Yazma cildi 32 · Sayfa 44

ولا يشتهيه، فيمنع ذاته من أثر الغير فيها بما لا يريده.

وإنما قلنا «بما لا يريده» لأنه ما في الوجود نفس إلا وتقبل تأثير نفس أخرى فيها. يقول الحق تعالى: ﴿أُجِيبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذا دَعانِ﴾ [البقرة: ١٨٦]، ولا أعز من نفس الحق. وقد قال عن نفسه إنه أجاب الداعي عند ما دعاه، ولكن هو تعالى شرع لعبده أن يدعوه فقال: ﴿ادْعُونِي أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ﴾ [غافر: ٦٠]، فما أجابه إلا بإرادته لذٰلك.

(حكاية سلطان مرسية)

ولقد نادى بعض الرعايا سلطانا كبيرا بمرسية فلم يجبه السلطان، فقال الداعي: «كلمني فإن الله تعالى كلم موسى». فقال له السلطان: «حتى تكون أنت موسى». فقال له الداعي: «حتى تكون أنت الله». فمسك السلطان له فرسه حتى ذكر له حاجته فقضاها.

كان هٰذا السلطان صاحب شرق الأندلس يقال له محمد بن سعد بن مردنيش، الذي ولدت أنا في زمانه وفي دولته بمرسية. وإن كانت الحقائق تعطيه، فإن حمل الأسماء على ذات الحق إنما أعطى ذٰلك الحمل حقائق المحدثات.

فلو زالت لزالت الأسماء كلها، حتى الغني عن العالَم، إذ لو لم يتوهم العالَم لم يصح الغنى عنه. واسم الغني لمن اتصف بالغنى عنه، فما نفاه

nor desires. He prevents his essence from being affected by another through what he does not will.

We said “through what he does not will” because there is no self within existence that does not receive the effect of another self within it. The Real, Most High, says, “I answer the caller’s call when he calls Me” [al-Baqara 2:186], and no self is mightier than the Real’s Self. He has said of Himself that He answered the caller when he called Him. Yet He, Most High, prescribed for His servant to call Him, saying, “Call upon Me, and I shall answer you” [Ghafir 40:60]. He answered him only through His will for this.

(The Account of the Sultan of Murcia)

One of the subjects called out to a great sultan in Murcia, but the sultan did not answer him. The caller said, “Speak to me, for God, Most High, spoke to Moses.” The sultan said to him, “When you become Moses.” The caller replied, “When you become God.” The sultan therefore held his horse still for him until he stated his need, which the sultan fulfilled.

This sultan was the ruler of eastern al-Andalus, called Muhammad ibn Saʿd ibn Mardanish. I was born in Murcia in his time and under his rule. Although the realities impart this, it is only the realities of temporally originated things that give rise to this application of the Names to the Real’s essence.

Were they to cease, all the Names would cease, even the Independent of the World: if the world were not conceived, independence of it would not be valid. The name the Independent belongs to the one characterized by independence of it. He did not negate it