Yazma cildi 32 · Sayfa 47

﴿ائْتِيا طَوْعاً أَوْ كَرْهاً قالَتا أَتَيْنا طائِعِينَ﴾ [فصلت: ١١]، لأنها علمت أنها إن لم تجب مختارة جبرت على الإتيان.

فجيء بها كما جيء بجهنم، وما وصفها الحق بالمجيء من ذاتها، وإنما قال: ﴿وجِيءَ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِجَهَنَّمَ﴾ [الفجر: ٢٣]، يعني يوم القيامة. وإنما امتنعت من الإتيان حتى جيء بها لما علمت بما هي عليه وما فيها من أسباب الانتقام بالعصاة من المؤمنين، وما وقعت عينها إلا على مسبح لله بحمده.

وفيها رحمة الله لكونها دخلت في الأشياء، قال الله تعالى: ﴿ورَحْمَتِي وَسِعَتْ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ﴾ [الأعراف: ١٥٦]. فمنعتها الرحمة القائمة بها من الإتيان، وأشهدتها تسبيح الخلائق وطاعتهم لله. فجيء بها ليعلم من لا يدخلها ما أنعم الله عليه به بعصمته منها، ويعلم من يدخلها أنه بالاستحقاق يدخلها.

فتجذبه بالخاصية إليها جذب المغناطيس الحديد، وهو قوله ص: إنه آخذ بحجز طائفة من النار وهم يتقحمون فيها تقحم الفراش. فاعلم ذٰلك.

(الحد المقوم للعزة)

والضابط لهذه الحضرة الحد المقوم لذات كل شيء محدود، وما ثم إلا محدود، لكنه من المحدود ما يعلم حده ومنه ما لا يعلم حده. فكل شيء لا يكون عين الشيء الآخر،

“Come, both of you, willingly or unwillingly.” They said, “We come willingly” [Fussilat 41:11], for it knew that if it did not respond voluntarily, it would be compelled to come.

It was therefore brought, just as Gehenna was brought. The Real did not describe Gehenna as coming of itself, but said only, “On that day Gehenna is brought” [al-Fajr 89:23], meaning the Day of Resurrection. It refused to come until it was brought because it knew its own condition and the means it contains for exacting vengeance upon disobedient believers, while its eye had fallen only upon those who glorify God with His praise.

God’s mercy is within it, since it is included among things. God Most High said, “My mercy encompasses everything” [al-Aʿraf 7:156]. The mercy subsisting within it prevented it from coming and made it witness the creatures’ glorification and obedience to God. It was brought so that one who does not enter it may know the favor God has bestowed upon him by protecting him from it, and one who enters it may know that he enters it because he deserves it.

By its particular property it draws him toward itself as a magnet draws iron. This is his saying—God’s blessings and peace be upon him—that he holds a group back from the Fire by their waistbands while they plunge into it as moths plunge. Know this.

(The Constitutive Definition of Might)

What governs this Presence is the definition constitutive of the essence of every defined thing. There is nothing but what is defined, although among defined things some have a known definition and others have an unknown definition. Every thing is other than the very entity of another thing,