The Meccan Revelations - the 3rd Bulaq Edition |
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| Chapter: | On a wise advice from the Law to benefit the seeker and the arriving, and this is the last of the chapters of this book. | |
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Page 523 - from Volume Four (Display Image)
My sins are my affliction, so what is my trick *** if I am carrying them in the crowd A capable angel will hold her accountable, either for her or for her He said, so I left him and stayed the night, so when in the morning I returned to him and called him, monk, increase me that wisdom. He said to me: Pray the obligation and mention the offer, and do not ask anyone for the connection or the loan, then he said When do you abandon the world and intend to repent *** and your life for the world is driven by it running After death, you must live in weariness *** The weight of milk under the soil will satisfy you with satisfaction And you give a book in which every scandal So stand up in the darkness of the night obedient to God *** Perhaps the one whom I angered may be satisfied He said, so I left him and stayed the night, so when in the morning I went back to him and called him, O monk, increase me in that wisdom. He said to me, Oh, this has distracted me from worshiping my Lord. When do you guide to the paths of guidance *** if you insist on corruption Your day is a player in which you are deceived, and your night does not get tired of sleeping So leave the oppression of the servants, for nothing is more harmful to you than the oppression of the servants And it is the provision that you will leave *** to travel far away alone Be prepared for what is inevitable *** for death is the appointed time for the servants You are pleased to be a fellow of a people *** who have provisions and you are without provisions And we narrated on the authority of some of the scholars of this matter from among the people of God who are advising themselves that he said that he who knows that he has a station before God should The Almighty to ask him about what he has foregoed in this abode, that the despicable little should not affect the great, nor slackening and negligence over seriousness and determination, especially if he was one of those whom God has supported him with mastery of knowledge and pollinated his mind with the meanings of understanding, not to be perplexed in the darkness of negligence in which the ignorant are perplexed. For the people of this description, how did they become scorned from obedience to God and forget about other than Him, and relied on the world and its fluctuation and the multiplicity of its afflictions, and the world did not increase them except in humiliation, and they did not increase it except in honor. Whoever commands you on the Hajj and orders you to travel and does not do good to you, I will, and I hope, and perhaps it will happen. I did not see these qualities bequeathing their owner except loss and regret. So they procrastinated with determination and hastened to be negligent with firmness, for the way has made clear to you, and God is the Helper, the Guide, and the Guide. ( will ) Some of the people of God were asked about what helps the servant find to relieve desire, so he said: Fasting during the day and rising at night and eliminating desires and neglecting them and leaving talking to the soul reminding them. From the first, let him cut off the causes of matter, including his effort, and keep them from himself with worries and sorrows, and calm their dominion by remembrance of death, the shortening of the term, the shortness of hope, and what preoccupies the hearts. Tight He's Strong Shafiq ( will ) In a remembrance, some scholars said, He who trusts in the quantities rests, and he who corrects them rests, and he who draws close to him, and he who is close to me, who describes him, who trusts him, and he who takes responsibility for what does not concern him, neglects what he means. Some of them were told, How does a servant attain Paradise? He said with good integrity that there is no deviation in it, and diligence that does not involve oversight and observance of God in secret. And openly, and waiting for death by preparing for it, and holding yourself accountable before you are called to account. Be aware, fearful, and do not be |
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| This is the book of the Meccan Revelations, by the Greatest Master Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi The pagination is in agreement with the Cairo edition (Dar al-Kutub al-Arabiya al-Kubra) - al-Maymaniya - known as the Standard Edition. Subtitles have been added within square brackets. |
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