The Meccan Revelations Poems
Poem No.: 663
I am amazed at the one who said, “Be,” for the sake of “not being'” And he who was told, “He was not,” then
From the Meccan Revelations, part third Page 31
| 1 | I am amazed at the one who said, “Be,” for the sake of “not being'” And he who was told, “He was not,” then | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 3 | He has invalidated the power of the one who indicated it with reason and ruled | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | How can the mind have evidence? What the mind built was destroyed by revelation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | The salvation of the soul is in the Sharia, so do not be a person who saw it and then became deprived | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | And he adhered to the law in revealing, for he had won the good by a slave who had been protected | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 8 | Thought has a place, so embrace it and become a person who has mercy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 10 | And if reason contradicts it, say, “Your development, adhere to what you have precedence in'” | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | God has great knowledge that is attained by those who do not say something and then do not | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | The conditioning was ignorant in it, and the status of a great Sultan was denied to its protector | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Just as the tablet on which the truth was written was ignorant of the knowledge of the pen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| From the poems of Sheikh Al-Akbar Muhyiddin Ibn Al-Arabi in the Meccan Revelations | ||||
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