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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَبَوِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ عِيسَوِيَّةٍ
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وَيَعْنِي بِالعَالِينَ مَنْ عَلَا بِذَاتِهِ عَنْ أَنْ يَكُونَ فِي نَشْأَتِهِ النُّورِيَّةِ عُنصُرِيًّا وَإِنْ كَانَ طَبِيعِيًّا فَمَا فَضَلَ الإِنسَانُ غَيْرَهُ مِنَ الأَنْوَاعِ العُنصُرِيَّةِ إِلَّا بِكَوْنِهِ بَشَرًا مِنْ طِينٍ فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ نَوْعٍ مِنْ كُلِّ مَا خُلِقَ مِنَ العَناصرِ مِنْ غَيْرِ مُبَاشَرَةٍ فَالإِنْسَانُ فِي الرُّتْبَةِ فَوْقَ المَلَائِكَةِ الأَرْضِيَّةِ وَالسَّمَاوِيَّةِ وَالمَلَائِكَةُ العَالُونَ خَيْرٌ مِنْ هَذَا النَّوْعِ الإِنْسَانِيِّ بِالنَّصِّ الإِلَهِيِّ فَمَنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَعْرِفَ النَّفَسَ الإِلَهِيَّ فَلْيَعْرِفْ العَالَمَ فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ عَرَفَ نَفْسَهُ عَرَفَ رَبَّهُ الَّذِي ظَهَرَ فِيهِ أَيْ العَالَمُ ظَهَرَ فِي نَفَسِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الَّذِي نَفَّسَ اللَّّهُ بِهِ عَنْ الأَسْمَاءِ الإِلَهِيَّةِ مَا تَجِدُهُ مِنْ عَدَمِ ظُهُورِ آثَارِهَا بِظُهُورِ آثَارِهَا
By 'the exalted ones' [Q 38:75] He means those who are exalted, by their very essence, above being elemental in their luminous configuration, even if they are natural. The human being has excelled the other elemental kinds only by being a bashar [made] from clay; so he is the most excellent kind among all that has been created from the elements without direct handling (mubāshara). The human being is thus, in rank, above the earthly and the heavenly angels, while the exalted angels are better than this human kind by the divine text. So whoever wishes to know the divine Breath, let him know the cosmos, for 'whoever knows himself knows his Lord', who has become manifest in him. That is, the cosmos became manifest within the Breath of the All-Merciful, by which God relieved the divine names of what they find, namely the non-manifestation of their effects, through the manifestation of their effects.
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al-Qāshānī
﴿فمن أراد أن يعرف النفس الإلهي فليعرف العالم ، فإنه من عرف نفسه عرف ربه الذي ظهر فيه ، أي العالم ظهر في نفس الرحمن الذي نفس الله تعالى به عن الأسماء الإلهية ما تجده من عدم ظهور آثارها بظهور آثارها ، فامتن على نفسه بما أوجده في نفسه ، فأول أثر كان للنفس إنما كان في ذلك الجناب ، ثم لم يزل الأمر يتنزل بتنفيس العموم إلى آخر ما وجد﴾
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Jāmī
﴿هذا النوع الإنساني بالنص الإلهي. فمن أراد أن يعرف النفس الإلهي فليعرف العالم فإنه من عرف نفسه عرف ربه الذي ظهر فيه: أي العالم ظهر في نفس الرحمن الذي نفس الله به عن الأسماء الإلهية ما تجده من عدم ظهور آثارها. فامتن على نفسه بما أوجده في نفسه، فأول أثر كان للنفس إنما كان في ذلك الجناب، ثم لم يزل الأمر ينزل بتنفيس العموم إلى آخر ما وجد. فالكل في عين النفس %~% كالضوء في ذات الغلس﴾
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Words 1–40 · 3 of 5
وَيَعْنِي بِالعَالِينَ مَنْ عَلَا بِذَاتِهِ عَنْ أَنْ يَكُونَ فِي نَشْأَتِهِ النُّورِيَّةِ عُنصُرِيًّا وَإِنْ كَانَ …al-Qāshānī
﴿ويعنى بالعالين من علا بذاته عن أن يكون في نشأته النورية عنصريا وإن كان طبيعيا ، فما فضل الإنسان غيره من الأنواع العنصرية إلا بكونه بشرا من طين ، فهو أفضل نوع من كل ما خلق من العناصر من غير مباشرة باليدين﴾
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Jāmī
﴿ويعني بالعالين من علا بذاته عن أن يكون في نشأته النورية عنصريا وإن كان طبيعيا . مما فضل الإنسان غيره من الأنواع العنصرية إلا بكونه بشرا﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿ويعني بالعالين من علا بذاته عن أن يكون في نشأته النورية عنصريا وإن كان طبيعيا﴾
Words 16–27 · 2 of 5
فَمَا فَضَلَ الإِنسَانُ غَيْرَهُ مِنَ الأَنْوَاعِ العُنصُرِيَّةِ إِلَّا بِكَوْنِهِ بَشَرًا مِنْ طِينٍIbn Turka
﴿فما فضل الإنسان غيره من الأنواع العنصريّة إلا بكونه بشرا من طين﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فما فضل الإنسان﴾
Words 19–39 · 1 of 5
غَيْرَهُ مِنَ الأَنْوَاعِ العُنصُرِيَّةِ إِلَّا بِكَوْنِهِ بَشَرًا مِنْ طِينٍ فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ نَوْعٍ مِنْ كُلِّ …Only Bālī Zāde comments here.
Bālī Zāde
﴿غيره من الأنواع العنصرية إلا بكونه بشرا من طين فهو أفضل نوع من كل ما خلق من العناصر من غير مباشرة﴾
Words 26–36 · 1 of 5
مِنْ طِينٍ فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ نَوْعٍ مِنْ كُلِّ مَا خُلِقَ مِنَ العَناصرِOnly Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿من طين فهو أفضل نوع من كل ما خلق من العناصر﴾
Words 28–39 · 1 of 5
فَهُوَ أَفْضَلُ نَوْعٍ مِنْ كُلِّ مَا خُلِقَ مِنَ العَناصرِ مِنْ غَيْرِ مُبَاشَرَةٍOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿فهو أفضل نوع من كلّ ما خلق من العناصر من غير مباشرة﴾
Jāmī
﴿من غير مباشرة﴾
Words 40–55 · 5 of 5
فَالإِنْسَانُ فِي الرُّتْبَةِ فَوْقَ المَلَائِكَةِ الأَرْضِيَّةِ وَالسَّمَاوِيَّةِ وَالمَلَائِكَةُ العَالُونَ خَيْرٌ مِنْ هَذَا النَّوْعِ الإِنْسَانِيِّ …al-Qāshānī
﴿فالإنسان في الرتبة فوق الملائكة الأرضية والسماوية والملائكة العالون خير من هذا النوع الإنسانى بالنص الإلهي﴾
al-Jandī
﴿فالإنسان في الرتبة فوق الملائكة الأرضية والسماوية ، والملائكة العالون خير من هذا النوع الإنساني بالنصّ الإلهي﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فالإنسان في الرتبة فوق الملائكة الأرضيّة والسماويّة … والملائكة العالون﴾
Jāmī
﴿فالإنسان في الرتبة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فالإنسان في الرتبة فوق الملائكة الأرضية والمساوية والملائكة العالون خير من هذا النوع الإنساني بالنص الإلهي﴾
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Jāmī
﴿فوق الملائكة الأرضية والسماوية﴾
Jāmī
﴿والملائكة العالون خير﴾
Words 49–55 · 1 of 5
خَيْرٌ مِنْ هَذَا النَّوْعِ الإِنْسَانِيِّ بِالنَّصِّ الإِلَهِيِّOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿خير من هذا النوع الإنساني بالنصّ الإلهي﴾
Words 56–96 · 3 of 5
فَمَنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَعْرِفَ النَّفَسَ الإِلَهِيَّ فَلْيَعْرِفْ العَالَمَ فَإِنَّهُ مَنْ عَرَفَ نَفْسَهُ عَرَفَ رَبَّهُ …al-Jandī
﴿فمن أراد أن يعرف النفس الإلهي ، فليعرف العالم ، فإنّ من عرف نفسه عرف ربّه الذي ظهر فيه : أي العالم ظهر في نفس الرحمن الذي نفّس الله به عن الأسماء الإلهية ما تجده من عدم ظهور آثارها بظهور آثارها فامتنّ على نفسه﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿فمن أراد أن يعرف النفس الإلهي فليعرف العالم ، فإنّه « من عرف نفسه عرف ربه » الذي ظهر فيه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فمن أراد أن يعرف النفس الإلهي … فليعرف العالم﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿من عرف نفسه﴾
Jāmī
﴿عرف ربه الذي ظهر﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿الذي ظهر فيه﴾
Words 73–82 · 3 of 5
أَيْ العَالَمُ ظَهَرَ فِي نَفَسِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الَّذِي نَفَّسَ اللَّّهُ بِهِIbn Turka
﴿أي العالم ظهر في النفس الرحماني الذي نفّس الله به عن الأسماء الإلهيّة ما تجده … من عدم ظهور آثارها﴾
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Jāmī
﴿أي العالم ظهر في النفس الرحماني﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿أي العالم ظهر في نفس الرحمن الذي نفس اللّه به﴾
Words 79–89 · 1 of 5
الَّذِي نَفَّسَ اللَّّهُ بِهِ عَنْ الأَسْمَاءِ الإِلَهِيَّةِ مَا تَجِدُهُ مِنْ عَدَمِOnly Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿الذي نفس اللّه تعالى به عن الأسماء الإلهية الإلهية ما تجده﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿عن الأسماء الإلهية﴾
Words 88–91 · 2 of 5
مِنْ عَدَمِ ظُهُورِ آثَارِهَاJāmī
﴿من عدم ظهور آثارها﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿من عدم ظهور آثارها﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿بظهور آثارها﴾
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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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