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فَشُهُودُ الإِنسَانِ نَفْسَهُ شُهُودُ الحَقِّ إِيَّاهُ وَجَعَلَهُ بِالِاسْمِ ٱلرَّقِيبُ لِأَنَّهُ جَعَلَ الشُّهُودَ لَهُ فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَفْصِلَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ رَبِّهِ حَتَّىٰ يَعْلَمَ أَنَّهُ هُوَ لِكَوْنِهِ عَبْدًا وَأَنَّ الحَقَّ هُوَ الحَقُّ لِكَوْنِهِ رَبًّا لَهُ فَجَاءَ لِنَفْسِهِ بِأَنَّهُ شَهِيدٌ وَفِي الحَقِّ بِأَنَّهُ رَقِيبٌ وَقَدَّمَهُمْ فِي حَقِّ نَفْسِهِ فَقَالَ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيدًا مَّا دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ إيثَارًا لَهُمْ فِي التَّقَدُّمِ وَأَدَبًا وَأَخَّرَهُمْ فِي جَانِبِ الحَقِّ عَنْ الحَقِّ فِي قَوْلِهِ ٱلرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ لِمَا يَسْتَحِقُّهُ الرَّبُّ مِنَ التَّقَدُّمِ بِالرُّتْبَةِ

Thus the human being's witnessing of himself is the Real's witnessing of him. [Jesus] made Him [the bearer of] the name 'the Watcher' because he had made witnessing [belong] to himself. So he wanted to distinguish between himself and his Lord, so that it might be known that he is himself by virtue of his being a servant, and that the Real is the Real by virtue of His being a Lord to him. So for himself he brought [the description] that he is a witness, and regarding the Real that He is a watcher. In what concerned himself he put them first, saying: "over them a witness so long as I was among them" [Q 5:117], giving them preference in precedence, and out of courtesy. On the side of the Real he put them after the Real, in his words: "the Watcher over them" [Q 5:117], because of the precedence in rank that the Lord deserves.

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al-Jandī

﴿وأخّر « هم » في جانب الحق عن الحق في قوله : " الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ " لما يستحقّه الربّ من التقدّم في الرتبة . " عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً " فقال "َأَنْتَ عَلى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ " فجاء بـ « كلّ » للعموم وبـ « شيء » لكونه أنكر النكرات . وجاء بالاسم الشهيد فهو الشهيد على كل مشهود بحسب ما تقتضيه حقيقة ذلك المشهود ، فنبّه على أنّه - تعالى - هو الشهيد على قوم عيسى حين قال : " وَكُنْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً ما دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ " فهي شهادة الحق في مادّة عيسوية ، لما ثبت أنّه لسانه وسمعه وبصره . ثم قال كلمة عيسويّة ومحمدية ، أمّا كونها عيسويّة فإنّها قول عيسى بإخبار الله في كتابه . وأمّا كونها محمدية فلموقعها من محمّد صلى الله عليه وسلم بالمكان الذي وقعت منه ، فقام بها ليلا كاملا يردّدها لم يعدل إلى غيرها ، حتى طلع الفجر " إِنْ تُعَذِّبْهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ عِبادُكَ وَإِنْ تَغْفِرْ لَهُمْ فَإِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ " و « هم » ضمير الغائب كما أنّ « هو » ضمير الغائب كما قال : " هُمُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا " بضمير الغائب ، فكان الغيب سترا لهم عمّا يراد بالمشهود الحاضر ، فقال : " إِنْ تُعَذِّبْهُمْ " بضمير الغائب ،وهو عين الحجاب الذي هم فيه عن الحق﴾

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يعني : حجاب تعيّن عيسى وحجابيّتهم ، فإنّهم إنّما حجبوا بالصورة الشخصية التعيّنية وحصروا الحق فيه ، فكفروا أي ستروا وغابوا عن الحق المتعيّن فيه وفيهم وفي الكلّ من غير حصر ، وذلك الحجاب الستر كان غيبا لهم . « فذكَّرهم الله قبل حضورهم » يعني الحق المتجلَّي في الفرقان يوم الجمع والفصل ، قال رضي الله عنه

that He — exalted is He — is the Witness over the people of Jesus when He said: "And I was a witness over them as long as I was among them." This is the testimony of the Real in a Jesus-like matter (māddah ʿīsawiyyah), since it is established that He [the Real] is his [Jesus's] tongue, his hearing, and his sight. Then He spoke a word both Jesus-like (ʿīsawiyyah) and Muḥammadan (muḥammadiyyah). As for its being Jesus-like, it is the saying of Jesus as reported by God in His Book. As for its being Muḥammadan, it is due to its occurrence from Muḥammad — peace and blessings be upon him — in the very place where it occurred, for he stood reciting it a whole night, repeating it, not turning to anything else, until the dawn broke: "If You punish them, they are Your servants; and if You forgive them, You are indeed the Mighty, the Wise." And "hum" (they) is a pronoun of the absent (ḍamīr al-ghāʾib), just as "huwa" (he) is a pronoun of the absent, as He said: "They are the ones who disbelieved," with the pronoun of the absent. Thus the unseen (ghayb) was a veil (sitr) for them from what is intended by the present witnessed one (al-mashhūd al-ḥāḍir). So He said: "If You punish them" with the pronoun of the absent, and that is itself the veil in which they stand from the Real] — meaning: the veil of the entification (taʿayyun) of Jesus and their being a veil (ḥijābiyya). For they were veiled only by the individual entified form (al-ṣūra al-shakhṣiyya al-taʿayyuniyya), and they confined the Real to it; so they disbelieved — that is, they covered over and were absent from the Real entified in him, and in them, and in the whole without confinement — and that veil, that covering, was an absence (ghayb) for them. "So God reminded them before their presence" — meaning: the Real self-disclosed (al-mutajallī) in the Furqān on the Day of Gathering and Separation. He [Ibn ʿArabī], may God be pleased with him, said:

Jāmī

﴿الرب من التقديم بالرتبة. ثم أعلم أن للحق الرقيب الاسم الذي جعله عيسى لنفسه وهو الشهيد في قوله عليهم شهيدا. فقال «وأنت على كل شي ء شهيد». فجاء «بكل» للعموم و«بشيء» لكونه أنكر النكرات. وجاء بالاسم الشهيد، فهو الشهيد على كل مشهود بحسب ما تقتضيه حقيقة ذلك المشهود. فنبه على أنه تعالى هو الشهيد على قوم عيسى حين قال «وكنت عليهم شهيدا ما دمت فيهم». فهي شهادة الحق في مادة عيسوية كما ثبت أنه لسانه وسمعه وبصره. ثم قال كلمة عيسوية ومحمدية: أما كونها عيسوية فإنها قول عيسى بإخبار الله عنه في كتابه، وأما كونها محمدية فلموقعها من محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم بالمكان الذي وقعت منه، فقام بها ليلة كاملة يرددها لم يعدل إلى غيرها حتى مطلع الفجر. في قوله الرقيب عليهم بما يستحقه الرب من التقدم بالرتبة﴾

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ولعدم اختصاص رقابته

in a Jesus-substance, just as it is established that He is his tongue, his hearing, and his sight. Then he uttered a word both Jesus-like and Muhammad-like: as for its being Jesus-like, it is Jesus's statement as God informs of it in His Book; and as for its being Muhammad-like, it is due to its occurrence from Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, in the place where it occurred from him, so he stood with it an entire night, repeating it, not turning to anything else, until the breaking of dawn. In his saying, "the Watcher over them," because of what is due to the Lord of precedence by rank] and because of the non-specificity of His watching

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فَشُهُودُ الإِنسَانِ

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿فشهود الإنسان﴾

أي الإنسان الكامل

that is, the perfect human

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نَفْسَهُ شُهُودُ الحَقِّ إِيَّاهُ

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿نفسه شهود الحق إياه﴾

لكون الحق بصر الإنسان الكامل دون غيره . ( وجعله ) أي جعل عيسى عليه السلام ذلك الشهود في الحق

since the Real is the sight of the perfect human and of no other. (And he made) that is, Jesus, peace be upon him, made that witnessing in the Real

Jāmī

﴿بالاسم الرقيب﴾

ولم يذكره مثل نفسه بالشهيد ( لأنه ) عليه السلام

and did not mention Him, as he did himself, by "the Witness" (because he), peace be upon him

Bālī Zāde

﴿بالاسم الرقيب لأنه﴾

أي لأن عيسى عليه السلام

that is, because Jesus, peace be upon him

Jāmī

﴿جعل الشهود له … فأراد أن يفصل بينه وبين ربه﴾

فيما يعبر به عنهما

in what he expressed concerning both of them

Bālī Zāde

﴿جعل الشهود له﴾

أي للحق في قوله " وَكُنْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً" لأن شهود عيسى عليه السلام شهود الحق في مادة عيسى عليه السلام فلم يفصل بينه وبين ربه

that is, to the Real, in his saying "and I was a witness over them," because Jesus' witnessing was the witnessing of the Real in the substance of Jesus, peace be upon him, so he did not separate between himself and his Lord

Ibn Turka

﴿فأراد أن يفصل بينه وبين ربّه حتى يعلم أنّه هو﴾

يعني أن عيسى في غيب كمونة وعدميّته الأصليّة

meaning that Jesus, in the nonmanifest of his latency (kumūn) and his original nonexistence (ʿadamiyya)

Bālī Zāde

﴿فأراد أن يفصل بينه وبين ربه﴾

كما هو عادة العالمين بالحقائق

as is the custom of those who know the realities

Jāmī

﴿حتى يعلم أنه هو﴾

أي عيسى هو عيسى لا الحق بوجه

, that is, that Jesus is Jesus, not the Real in any respect

Bālī Zāde

﴿حتى يعلم أنه هو﴾

أي أن عيسى عليه السلام هو عيسى عليه السلام

that is, that Jesus, peace be upon him, is Jesus, peace be upon him

Ibn Turka

﴿لكونه عبدا ، وأنّ الحقّ هو الحقّ﴾

أي الحيّ القائم الدائم الباقي

meaning the Living, the Self-Subsisting, the Everlasting, the Abiding

Jāmī

﴿لكونه عبدا﴾

أو وجه العبودية التي هي جهة التعين والتقيد غير وجه الربوبية والحقية

, or by virtue of servanthood (ʿubūdiyya), which is the aspect of entification (taʿayyun) and restriction, other than the aspect of lordship (rubūbiyya) and realness

Bālī Zāde

﴿لكونه عبدا﴾

في الواقع ( و ) يعلم

[Text: by virtue of being a servant, (and) it be known

Jāmī

﴿وأن الحق هو الحق … لكونه ربا له﴾

وجهة الربوبية التي هي جهة الإطلاق غير جهة العبدية

, and the aspect of lordship, which is the aspect of absoluteness (iṭlāq), other than the aspect of servanthood

Bālī Zāde

﴿أن الحق هو الحق … لكونه ربا له فجاء لنفسه بأنه شهيد﴾

لأن الشهيد قد يؤخذ بمعنى الشاهد على الشخص الحاضر عنده . ( و ) جاء

because "witness" (shahīd) may be taken in the sense of one testifying regarding a person present before him. (And) he brought

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هُوَ الحَقُّ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿هو الحق﴾

كما تقتضيه قرب الفرائض وعيسى عليه السلام آلة للحق في هذا التكلم وكذا المتكلم. بقوله

as the proximity of the obligatory acts (qurb al-farāʾiḍ) requires, while Jesus (peace be upon him) is an instrument for the Real in this speaking, and likewise the one speaking in his saying

Ibn Turka

﴿لكونه ربّا له ، فجاء لنفسه بأنّه شهيد ، وفي الحقّ بأنّه رقيب﴾

ووجه اختصاص نفسه بالشهيد لإشعاره بأنّ عيسى في الهويّة الإطلاقيّة وصرافة غيبها من حيث أنّه عبد ، وبيّن أنّ لتلك الهويّة تعانق الأطراف وجمعيّة الأضداد - على ما بيّن غير مرّة - فلا بدّ وأن يكون ذلك الغيب هو الحضور ، والشهيد هو الحاضر . ثمّ إنّ الحضور أمر نسبي إنما يتصور بين اثنين ، فإنّ الحاضر إنما يقال له ذلك باعتبار قرينه ، فعلم على مسلك الاشتقاق الكبير وجه مناسبة الرقيب واختصاصه هاهنا بالحقّ . على أنّ هاهنا تلويحا يكشف عن وجهي الاختصاص كشفا بيّنا ، فإنّ الشهيد مع أن عقده عقد العبد ، فإن بيّناتهما يتوافقان بالموادّ ، كما أنّ الرقيب باعتبار ملاحظة الأوّل والآخر هو الربّ ، وعقد الربّ بفضله هو عقده

The reason for the specification of himself with "witness" is that it indicates that Jesus — in the Absolute Identity (al-huwiyya al-iṭlāqiyya) and the pure nonmanifest thereof — is [so specified] insofar as he is a servant; and it has been made clear that this Identity embraces all extremes and comprises opposites together — as has been explained more than once — so that nonmanifest must itself be presence, and the witness must be the one present. Now presence is a relative matter conceivable only between two things, for the one present is called such only with respect to his counterpart; thus, by the method of extensive derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-kabīr), the aptness of "the Watcher" and its specification here to the Real is known. Moreover, there is here an indication that discloses the two aspects of specification quite clearly: for "witness," although its construction (ʿaqd) is the construction proper to the servant, its indications correspond in substance [to the Lord's]; just as "the Watcher," with respect to the consideration of the First and the Last, is the Lord — so the construction proper to the Lord, by His grace, is [also] its construction

Jāmī

﴿فجاء عيسى لنفسه بأنه شهيد﴾

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وإنما خصه بالشهيد لما سبق من أن الأنبياء شهداء على أممهم

he is a witness] - and he specified it as "the Witness" because of what preceded, namely that the prophets are witnesses over their communities

Jāmī

﴿وجاء في الحق بأنه رقيب﴾

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فرقا بينه وبين الحق

He is a watcher], distinguishing between himself and the Real

Bālī Zāde

﴿في الحق بأنه رقيب﴾

لأن الرقيب هو الشاهد على الشيء أزلا وأبدا وفرق بين نفسه وبين ربه في الشهود عليهم لذلك قيد شهوده بقولهما دُمْتُ فِيهِمْوأطلق في الحق بقوله "أَنْتَ الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ ". قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

because "the Watcher" (al-Raqīb) is the one who witnesses a thing from eternity without beginning to eternity without end, and he distinguished between himself and his Lord in witnessing over them; therefore he restricted his witnessing by his saying "as long as I remained among them" and left it unrestricted with respect to the Real by his saying "You were the Watcher over them." The Shaykh, God be pleased with him, said

al-Jandī

﴿وقدّم « هم » في حق نفسه ، فقال : " عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً ما دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ " إيثارا لهم في التقدّم وأدبا﴾

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يعني : إيثار التربية والرقيب بلا وساطة كله لأمرهم إلى ربّهم وربّه وأدبا مع ربّهم . قال رضي الله عنه

meaning: giving preference to [their] upbringing and to the Watcher without intermediary—entrusting their affair entirely to their Lord and his Lord, and out of courtesy toward their Lord. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said:

Ibn Turka

﴿وقدّمهم في حقّ نفسه فقال : " عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً ما دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ " إيثارا لهم في التقدّم ، وأدبا﴾

لما هو مقتضى مقام تواضع الكمّل وإشارة أيضا على اختصاص شهادته بهم

in accordance with what the station of the humility of the perfect ones (al-kummal) requires, and also as an indication of the specification of his witnessing to them

Jāmī

﴿وقدمهم في حق نفسه فقال :عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً﴾

لا شهيد عليهم

, not "a witness over them"

Bālī Zāde

﴿وقدمهم في حق نفسه فقال " عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً ما دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ " إيثارا لهم في التقدم وأدبا وآخرهم في جانب الحق عن الحق في قوله "الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ " لما يستحق الرب من التقدم بالرتبة﴾

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عيسى عليه السلام على صيغة الماضي أي أخبر. قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

Jesus, peace be upon him, [spoke] in the past tense, that is, he reported. The Shaykh, God be pleased with him, said

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عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيدًا مَّا دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ

Only al-Qāshānī comments here.

al-Qāshānī

﴿عَلَيْهِمْ شَهِيداً ما دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ … إيثارا لهم في التقدم وأدبا﴾

لأن الحق في أنفسهم شهيدا عليهم أيضا ومع الحق فإن التقدم يفيد الاختصاص : أي كنت عليهم خاصة شهيدا دون غيرهم ، لأنه ليس في وسعي الشهادة على جميع الأمم ، فما كنت شهيدا إلا على ما أشهدتنى عليه ، وأما أنت فكنت أنت الرقيب عليهم ، وعلىّ وعلى كل شيء . قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

- because the Real is also, in their own selves, a Witness over them; and [even] with the Real, precedence conveys specification: i.e., I was over them specifically a witness, to the exclusion of others, since it is not within my capacity to witness over all the communities; so I was not a witness except over what You made me witness over; but as for You, You were the Watcher over them, and over me, and over everything. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said:

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مَّا دُمْتُ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿ما دُمْتُ فِيهِمْ إيثارا لهم … في التقدم﴾

كما يقتضيه مقام تواضع الكمل ، وإشارة أيضا إلى اختصاص شهادته لهم دون سائر الأمم ( وأدبا ) ، أي قدمهم على نفسه لمراعاة الأدب بين يدي الحق إذ الكلام معه أو لمراعاة الأدب معهم لأنهم مظاهره ( وآخرهم في جانب الحق عن الحق قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

, as the station of the humility of the perfect ones (al-kummal) requires, and also pointing to the specificity of his witnessing for them, as opposed to all other communities, (and out of courtesy), that is, he placed them before himself out of observance of courtesy in the presence of the Real, since the speech is addressed to Him, or out of observance of courtesy toward them, since they are His loci of manifestation (that is, placing them after, with respect to the Real, from the Real). The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said

al-Qāshānī

﴿وأخرهم في جانب الحق عن الحق في قوله : " أَنْتَ الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ " لما يستحقه الرب من التقدم بالرتبة﴾

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ومن الرقبة على كل أحد كما ذكر . قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

the Real, in his saying: "'You are the Watcher over them'" - because of what the Lord deserves of precedence in rank] - and of watchfulness over everyone, as mentioned. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said:

Ibn Turka

﴿وأخّرهم في جانب الحق عن الحقّ في قولهم: " الرَّقِيبَ عَلَيْهِمْ " لما يستحقّه الرب من التقدّم بالرتبة﴾

Quotes words that differ from our text (wavy underline).

وعدم اختصاص رقابته تعالى بهم

and [also indicating] that His, exalted is He, watching is not confined to them

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ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī (d. 730/1330), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0730CabdRazzaqKashani.SharhFususHikam.IAC00084-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)

Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.

Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/qashani.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.

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.

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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Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/jandi.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.

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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Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/tilmasani.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.

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Ṣāʾin al-Dīn Ibn Turka (d. 835/1432), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0835SainDinTaraka.SharhFususHikam.IAC00087-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.

Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0898NurDinJami.SharhMatnFususHikam.IAC00088-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.

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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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.

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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