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لا يعذبه أحدا من العالمين. وما أحسن ما نبه النبي ص على منزلة القرآن بقوله: «لا يقل أحدكم نسيت آية كذا وكذا، بل نُسِّيتها». فلم يجعل لتارك القرآن أثرا في النسيان احتراما لمقام القرآن.

وقالت عائشة في خلق النبي ص: «كان خلقه القرآن». وليس إلا ما ذكرناه من الاتصاف به والتحلي على حد ما ذكرناه. والله ﴿يَقُولُ الْحَقَّ وهُوَ يَهْدِي السَّبِيلَ﴾ [الأحزاب: ٤].

حضرة العزة وهي للاسم العزيز

ألا إن العزيز هو المنيع

له ستر الورى فهو الرفيع

يعز وجوده فيعز ذاتا

و لو لا الخلق ما ظهر البديع

فقل للمنكرين صحيح قولي

حمى الرحمن ذٰلكم المنيع

(العزة والتمييز ومعنى الهوى)

الداخل فيها يدعى في الملإ الأعلى عبد العزيز. لم أذق في كل ما دخلته من الحضرات ذوقا ألذ منه ولا أوقع في القلب. لهذه الحضرة المنع، فلها الحدود، لا بل لها من الحدود ما يقع به التمييز. فيقف كل محدود، لا بل كل شيء، على عزته، فيكون كل شيء عزيزا، وعبوديته فيه، فهو عبد نفسه.

فمن هنا ظهر كل من غلبت عليه نفسه واتبع هواها، ولو لا الشرع ما ذمه بالنسبة إلى طريق خاص لما ذمه أهل الله، فإن الحقائق لا تعطي إلا هٰذا. فمن اتبع الحق فما

with which He torments no one among the worlds. How excellently the Prophet, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, drew attention to the Qur’an’s station by saying, “Let none of you say, ‘I forgot such-and-such a verse.’ Rather, you were made to forget it.” He assigned no effect in the forgetting to the one who leaves the Qur’an, out of respect for the Qur’an’s station.

ʿA’isha said concerning the Prophet’s character, God’s blessings and peace be upon him, “His character was the Qur’an.” This is nothing but what we have mentioned: being characterized by it and adorned with it in the manner we have described. God “speaks the truth, and He guides upon the way” [al-Ahzab 33:4].

The Presence of Might, Belonging to the Name the Mighty

Indeed, the Mighty is the Inaccessible;

creation is His veil, so He is the Exalted.

His existence is inaccessible, so He is mighty in essence;

were it not for creation, the Incomparable would not appear.

Say to those who deny the soundness of my words:

that is the All-Merciful’s inviolable preserve.

(Might, Distinction, and the Meaning of Desire)

One who enters it is called, within the higher assembly, the Servant of the Mighty. Of all the Presences I have entered, I have tasted none more delightful than this or more deeply affecting to the heart. Resistance belongs to this Presence, and so definitions belong to it—rather, those among definitions through which distinction occurs. Every defined thing—indeed, every thing—stands upon its own might. Every thing is mighty, and its servitude lies within itself: it is the servant of itself.

From here appears everyone dominated by his own soul and following its desire. Had the Revealed Law not blamed him in relation to a particular path, the people of God would not have blamed him, for the realities impart only this. Whoever follows the truth follows it