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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَفْثِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ شِيثِيَّةٍ
¶ 4 · 67 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word
فَهوَ العَبْدُ المَحْضُ وليسَ لِهذا الدّاعِي هِمَّةٌ مَتَعَلِّقَةٌ فيما سَأَلَ فيهِ مِنْ مُعَيَّنٍ أوْ غَيْرِ مُعَيَّنٍ وإنَّما هِمَّتُهُ في امْتِثالِ أَوامِرِ سَيِّدِهِ فإذا اقْتَضى الحالُ السُّؤالَ سَأَلَ عُبُودِيَّةً وإذا اقْتَضى التَّفْوِيضُ والسُّكوتُ سَكَتَ فَقَدِ ابْتُلِيَ أيُّوبُ وغيرُهُ وما سَأَلُوا رَفْعَ ما ابْتَلاهُمُ اللهُ بِهِ ثُمَّ اقْتَضى لَهُمُ الحالُ في زَمانٍ آخَرَ أنْ يَسْأَلُوا رَفْعَ ذلكَ فَرَفَعَهُ اللهُ عَنْهُم وَالتَّعَجُّلُ بِالمَسْئُولِ فيهِ والإِبْطاءُ لِلْقَدَرِ المُعَيَّنِ لهُ عندَ اللهِ
So he is the pure servant, and this supplicant has no aspiration attached to what he asked for, whether specified or unspecified; rather, his aspiration is only in complying with the commands of his Master. So when the state requires asking, he asks out of servanthood, and when entrusting [the affair to God] and silence are required, he keeps silent. For Job and others were tried, and they did not ask for the removal of that with which God had tried them; then, at another time, the state required of them that they ask for its removal, so God removed it from them. And the hastening of what is asked for, or [its] delay, is according to the measuring out (qadar) specified for it with God.
Words 4–34 · 4 of 5
وليسَ لِهذا الدّاعِي هِمَّةٌ مَتَعَلِّقَةٌ فيما سَأَلَ فيهِ مِنْ مُعَيَّنٍ أوْ غَيْرِ مُعَيَّنٍ وإنَّما …al-Qayṣarī
﴿وليس لهذا الداعي همة متعلقة فيما يسأل منه من معين أو غير معين، وإنما همته في امتثال أوامرسيده﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿وليس لهذا الداعي همة متعلقة فيما سأل فيه - من معين أو غير معين - وإنما همته في امتثال أوامر سیده ، فإذا اقتضى الحال السؤال ، سأل عبودية ، وإذا اقتضى التفويض والسكوت ، سكت﴾
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Jāmī
﴿وليس لهذا الداعي همة متعلقة فيما يسأل فيه من … معين أو غير معين وإنما همته مصروفة في امتثال أوامر سيده﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿وليس لهذا الداعي همة متعلقة فيما بسأل فيه من معين أو غير معين﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وإنما همته … في امتثال أوامر سیده﴾
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Words 23–39 · 3 of 5
فإذا اقْتَضى الحالُ السُّؤالَ سَأَلَ عُبُودِيَّةً وإذا اقْتَضى التَّفْوِيضُ والسُّكوتُ سَكَتَ فَقَدِ ابْتُلِيَ أيُّوبُ …al-Qayṣarī
﴿فإذا اقتضى الحال السؤال … يسأل عبودية، وإذا اقتضى … التفويض والسكوت، سكت. فقد ابتلى أيوب وغيره وما سألوا رفعما ابتلاهم الله به. ثم اقتضى لهم الحال﴾
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Jāmī
﴿فإذا اقتضى الحال السؤال﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فإذا اقتضى الحال﴾
Words 33–58 · 3 of 5
سَكَتَ فَقَدِ ابْتُلِيَ أيُّوبُ وغيرُهُ وما سَأَلُوا رَفْعَ ما ابْتَلاهُمُ اللهُ بِهِ ثُمَّ اقْتَضى …Ibn Turka
﴿فقد ابتلي أيوب وغيره ، وما سألوا رفع ما ابتلاهم الله به ، ثم اقتضى لهم الحال في زمان آخر أن يسألوا رفع ذلك ، فرفعه الله عنهم﴾
Jāmī
﴿فقد ابتلي أيوب عليه السلام وغيره﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿سكت فقد ابتلى أيوب وغيره وما سئلوا رفع ما ابتلاهم الله به﴾
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Jāmī
﴿وما سألوا رفع ما ابتلاهم الله به … ثم اقتضى لهم الحال … في زمان آخر أن يسألوا رفع ذلك﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ثم اقتضى لهم الحال في زمان آخر أن يسألوا … رفع ذلك﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿في زمان آخر أن يسألوهرفع ذلك، فسألوا، فرفعه الله عنهم … والتعجيل بالمسؤول فيه والإبطاء للقدر المعين له﴾
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Words 59–67 · 1 of 5
وَالتَّعَجُّلُ بِالمَسْئُولِ فيهِ والإِبْطاءُ لِلْقَدَرِ المُعَيَّنِ لهُ عندَ اللهِOnly al-Qāshānī comments here.
al-Qāshānī
﴿والتعجيل بالمسئول فيه والإبطاء للقدر المعين له عند الله﴾
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Words 63–67 · 3 of 5
لِلْقَدَرِ المُعَيَّنِ لهُ عندَ اللهِIbn Turka
﴿للقدر المعين له عند الله﴾
Jāmī
﴿للقدر المعين له﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿المعين له عند الله﴾
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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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