Yazma cildi 29 · Sayfa 17

من رأى الحق جهارا علنا

إنما أبصره خلف حجاب

و هو لا يعرفه وهو به

إن هٰذا لهو الأمر العجاب

كل راء لا يرى غير الذي

هو فيه من نعيم وعذاب

صورة الرائي تجلت عنده

و هي عين الرائي بل عين الحجاب

(التجلي والصور والحجاب)

ورد في الصحيح تجلِّي الحق في الصور وتحوله فيها، وهو مرادنا بالحجاب. ثبت عقلا وشرعا وكشفا، والكشف يعطي ما يعطي الشرع سواء، أنّ الحق لا يقبل التغيير.

فأما بالعقل فالأدلة في ذٰلك معروفة ليس هٰذا الكتاب موضعها. فإنه مبني على الشرع وعلى ما يعطيه الكشف والشهود؛ فإن العقول تقصر عن إدراك الأمر على ما يشهد به الشرع في حقه.

وأما الشرع فقوله: ﴿لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ﴾ [الشورى: ١١]. فلو تغير في ذاته لم يصدق هٰذا الحكم، وهو صدق؛ فاستحال أن يتغير في ذاته. والحق يقول إن الله قال على لسان عبده: «سمع الله لمن حمده»

Whoever sees the Real openly and manifestly

Has only beheld Him from behind a veil.

He does not know Him, though he is through Him;

This is indeed the wondrous matter.

Every seer sees nothing other than that

Within which he is, of bliss and torment.

The seer's form has disclosed itself to him:

It is the seer himself—indeed, the veil itself.

(Self-Disclosure, Forms, and the Veil)

The Real's self-disclosure in forms and His transformation within them are related in the sound report. This is what we mean by the veil. It is established by intellect, the Revealed Law, and unveiling—and unveiling imparts precisely what the Revealed Law imparts—that the Real does not admit of change.

As for the intellect, the proofs concerning this are well known; this book is not their place. It is founded upon the Revealed Law and upon what unveiling and witnessing impart, for intellects fall short of apprehending the matter according to what the Revealed Law testifies concerning Him.

As for the Revealed Law, it is His saying: ﴿Nothing is like His likeness﴾ [al-Shūrā 42:11]. If He changed in His Essence, this ruling would not be true; but it is true, and His changing in His Essence is therefore impossible. The Real says that God said upon His servant's tongue, ‘God hears whoever praises Him,’