الربوبية على الإطلاق، إلا أن تظهر عليه نفحاتها عند ما يكون شهوده كون الحق جميع قواه، فتكون دعوى، فتكون سلامته عند ذٰلك من نفسه. وبها سمي السلام سلاما.

لما أراد الصحابة رضي الله عنهم في التشهد أن يقولوا، أو قالوا: «السلام على الله»، تحية، فقال رسول الله ص: «لا تقولوا السلام على الله، فإن الله هو السلام».

فإذا حضر العبد، وهو عبد السلام، مع الحق في هذه الحضرة، وكان الحق مرآة له، فلينظر ما يرى فيها من الصور. فإن رأى فيها صورة باطنِهِ ومعانيه مشكلة بشكل ظاهره، فعلم أنه رأى نفسه وما حصلت له درجة من يكون الحق جميع قواه.

وإن رأى صورة غير مشكلة بشكل جسدي، مع تعقله أن ثم أمرا ما هو عينه، فتلك صورة حق، وإن العبد في ذٰلك الوقت قد تحقق بأن الحق قواه ليس هو.

وإن كان العبد في هٰذا الشهود هو عين المرآة وكان الحق هو المتجلي فيها،

English

The Presence of Peace: the Divine Name Peace

When He named Himself Peace for His creation,

Peace was His lofty station,

The ruling among them by whatever He willed,

And might and ancient, towering glory.

Peace is a greeting from our Lord

Within us, and from His Names we hope for peace.

We lag behind His station’s height;

His are precedence, disposal, and the forefront.

When He named Himself Peace for His creation,

The intellects of those among mankind who arrived were bewildered.

(The Gnostic’s Safety and Witnessing the Mirror)

God said, exalted is He, ‘Theirs is the Abode of Peace’ [al-An‘am 6:127], an abode where ‘no weariness touches them’ [al-Hijr 15:48], so they are safe within it.

Know that the gnostic’s safety is his freedom from claiming lordship without qualification, unless its breaths appear upon him when his witnessing is that the Real is all his faculties. Then there is a claim, and his safety at that point is from himself. Through this Peace is named Peace.

When the Companions, God be pleased with them, wished to say—or said—in the testimony of prayer, ‘Peace be upon God,’ as a greeting, the Messenger of God, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, said, ‘Do not say “Peace be upon God,” for God is Peace.’

When the servant, the servant of Peace, is present with the Real in this Presence, with the Real as his mirror, let him consider the forms he sees within it. If he sees the image of his inward reality and meanings shaped in the form of his outward self, he knows he has seen himself and has not attained the degree of one whose faculties are all the Real.

If he sees a form not shaped in a bodily shape, while understanding that there is something that is not his very self, that is a form of the Real. At that time the servant has realized that the Real is his faculties, not himself.

If, in this witnessing, the servant is the mirror itself and the Real discloses Himself within it,

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