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مختلفة، فيعلم أنها محسوسة لا متخيلة، وأنه أدركها بعين الحس لا بعين الخيال.

(التجلي والعين التي يقع بها الإدراك)

ومن هنا تعرف إدراك الإنسان في المنام ربه تعالى، وهو منزه عن الصورة والمثال وضبط الإدراك إياه وتقييده. ومن هنا تعرف ما ورد في الخبر الصحيح من كون الباري يتجلى في أدنى صورة من التي رأوه فيها، وفي تحوله في صورة يعرفونها وقد كانوا أنكروه وتعوذوا منه؛ فتعلم بأي عين تراه.

فقد أعلمتك أن الخيال يدرك بنفسه، نريد بعين الخيال، أو يدرك بالبصر، وما الصحيح في ذٰلك حتى نعتمد عليه؟ ولنا في ذٰلك:

إذا تجلى حبيبي بأي عين أراه

بعينه لا بعيني فما يراه سواه

تنزيها لمقامه وتصديقا بكلامه، فإنه القائل: ﴿لا تُدْرِكُهُ الْأَبْصارُ﴾ [الأنعام: ١٠٣]، ولم يخص دارا من دار، بل أرسلها آية مطلقة ومسألة معينة محققة؛ فلا يدركه سواه، فبعينه سبحانه أراه. في الخبر الصحيح: «كنت بصره الذي يبصر به». فتيقظ أيها الغافل النائم عن مثل هٰذا وانتبه.

فلقد فتحت عليك بابا من المعارف لا تصل إليه الأفكار، لكن تصل إلى قبوله العقول إما بالعناية الإلهية أو بجلاء القلوب بالذكر والتلاوة؛ فيقبل العقل

modes of being, it knows that the thing is sensed rather than imagined and that it perceived it with the eye of sense, not with the eye of imagination.

(Self-Disclosure and the Eye through Which Perception Occurs)

From this you understand how the human being perceives his Lord Most High in a dream, though He is transcendent above form or likeness and above being defined or delimited by perception. From this you also understand what is related in the sound report of the Creator disclosing Himself in a form lower than the one in which they had seen Him, and of His changing into a form that they recognize after they had denied Him and sought refuge from Him. Then you know with which eye you see Him.

I have informed you that imagination is perceived by itself, meaning with the eye of imagination, or it is perceived through sight, and have told you what is sound in this matter so that we can rely on it. On this we have said:

When my beloved discloses Himself, with which eye do I see Him?

With His eye and not my own, for none but He sees Him.

This declares the transcendence of His station and affirms the truth of His words. He is the One who says, “Eyesight does not perceive Him” [al-Anʿam 6:103]. He did not specify one abode to the exclusion of another. He sent it forth as an unrestricted verse and a definite, established matter. None but He perceives Him. Thus I see Him with His eye, glory be to Him. In the sound report He says, “I was his sight with which he sees.” So awaken, you who are heedless and asleep to such things, and pay attention.

I have opened for you a door of knowledge that thoughts do not reach, but that intellects can come to accept through divine care or through the polishing of hearts by remembrance and recitation. Then the intellect accepts