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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَبَوِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ عِيسَوِيَّةٍ
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فَهَلْ تُنْسَبُ الكَلِمَةُ إِلَيْهِ بِحَسَبِ مَا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ فَلَا تُعْلَمُ مَاهِيَّتُهَا أَوْ يَنْزِلُ هُوَ تَعَالَىٰ إِلَىٰ صُورَةِ مَنْ يَقُولُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ قَوْلُ كُنْ حَقِيقَةٌ لِتِلْكَ الصُّورَةِ الَّتِي نَزَلَ إِلَيْهَا وَظَهَرَ فِيهَا فَبَعْضُ العَارِفِينَ يَذْهَبُ إِلَىٰ الطَّرَفِ الوَاحِدِ وَبَعْضُهُمْ إِلَىٰ الطَّرَفِ الآخَرِ وَبَعْضُهُمْ يَحَارُ فِي الأَمْرِ وَلَا يَدْرِي وَهَذِهِ مَسْأَلَةٌ لَا يُمْكِنُ أَنْ تُعْرَفَ إِلَّا ذَوْقًا كَأَبِي يَزِيدَ حِينَ نَفَخَ فِي النَّمْلَةِ الَّتِي قَتَلَهَا فَحَيِيَتْ فَعَلِمَ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ بِمَنْ يَنْفُخُ فَنَفَخَ فَكَانَ عِيسَوِيَّ المَشْهَدِ
Is the word, then, ascribed to Him according to what He is in Himself, so that its quiddity is not known? Or does He (exalted is He) descend to the form of the one who says "Be!", so that the saying of "Be!" is a reality belonging to that form to which He descended and in which He became manifest? Some of the gnostics incline to the one side, some of them to the other side, and some of them are bewildered in the matter and do not know. This is a question that cannot be known except by tasting, as with Abū Yazīd when he breathed into the ant that he had killed and it came to life: at that moment he knew by whom he was breathing, and so he breathed, and his witnessing was Jesus-like.
Words 1–9 · 2 of 4
فَهَلْ تُنْسَبُ الكَلِمَةُ إِلَيْهِ بِحَسَبِ مَا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ فَلَاJāmī
﴿فهل تنسب … الكلمة إليه سبحانه بحسب ما هو عليه﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿فهل تنسب الكلمة إليه تعالى بحسب ما هو عليه﴾
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Words 3–11 · 1 of 4
الكَلِمَةُ إِلَيْهِ بِحَسَبِ مَا هُوَ عَلَيْهِ فَلَا تُعْلَمُ مَاهِيَّتُهَاOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿إليه تعالى بحسب ما هو عليه ، فلا تعلم ماهيّتها﴾
Words 12–31 · 3 of 4
أَوْ يَنْزِلُ هُوَ تَعَالَىٰ إِلَىٰ صُورَةِ مَنْ يَقُولُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ قَوْلُ كُنْ حَقِيقَةٌ لِتِلْكَ …Ibn Turka
﴿أو ينزل هو تعالى إلى صورة من يقول : " كن" فيكون قول " كن " حقيقة لتلك الصورة التي نزل إليها ، وظهر فيه﴾
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Jāmī
Bālī Zāde
﴿أو ينزل هو تعالى إلى صورة من يقول … "كُنْ فَيَكُونُ " قول كن حقيقة لتلك الصورة التي نزل … إليها وظهر فيها﴾
Jāmī
﴿إلى صورة من يقول «كن» فيكون قول كن حقيقة لتلك الصورة التي نزل إليها وظهر فيها؟ فبعض العارفين يذهب إلى الطرف الواحد، وبعضهم إلى الطرف الآخر، وبعضهم يحار في الأمر ولا يدري. وهذه مسألة لا يمكن أن تعرف إلا ذوقا كأبي يزيد حين نفخ في النملة التي قتلها فحييت فعلم عند ذلك بمن ينفخ فنفخ فكان عيسوي المشهد. وأما الإحياء المعنوي بالعلم فتلك الحياة الإلهية الدائمة العلية النورية التي قال الله فيها «أو من كان ميتا فأحييناه وجعلنا له نورا يمشي به في الناس» فكل من أحيا نفسا ميتة بحياة علمية في مسألة خاصة متعلقة بالعلم بالله، فقد أحياه بها وكانت له نورا يمشي به في الناس أي بين أشكاله في الصورة. … كُنْ فَيَكُونُ﴾
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Jāmī
﴿حقيقة لتلك الصورة التي نزل … إليها وظهر فيها﴾
Words 32–48 · 3 of 4
فَبَعْضُ العَارِفِينَ يَذْهَبُ إِلَىٰ الطَّرَفِ الوَاحِدِ وَبَعْضُهُمْ إِلَىٰ الطَّرَفِ الآخَرِ وَبَعْضُهُمْ يَحَارُ فِي الأَمْرِ …Ibn Turka
﴿فبعض العارفين يذهب إلى الطرف الواحد ، وبعضهم إلى الطرف الآخر ، وبعضهم يحار في الأمر ولا يدري و﴾
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Jāmī
﴿فبعض العارفين يذهب إلى الطرف الواحد﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فبعض العارفين يذهب إلى الطرف الواحد﴾
Words 38–41 · 2 of 4
وَبَعْضُهُمْ إِلَىٰ الطَّرَفِ الآخَرِJāmī
﴿وبعضهم إلى الطرف الآخر﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وبعضهم إلى الطرف الآخر﴾
Words 42–45 · 2 of 4
وَبَعْضُهُمْ يَحَارُ فِي الأَمْرِJāmī
﴿وبعضهم يحار في الأمر﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وبعضهم يحار في الأمر﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ولا يدري﴾
Words 48–73 · 3 of 4
وَهَذِهِ مَسْأَلَةٌ لَا يُمْكِنُ أَنْ تُعْرَفَ إِلَّا ذَوْقًا كَأَبِي يَزِيدَ حِينَ نَفَخَ فِي النَّمْلَةِ …al-Qāshānī
﴿وهذه مسألة لا يمكن أن تعرف إلا ذوقا : كأبي يزيد حين نفخ في النملة التي قتلها فحييت فعلم عند ذلك بمن ينفخ فنفخ ، وكان عيسوى المشهد﴾
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Jāmī
﴿مسألة لا يمكن أن تعرف … إلا ذوقا … كأبي يزيد حين قتل نملة﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿مسألة لا يمكن أن تعرف﴾
Words 50–73 · 1 of 4
لَا يُمْكِنُ أَنْ تُعْرَفَ إِلَّا ذَوْقًا كَأَبِي يَزِيدَ حِينَ نَفَخَ فِي النَّمْلَةِ الَّتِي قَتَلَهَا …Only Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿لا يمكن أن تعرف إلا بذوق كأبي يزيد حين نفخ في النملة التي قتلها فحييت ، فعلم عند ذلك بمن ينفخ ، فنفخ ، فكان عيسويّ المشهد﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿إلا ذوقا كأبي يزيد حين نفخ في النملة التي قتلها فحييت … فعلم عند ذلك … بمن ينفخ فنفخ فكان … عيسوي المشهد﴾
Words 58–64 · 1 of 4
حِينَ نَفَخَ فِي النَّمْلَةِ الَّتِي قَتَلَهَا فَحَيِيَتْOnly Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿ثم نفخ في النملة التي قتلها فحييت﴾
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Sources: where each commentator's text comes from
- 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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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.
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