Yazma cildi 32 · Sayfa 63

من جوهر الهيولى إلى كل صورة تظهر فيه. فلم يدخل اللوح والقلم والملائكة المهيمة في هٰذا الخلق، وجعل أولئك خلقا آخر. والكل خلق في العماء الذي هو نفس الرحمن، القابل لصور كل ما سوى الله.

(الصورة المعتقدة ومقالة الأنبياء)

وقد ورد ذٰلك في خلق الحق نفسه، فردته العقول كلها لعدم فهمها من ذٰلك. وما شعرت بأن كل صاحب مقالة في الله إنه يتصور في نفسه أمرا ما يقول فيه «هو الله»، فيعبده وهو الله لا غيره. وما خلقه في ذٰلك المحل إلا الله، فهٰذا معنى ذٰلك الخبر.

واختلفت المقالات باختلاف نظر النظار فيه. فكل صاحب نظر ما عبد ولا اعتقد إلا ما أوجده في محله، وما وجد في محله وقلبه إلا مخلوق، وليس هو إلا الحق^[12]. وفي تلك الصورة، أعني المقالة، يتجلّى له، وإن كانت العين من حيث ما هي واحدة، ولكن هكذا تدركه.

وهٰذا معنى قول عليم الأسود حين ضرب بيده الأسطوانة فصارت ذهبا في عين الرائي. فلما بهت الرائي عند ذٰلك قال له عليم: «يا هٰذا، إن الأعيان لا تنقلب، ولكن هكذا تراها لحقيقتك بربك»، يشير إلى ظهور الحق في صورة كل اعتقاد لكل معتقد.

وهٰذا هو الحق المخلوق به في نفس كل ذي عقد، من ملك وجان وإنسان،

from the substance of prime matter to every form that appears within it. They do not include the Tablet, the Pen, or the enraptured angels within this creation, but regard those as another creation. All are created within the Cloud, which is the Breath of the All-Merciful, receiving the forms of everything other than God.

(The Form of Belief and the Prophets’ Doctrine)

A report has come concerning the Real’s creation of Himself, and all intellects rejected it because they did not understand it. They did not realize that everyone holding a doctrine concerning God conceives within himself something of which he says, “It is God.” He worships it, and it is God, none other. None but God created it within that locus: this is the meaning of that report.

Doctrines differ with the differing consideration of those who reflect upon Him. Every person of consideration has worshipped and believed only what he has brought into existence within his locus. What exists within his locus and heart is only a created thing, yet it is nothing but the Real^[12]. In that form—I mean the doctrine—He discloses Himself to him. Although the entity as such is one, this is how you perceive Him.

This is the meaning of ʿAlim al-Aswad’s words when he struck the column with his hand and it became gold in the beholder’s eye. When the beholder was confounded, ʿAlim said to him, “My man, entities do not transform, but this is how you see them because of your reality through your Lord,” pointing to the Real’s appearance in the form of every belief for everyone holding a belief.

This is the Real created thereby within the soul of everyone holding a belief, whether angel, jinn, or human being,