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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَبَوِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ عِيسَوِيَّةٍ
¶ 19 · 88 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word
ثُمَّ إِنَّ هَذَا الشَّخْصَ الإِنْسَانِيَّ عَجَنَ طِينَتَهُ بِيَدَيْهِ وَهُمَا مُتَقَابِلَتَانِ وَإِنْ كَانَتْ كِلْتَا يَدَيْهِ يَمِينًا فَلَا خَفَاءَ بِمَا بَيْنَهُمَا مِنَ الفَرْقَانِ وَلَوْ لَمْ يَكُنْ إِلَّا كَوْنَهُمَا ٱثْنَتَيْنِ أَعْنِي يَدَيْنِ لِأَنَّهُ لَا يُؤَثِّرُ فِي الطَّبِيعَةِ إِلَّا مَا يُنَاسِبُهَا وَهِيَ مُتَقَابِلَةٌ فَجَاءَ بِالْيَدَيْنِ وَلَمَّا أَوْجَدَهُ بِالْيَدَيْنِ سَمَّاهُ بَشَرًا لِلْمُبَاشَرَةِ اللَّائِقَةِ بِذَلِكَ الجَنَابِ بِالْيَدَيْنِ المُضَافَتَيْنِ إِلَيْهِ وَجَعَلَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ عِنَايَتِهِ بِهَذَا النَّوْعِ الإِنْسَانِيِّ فَقَالَ لِمَنْ أَبَىٰ عَنْ السُّجُودِ لَهُ مَا مَنَعَكَ أَن تَسْجُدَ لِمَا خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَىَّ أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ عَلَىٰ مَنْ هُوَ مِثْلُكَ يَعْنِي عُنصُرِيًّا أَمْ كُنتَ مِنَ العَالِينَ عَنْ العُنصُرِ وَلَسْتَ كَذَلِكَ
Then, as for this human individual: He kneaded his clay with His two hands, and these [two hands] stand opposite each other, even though both of His hands are right [hands]. The discrimination (furqān) between them is not hidden, even if it consisted only in their being two, I mean two hands. For nothing has an effect upon Nature except what corresponds to it, and Nature consists of opposites. So He brought [into play] the two hands. And when He brought him into existence with the two hands, He named him *bashar* (a mortal of flesh), because of the direct contact (*mubāshara*) befitting that [divine] Side, by means of the two hands ascribed to Him. He made that part of His solicitude for this human species, and so He said to the one who refused to prostrate to him: "What prevented you from prostrating to what I created with My two hands? Have you become arrogant" [Q 38:75] toward one who is your like, meaning elemental, "or are you among the exalted" [Q 38:75], [exalted] above the element? Yet you are not such.
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Only al-Jandī comments here.
al-Jandī
﴿ولمّا أوجده باليدين سمّاه بشرا للمباشرة اللائقة بذلك الجناب باليدين المضافتين إليه ، وجعل ذلك من عنايته لهذا النوع الإنسانيّ ، فقال لمن أبي عن السجود له : " ما مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تَسْجُدَ لِما خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَيَّ أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ " على من هو مثلك يعني عنصريا " أَمْ كُنْتَ من الْعالِينَ " عن العنصر ولست كذلك . ويعني بالعالين من علا بذاته عن أن يكون في نشأته النورية عنصريّا وإن كان طبيعيّا ، فما فضل الإنسان غيره من الأنواع العنصرية إلَّا بكونه بشرا من طين ، فهو أفضل نوع من كل ما خلق من العناصر من غير مباشرة باليدين﴾
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ثُمَّ إِنَّ هَذَا الشَّخْصَ الإِنْسَانِيَّ عَجَنَ طِينَتَهُ بِيَدَيْهِ وَهُمَا مُتَقَابِلَتَانِ وَإِنْ كَانَتْ كِلْتَا يَدَيْهِ …al-Qāshānī
﴿ثم إن هذا الشخص الإنسانى عجن طينته بيده وهما متقابلتان ، وإن كانت كلتا يديه يمينا فلا خفاء بما بينهما من الفرقان ، ولم يكن إلا كونهما اثنتين أعنى يدين ، لأنه لا يؤثر في الطبيعة إلا ما يناسبها وهي متقابلة فجاء باليدين﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿ثمّ إنّ هذا الشخص الإنساني عجن طينته بيديه ، وهما متقابلان﴾
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Jāmī
﴿ثم أن هذا الشخص الإنساني﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ثم إن هذا الشخص الإنسانى عجن طينته بيده وهما متقابلتان ، وإن كانت كلتا يديه يمينا فلا خفاء بما بينهما من الفرقان ، ولم يكن إلا كونهما اثنتين أعنى يدين ، لأنه لا يؤثر في الطبيعة إلا ما يناسبها وهي متقابلة فجاء باليدين﴾
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﴿ثم أن هذا الشخص الإنساني﴾
Words 9–16 · 2 of 6
وَهُمَا مُتَقَابِلَتَانِ وَإِنْ كَانَتْ كِلْتَا يَدَيْهِ يَمِينًا فَلَاJāmī
﴿وهما متقابلتان وإن كانت كلتا يديه يمينا مباركا﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿وهما متقابلتان﴾
Words 11–15 · 2 of 6
وَإِنْ كَانَتْ كِلْتَا يَدَيْهِ يَمِينًاIbn Turka
﴿وإن كانت كلتا يديه يمينا﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وإن كانت كلتا يديه يمينا﴾
Words 16–21 · 3 of 6
فَلَا خَفَاءَ بِمَا بَيْنَهُمَا مِنَ الفَرْقَانِIbn Turka
﴿فلا خفاء بما بينهما من الفرقان﴾
Jāmī
﴿فلا خفاء بما بينهما من الفرقان ولو لم يكن ذلك … إلا كونهما اثنتين أعني يدين﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿فلا خفاء بما بينهما من الفرقان﴾
Words 22–29 · 2 of 6
وَلَوْ لَمْ يَكُنْ إِلَّا كَوْنَهُمَا ٱثْنَتَيْنِ أَعْنِي يَدَيْنِIbn Turka
﴿ولو لم يكن إلا كونهما اثنين ، أعني يدين﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿ولو لم يكن﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿كونهما اثنتين أعني يدين﴾
Words 30–34 · 3 of 6
لِأَنَّهُ لَا يُؤَثِّرُ فِي الطَّبِيعَةِIbn Turka
﴿لأنه لا يؤثّر في الطبيعة﴾
Jāmī
﴿لأنه لا يؤثر في الطبيعة إلا ما يناسبها … وهي متقابلة فجاء باليدين﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿لا يؤثر في الطبيعة إلا ما يناسبها وهي … متقابلة فجاء﴾
Words 35–43 · 1 of 6
إِلَّا مَا يُنَاسِبُهَا وَهِيَ مُتَقَابِلَةٌ فَجَاءَ بِالْيَدَيْنِ وَلَمَّا أَوْجَدَهُOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿إلا بما يناسبها ، وهي متقابلة فجاء باليدين … ولمّا أوجده باليدين سمّاه بشرا ، للمباشرة اللائقة بذلك الجناب﴾
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Words 42–88 · 3 of 6
وَلَمَّا أَوْجَدَهُ بِالْيَدَيْنِ سَمَّاهُ بَشَرًا لِلْمُبَاشَرَةِ اللَّائِقَةِ بِذَلِكَ الجَنَابِ بِالْيَدَيْنِ المُضَافَتَيْنِ إِلَيْهِ وَجَعَلَ ذَلِكَ …al-Qāshānī
﴿ولما أوجده باليدين سماه بشرا للمباشرة اللائقة بذلك الجناب باليدين المضافتين إليه ، وجعل ذلك من عنايته لهذا النوع الإنسانى ، فقال لمن أبى عن السجود له – " ما مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تَسْجُدَ لِما خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَيَّ أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ " - على من هو مثلك يعنى عنصريا – " أَمْ كُنْتَ من الْعالِينَ " - عن العنصر ولست كذلك﴾
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Jāmī
﴿ولما أوجده باليدين سماه بشرا للمباشرة اللائقة بذلك الجناب﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ولما أوجده باليدين سماه بشرا للمباشرة اللائقة بذلك الجناب باليدين المضافتين إليه ، وجعل ذلك من عنايته لهذا النوع الإنسانى ، فقال لمن أبى عن السجود له – " ما مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تَسْجُدَ لِما خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَيَّ أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ " - على من هو مثلك يعنى عنصريا – " أَمْ كُنْتَ من الْعالِينَ " - عن العنصر ولست كذلك﴾
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﴿ولما وجده باليدين سماه بشرا للمباشرة اللائقة بذلك الجناب﴾
Words 51–56 · 3 of 6
بِالْيَدَيْنِ المُضَافَتَيْنِ إِلَيْهِ وَجَعَلَ ذَلِكَ مِنْIbn Turka
﴿باليدين المضافتين إليه﴾
Jāmī
﴿باليدين المضافتين إليه وجعل سبحانه ذلك﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿باليدين المضافتين إليه﴾
Words 54–60 · 2 of 6
وَجَعَلَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ عِنَايَتِهِ بِهَذَا النَّوْعِ الإِنْسَانِيِّIbn Turka
﴿وجعل ذلك من عنايته لهذا النوع الإنساني﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿وجعل ذلك﴾
Jāmī
﴿عنايته بهذا النوع الإنساني فقال﴾
Jāmī
﴿لمن أبى عن السجود له … "ما مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تَسْجُدَ لِما خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَيَّ"﴾
Words 67–80 · 3 of 6
مَا مَنَعَكَ أَن تَسْجُدَ لِمَا خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَىَّ أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ عَلَىٰ مَنْ هُوَ مِثْلُكَ يَعْنِي عُنصُرِيًّاal-Tilimsānī
﴿ما منعك أن تسجد لما خلقت بيدي﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿ما مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تَسْجُدَ لِما خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَيَّ﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ما مَنَعَكَ أَنْ تَسْجُدَ لِما خَلَقْتُ بِيَدَيَّ أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ على من هو مثلك يعني عنصريا﴾
Words 74–103 · 2 of 6
أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ عَلَىٰ مَنْ هُوَ مِثْلُكَ يَعْنِي عُنصُرِيًّا أَمْ كُنتَ مِنَ العَالِينَ عَنْ العُنصُرِ وَلَسْتَ …Ibn Turka
﴿" أَسْتَكْبَرْتَ " على من هو مثلك عني عنصري " أَمْ كُنْتَ من الْعالِينَ " عن العنصر ، ولست كذلك ، ويعني بالعالين من عل بذاته عن أن يكون في نشأته النوريّة عنصريّا ، وإن كان طبيعيّا﴾
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Jāmī
﴿استكبرت على من هو مثلك يعني﴾
Words 81–89 · 4 of 6
أَمْ كُنتَ مِنَ العَالِينَ عَنْ العُنصُرِ وَلَسْتَ كَذَلِكَal-Qāshānī
﴿أَمْ كُنْتَ من الْعالِينَ﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿أَمْ كُنْتَ من الْعالِينَ﴾
﴿أَمْ كُنْتَ من الْعالِينَ﴾
Note by the modern compiler (al-jāmiʿ) of the ibnalarabi.com text, not by Ibn Turka
Jāmī
﴿أم كنت من العالين عن العنصر﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿أَمْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الْعالِينَ [ ص : 75 ] عن العنصر ولست كذلك﴾
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﴿:أَمْ كُنْتَ مِنَ الْعالِينَ﴾
Jāmī
﴿ولست كذلك﴾
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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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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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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.