Yazma cildi 3 · Sayfa 111

كساعي الطير: فم مشغول وقدم تسعى». وهٰذا كله أكبر حالات الرجال مع الله، إذ الكبير من الرجال من يعامل كل موطن بما يستحقه، وموطن هذه الدنيا لا يمكن أن يعامله المحقق إلا بما ذكره هٰذا الشيخ.

فإذا ظهر في هذه الدار من رجل خلاف هذه المعاملة علم إن ثم نفسا ولا بد، إلا أن يكون مأمورا بما ظهر منه، وهم الرسل والأنبياء عليهم السلام. وقد يكون بعض الورثة لهم أمر في وقت بذٰلك، وهو مكر خفي، فإنه انفصال عن مقام العبودية التي خلق الإنسان لها.

(سر المنزل والمنازل والواحد في العدد)

وأما سر المنزل والمنازل فهو ظهور الحق بالتجلي في صور كل ما سواه، فلو لا تجليه لكل شيء ما ظهرت شيئية ذٰلك الشيء. قال تعالى: ﴿إِنَّما قَوْلُنا لِشَيْءٍ إِذا أَرَدْناهُ أَنْ نَقُولَ لَهُ كُنْ﴾ [النحل: ٤٠]. فقوله ﴿إِذا أَرَدْناهُ﴾ هو التوجه الإلهي لإيجاد ذٰلك الشيء، ثم قال: ﴿أَنْ نَقُولَ لَهُ كُنْ﴾، فنفس سماع ذٰلك الشيء خطاب الحق هو تكون ذٰلك الشيء.

فهو بمنزلة سريان الواحد في منازل العدد، فتظهر الأعداد إلى ما لا يتناهى بوجود الواحد في هذه المنازل. ولو لا وجود عينه فيها ما ظهرت أعيان الأعداد ولا كان لها اسم. ولو ظهر الواحد باسمه في هذه

like a running bird: a busy mouth and a foot on the move.” All this belongs to the greatest states of the men of the path with God. For the great one among them treats every abode according to what it deserves, and the realized person can treat this worldly abode only as this shaykh has described.

If someone in this abode displays conduct contrary to this, one knows that a claim of the self must be present—unless he has been commanded to do what appears from him, as is the case with the messengers and prophets, peace be upon them. Some of their heirs may also receive such a command at a certain time. This is a hidden ruse, for it is a departure from the station of servanthood for which the human being was created.

(The Secret of the Dwelling and the Dwellings, and the One within Number)

As for the secret of the dwelling and the dwellings, it is the Real’s appearance through self-disclosure in the forms of everything other than Him. Without His self-disclosure to each thing, that thing’s thingness would not appear. He says, exalted is He: “Our saying to a thing, when We will it, is only that We say to it, ‘Be!’” [al-Nahl 16:40]. His words “when We will it” are the divine turning toward bringing that thing into existence. Then He says, “that We say to it, ‘Be!’” The thing’s very hearing of the Real’s address is its coming into being.

This is like the permeation of the one through the stations of number. Numbers appear without end through the presence of the one in these stations. Were its entity not present within them, the entities of numbers would not appear, nor would they have a name. Were the one to appear by its own name in this—