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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَبَوِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ عِيسَوِيَّةٍ
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فَتَخَيَّلَ السَّامِعُ أَنَّهُمْ نَسَبُوا الأُلُوهَةَ لِلصُّورَةِ وَجَعَلُوهَا عَيْنَ الصُّورَةِ وَمَا فَعَلُوا بَلْ جَعَلُوا الهُوِيَّةَ الإِلَهِيَّةَ ابْتِدَاءً فِي صُورَةٍ بَشَرِيَّةٍ هِيَ ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ فَفَصَلُوا بَيْنَ الصُّورَةِ وَالحُكْمِ لَا أَنَّهُمْ جَعَلُوا الصُّورَةَ عَيْنَ الحُكْمِ كَمَا كَانَ جِبْرَئِيلُ فِي صُورَةِ البَشَرِ وَلَا نَفْخَ ثُمَّ نَفَخَ فَفَصَلَ بَيْنَ الصُّورَةِ وَالنَّفْخِ وَكَانَ النَّفْخُ مِنَ الصُّورَةِ فَقَدْ كَانَتْ وَلَا نَفْخَ فَمَا هُوَ النَّفْخُ مِنْ حَدِّهَا الذَّاتِيِّ
So the hearer imagined that they attributed divinity to the form and made it the very self of the form. But they did not do so. Rather, they made the divine He-ness the subject [of their statement], [placed] in a human form, which is the son of Mary. Thus they separated the form from the ruling property; it is not that they made the form the very self of the ruling property. Likewise, Gabriel was in the form of a human being, and there was no blowing; then he blew. So he separated the form from the blowing, even though the blowing came from the form. For the form had already existed with no blowing, so the blowing is not part of its essential definition.
Words 1–2 · 3 of 4
فَتَخَيَّلَ السَّامِعُIbn Turka
﴿فتخيّل السامع﴾
Jāmī
﴿فتخيل السامع أنهم نسبوا الألوهية … للصورة وجعلوها﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿فتخيل السامع﴾
Words 3–9 · 1 of 4
أَنَّهُمْ نَسَبُوا الأُلُوهَةَ لِلصُّورَةِ وَجَعَلُوهَا عَيْنَ الصُّورَةِOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿أنّهم نسبوا الإلهيّة للصورة وجعلوها عين الصورة﴾
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Words 8–10 · 2 of 4
عَيْنَ الصُّورَةِ وَمَاJāmī
﴿عين الصورة … وما فعلوا﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿عين الصورة وما فعلوا … بل جعلوا الهوية الإلهية ابتداء … في صورة بشرية﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿وما فعلوا﴾
Words 12–26 · 2 of 4
بَلْ جَعَلُوا الهُوِيَّةَ الإِلَهِيَّةَ ابْتِدَاءً فِي صُورَةٍ بَشَرِيَّةٍ هِيَ ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ فَفَصَلُوا بَيْنَ الصُّورَةِ …Ibn Turka
﴿بل جعلوا الهويّة الإلهيّة ابتداء في صورة بشريّة - هي ابن مريم - ففصّلوا بين الصورة والحكم﴾
Jāmī
﴿بل جعلوا الهوية الإلهية ابتداء﴾
Jāmī
﴿في صورة بشرية هي ابن مريم﴾
Words 23–26 · 2 of 4
فَفَصَلُوا بَيْنَ الصُّورَةِ وَالحُكْمِJāmī
﴿ففصلوا بين الصورة والحكم﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ففصلوا بين الصورة﴾
Words 27–32 · 3 of 4
لَا أَنَّهُمْ جَعَلُوا الصُّورَةَ عَيْنَ الحُكْمِIbn Turka
﴿لا أنّهم جعلوا الصورة عين الحكم﴾
Jāmī
﴿لا أنهم جعلوا الصورة عين الحكم﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿لا أنهم جعلوا الصورة عين الحكم﴾
Words 33–59 · 3 of 4
كَمَا كَانَ جِبْرَئِيلُ فِي صُورَةِ البَشَرِ وَلَا نَفْخَ ثُمَّ نَفَخَ فَفَصَلَ بَيْنَ الصُّورَةِ وَالنَّفْخِ …al-Qāshānī
﴿كما كان جبريل في صورة البشر ولا نفخ ، ثم نفخ ففصل بين الصورة والنفخ ، وكان النفخ من الصورة فكانت ولا نفخ فما هو النفخ من حدها الذاتي﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿كما كان جبرئيل في صورة البشر - ولا نفخ - ثم نفخ . ففصّل بين الصورة والنفخ و﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿كما كان جبريل في صورة البشر ولا نفخ ، ثم نفخ ففصل بين الصورة والنفخ ، وكان النفخ من الصورة فكانت ولا نفخ فما هو النفخ من حدها الذاتي﴾
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Bālī Zāde's gloss, printed inside al-Qāshānī's commentary in the ibnalarabi.com text (line 8206); moved here
Bālī Zāde
﴿في صورة البشر ولا نفخ ثم نفخ ففصل … بين الصورة والنفخ﴾
Jāmī
﴿ثم نفخ فيها ففصل بين الصورة﴾
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Words 47–50 · 2 of 4
وَكَانَ النَّفْخُ مِنَ الصُّورَةِIbn Turka
﴿كان النفخ من الصورة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وكان النفخ … من الصورة فقد كانت﴾
Jāmī
﴿من الصورة﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فقد كانت ولا نفخ﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ولا نفخ﴾
Words 55–60 · 3 of 4
فَمَا هُوَ النَّفْخُ مِنْ حَدِّهَا الذَّاتِيِّIbn Turka
﴿فما هو النفخ من حدّها الذاتي﴾
Jāmī
﴿فما هو … من حدها الذاتي﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فما هو النفخ من حدها الذاتي﴾
Sources: where each commentator's text comes from
- ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī (d. 730/1330), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0730CabdRazzaqKashani.SharhFususHikam.IAC00084-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/qashani.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.
- Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-Jandī (d. c. 691/1291), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0691MuayyadDinJanadi.SharhCalaFususHikam.IAC00080-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)
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Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/jandi.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.
- ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsānī (d. 690/1291), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0690CafifTilimsani.SharhFususHikam.IAC00081-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/tilmasani.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.
- Ṣāʾin al-Dīn Ibn Turka (d. 835/1432), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0835SainDinTaraka.SharhFususHikam.IAC00087-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)
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Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/taraka.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.
- 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)
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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.
Missing here: Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī: no text for chapters 15–27. The OpenITI barzakh file (and the ibnalarabi.com pages it was copied from) repeats chapter 14 in their place; a usable copy of the print has not yet been found.
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.
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