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تعالى وهو الصادق: ﴿يا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنْتُمُ الْفُقَراءُ إِلَى الله﴾ [فاطر: ١٥]، لعلمه بفقرهم إليه.

فلم يتنبه لهٰذا القول إلا من فتح الله عين فهمه في القرآن، وعلم أنه الصدق والحق الذي ﴿لا يَأْتِيهِ الْباطِلُ من بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ ولا من خَلْفِهِ تَنْزِيلٌ من حَكِيمٍ حَمِيدٍ﴾ [فصلت: ٤٢]. فكلام الحق لا يعلمه إلا من سمعه بالحق، فإنه

كلام لا يُكَيِّفُهُ سماع

كلام ما له فينا انطباع

فنسمعه ونتلوه حروفا

بنظم لا يداخله انصداع

فقول الله هٰذا القول الساري القديم الطارئ، من سمعه تكلم به، ومن لم يسمعه ما سمع إلا هو ولم يتكلم به وما تكلم إلا به. فصاحب الحجاب لا يعلم ذٰلك إلا بالخبر، مثل قول الله: ﴿فَأَجِرْهُ حَتَّى يَسْمَعَ كَلامَ الله﴾ [التوبة: ٦]، ومثل المصلي إذا قال: «سمع الله لمن حمده».

وكل مصل إذا كان فذا أو إماما يقول «سمع الله لمن حمده»، هٰذا محل الإجماع. وما كل قائل هٰذا يعلم أن الله هو القائل إلا إذا سمع هٰذا الخبر، فهٰذا هو المحجوب.

وأما أهل الكشف والوجود فما يحتاجون إلى خبر، بل يعلمون من هو السامع والقائل. فهم غرقى في بحره لا يرجون موتا ولا حياة ولا نشورا.

exalted is He, being truthful, ﴿People, you are those in need of God﴾ [Fāṭir 35:15], because He knows their need for Him.

None became attentive to this saying except one for whom God opened the eye of understanding within the Qur'an, who knew that it is truthfulness and truth which ﴿falsehood approaches neither from before it nor from behind it: a sending down from One wise, praiseworthy﴾ [Fuṣṣilat 41:42]. The Real's speech is known only to one who hears it through the Real, for it is

Speech to which hearing gives no modality,

Speech with no impression within us.

We hear it and recite it as letters,

In an arrangement admitting no division.

God's saying is this pervading saying, eternal and newly arriving. Whoever hears it speaks it. Whoever does not hear it has heard none but it, has not spoken it, and has spoken none but it. The veiled one knows this only through a report, such as God's saying, ﴿Grant him protection until he hears God's speech﴾ [al-Tawba 9:6], and the worshipper's saying, ‘God hears whoever praises Him.’

Every worshipper, when praying alone or as imam, says, ‘God hears whoever praises Him.’ This is a point of consensus. Not everyone saying this knows that God is the One saying it, unless he has heard this report. This is the veiled one.

The people of unveiling and finding need no report. They know who is the hearer and the speaker. They are drowned within His sea, hoping for neither death, life, nor resurrection.