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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَبَوِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ عِيسَوِيَّةٍ
¶ 17 · 71 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word
فَالعَناصرُ صُورَةٌ مِنْ صُوَرِ الطَّبِيعَةِ وَمَا فَوْقَ العَناصرِ وَمَا تَوَلَّدَ عَنْهَا فَهُوَ أَيْضًا مِنْ صُوَرِ الطَّبِيعَةِ وَهِيَ الأَرْوَاحُ العُلْوِيَّةُ الَّتِي فَوْقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِ وَأَمَّا أَرْوَاحُ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِ وَأَعْيَانُهَا فَهِيَ عُنْصُرِيَّةٌ فَإِنَّهَا مِنْ دُخَانِ العَناصرِ الْمُتَوَلَّد عَنْهَا وَمَا تَكَوَّنَ عَنْ كُلِّ سَمَاءٍ مِنَ المَلَائِكَةِ فَهُوَ مِنْهَا فَهُمْ عُنْصُرِيُّونَ وَمَنْ فَوْقَهُمْ طَبِيعِيُّونَ وَلِهَذَا وَصَفَهُمْ اللهُ بِالِاخْتِصَامِ أَعْنِي المَلَأَ الأَعْلَىٰ لِأَنَّ الطَّبِيعَةَ مُتَقَابِلَةٌ وَالتَّقَابُلُ الَّذِي فِي الأَسْمَاءِ الإِلَهِيَّةِ الَّتِي هِيَ النِّسَبُ إِنَّمَا أَعْطَاهُ النَّفَسُ
So the elements are a form among the forms of Nature. And what is above the elements, and what is born from them, is likewise among the forms of Nature; these are the high spirits that are above the seven heavens. As for the spirits of the seven heavens and their entities, they are elemental, for they are from the smoke of the elements that is born from them; and whatever of the angels is engendered from each heaven is from it. So they are elemental, while those above them are natural. For this reason God described them, I mean the Higher Assembly, as disputing [cf. Q 38:69], because Nature is [made of] mutually opposed [things]. And the mutual opposition that is in the divine Names, which are the relations, was given only by the Breath.
Words 1–36 · 4 of 4
فَالعَناصرُ صُورَةٌ مِنْ صُوَرِ الطَّبِيعَةِ وَمَا فَوْقَ العَناصرِ وَمَا تَوَلَّدَ عَنْهَا فَهُوَ أَيْضًا مِنْ …al-Qāshānī
﴿فالعناصر صورة من صور الطبيعة ، وما فوق العناصر وما تولد عنها فهو أيضا من صور الطبيعة ، وهي الأرواح العلوية إلى فوق السماوات السبع . وأما أرواح السماوات السبع وأعيانها فهي عنصرية ، فإنها من دخان العناصر المتولدة عنها﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿فالعناصر صورة من صور الطبيعة وما فوق العناصر وما تولَّد عنها ، فهو أيضا من صور الطبيعة ، وهي الأرواح العلويّة التي فوق السماوات السبع ، وأما أرواح السماوات وأعيانها فهي عنصريّة ، فإنّها من دخان العناصر المتولَّد عنها﴾
Jāmī
﴿فالعناصر صورة من صور الطبيعة وما … فوق العناصر﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿صورة من صور الطبيعة وما فوق العناصر وما تولد عنها﴾
Words 12–23 · 2 of 4
فَهُوَ أَيْضًا مِنْ صُوَرِ الطَّبِيعَةِ وَهِيَ الأَرْوَاحُ العُلْوِيَّةُ الَّتِي فَوْقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِJāmī
﴿أيضا من صور الطبيعة وهي﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فهو أيضا من صور الطبيعة وهي الأرواح العلوية التي فوق السماوات السبع﴾
Words 18–23 · 1 of 4
الأَرْوَاحُ العُلْوِيَّةُ الَّتِي فَوْقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِOnly Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿الأرواح العلوية التي فوق السماوات السبع﴾
Words 24–27 · 2 of 4
وَأَمَّا أَرْوَاحُ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِJāmī
﴿وأما أرواح السماوات السبع﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وأما أرواح السماوات السبع﴾
Words 28–36 · 2 of 4
وَأَعْيَانُهَا فَهِيَ عُنْصُرِيَّةٌ فَإِنَّهَا مِنْ دُخَانِ العَناصرِ الْمُتَوَلَّد عَنْهَاJāmī
﴿وأعيانها فهي عنصرية فإنها من دخان العناصر المتولد عنها﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فهي عنصرية﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿من دخان العناصر المتولد عنها﴾
Words 37–49 · 4 of 4
وَمَا تَكَوَّنَ عَنْ كُلِّ سَمَاءٍ مِنَ المَلَائِكَةِ فَهُوَ مِنْهَا فَهُمْ عُنْصُرِيُّونَ وَمَنْ فَوْقَهُمْal-Qāshānī
﴿وما تكون عن كل سماء من الملائكة﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿وما تكوّن عن كلّ سماء من الملائكة فهو منها ، فهم عنصريّون ومن فوقهم﴾
Jāmī
﴿وما تكون عن … كل سماء من الملائكة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وما تكون … عن كل سماء من الملائكة فهو﴾
Jāmī
﴿كل سماء من الملائكة﴾
Note by the modern compiler (al-jāmiʿ) of the ibnalarabi.com text, not by Jāmī
al-Qāshānī
﴿فهو منها﴾
Jāmī
﴿عنصريون ومن فوقهم﴾
Jāmī
﴿طبيعيون ولهذا﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وصفهم اللّه بالاختصام﴾
Words 58–60 · 2 of 4
لِأَنَّ الطَّبِيعَةَ مُتَقَابِلَةٌJāmī
﴿لأن الطبيعة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿لأن الطبيعة متقابلة﴾
Words 61–92 · 3 of 4
وَالتَّقَابُلُ الَّذِي فِي الأَسْمَاءِ الإِلَهِيَّةِ الَّتِي هِيَ النِّسَبُ إِنَّمَا أَعْطَاهُ النَّفَسُal-Qāshānī
﴿والتقابل الذي في الأسماء الإلهية التي هي النسب إنما أعطاه النفس الرحماني ، ألا ترى الذات الخارجة عن هذا الحكم كيف جاء فيها الغنى عن العالمين ، فلهذا خرج العالم على صورة من أوجدهم﴾
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Jāmī
﴿والتقابل الذي في الأسماء الإلهية التي هي النسب﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿والتقابل الذي في الأسماء الإلهية التي هي النسب إنما أعطاه النفس الرحماني ، ألا ترى الذات الخارجة عن هذا الحكم كيف جاء فيها الغنى عن العالمين ، فلهذا خرج العالم على صورة من أوجدهم﴾
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Bālī Zāde's gloss, printed inside al-Qāshānī's commentary in the ibnalarabi.com text (line 8469); moved here
﴿والتقابل الذي في الأسماء الإلهية التي هي النسب إنما أعطاه النفس﴾
Jāmī
﴿إنما أعطاه النفس﴾
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)
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- 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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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)
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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
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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
Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0673AbuMacaliQunawi.Fukuk.IAC00079-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)
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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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