Yazma cildi 33 · Sayfa 8

وفي المخلوق تعرف العين وتحب وقد لا يعرف الاسم. أ يأبى الحب إلا التعريف به؛ أي بالمحبوب؟

(انكشاف المحبوب عند رفع الغطاء)

فمنا من يعرفه في الدنيا، ومنا من لا يعرفه حتى يموت محبا في أمر ما، فينقدح له عند كشف الغطاء أنه ما أحب إلا الله، وحجبه اسم المخلوق كما عبد المخلوق هنا من عبده وما عبد إلا الله من حيث لا يدري، ويسمّي معبوده بمناة والعزى واللات. فإذا مات وانكشف الغطاء علم أنه ما عبد إلا الله.

فالله يقول: ﴿وقَضى رَبُّكَ﴾، أي حكم: ﴿أَلَّا تَعْبُدُوا إِلَّا إِيَّاهُ﴾ [الإسراء: ٢٣] وكذٰلك كان عابد الوثن: لو لا ما اعتقد فيه الألوهةَ بوجه ما عبده. إلا أنه بالستر المسدل في قوله تعالى ﴿الْغَفُورُ الْوَدُودُ﴾ [البروج: ١٤] لم يعرفه. وليس إلا الأسماء.

ولذٰلك قال المعبود الحقيقي في نفس الأمر لما أضافوا عبادتهم إلى المجالي والمنصات: ﴿قُلْ سَمُّوهُمْ﴾ [الرعد: ٣٣] فإذا سموهم عرفوهم، وإذا عرفوهم عرفوا الفرق بين الله وبين من سموه كما تعرف المنصة من المتجلي فيها، فتقول: «هذه مجلى هٰذا»، فيفرق.

فهكذا الأمر إن عَقِلْتا

فإن تكن فيه كنت أنتا

منصة الحق أنت حقا

فأنت ما أنت حين أنتا

In the creature the entity is known and loved, while the name may remain unknown. Does love demand anything other than making him known—that is, the beloved?

(The Beloved’s Disclosure When the Veil Is Lifted)

Some of us know Him in this world, while others do not know Him until they die loving some affair. When the veil is lifted, it flashes upon them that they loved only God, and that the creature’s name veiled Him. Likewise, those who worshipped a creature here worshipped only God without knowing it, calling their object of worship Manat, al-ʿUzza, or al-Lat. When they die and the veil is lifted, they know that they worshipped only God.

God says, “Your Lord decreed”—that is, judged—“that you worship none but Him” [al-Isra 17:23]. Thus it was with the idol’s worshipper: had he not believed it possessed divinity in some respect, he would not have worshipped it. Yet because of the veil drawn in His saying, Most High, “the All-Forgiving, the Loving” [al-Buruj 85:14], he did not recognize Him. There are only the names.

That is why the true object of worship in the affair itself, when they attributed their worship to the loci of self-disclosure and the platforms, said, “Say: Name them” [al-Raʿd 13:33]. When they name them, they know them. When they know them, they know the difference between God and the one they have named, just as you distinguish the platform from the one disclosed upon it, saying, “This is the locus of this one’s self-disclosure.” Thus one distinguishes.

So is the affair, if you understand.

If you are within Him, you are you.

You are truly the Real’s platform:

you are not you when you are you.