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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَفْثِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ شِيثِيَّةٍ
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وهذا كُلُّهُ مِنْ أَعْطِيَاتِ حَقِيقَةِ الحَضْرَةِ المُتَجَلِّي فيها التي أَنْزَلْناها مَنْزِلَةَ المَرايا فَمَنْ عَرَفَ اسْتِعْدادَهُ عَرَفَ قَبُولَهُ وما كُلُّ مَنْ عَرَفَ قَبُولَهُ يَعْرِفُ اسْتِعْدادَهُ إِلَّا بَعْدَ القَبُولِ وإنْ كانَ يَعْرِفُهُ مُجْمَلًا إِلَّا أَنَّ بَعْضَ أَهْلِ النَّظَرِ مِنْ أَصْحابِ العُقُولِ الضَّعِيفَةِ يَرَوْنَ أَنَّ اللهَ لَمَّا ثَبَتَ عِنْدَهُمْ أَنَّهُ فَعَّالٌ لِما يَشاءُ جَوَّزُوا على اللهِ ما يُنَاقِضُ الحِكْمَةَ وما هوَ الأَمْرُ عَلَيْهِ في نَفْسِهِ ولِهَذا عَدَلَ بَعْضُ النُّظّارِ إِلَى نَفْيِ الإِمْكانِ وإِثْباتِ الوُجُوبِ بِالذَّاتِ وبِالغَيْرِ
And all of this is among the gifts of the reality of the presence in which self-disclosure takes place, [the presence] which we have placed at the rank of mirrors. So whoever knows his preparedness knows his receiving; but not everyone who knows his receiving knows his preparedness, except after the receiving, even if he knows it in summary fashion. However, some of the people of rational speculation, among those possessed of weak intellects, hold that God, since it had been established for them that He is 'Doer of whatever He wills' [cf. Q 11:107; 85:16], [and so] they have deemed permissible for God what contradicts wisdom and [what contradicts] how the matter is in itself. And for this reason some of the speculative thinkers turned aside to the denial of possibility and the affirmation of necessity through the Essence and through another.
Words 1–19 · 3 of 6
وهذا كُلُّهُ مِنْ أَعْطِيَاتِ حَقِيقَةِ الحَضْرَةِ المُتَجَلِّي فيها التي أَنْزَلْناها مَنْزِلَةَ المَرايا فَمَنْ عَرَفَ …al-Qāshānī
﴿وهذا كله من أعطيات حقيقة الحضرة المتجلى فيها التي أنزلناها منزلة المرائى … فمن عرف استعداده عرف قبوله ، وما كل من عرف قبوله يعرف استعداده إلا بعد القبول ، وإن كان يعرفه مجملا﴾
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al-Qayṣarī
﴿وهذا كله من أعطيات حقيقة الحضرة المتجلى فيها التي أنزلناها منزلة المرآيا﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿كله من اعطيات حقيقة الحضرة المتجلي فيها ، التي أنزلناها منزلة المرايا﴾
Words 3–12 · 1 of 6
مِنْ أَعْطِيَاتِ حَقِيقَةِ الحَضْرَةِ المُتَجَلِّي فيها التي أَنْزَلْناها مَنْزِلَةَ المَراياOnly Bālī Zāde comments here.
Bālī Zāde
﴿من أعطيات حقيقة الحضرة المتجلي فيها التي أنزلناها منزلة المرائي﴾
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Words 13–31 · 4 of 6
فَمَنْ عَرَفَ اسْتِعْدادَهُ عَرَفَ قَبُولَهُ وما كُلُّ مَنْ عَرَفَ قَبُولَهُ يَعْرِفُ اسْتِعْدادَهُ إِلَّا بَعْدَ …al-Qayṣarī
﴿فمن عرف استعداده عرف قبوله، وما كل من عرف قبوله يعرف استعداده إلا بعد القبول وإن كان يعرفه مجملا﴾
﴿فمن عرف﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فن عرف استعداده عرف قبوله﴾
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Jāmī
﴿فمن عرف﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فمن عرف استعداده عرفه قبوله﴾
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Words 18–31 · 4 of 6
وما كُلُّ مَنْ عَرَفَ قَبُولَهُ يَعْرِفُ اسْتِعْدادَهُ إِلَّا بَعْدَ القَبُولِ وإنْ كانَ يَعْرِفُهُ مُجْمَلًاal-Tilimsānī
﴿وما كل من يعرف قبوله يعرف استعداده إلا بعد القبول، وإن كان يعرفه مجملا﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿وما كل من عرف قبوله عرف استعداده إلا بعد القبول﴾
Jāmī
﴿وما كل من يعرف قبوله﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وما كل من عرف قبوله﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿يعرف استعداده إلا بعد القبول﴾
Jāmī
﴿إلا بعد القبول﴾
Words 28–31 · 2 of 6
وإنْ كانَ يَعْرِفُهُ مُجْمَلًاIbn Turka
﴿وإن كان يعرفه مجملا﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وإن كان يعرفه مجملا﴾
Words 32–62 · 6 of 6
إِلَّا أَنَّ بَعْضَ أَهْلِ النَّظَرِ مِنْ أَصْحابِ العُقُولِ الضَّعِيفَةِ يَرَوْنَ أَنَّ اللهَ لَمَّا ثَبَتَ …al-Qāshānī
﴿إلا أن بعض اهل النظر من أصحاب العقول الضعيفة يرون أن الله لما ثبت عندهم أنه فعال لما يشاء جوزوا على الله ما يناقض الحكمة ، وما هو الأمر عليه في نفسه﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿إلا أن بعض أهل النظر من أصحاب العقول الضعيفة يرون أن الله لما ثبت عندهم أنه فعال لما يشاء، جوزوا على الله ما يناقض الحكمة وما هو الأمر عليه في نفسه﴾
al-Tilimsānī
﴿إلا أن بعض أهل النظر من أصحاب العقول الضعيفة يرون أن الله تعالی، لما ثبت عندهم أنه فعال لما يشاء ، جوزوا على الله تعالى ما يناقض الحكمة.﴾
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﴿إلا أن بعض أهل النظر﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿إلا أن بعض أهل النظر من أصحاب العقول الضعيفة﴾
Jāmī
﴿إلا أن بعض أهل النظر من أصحاب العقول الضعيفة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿إن بعض أهل النظر من اصحاب العقول الضعيفة برون أن الله لما ثبت عندهم أنه فعال لما يشاء﴾
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Words 41–50 · 1 of 6
يَرَوْنَ أَنَّ اللهَ لَمَّا ثَبَتَ عِنْدَهُمْ أَنَّهُ فَعَّالٌ لِما يَشاءُOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿يرون أن الله لما ثبت عندهم أنه فقال لما يشاء﴾
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Jāmī
﴿لما ثبت عندهم أنه فعال لما يشاء﴾
Words 51–63 · 3 of 6
جَوَّزُوا على اللهِ ما يُنَاقِضُ الحِكْمَةَ وما هوَ الأَمْرُ عَلَيْهِ في نَفْسِهِ ولِهَذاIbn Turka
﴿جوزوا على الله ما يناقض الحكمة وما هو الأمر عليه في نفسه﴾
Jāmī
﴿جوزوا على الله سبحانه ما يناقض الحكمة وما هو الأمر عليه في نفسه﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿جوزوا على الله ما يناقض الحكمة﴾
Words 57–73 · 2 of 6
وما هوَ الأَمْرُ عَلَيْهِ في نَفْسِهِ ولِهَذا عَدَلَ بَعْضُ النُّظّارِ إِلَى نَفْيِ الإِمْكانِ وإِثْباتِ …al-Tilimsānī
﴿وما هو الأمر عليه في نفسه ولهذا عدل بعض النظار إلى نفي الإمكان وإثبات الوجوب بالذات وبالغير﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ما هو الأمر عليه في نفسه﴾
Words 63–75 · 5 of 6
ولِهَذا عَدَلَ بَعْضُ النُّظّارِ إِلَى نَفْيِ الإِمْكانِ وإِثْباتِ الوُجُوبِ بِالذَّاتِ وبِالغَيْرِal-Qāshānī
﴿عدل بعض النظار إلى نفى الإمكان وإثبات الوجوب بالذات وبالغير﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿ولهذا عدل بعض النظار إلى نفى الإمكان وإثبات الوجوب بالذات و بالغير﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿ولهذا عدل بعض النظار إلى نفي الإمكان وإثبات الوجوب بالذات و بالغير ؛ والمحقق﴾
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Jāmī
﴿عدل بعض النظار إلى نفي الإمكان﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿عدل بعض النظار إلى نفي الإمكان﴾
Words 70–74 · 2 of 6
وإِثْباتِ الوُجُوبِ بِالذَّاتِ وبِالغَيْرِJāmī
﴿وإثبات الوجوب بالذات وبالغير والمحقق﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿وإثبات الوجوب بالذات وبالنير﴾
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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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