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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ إِلَهِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ آدَمِيَّةٍ
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فَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ حِكْمَةَ نَشْأَةِ جَسَدِ آدَمَ أَعْنِي صُورَتَهُ الظَّاهِرَةَ وقَدْ عَلِمْتَ نَشْأَةَ رُوحِ آدَمَ أَعْنِي صُورَتَهُ البَاطِنَةَ فَهُوَ الحَقُّ الخَلْقُ وقَدْ عَلِمْتَ نَشْأَةَ رُتْبَتِهِ وهِيَ المَجْمُوعُ الذي بِهِ اسْتَحَقَّ الخِلافَةَ فآدَمُ هوَ النَّفْسُ الواحِدَةُ التي خُلِقَ مِنْها هذا النَّوْعُ الإنسانيُّ وهوَ قَوْلُهُ تعالى ٱلنَّاسُ ٱتَّقُوا۟ رَبَّكُمُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَٰحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالًا كَثِيرًا وَنِسَآءً فَقَوْلُهُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ اجْعَلُوا ما ظَهَرَ مِنْكُم وِقايةً لِرَبِّكُم واجْعَلُوا ما بَطَنَ مِنْكُم وهوَ رَبُّكُم وِقايةً لَكُم فإنَّ الأَمْرَ ذَمٌّ وحَمْدٌ فَكُونُوا وِقايتَهُ في الذَّمِّ واجْعَلُوهُ وِقايتَكُم في الحَمْدِ تَكُونُوا أُدَباءَ عالِمِينَ
So you have come to know the wisdom of the configuration of Adam's body, I mean his manifest form; and you have come to know the configuration of Adam's spirit, I mean his nonmanifest form. So he is the Real [and] the creation. And you have come to know the configuration of his rank, which is the sum-total by which he merited the vicegerency. Adam, then, is the single soul from which this human species was created. That is His saying (exalted is He): "[O] people, be wary of your Lord who created you from a single soul, and created from it its mate, and spread forth from the two of them many men and women" [Q 4:1]. So His saying "be wary of (ittaqū) your Lord" [means]: make what is manifest of you a protection (wiqāya) for your Lord, and make what is nonmanifest of you, which is your Lord, a protection for you. For the matter is [both] blame and praise. So be His protection in [matters of] blame, and make Him your protection in [matters of] praise, and you will be courteous [and] knowing.
ʿAbdallāh al-Bosnawī (Abdullah Bosnevî, d. 1054/1644)
Tecelliyât-ı ʿarâʾis en-nuṣûṣ fî menaṣṣât ḥikem el-Fuṣûṣ
al-Jandī
﴿فقد علمت حكمة نشأة جسد آدم أعني صورته الظاهرة﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿فقد علمت حكمة نشأة جسد آدم،أعني صورته الظاهرة﴾
﴿فقد علمت حكمة نشأة جسد آدم، أعني صورته الظاهرة﴾
Jāmī
﴿فقد علمت حكمة نشأة آدم أعني … صورته الظاهرة﴾
Bosnevî
﴿فقد علمت حكمة نشأة جسد آدم اعني صورته الظاهرة﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿حكمة نشأة … آدم أعني صورته الظاهرة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿أعني صورته الظاهرة﴾
Words 10–20 · 6 of 7
وقَدْ عَلِمْتَ نَشْأَةَ رُوحِ آدَمَ أَعْنِي صُورَتَهُ البَاطِنَةَ فَهُوَ الحَقُّ الخَلْقُal-Jandī
﴿وقد علمت نشأة روحانيّة آدم ، أعنى صورته الباطنة ، فهو الحق الخلق﴾
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al-Qayṣarī
﴿وقد علمت … نشأة روح آدم، أعني صورته الباطنة﴾
Jāmī
﴿قد علمت نشأة روح آدم﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وقد علمت نشأة روح آدم﴾
Bosnevî
﴿وقد علمت نشأة روح آدم اعني صورته الباطنة﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿نشأة روح آدم ، أعني صورته الباطنة﴾
Words 18–25 · 3 of 7
فَهُوَ الحَقُّ الخَلْقُ وقَدْ عَلِمْتَ نَشْأَةَ رُتْبَتِهِ وهِيَal-Qayṣarī
﴿فهو الحق الخلق﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فهو الحق الخلق … وقد علمت … نشأة رتبته ، وهي المجموع الذي به استحقّ الخلافة﴾
Bosnevî
﴿فهو الحق والخلق﴾
Words 21–60 · 6 of 7
وقَدْ عَلِمْتَ نَشْأَةَ رُتْبَتِهِ وهِيَ المَجْمُوعُ الذي بِهِ اسْتَحَقَّ الخِلافَةَ فآدَمُ هوَ النَّفْسُ الواحِدَةُ …al-Qāshānī
﴿وقد علمت نشأة رتبته وهي المجموع الذي استحق به الخلافة﴾
al-Jandī
﴿وقد علمت نشأة رتبته وهي المجموع الذي به استحقّ الخلافة .فآدم هو النفس الواحدة التي خلق منها هذا النوع الإنساني .وهو قوله : " يا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ من نَفْسٍ واحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْها زَوْجَها وَبَثَّ مِنْهُما رِجالًا كَثِيراً وَنِساءً "﴾
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al-Qayṣarī
﴿وقد علمت نشأة رتبته وهي المجموع الذي به استحق الخلافة﴾
Jāmī
﴿وقد علمت نشأة رتبته﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وقد علمت نشأة رتبته وهي المجموع الذي به استحق الخلافة فآدم﴾
Bosnevî
﴿وقد علمت نشأة رتبته وهي المجموع الذي به استحق الخلافة﴾
Jāmī
﴿الذي به استحق﴾
Words 31–40 · 6 of 7
فآدَمُ هوَ النَّفْسُ الواحِدَةُ التي خُلِقَ مِنْها هذا النَّوْعُ الإنسانيُّal-Qāshānī
﴿فآدم هو النفس الواحدة﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿فآدم هو النفس الواحدة التي خلق منها هذا النوع الإنساني﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فآدم هو النفس الواحدة﴾
Jāmī
﴿هو النفس الواحدة التي خلق منها هذا النوع الإنساني﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿هو النفس الواحدة التي خلق منها هذا النوع الإنساني﴾
Bosnevî
﴿فادم هو النفس الواحدة التي خلق منها هذا النوع الانساني﴾
Words 35–41 · 2 of 7
التي خُلِقَ مِنْها هذا النَّوْعُ الإنسانيُّ وهوَal-Qāshānī
﴿التي خلق منها هذا النوع الكامل الإنسانى﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿التي خلق منها هذا النوع الإنساني﴾
Words 41–61 · 2 of 7
وهوَ قَوْلُهُ تعالى ٱلنَّاسُ ٱتَّقُوا۟ رَبَّكُمُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَٰحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا …al-Qayṣarī
﴿وهو قوله تعالى: "يا أيها الناس اتقوا ربكم الذي خلقكم من نفس واحدة وخلق منها زوجها وبث منهما رجالا كثيرا ونساء".﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿قوله : " يا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ الَّذِي خَلَقَكُمْ من نَفْسٍ واحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْها زَوْجَها وَبَثَّ مِنْهُما رِجالًا كَثِيراً وَنِساءً "﴾
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Words 43–59 · 2 of 7
تعالى ٱلنَّاسُ ٱتَّقُوا۟ رَبَّكُمُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَٰحِدَةٍ وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا …Jāmī
﴿"يأيها الناس اتقوا ربكم الذي خلقكم من نفس واحدة"﴾
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Bosnevî
﴿ياايها الناس اتقوا ربكم الذي خلقكم من نفس واحدة وخلق منها زوجها وبث منهما رجالا كثيرا ونساء﴾
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Words 45–51 · 1 of 7
ٱتَّقُوا۟ رَبَّكُمُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَٰحِدَةٍOnly al-Qayṣarī comments here.
al-Qayṣarī
﴿اتقوا ربكم الذي خلقكم من نفس واحدة﴾
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Words 52–54 · 4 of 7
وَخَلَقَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَاal-Qāshānī
﴿وخلق منها زوجها﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿وخلق منها زوجها﴾
Jāmī
﴿"وخلق منها"﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وخلق منها زوجها﴾
Words 55–59 · 3 of 7
وَبَثَّ مِنْهُمَا رِجَالًا كَثِيرًا وَنِسَآءًal-Qayṣarī
﴿وبث منهما رجالا كثيرا ونساء﴾
Jāmī
﴿"وبث منهما"﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿" وبث منهما رجالا كثيرا "﴾
Jāmī
﴿"رجالا كثيرا ونساء"﴾
Words 59–93 · 6 of 7
وَنِسَآءً فَقَوْلُهُ اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ اجْعَلُوا ما ظَهَرَ مِنْكُم وِقايةً لِرَبِّكُم واجْعَلُوا ما بَطَنَ مِنْكُم …al-Qāshānī
﴿فقوله : " اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ ". اجعلوا ما ظهر منكم وقاية لربكم واجعلوا ما بطن منكم وهو ربكم وقاية لكم ، فإن الأمر ذم وحمد فكونوا وقايته في الذم ، واجعلوه وقايتكم في الحمد تكونوا أدباء عالمين﴾
al-Jandī
﴿فقوله : " اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ " اجعلوا ما ظهر منكم وقاية لربّكم ، واجعلوا ما بطن منكم وهو ربّكم وقاية لكم فإنّ الأمر ذمّ وحمد ، فكونوا وقايته في الذمّ ، واجعلوه وقايتكم في الحمد تكونوا أدباء عالمين﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿فقوله اتقوا ربكم اجعلوا ما ظهر منكم وقاية لربكم، و اجعلوا ما بطن منكم، وهو ربكم، وقاية لكم: فإن الأمر ذم و حمد: فكونوا وقايته في الذم و اجعلوه وقايتكم في الحمد تكونوا أدباء عالمين﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فقوله : " اتَّقُوا رَبَّكُمُ " أي اجعلوا ما ظهر منكم﴾
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Jāmī
﴿فقوله : " اتقوا"﴾
Bosnevî
﴿فقوله اتقوا ربكم واجعلو ما ظهر منكم وقاية لربكم واجعلوا ما بطن منكم وهو ربكم وقاية لكم﴾
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Words 62–67 · 3 of 7
رَبَّكُمُ اجْعَلُوا ما ظَهَرَ مِنْكُم وِقايةًJāmī
﴿اجعلوا ما ظهر منكم﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿اجعلوا ما ظهر منكم وقاية لربكم﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿وقاية لربكم﴾
Words 68–77 · 3 of 7
لِرَبِّكُم واجْعَلُوا ما بَطَنَ مِنْكُم وهوَ رَبُّكُم وِقايةً لَكُم فإنَّIbn Turka
﴿واجعلوا ما بطن منكم وهو ربّكم﴾
Jāmī
﴿واجعلوا ما بطن منكم وهو ربكم وقابة لكم فإن الأمر﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿واجعلوا ما بطن منكم وهو ربكم وقاية لكم﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿وقاية لكم﴾
Words 76–90 · 3 of 7
لَكُم فإنَّ الأَمْرَ ذَمٌّ وحَمْدٌ فَكُونُوا وِقايتَهُ في الذَّمِّ واجْعَلُوهُ وِقايتَكُم في الحَمْدِ تَكُونُوا …Ibn Turka
﴿فإنّ الأمر ذمّ وحمد﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فإن الأمر ذم وحمد فكونوا وقايته في الذم واجعلوه وقايتكم في الحمد تكونوا أدباء عالمين﴾
Bosnevî
﴿فان الامر ذم وحمد فكونوا وقاية في الذم واجعلوه وقا يتكم في الحمد﴾
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Words 80–89 · 2 of 7
وحَمْدٌ فَكُونُوا وِقايتَهُ في الذَّمِّ واجْعَلُوهُ وِقايتَكُم في الحَمْدِ تَكُونُواIbn Turka
﴿فكونوا وقايته في الذم ، واجعلوه وقايتكم في الحمد ، تكونوا أدباء﴾
Jāmī
﴿فكونوا وقايته﴾
Jāmī
﴿في الذم﴾
Jāmī
﴿واجعلوه وقايتكم﴾
Jāmī
﴿في الحمد﴾
Words 88–91 · 2 of 7
الحَمْدِ تَكُونُوا أُدَباءَ عالِمِينَJāmī
﴿تكونوا أدباء﴾
Bosnevî
﴿تكونوا ادباء عالمين﴾
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- ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī (d. 730/1330), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
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- Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-Jandī (d. c. 691/1291), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
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- Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī (d. 751/1350), Maṭlaʿ khuṣūṣ al-kilam fī maʿānī Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam
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- ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī (d. 690/1291), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
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- Ṣāʾin al-Dīn Ibn Turka (d. 835/1432), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
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- Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0898NurDinJami.SharhMatnFususHikam.IAC00088-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)
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Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/jami_matn.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.
Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.
- Muṣṭafā b. Sulaymān Bālī Zāde (d. 1073/1663), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 1073MustafaSulaymanBaliZadah.SharhFususHikam.IAC00082-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)
Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.
Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/bali.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.
Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.
- Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d. 673/1274), al-Fukūk fī asrār mustanadāt ḥikam al-Fuṣūṣ
Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0673AbuMacaliQunawi.Fukuk.IAC00079-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)
Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.
Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/qunawi.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.
Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.
- ʿAbdallāh al-Bosnawī (Abdullah Bosnevî, d. 1054/1644), Tecelliyât-ı ʿarâʾis en-nuṣûṣ fî menaṣṣât ḥikem el-Fuṣûṣ
Digital text: Our collation of two OCRs of the print, disagreements settled against the page images (AI, each page linked)
Print edition behind it: Istanbul, 1290/1873 (Ottoman Turkish), vol. 1; the scan of Princeton University Library's copy at HathiTrust (catalog record 008919315).
Taken from: HathiTrust. Full view of the scanned volume.
Licence: Public domain (1873 print); our OCR collation is ours. Each comment links to its page in the HathiTrust scan.
The ibnalarabi.com texts sometimes print other hands inside a commentary: Bālī Zāde's glosses inside al-Qāshānī («إضافة بالي زادة»), and notes by the modern editor (al-muḥaqqiq) or compiler (al-jāmiʿ). We cut these out of the commentator's own text and show them as separate entries, each labelled with its author and the line of the file it came from.
Arabic of the commentaries from the OpenITI digital texts (each comment links to its line); Bosnevî's Ottoman Turkish from our collation of two OCRs of the 1873 Istanbul print (each comment links to its page scan at HathiTrust); passages matched to the commentators' quotations automatically.English translations of the commentaries and of the passage are AI (Claude) and marked. Differences are computed by comparing the words each commentator quotes with our working text; they may reflect a different manuscript reading, a paraphrase, or an alignment error. About this text.