Yazma cildi 12 · Sayfa 306

عقلا وشرعا- إلا بهذه الأسماء. فالممكنات من خلف هذه الحجب، مما يلي حضرة الإمكان. فهو تجل ذاتي أورثها الاتصاف بالوجود من خلف حجاب الأسماء الإلهية. فلم يتعلق لأعيان الممكنات علم بالله إلا من حيث هذه الأسماء عقلا وكشفا.

السؤال السادس عشر ومائة: ما شراب الحب؟

الجواب:

تجل متوسط بين تجليين، وهو التجلي الدائم الذي لا ينقطع، وهو أعلى مقام يتجلى الحق فيه لعباده العارفين. وأوله تجلي الذوق. وأما التجلي الذي يقع به الري فهو لأصحاب الضيق، فغاية شربهم ري. وأما أهل السعة فلا ري لشربهم، كأبي يزيد وأمثاله. فأول ما أقدم في هٰذا السؤال معرفة الحب، وحينئذ يعرف شرابه الذي أضيف إليه، وكأسه.

فاعلم أن الحب على ثلاث مراتب: حب طبيعي وهو حب العوام. وغايته الاتحاد في الروح الحيواني: فتكون روح كل واحد منهما روحا لصاحبه بطريق الالتذاذ وإثارة الشهوة. ونهايته من الفعل النكاح؛ فإن شهوة الحب تسري في جميع المزاج، سريان الماء في الصوفة، بل سريان اللون في المتلون.

وحب روحاني نفسي، وغايته التشبه بالمحبوب مع القيام بحق المحبوب ومعرفة قدره.

rationally and according to revealed law—only through these names. Possible things lie behind these veils, on the side adjoining the presence of possibility. It is thus an essential self-disclosure that gives them being characterized by existence from behind the veil of the divine names. The entities of possible things acquire no knowledge of God, rationally or through unveiling, except through these names.

Question One Hundred and Sixteen: What is the drink of love?

The answer:

A self-disclosure intermediate between two self-disclosures. It is the perpetual self-disclosure that does not cease, the highest station in which the Real discloses Himself to His knowing servants. Its beginning is the self-disclosure of tasting. As for the self-disclosure through which thirst is quenched, it belongs to those of narrowness: their drinking ends in satiety. For the people of spaciousness, however, their drinking has no satiety, as with Abu Yazid and his like. The first thing I shall set forth in this question is knowledge of love. Then its drink, which is ascribed to it, and its cup will be known.

Know that love has three ranks. There is natural love, the love of the common people. Its aim is union in the animal spirit, so that each one’s spirit becomes a spirit for the other through pleasure and the arousal of desire. Its culmination in action is intercourse. The desire of love permeates the entire temperament as water permeates a tuft of wool, or rather as color permeates what is colored.

There is spiritual love belonging to the soul. Its aim is becoming like the beloved while fulfilling the beloved’s right and knowing the beloved’s worth.