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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَفْثِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ شِيثِيَّةٍ
¶ 26 · 75 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word
فما في أَحَدٍ مِنَ اللهِ شَيْءٌ وما في أَحَدٍ مِنْ سِوى نَفْسِهِ شَيْءٌ وإنْ تَنَوَّعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الصُّوَرُ وما كُلُّ أَحَدٍ يَعْرِفُ هذا وَإِنَّ الأَمْرَ على ذلكَ إِلَّا آحادٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ اللهِ فإذا رَأَيْتَ مَنْ يَعْرِفُ ذلكَ فَاعْتَمِدْ عَلَيْهِ فذلكَ هوَ عَيْنُ صَفَاءِ خَلاصَةِ خاصَّةِ الخاصَّةِ مِنْ عُمُومِ أَهْلِ اللهِ فأيُّ صاحِبِ كَشْفٍ شاهَدَ صُورَةً تُلْقَىٰ إِلَيْهِ ما لَمْ يَكُنْ عندَهُ مِنَ المَعارِفِ وتَمْنَحُهُ ما لَمْ يَكُنْ قَبْلَ ذلكَ في يَدِهِ فتِلْكَ الصُّورَةُ عَيْنُهُ لا غَيْرُهُ
So there is nothing in anyone from God, and there is nothing in anyone from other than his own self, even if the forms vary upon him. Not everyone knows this, [namely] that the affair is thus, except for single individuals among the folk of God. So when you see someone who knows that, rely upon him, for that is the very purity of the quintessence of the elect of the elect among the generality of the folk of God. Thus, whatever possessor of unveiling witnesses a form through which there is cast to him what he did not have of gnostic knowledges, and which bestows upon him what was not in his hand before that, that form is his very self (ʿayn), not other than he.
On the whole passage · 1 of 6
Only Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿فأي صاحب كشف شاهد صورة تلقي إليه ما لم يكن عنده من المعارف و تمنحه ما لم يكن قبل ذلك في يده، فتلك الصورة عينه لا غيره. فمن شجرة نفسه جنى ثمرة علمه، كالصورة الظاهرة منه في مقابلة الجسم الصقيل ليس غيره، إلا أن المحل أو الحضرة التي رأى فيها صورة نفسه تلقى إليه تنقلب من وجه بحقيقة تلك الحضرة،﴾
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al-Qayṣarī
﴿فما في أحد من الله شئ ولا في أحد من سوى نفسه شئ. وإن تنوعت عليه الصور﴾
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﴿فما في أحد من الله شئ، ولا في أحد من سوى نفسه شئ﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿فما في أحد من الله شيء﴾
Jāmī
﴿فما في أحد﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فما في أحد من الله شيء﴾
Jāmī
﴿من الله﴾
Words 7–17 · 4 of 6
وما في أَحَدٍ مِنْ سِوى نَفْسِهِ شَيْءٌ وإنْ تَنَوَّعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الصُّوَرُal-Qāshānī
﴿وما في أحد من سوى نفسه شيء﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿وما في أحد من سوى نفسه شيء ، وإن تنوعت عليه الصور﴾
Jāmī
﴿ولا في أحد من سوى نفسه شيء﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿وما في أحد من سوى نفسه شيء﴾
Words 14–17 · 2 of 6
وإنْ تَنَوَّعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الصُّوَرُJāmī
﴿وإن تنوعت عليه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وإن تنوعت عليه الصور وما كل أحد يعرف هذا … وإن الأمر على ذلك﴾
Words 18–50 · 5 of 6
وما كُلُّ أَحَدٍ يَعْرِفُ هذا وَإِنَّ الأَمْرَ على ذلكَ إِلَّا آحادٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ اللهِ …al-Qāshānī
﴿وما كل أحد يعرف هذا وإن الأمر على ذلك إلا آحاد من أهل الله ، فإذا رأيت من يعرف ذلك فاعتمد عليه ، فذلك هو عين صفاء خلاصة خاصة الخاصة من عموم أهل الله﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿وما كل أحد يعرف هذا وأن الأمر على ذلك، إلا آحاد من أهل الله﴾
al-Tilimsānī
﴿وما كل أحد يعرف هذا، وأن الأمر على ذلك، إلا آحاد من أهل الله. فإذا رأيت من يعرف ذلك، فاعتمد عليه وذلك هو عين صفاء خلاصة خاصة الخاصة من عموم أهل الله تعالی.﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿وما كل أحد يعرف هذا وأن الأمر على ذلك ، إلآ آحاد من أهل الله﴾
Jāmī
﴿وما كل أحد … يعرف هذا﴾
Jāmī
﴿وأن الأمر﴾
Words 27–38 · 2 of 6
إِلَّا آحادٌ مِنْ أَهْلِ اللهِ فإذا رَأَيْتَ مَنْ يَعْرِفُ ذلكَ فَاعْتَمِدْ عَلَيْهِJāmī
﴿إلا آحاد من أهل الله فإذا رأيت من بعرف ذلك فاعتمد عليه﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿إلا آحاد من أهل الله﴾
Words 32–50 · 3 of 6
فإذا رَأَيْتَ مَنْ يَعْرِفُ ذلكَ فَاعْتَمِدْ عَلَيْهِ فذلكَ هوَ عَيْنُ صَفَاءِ خَلاصَةِ خاصَّةِ الخاصَّةِ …al-Qayṣarī
﴿فإذا رأيت من يعرف ذلك، فاعتمد عليه﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فإذا رأيت من يعرف ذلك فاعتمد عليه، فذلك هو عين صفاء خلاصة خاصة الخاصة من عموم أهل الله تعالى﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿فإذا رأيت من يعرف ذلك فاعتمد عليه﴾
Words 39–49 · 1 of 6
فذلكَ هوَ عَيْنُ صَفَاءِ خَلاصَةِ خاصَّةِ الخاصَّةِ مِنْ عُمُومِ أَهْلِ اللهِOnly al-Qayṣarī comments here.
al-Qayṣarī
﴿فذلك هو عين صفاء خلاصة خاصة الخاصة من عموم أهل الله﴾
Words 41–49 · 2 of 6
عَيْنُ صَفَاءِ خَلاصَةِ خاصَّةِ الخاصَّةِ مِنْ عُمُومِ أَهْلِ اللهِJāmī
﴿عين صفاء خلاصة خاصة الخاصة من عموم أهل الله﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿عين صفاء خلاصة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿خاصة الخاصة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿من عموم أهل الله﴾
Words 50–75 · 3 of 6
فأيُّ صاحِبِ كَشْفٍ شاهَدَ صُورَةً تُلْقَىٰ إِلَيْهِ ما لَمْ يَكُنْ عندَهُ مِنَ المَعارِفِ وتَمْنَحُهُ …al-Qāshānī
﴿فأي صاحب كشف شاهد صورة تلقى إليه ما لم يكن عنده من المعارف ، وتمنحه ما لم يكن قبل ذلك في يده ، فتلك الصورة عينه لا غيره﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فأي صاحب كشف شاهد صورة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فای صاحب كشف شاهد صورة تلقى إليه … ما لم يكن عنده … من المعارف﴾
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Words 55–63 · 2 of 6
تُلْقَىٰ إِلَيْهِ ما لَمْ يَكُنْ عندَهُ مِنَ المَعارِفِ وتَمْنَحُهُIbn Turka
﴿تلقى إليه﴾
Jāmī
﴿إليه ما لم يكن عنده من المعارف وتمنحه﴾
Words 57–64 · 1 of 6
ما لَمْ يَكُنْ عندَهُ مِنَ المَعارِفِ وتَمْنَحُهُ ماOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿ما لم يكن عنده من المعارف و تمنحه﴾
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Words 64–70 · 3 of 6
ما لَمْ يَكُنْ قَبْلَ ذلكَ في يَدِهِIbn Turka
﴿ما لم يكن قبل ذلك في يده﴾
Jāmī
﴿ما لم يكن قبل ذلك﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ما لم يكن قبل ذلك في يده﴾
Jāmī
﴿في يده فتلك الصور عينه لا غير فمن شجرة نفسه جني ثمرة غرسه﴾
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Words 71–74 · 2 of 6
فتِلْكَ الصُّورَةُ عَيْنُهُ لاIbn Turka
﴿فتلك الصورة عينه لاغيره﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فتلك الصورة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿لا غيره فمن شجرة نفسه﴾
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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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