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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَبَوِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ عِيسَوِيَّةٍ
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هَذَا لَهُ مِنْ جِهَةِ أُمِّهِ إِذِ المَرْأَةُ لَهَا السُّفْلُ فَلَهَا التَّوَاضُعُ لِأَنَّهَا تَحْتَ الرَّجُلِ حُكْمًا وَحِسًّا وَمَا كَانَ فِيهِ مِنْ قُوَّةِ الإِحْيَاءِ وَالإِبْرَاءِ فَمِنْ جِهَةِ نَفْخِ جِبْرِيلَ فِي صُورَةِ البَشَرِ فَكَانَ عِيسَىٰ يُحْيِي المَوْتَىٰ بِصُورَةِ البَشَرِ وَلَوْ لَمْ يَأْتِ جِبْرِيلُ فِي صُورَةِ البَشَرِ وَأَتَىٰ فِي صُورَةٍ غَيْرِهَا مِنْ صُوَرِ الأَكْوَانِ العُنْصُرِيَّةِ مِنْ حَيَوَانٍ أَوْ نَبَاتٍ أَوْ جَمَادٍ لَكَانَ عِيسَىٰ لَا يُحْيِي المَوْتَىٰ إِلَّا حَتَّىٰ يَتَلَبَّسَ بِتِلْكَ الصُّورَةِ وَيَظْهَرُ فِيهَا
This [humility] belongs to him from the side of his mother, since to woman belongs lowness; so to her belongs humility, because she is beneath the man in [legal] status and in sensory [fact]. And whatever power of giving life and of healing was in him came from the side of the blowing of Gabriel in the form of a human being. Thus Jesus would revive the dead in the form of a human being. Had Gabriel not come in the form of a human being, but come in some other form among the forms of elemental engendered beings (animal, plant, or mineral), then Jesus would not revive the dead until he had clothed himself in that form and become manifest in it.
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al-Qāshānī
﴿وما كان فيه من قوة الإحياء والإبراء فمن جهة نفخ جبريل في صورة البشر فكان عيسى يحيى الموتى بصورة البشر ، ولو لم يأت جبريل في صورة البشر وأتى في صورة غيرها من صور الأكوان العنصرية من حيوان أو نبات أو جماد كان عيسى لا يحيى الموتى إلا حين يتلبس بتلك الصورة ويظهر فيها ، ولو أتى جبريل بالصور النورية الخارجة عن العناصر والأركان إذ لا يخرج عن طبيعته لكان عيسى لا يحيى الموتى إلا حين يظهر في تلك الصورة النورية لا العنصرية مع الصورة البشرية من جهة أمه فكان يقال فيه عند إحيائه الموتى هو لا هو ، وتقع الحيرة في النظر إليه﴾
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al-Jandī
﴿وما كان فيه من قوّة الإحياء والإبراء فمن جهة نفخ جبرئيل في صورة البشر فكان عيسى يحيي الموتى بصورة البشر ، ولو لم يأت جبرئيل في صورة البشر وأتى في صورة غيره من صور الأكوان العنصرية من حيوان أو نبات أو جماد ، لكان عيسى عليه السّلام لا يحيي الموتى إلَّا حين يتلبّس بتلك الصورة ولو أتى جبرئيل في صورته النورية الخارجة عن العناصر والأركان - إذ لا يخرج عن طبيعته - لكان عيسى لا يحيي الموتى إلَّا حين يظهر في تلك الصورة الطبيعية النورية لا العنصرية مع الصورة البشرية من جهة أمّه ، فكان يقال فيه عند إحيائه الموتى : « هو لا هو » وتقع الحيرة في النظر إليه﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿فكان عيسى يحيي الموتى بصورة البشر ، ولو لم يأت جبرئيل بصورة البشر وأتى في صورة غيرها من صور الأكوان العنصريّة - من حيوان أو نبات أو جماد - لكان عيسى لا يحيي الموتى إلا حين يتلبّس بتلك الصورة ويظهر فيها ، ولو أتى جبرئيل بصورته النوريّة الخارجة عن العناصر والأركان﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿وما كان فيه من قوة الإحياء والإبراء فمن جهة نفخ جبريل في صورة البشر فكان عيسى يحيى الموتى بصورة البشر ، ولو لم يأت جبريل في صورة البشر وأتى في صورة غيرها من صور الأكوان العنصرية من حيوان أو نبات أو جماد كان عيسى لا يحيى الموتى إلا حين يتلبس بتلك الصورة ويظهر فيها ، ولو أتى جبريل بالصور النورية الخارجة عن العناصر والأركان إذ لا يخرج عن طبيعته لكان عيسى لا يحيى الموتى إلا حين يظهر في تلك الصورة النورية لا العنصرية مع الصورة البشرية من جهة أمه فكان يقال فيه عند إحيائه الموتى هو لا هو ، وتقع الحيرة في النظر إليه﴾
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Bālī Zāde's gloss, printed inside al-Qāshānī's commentary in the ibnalarabi.com text (line 8126); moved here
Bālī Zāde
﴿من جهة أمّه إذ المرأة لها السفل﴾
Jāmī
﴿لأنها تحت الرجل حكما﴾
Words 17–53 · 3 of 5
وَمَا كَانَ فِيهِ مِنْ قُوَّةِ الإِحْيَاءِ وَالإِبْرَاءِ فَمِنْ جِهَةِ نَفْخِ جِبْرِيلَ فِي صُورَةِ البَشَرِ …Ibn Turka
﴿وما كان فيه من قوّة الإحياء والإبراء فمن جهة نفخ جبرئيل عليه السّلام في صورة البشر﴾
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Jāmī
﴿وما كان فيه … من قوة الإحياء والإبراء فمن جهة نفخ جبريل﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وما كان فيه من قوة الإحياء والإبراء فمن جهة نفخ جبرائيل عليه السلام في صورة البشر فكان عيسى عليه السلام يحيي الموتى بصورة البشر … ولو لم يأت جبرائيل عليه السلام في صورة البشر وأتى في صورة غيرها من صور الأكوان العنصرية من حيوان أو نبات أو جماد لكان عيسى عليه السلام لا يحيي الموتى إلا حين يتلبس بتلك الصورة ويظهر فيها﴾
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Jāmī
﴿في صورة البشر فكان عيسى عليه السلام يحيي الموتى … بصورة البشر ولو لم يأت جبريل﴾
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Jāmī
Words 41–67 · 1 of 5
فِي صُورَةِ البَشَرِ وَأَتَىٰ فِي صُورَةٍ غَيْرِهَا مِنْ صُوَرِ الأَكْوَانِ العُنْصُرِيَّةِ مِنْ حَيَوَانٍ أَوْ …Only Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿في صورة البشر وأتى في صورة غيرهما من صور الأكوان العنصرية من حيوان أو نبات أو جماد لكان عيسى لا يحيي الموتى إلا حين يتلبس بتلك الصورة﴾
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Jāmī
﴿ويظهر فيها﴾
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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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