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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَبَوِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ عِيسَوِيَّةٍ
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فَوَقَعَ الخِلَافُ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ المِلَلِ فِي عِيسَىٰ مَا هُوَ فَمَنْ نَاظِرٍ فِيهِ مِنْ حَيْثُ صُوْرَتُهُ الإِنْسَانِيَّةُ البَشَرِيَّةُ فَيَقُولُ هُوَ ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ وَمَنْ نَاظِرٍ فِيهِ مِنْ حَيْثُ الصُّورَةُ الْمُمَثِّلَةُ البَشَرِيَّةُ فَيَنْسِبُهُ لِجِبْرَئِيلَ وَمَنْ نَاظِرٍ فِيهِ مِنْ حَيْثُ مَا ظَهَرَ عَنْهُ مِنْ إِحْيَاءِ المَوْتَىٰ فَيَنْسِبُهُ إِلَىٰ اللهِ بِالرُّوحِيَّةِ فَيَقُولُ رُوحُ اللهِ أَيْ بِهِ ظَهَرَتِ الحَيَاةَ فِيْ مَنْ نَفَخَ فِيهِ فَتَارَةً يَكُونُ الحَقُّ فِيهِ مُتَوَهَّمًا اسْمُ مَفْعُولٍ وَتَارَةً يَكُونُ المَلَكُ فِيهِ مُتَوَهَّمًا وَتَارَةً تَكُونُ البَشَرِيَّةُ الإِنْسَانِيَّةُ فِيهِ مُتَوَهَّمَةً فَيَكُونُ عِنْدَ كُلِّ نَاظِرٍ بِحَسَبِ مَا يَغْلِبُ عَلَيْهِ
So disagreement arose among the people of the religious communities concerning Jesus: what is he? Among them is one who regards him with respect to his human, bodily form, and so says: he is the son of Mary. Another regards him with respect to the bodily form that was assumed in likeness, and so ascribes him to Gabriel. Another regards him with respect to what became manifest from him, namely the giving of life to the dead, and so ascribes him to God by way of spirithood, saying: 'the Spirit of God.' That is, through him life became manifest in whomever he breathed into. So at one time the Real is what is imagined in him ('imagined' being a passive participle); at another time the angel is what is imagined in him; and at another time bodily humanity is what is imagined in him. So he is, for each beholder, according to what predominates over that beholder.
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al-Jandī
﴿فيقول : روح الله ، أي منه ظهرت الحياة فيمن نفخ فيه ، فتارة يكون الحق فيه متوهّما - اسم مفعول - وتارة يكون الملك فيه متوهّما ، وتارة تكون البشرية الإنسانية فيه متوهّمة ، فيكون عند كل ناظر بحسب ما يغلب عليه ، فهو كلمة الله وهو روح الله ، وهو عبد الله ، وليس ذلك في الصورة الحسيّة البشرية لغيره ، بل كل شخص منسوب إلى أبيه الصوري لا إلى النافخ روحه في الصورة البشرية ، فإنّ الله إذا سوّى الجسم الإنساني - كما قال : " فَإِذا سَوَّيْتُه ُ " نفخ فيه هو تعالى من روحه ، فنسب الروح في كونه وعينه إلى الله تعالى ، وعيسى ليس كذلك ، فإنّه اندرجت تسوية جسمه وصورته البشرية بالنفخ الروحي ، وغيره - كما ذكرنا - ليس كذلك﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿فوقع الخلاف بين أهل الملل في عيسى عليه السلام ما هو فمن ناظر فيه من حيث صورته الإنسانية البشرية فيقول : هو ابن مريم ومن ناظر فيه من حيث الصورة الممثلة البشرية فينسبه لجبرائيل ومن ناظر فيه من حيث ما ظهر عنه من احياء الموتى فينسبه إلى اللّه بالروحية فيقول : روح اللّه أي به ظهرت الحياة فيمن نفخ فيه فتارة يكون الحق فيه متوهما اسم مفعول﴾
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Words 1–29 · 2 of 5
فَوَقَعَ الخِلَافُ بَيْنَ أَهْلِ المِلَلِ فِي عِيسَىٰ مَا هُوَ فَمَنْ نَاظِرٍ فِيهِ مِنْ حَيْثُ …Ibn Turka
﴿فوقع الخلاف بين أهل الملل في عيسى ، ما هو ؟ فمن ناظر فيه من حيث صورته الإنسانيّة البشريّة فيقول : « هو ابن مريم » ومن ناظر فيه من حيث الصورة الممثّلة البشريّة﴾
Jāmī
﴿فوقع الخلاف بين أهل الملل في عيسى ما هو ؟ فمن ناظر فيه من حيث صورته﴾
Words 30–46 · 1 of 5
فَيَنْسِبُهُ لِجِبْرَئِيلَ وَمَنْ نَاظِرٍ فِيهِ مِنْ حَيْثُ مَا ظَهَرَ عَنْهُ مِنْ إِحْيَاءِ المَوْتَىٰ فَيَنْسِبُهُ …Only Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿فينسبه لجبرئيل ، ومن ناظر فيه من حيث ما ظهر عنه من إحياء الموتى فينسبه إلى الله بالروحيّة﴾
Words 43–56 · 1 of 5
فَيَنْسِبُهُ إِلَىٰ اللهِ بِالرُّوحِيَّةِ فَيَقُولُ رُوحُ اللهِ أَيْ بِهِ ظَهَرَتِ الحَيَاةَ فِيْ مَنْ نَفَخَOnly Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿فينسبه إلى اللّه بالروحية فيقول روح اللّه ، أي به ظهرت الحياة فيمن نفخ فيه﴾
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Words 47–63 · 1 of 5
فَيَقُولُ رُوحُ اللهِ أَيْ بِهِ ظَهَرَتِ الحَيَاةَ فِيْ مَنْ نَفَخَ فِيهِ فَتَارَةً يَكُونُ الحَقُّ …Only Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿فنقول : « روح الله » أي به ظهرت الحياة فيمن نفخ فيه ، فتارة يكون الحق فيه متوهّما - اسم مفعول﴾
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﴿روح الله﴾
Words 58–98 · 3 of 5
فَتَارَةً يَكُونُ الحَقُّ فِيهِ مُتَوَهَّمًا اسْمُ مَفْعُولٍ وَتَارَةً يَكُونُ المَلَكُ فِيهِ مُتَوَهَّمًا وَتَارَةً تَكُونُ …al-Qāshānī
﴿فتارة يكون الحق فيه متوهما اسم مفعول ، وتارة يكون الملك فيه متوهما ، وتارة تكون البشرية الإنسانية فيه متوهمة فيكون عند كل ناظر بحسب ما يغلب عليه ، فهو كلمة الله وهو روح الله وهو عبد الله ، وليس ذلك في الصورة الحسية لغيره﴾
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Jāmī
﴿فتارة يكون الحق فيه متوهما اسم مفعول﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فتارة يكون الحق فيه متوهما اسم مفعول ، وتارة يكون الملك فيه متوهما ، وتارة تكون البشرية الإنسانية فيه متوهمة فيكون عند كل ناظر بحسب ما يغلب عليه ، فهو كلمة الله وهو روح الله وهو عبد الله ، وليس ذلك في الصورة الحسية لغيره﴾
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Bālī Zāde's gloss, printed inside al-Qāshānī's commentary in the ibnalarabi.com text (line 8239); moved here
Words 65–69 · 3 of 5
وَتَارَةً يَكُونُ المَلَكُ فِيهِ مُتَوَهَّمًاIbn Turka
﴿وتارة يكون الملك فيه متوهّما﴾
Jāmī
﴿وتارة يكون الملك فيه متوهما﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وتارة يكون الملك فيه متوهما﴾
Words 70–75 · 3 of 5
وَتَارَةً تَكُونُ البَشَرِيَّةُ الإِنْسَانِيَّةُ فِيهِ مُتَوَهَّمَةًIbn Turka
﴿وتارة تكون البشريّة الإنسانيّة فيه متوهّمة﴾
Jāmī
﴿وتارة تكون البشرية﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وتارة تكون البشرية الإنسانية فيه متوهما﴾
Jāmī
﴿فيه متوهمة﴾
Words 76–86 · 3 of 5
فَيَكُونُ عِنْدَ كُلِّ نَاظِرٍ بِحَسَبِ مَا يَغْلِبُ عَلَيْهِIbn Turka
﴿فيكون عند كل ناظر بحسب ما يغلب عليه﴾
Jāmī
﴿فيكون عند كل ناظر بحسب ما يغلب عليه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿عند كل ناظر بحسب ما يغلب عليه فهو كلمة اللّه﴾
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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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- 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
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- Muṣṭafā b. Sulaymān Bālī Zāde (d. 1073/1663), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam
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- Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d. 673/1274), al-Fukūk fī asrār mustanadāt ḥikam al-Fuṣūṣ
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