Yazma cildi 24 · Sayfa 282

وفيه علم الصادق يسمى كاذبا؛ وفيه علم الاستعاذة وما يستعاذ به ومنه وأين يحمد وفي أي موضع يذم؟

(الاعتراف والخطاب والاجتهاد)

وفيه علم ما ينفع من الاعتراف مما لا ينفع؛ فإن للمواطن حكما في الاعتراف، وللأحوال فيه حكما أيضا؛ فإن من الناس من يعترف بالخطإ مع بقائه عليه ومن الناس من يزول عنه.

وفيه علم شرف الخطاب ووجود الالتذاذ به؛ وفيه علم حكمة وجود الشك في العالم؛ وفيه علم نجاة المجتهد أخطأ أم أصاب بعد توفيته ما آتاه الله من ذٰلك. ﴿والله يَقُولُ الْحَقَّ وهُوَ يَهْدِي السَّبِيلَ﴾ [الأحزاب: 4].

الباب الثاني والستون وثلاثمائة في معرفة منزل سجود القلب والوجه والكل والجزء وهو منزل السجودين والسجدتين

مقام سهل سجود القلب ليس له

في غير سهل من الأكوان أحكام

Within it is knowledge of a truthful person’s being called a liar; knowledge of seeking refuge, what refuge is sought through and from, where it is praiseworthy, and in which place it is blameworthy.

(Acknowledgment, Address, and Independent Judgment)

Within it is knowledge of what acknowledgment benefits and what does not. Places have a ruling in acknowledgment, and states also have a ruling within it. Some people acknowledge error while remaining upon it, and others depart from it.

Within it is knowledge of the nobility of address and the existence of delight in it; knowledge of the wisdom of doubt’s existence within the world; and knowledge of the deliverance of the independent interpreter, whether he errs or is correct, after fully expending what God has given him of that. ‘God speaks the truth, and He guides upon the way’ [al-Ahzab 33:4].

Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Two: On Knowing the Abode of the Prostration of the Heart and the Face, the Whole and the Part: the Abode of the Two Kinds of Prostration and the Two Acts of Prostration

Sahl’s station is the heart’s prostration. It has

No rulings in any created being other than Sahl.