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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَفْثِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ شِيثِيَّةٍ
¶ 10 · 78 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word
وغايَةُ المُنَزِّهِ أنْ جَعَلَ ذلكَ الحُدُوثَ في العِلْمِ لِلتَّعَلُّقِ وهوَ أَعْلَى وَجْهٍ يَكونُ لِلْمُتَكَلِّمِ بِعَقْلِهِ في هذِهِ المَسْأَلَةِ لَوْلا أنَّهُ أَثْبَتَ العِلْمَ زائِدًا على الذَّاتِ فَجَعَلَ التَّعَلُّقَ لهُ لا لِلذَّاتِ وبِهذَا انْفَصَلَ عنِ المُحَقِّقِ مِنْ أَهْلِ اللهِ صاحِبِ الكَشْفِ والوُجُودِ ثُمَّ نَرْجِعُ إِلى الأَعْطِيَاتِ فَنَقُولُ إِنَّ الأَعْطِيَاتِ إِمَّا ذاتِيَّةٌ أوْ أَسْمَائِيَّةٌ فَأَمَّا المِنَحُ والهِبَاتُ والعَطَايَا الذَّاتِيَّةُ فلا تَكونُ أَبَدًا إِلا عن تَجَلٍّ إِلَهِيٍّ والتَّجَلِّي مِنَ الذَّاتِ لا يَكونُ أَبَدًا إِلا بِصُورَةِ اسْتِعْدادِ المُتَجَلَّى لهُ غَيْرُ ذلكَ لا يَكونُ
The utmost that the one who declares incomparability [can reach] is to make that temporal origination [pertain] in knowledge to [its] attachment [to the object known]. This is the highest aspect available to the one who speaks [on theology] by his reason on this question, except that he affirms knowledge as superadded to the Essence, and so assigns the attachment to it [i.e., to knowledge], not to the Essence. By this he parts company with the realizer among the folk of God, the possessor of unveiling and existence [i.e., experiential finding]. Then we return to the gifts and say: the gifts are either of the Essence or of the Names. As for the bestowals, the grants, and the gifts of the Essence, they never come about except from a divine self-disclosure. And self-disclosure from the Essence never occurs except in the form of the preparedness of the one to whom self-disclosure is made; other than that does not occur.
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Only al-Qayṣarī comments here.
al-Qayṣarī
﴿ثم نرجع إلى الأعطيات، فنقول، إن الأعطيات إما ذاتية، أو أسمائية فأما المنح والهبات والعطايا الذاتية فلا تكون أبدا إلا عن تجلى إلهي، والتجلي من الذات لا يكون أبدا إلا بصورة استعداد المتجلى له، غير ذلك لا يكون. فإذا المتجلى له، ما رأى سوى صورته في مرأة الحق﴾
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Words 1–31 · 2 of 6
وغايَةُ المُنَزِّهِ أنْ جَعَلَ ذلكَ الحُدُوثَ في العِلْمِ لِلتَّعَلُّقِ وهوَ أَعْلَى وَجْهٍ يَكونُ لِلْمُتَكَلِّمِ …al-Qāshānī
﴿وغاية المنزه أن يجعل ذلك الحدوث في العلم للتعلق ، وهو أعلى وجه يكون للمتكلم يعقله في هذه المسألة ، لو لا أنه أثبت العلم زائدا على الذات ، فجعل التعلق له لا للذات﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿وغاية المنتزه أن جعل ذلك الحدوث في العلم للتعلق﴾
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Words 10–18 · 2 of 6
وهوَ أَعْلَى وَجْهٍ يَكونُ لِلْمُتَكَلِّمِ بِعَقْلِهِ في هذِهِ المَسْأَلَةِIbn Turka
﴿وهو أعلى وجه يكون للمتكلم ، يعقله في هذه المسألة﴾
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Jāmī
﴿أعلا وجه يكون للمتكلم … بعقله في هذه المسألة لولا أنه … أثبت العلم زائدا﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿في هذه المسالة﴾
Words 19–40 · 2 of 6
لَوْلا أنَّهُ أَثْبَتَ العِلْمَ زائِدًا على الذَّاتِ فَجَعَلَ التَّعَلُّقَ لهُ لا لِلذَّاتِ وبِهذَا انْفَصَلَ …Ibn Turka
﴿لولا أنه أثبت العلم زائدا على الذات ، فجعل التعلق له ، لا اللذات ؛ وبهذا انفصل عن المحقق من أهل الله ، صاحب الكشف والوجود﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿لولا أنه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿أثبت العلم زائدا على الذات فجعل التعلق له … لا للذات﴾
Jāmī
﴿على الذات … فجعل التعلق له … لا للذات﴾
Words 31–40 · 3 of 6
وبِهذَا انْفَصَلَ عنِ المُحَقِّقِ مِنْ أَهْلِ اللهِ صاحِبِ الكَشْفِ والوُجُودِal-Qāshānī
﴿وبهذا انفصل عن المحقق من أهل الله صاحب الكشف والوجود﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿وبهذا انفصل﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿انفصل عن المحقق من أهل الله صاحب الكشف والوجود﴾
Words 33–40 · 1 of 6
عنِ المُحَقِّقِ مِنْ أَهْلِ اللهِ صاحِبِ الكَشْفِ والوُجُودِOnly Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿عن المحقق من أهل الله صاحب الكشف والوجود﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿من أهل الله صاحب الكشف والوجود﴾
Words 41–78 · 4 of 6
ثُمَّ نَرْجِعُ إِلى الأَعْطِيَاتِ فَنَقُولُ إِنَّ الأَعْطِيَاتِ إِمَّا ذاتِيَّةٌ أوْ أَسْمَائِيَّةٌ فَأَمَّا المِنَحُ والهِبَاتُ …al-Qāshānī
﴿ثم نرجع إلى الأعطيات﴾
al-Jandī
﴿ثم نرجع إلى الأعطيات فنقول : إنّ الأعطيات إمّا ذاتية أو أسمائية . وأمّا المنح والهبات والعطايا الذاتيّة فلا تكون أبدا إلَّا عن تجلّ إلهي . والتجلَّي من الذات لا يكون أبدا إلَّا بصورة استعداد المتجلَّي له ، وغير ذلك لا يكون﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿ثم نرجع إلى الأعطيات فنقول : إن الأعطيات إما ذاتية أو أسمائية﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ثم نرجع إلى﴾
Words 45–63 · 2 of 6
فَنَقُولُ إِنَّ الأَعْطِيَاتِ إِمَّا ذاتِيَّةٌ أوْ أَسْمَائِيَّةٌ فَأَمَّا المِنَحُ والهِبَاتُ والعَطَايَا الذَّاتِيَّةُ فلا تَكونُ …al-Qāshānī
﴿فنقول : إن الأعطيات إما ذاتية أو أسمائية ، فأما المنح والهبات والعطايا الذاتية ، فلا تكون أبدا إلا عن تجل إلهى﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿لنقول إن الأعطيات إما ذاتية أو اسمائية فاما المنح والهبات والعطايا الذائية﴾
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Words 52–63 · 1 of 6
فَأَمَّا المِنَحُ والهِبَاتُ والعَطَايَا الذَّاتِيَّةُ فلا تَكونُ أَبَدًا إِلا عن تَجَلٍّ إِلَهِيٍّOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿فأما المنح والهبات والعطايا الذاتية فلا يكون أبدا إلا عن تجل إلهي﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿فلا تكون أبدا إلا عن نجلي إلهي﴾
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Words 64–103 · 3 of 6
والتَّجَلِّي مِنَ الذَّاتِ لا يَكونُ أَبَدًا إِلا بِصُورَةِ اسْتِعْدادِ المُتَجَلَّى لهُ غَيْرُ ذلكَ لا …al-Qāshānī
﴿والتجلي من الذات لا يكون إلا بصورة استعداد المتجلى له غير ذلك لا يكون ، فإذا المتجلى له ما رأى سوى صورته في مرآة الحق وما رأى الحق ولا يمكن أن يراه مع علمه أنه ما رأى سوى صورته إلا فيه﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿والتجلي من الذات لا يكون أبدا إلا بصورة استعداد المتجلى له ؛ غير ذلك فلا يكون﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿والتجلي من الذات لا يكون أبدا إلا بصورة استعداد المتجلي له﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿غير ذلك لا يكون﴾
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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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- Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī (d. 751/1350), Maṭlaʿ khuṣūṣ al-kilam fī maʿānī 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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