Yazma cildi 20 · Sayfa 176

في هذه الطريقة، إن لم يحفظ سراجه من الأهواء أن تطفئه بهبوبها، وإلا هبت عليه رياح زعازع فأطفأت سراجه وذهب نوره، وهو كل ريح تؤثر في نور توحيده وإيمانه.

فإن هبت ريح لينة تميل لسان سراجه وتحيره حتى يتحير عليه الضوء في مشاهدة الطريق، فتلك الريح كمتابعة الهوى في فروع الشريعة، وهي المعاصي التي لا يكفر بها الإنسان، ولا تقدح في توحيده وإيمانه.

فلقد خلقنا لأمر عظيم، ولكن إذا اقتحمنا هذه الشدائد وقاسينا هذه المكاره، حصلنا على أمر عظيم، وهو سعادة الأبد التي لا شقاء فيها.

(اقتران الملك والشيطان بالإنسان)

ومما يتضمن هٰذا المنزل علم الوقت الذي يصحبه فيه القرينان من الملك والشيطان. فاعلم أن الإنسان إذا خلقه الله في أمة لم يبعث فيها رسول، لم يقترن به ملك ولا شيطان، وبقي يتصرف بحكم طبعه، ناصيته بيد ربه خاصة، فكل ما يمشي فيه في ذٰلك الوقت فهو على صراط مستقيم؛ فإن ربه على صراط مستقيم، قال تعالى: ﴿ما من دَابَّةٍ إِلَّا هُوَ آخِذٌ بِناصِيَتِها إِنَّ رَبِّي عَلى صِراطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ﴾ [هود: ٥٦].

فإذا بعث فيهم رسول أو خلق في أمة فيهم رسول، لزمه من حين ولادته قرينان: ملك وشيطان، من حين يولد لأجل وجود الشرع، وأُعطي كل واحد من القرينين لَمَّة يهمزه بها ويقبضه بها. ولا تقل: إن المولود غير مكلف، فلماذا يقرن

upon this path, if he does not protect his lamp from the caprices whose blowing would extinguish it, will be struck by tempestuous winds which extinguish his lamp and take away his light. This is every wind that affects the light of his affirmation of oneness and his faith.

If a gentle wind blows, bending his lamp’s tongue and making it waver until the radiance wavers for him in witnessing the road, this wind is like following caprice in the branches of revealed law: acts of disobedience through which a person does not become an unbeliever and which do not impugn his affirmation of oneness or faith.

We were indeed created for a tremendous affair. Yet when we plunge into these hardships and endure these disagreeable things, we attain a tremendous affair: eternal felicity in which there is no wretchedness.

(The Angel’s and Satan’s Accompanying the Human Being)

This Abode also contains knowledge of the time when the two companions, the angel and Satan, accompany him. Know that if God creates a human being in a community to which no messenger has been sent, neither an angel nor a Satan accompanies him. He continues acting according to his nature, his forelock in his Lord’s hand alone. Whatever he walks in at that time is a straight path, for his Lord is upon a straight path. He, exalted is He, said, “There is no creature but He holds its forelock. My Lord is upon a straight path” [Hud 11:56].

When a messenger is sent among them, or he is created in a community with a messenger, two companions attend him from his birth, an angel and a Satan, from the moment he is born because revealed law exists. Each companion is given a prompting through which he goads and constricts him. Do not say, “The newborn has no obligation, so why are