Yazma cildi 30 · Sayfa 211

توجبه الأمور المؤلمة في العادة، وظهر عليهم آثار الآلام، فالنفوس منهم في الحياة الطيبة، لأن النفوس محلها العقل ليس الحس محلها. فآلامهم حسية لا نفسية، فالذي يراهم يحملهم في ذٰلك على حاله الذي يجده من نفسه لو قام به ذٰلك البلاء، وهو في نفسه غير ذٰلك.

فالصورة صورة بلاء، والمعنى معنى عافية وإنعام، و﴿ما يَعْقِلُها إِلَّا الْعالِمُونَ﴾ [العنكبوت: ٤٣]. فهٰؤلاء هم الذين قال الله فيهم: ﴿الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحاتِ طُوبى لَهُمْ﴾ [الرعد: ٢٩] في الدنيا، ﴿وحُسْنُ مَآبٍ﴾ في الآخرة. وهٰذا التنبيه على تحصيل هٰذا المقام كاف، فإنه مكتسب. والله ﴿يَقُولُ الْحَقَّ وهُوَ يَهْدِي السَّبِيلَ﴾ [الأحزاب: ٤].

الباب الثامن والثمانون وأربعمائة في معرفة حال قطب كان منزله: ﴿ولا تَمُدَّنَّ عَيْنَيْكَ إِلى ما مَتَّعْنا به أَزْواجاً مِنْهُمْ زَهْرَةَ الْحَياةِ الدُّنْيا لِنَفْتِنَهُمْ فِيهِ ورِزْقُ رَبِّكَ خَيْرٌ وأَبْقى﴾ [طه: ١٣١]

painful matters ordinarily require, and the effects of pains appear upon them, their souls remain in the goodly life, for the souls have intellect as their locus, not sense. Their pains are sensory, not inward. Someone seeing them construes them according to the state he himself would find were that affliction to befall him, whereas within himself the person is otherwise.

The form is the form of affliction, while the meaning is well-being and blessing: ﴿None understand it but the knowers﴾ [al-ʿAnkabūt 29:43]. These are those of whom God said: ﴿Those who believe and do righteous deeds: blessedness is theirs﴾ [al-Raʿd 13:29] in this world, ﴿and a goodly return﴾ in the Hereafter. This indication concerning attaining the station suffices, for it can be acquired. God ﴿speaks the truth, and He guides the way﴾ [al-Aḥzāb 33:4].

Chapter Four Hundred and Eighty-Eight: On Knowing the State of a Pole Whose Abode Was ﴿Do not extend your two eyes toward what We have granted pairs among them to enjoy, the blossom of worldly life, to try them through it. Your Lord's provision is better and more enduring﴾ [Ṭā Hā 20:131]