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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَبَوِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ عِيسَوِيَّةٍ
¶ 9 · 82 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word
وَلَوْ أَتَىٰ جِبْرِيلُ بِصُورَتِهِ النُّورِيَّةِ الخَارِجَةِ عَنِ العَنَاصِرِ وَالأَرْكَانِ إِذْ لَا يَخْرُجُ عَنْ طَبِيعَتِهِ لَكَانَ عِيسَىٰ لَا يُحْيِي المَوْتَىٰ إِلَّا حَتَّىٰ يَظْهَرَ فِي تِلْكَ الصُّورَةِ الطَّبِيعِيَّةِ النُّورِيَّةِ لَا العُنْصُرِيَّةِ مَعَ الصُّورَةِ البَشَرِيَّةِ مِنْ جِهَةِ أُمِّهِ فَكَانَ يُقَالُ فِيهِ عِنْدَ إِحْيَائِهِ المَوْتَىٰ هُوَ لَا هُوَ وَتَقَعُ الحَيْرَةُ فِي النَّظَرِ إِلَيْهِ كَمَا وَقَعَتْ فِي العَاقِلِ عِنْدَ النَّظَرِ الفِكْرِيِّ إِذْ رَأَىٰ شَخْصًا بَشَرِيًّا مِنَ البَشَرِ يُحْيِي المَوْتَىٰ وَهُوَ مِنَ الخَصَائِصِ الإِلَهِيَّةِ إِحْيَاءُ النُّطْقِ لَا إِحْيَاءُ الحَيَوَانِ بَقِيَ النَّاظِرُ حَائِرًا إِذْ يَرَىٰ الصُّورَةِ بَشَرًا بِالأَثَرِ الإِلَهِيِّ
And had Gabriel come in his luminous form, which is outside the elements and the pillars (since he does not go outside his own nature), Jesus would not have given life to the dead until he had become manifest in that natural luminous form, not the elemental one, together with the human form [he has] from his mother's side. So it would have been said of him, when he gave life to the dead, 'He, and not he,' and bewilderment would arise in looking at him, just as it arose in the rational person through reflective consideration when he saw a human individual, one of mankind, giving life to the dead, which is one of the divine prerogatives (the giving of life to speech, not merely to animal life). The onlooker remained bewildered, since he sees the form [to be] human, [yet acting] with the divine effect.
Words 1–10 · 1 of 5
وَلَوْ أَتَىٰ جِبْرِيلُ بِصُورَتِهِ النُّورِيَّةِ الخَارِجَةِ عَنِ العَنَاصِرِ وَالأَرْكَانِ إِذْOnly Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿ولو أتي جبريل بصورته النورية الخارجة عن طباع العناصر والأركان﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿والأركان إذ … لا يخرج عن﴾
Jāmī
﴿لا يخرج عن طبيعته النورية﴾
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Words 15–28 · 2 of 5
لَكَانَ عِيسَىٰ لَا يُحْيِي المَوْتَىٰ إِلَّا حَتَّىٰ يَظْهَرَ فِي تِلْكَ الصُّورَةِ الطَّبِيعِيَّةِ النُّورِيَّةِ لَاIbn Turka
﴿لكان عيسى لا يحيي الموتى إلَّا حين يظهر في تلك الصورة الطبيعية النوريّة﴾
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Jāmī
﴿لكان عيسى لا يحيي الموتى إلا حين يظهر في تلك الصورة الطبيعية النورية لا﴾
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Words 28–35 · 1 of 5
لَا العُنْصُرِيَّةِ مَعَ الصُّورَةِ البَشَرِيَّةِ مِنْ جِهَةِ أُمِّهِOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿لا العنصريّة مع الصورة البشريّة من جهة امّه﴾
Jāmī
﴿مع الصورة البشرية من جهة أمه﴾
Words 36–42 · 1 of 5
فَكَانَ يُقَالُ فِيهِ عِنْدَ إِحْيَائِهِ المَوْتَىٰ هُوَOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿فكان يقال فيه عند إحيائه الموتى : هو﴾
Words 39–42 · 2 of 5
عِنْدَ إِحْيَائِهِ المَوْتَىٰ هُوَJāmī
﴿إحيائه الموتى هو لا هو، و تقع الحيرة في النظر إليه كما وقعت في العاقل عند النظر الفكري إذا رأى شخصا بشريا من البشر يحيي الموتى، و هو من الخصائص الإلهية، إحياء النطق لا إحياء الحيوان، بقي الناظر حائرا، إذ يرى الصورة بشرا بالأثر الإلهي. … فكان يقال فيه﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿عند إحيائه الموتى هو﴾
Words 45–65 · 3 of 5
وَتَقَعُ الحَيْرَةُ فِي النَّظَرِ إِلَيْهِ كَمَا وَقَعَتْ فِي العَاقِلِ عِنْدَ النَّظَرِ الفِكْرِيِّ إِذْ رَأَىٰ …Ibn Turka
﴿وتقع الحيرة في النظر … إليه ، كما وقعت في العاقل عند النظر الفكري ، إذ رأى شخصا بشريّا من البشر يحيي الموتى ، وهو من الخصائص الإلهيّة﴾
Jāmī
﴿وتقع الحيرة في النظر إليه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وتقع الحيرة في النظر إليه كما وقعت في العاقل عند النظر الفكري إذا رأى شخصا سويا من البشر يحيي الموتى وهو﴾
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Words 49–82 · 4 of 5
إِلَيْهِ كَمَا وَقَعَتْ فِي العَاقِلِ عِنْدَ النَّظَرِ الفِكْرِيِّ إِذْ رَأَىٰ شَخْصًا بَشَرِيًّا مِنَ البَشَرِ …al-Qāshānī
﴿كما وقعت في العاقل عند النظر الفكري إذا رأى شخصا بشريا يحيى الموتى ، وهو من الخصائص الإلهية إحياء النطق لا إحياء الحيوان ، بقي الناظر حائرا إذ يرى الصورة بشرا للأثر الإلهي﴾
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al-Jandī
﴿كما وقعت في العاقل عند النظر الفكريّ ، إذا رأى شخصا بشريّا من البشر يحيي الموتى - وهو من الخصائص الإلهية - إحياء النطق لا إحياء الحيوان ، بقي الناظر حائرا ، إذ يرى الصورة بشرا بالأثر إلهيا﴾
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Jāmī
﴿كما وقعت الحيرة في العاقل عند النظر الفكري إذا رأى شخصا بشريا﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿كما وقعت في العاقل عند النظر الفكري إذا رأى شخصا بشريا يحيى الموتى ، وهو من الخصائص الإلهية إحياء النطق لا إحياء الحيوان ، بقي الناظر حائرا إذ يرى الصورة بشرا للأثر الإلهي﴾
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Bālī Zāde's gloss, printed inside al-Qāshānī's commentary in the ibnalarabi.com text (line 8154); moved here
Jāmī
﴿من نوع البشر يحيي الموتى وهو﴾
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Words 66–70 · 2 of 5
مِنَ الخَصَائِصِ الإِلَهِيَّةِ إِحْيَاءُ النُّطْقِJāmī
﴿من الخصائص الإلهية﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿من الخصائص الإلهية إحياء النطق﴾
Words 71–73 · 3 of 5
لَا إِحْيَاءُ الحَيَوَانِIbn Turka
﴿لا إحياء الحيوان﴾
﴿لا إحياء الحيوان﴾
Note by the modern editor (al-muḥaqqiq) of the ibnalarabi.com text, not by Ibn Turka
Jāmī
﴿لا إحياء الحيوان﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿لا احياء الحيوان﴾
Words 74–83 · 3 of 5
بَقِيَ النَّاظِرُ حَائِرًا إِذْ يَرَىٰ الصُّورَةِ بَشَرًا بِالأَثَرِ الإِلَهِيِّIbn Turka
﴿بقي الناظر حائرا ، إذ يرى الصورة﴾
Jāmī
﴿الناظر حائرا﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿بقي الناظر حائرا إذ يرى الصورة بشرا بالأثر الإلهي فأدّى﴾
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Sources: where each commentator's text comes from
- 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.
The ibnalarabi.com texts sometimes print other hands inside a commentary: Bālī Zāde's glosses inside al-Qāshānī («إضافة بالي زادة»), and notes by the modern editor (al-muḥaqqiq) or compiler (al-jāmiʿ). We cut these out of the commentator's own text and show them as separate entries, each labelled with its author and the line of the file it came from.
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