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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَفْثِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ شِيثِيَّةٍ
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فإنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ ما في عِلْمِ اللهِ فيهِ إمَّا بإِعْلامِ اللهِ إيّاهُ بِما أَعْطَاهُ عَيْنُهُ مِنَ العِلْمِ بهِ وإمَّا أَنْ يَكْشِفَ لهُ عَنْ عَيْنِهِ الثَّابِتَةِ وانْتِقالاتِ الأَحْوالِ عَلَيْها إلى ما لا يَتَناهَى وهوَ أَعْلَى فإنَّهُ يَكُونُ في عِلْمِهِ بِنَفْسِهِ بِمَنْزِلَةِ عِلْمِ اللهِ بهِ لأنَّ الأَخْذَ مِنْ مَعْدِنٍ واحِدٍ إلَّا أَنَّهُ مِنْ جِهَةِ العَبْدِ عِنَايَةٌ مِنَ اللهِ سَبَقَتْ لهُ هي مِنْ جُمْلَةِ أَحْوالِ عَيْنِهِ يَعْرِفُها صاحِبُ هذا الكَشْفِ إذا أَطْلَعَهُ اللهُ على ذلكَ أيْ عَلَىٰ أَحْوالِ عَيْنِهِ
For he knows what is in God's knowledge concerning him, either through God's informing him of what his entity has given Him of knowledge of it, or through [God's] unveiling to him his fixed entity and the successive transitions of states upon it without end; and this is higher. For he then stands, in his knowledge of himself, at the rank of God's knowledge of him, since the taking is from a single source. Except that, from the side of the servant, it is a solicitude from God that went before for him, [a solicitude] which is among the sum of the states of his entity, which the possessor of this unveiling comes to know when God gives him to see that, that is, [when He gives him to see] the states of his entity.
Words 1–18 · 4 of 5
فإنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ ما في عِلْمِ اللهِ فيهِ إمَّا بإِعْلامِ اللهِ إيّاهُ بِما أَعْطَاهُ عَيْنُهُ …al-Qāshānī
﴿فإنه يعلم ما في علم الله فيه إما بإعلام الله تعالى إياه بما أعطاه عينه من العلم به﴾
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al-Qayṣarī
﴿يعلم ما في علم الله فيه﴾
Jāmī
﴿يعلم ما تعين في علم الله فيه﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿يعلم ما في علم الله فيه﴾
Words 8–17 · 4 of 5
إمَّا بإِعْلامِ اللهِ إيّاهُ بِما أَعْطَاهُ عَيْنُهُ مِنَ العِلْمِ بهِal-Qayṣarī
﴿إما بإعلام الله إياه بما أعطاه عينه من العلم به﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿إما بإعلام الله إياه ، بما أعطاه عينه من العلم به﴾
Jāmī
﴿إما بإعلام الله إياه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿إما بإعلام الله إياه بما﴾
Words 12–22 · 2 of 5
بِما أَعْطَاهُ عَيْنُهُ مِنَ العِلْمِ بهِ وإمَّا أَنْ يَكْشِفَ لهُ عَنْJāmī
﴿بما أعطاه عنه من العلم به﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿أعطاه عينه من العلم به وأما بان يكشف به … عن عينه الثابتة وانتقالات الأحوال عليها إلى ما لا يتناهى﴾
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Words 18–33 · 4 of 5
وإمَّا أَنْ يَكْشِفَ لهُ عَنْ عَيْنِهِ الثَّابِتَةِ وانْتِقالاتِ الأَحْوالِ عَلَيْها إلى ما لا يَتَناهَى …al-Qāshānī
﴿وإما بأن يكشف له عن عينه الثابتة ، وانتقالات الأحوال عليها إلى ما لا يتناهى وهو أعلى﴾
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al-Qayṣarī
﴿وإما بأن يكشف له عن عينه الثابتة وانتقالات الأحوال عليها إلى ما لا يتناهى﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿وإما بأن يكشف له عن عينه الثابتة وانتقالات الأحوال عليها﴾
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Jāmī
﴿، أي الذي يكشف له عن عينه الثابتة﴾
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Words 22–28 · 1 of 5
عَنْ عَيْنِهِ الثَّابِتَةِ وانْتِقالاتِ الأَحْوالِ عَلَيْها إلىOnly Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿عن عينه الثابتة وعن انتقالات الأحوال عليها﴾
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Jāmī
﴿إلى ما لا يتناهى﴾
Words 32–47 · 2 of 5
وهوَ أَعْلَى فإنَّهُ يَكُونُ في عِلْمِهِ بِنَفْسِهِ بِمَنْزِلَةِ عِلْمِ اللهِ بهِ لأنَّ الأَخْذَ مِنْ …al-Qayṣarī
﴿وهو أعلى، فإنه يكون في عينه بنفسه بمنزلة علم الله به، لأن الأخذ من معدن واحد﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿وهو أعلى﴾
Words 34–47 · 4 of 5
فإنَّهُ يَكُونُ في عِلْمِهِ بِنَفْسِهِ بِمَنْزِلَةِ عِلْمِ اللهِ بهِ لأنَّ الأَخْذَ مِنْ مَعْدِنٍ واحِدٍal-Qāshānī
﴿فإنه يكون في علمه بنفسه بمنزلة علم الله به ، لأن الأخذ من معدن واحد﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فإنه يكون في علمه بنفسه بمنزلة علم الله به ، لأن الأخذ من معدن واحد﴾
Jāmī
﴿يكون في علمه بنفسه … بمنزلة علم الله به﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿يكون في علمه بنفسه بمنزلة علم الله به لأن الأخذ من معدن واحد﴾
Jāmī
﴿لأن الأخذ﴾
Words 48–76 · 5 of 5
إلَّا أَنَّهُ مِنْ جِهَةِ العَبْدِ عِنَايَةٌ مِنَ اللهِ سَبَقَتْ لهُ هي مِنْ جُمْلَةِ أَحْوالِ …al-Qāshānī
﴿إلا أنه من جهة العبد عناية من الله سبقت له﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿إلا أنه من جهة العبد عناية من الله سبقت له، هي من جملة أحوال عينه الثابتة، يعرفها صاحب هذا الكشف إذا أطلعه الله على ذلك، أي على أحوال عينه﴾
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﴿إلا أنه من جهة العبد عناية من الله﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿إلا أنه من جهة العبد عناية من الله سبقت لها، هي من جملة أحوال عينه ، يعرفها صاحب ذلك الكشف ، إذا أطلعه الله على ذلك﴾
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Jāmī
﴿إلا أنه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿إلا أنه﴾
Words 50–58 · 1 of 5
مِنْ جِهَةِ العَبْدِ عِنَايَةٌ مِنَ اللهِ سَبَقَتْ لهُ هيOnly Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿من جهة العبد عنابة من الله سبحانه سبقت له﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿سبقت له هي … من جملة أحوال عينه الثابتة يعرفها … صاحب هذا الكشف إذا﴾
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Words 58–66 · 2 of 5
هي مِنْ جُمْلَةِ أَحْوالِ عَيْنِهِ يَعْرِفُها صاحِبُ هذا الكَشْفِal-Qāshānī
﴿هي من جملة أحوال عينه يعرفها صاحب هذا الكشف﴾
Jāmī
﴿من جملة أحوال عينه﴾
Jāmī
﴿صاحب الكشف إذا أطلعه الله على ذلك﴾
Words 67–76 · 1 of 5
إذا أَطْلَعَهُ اللهُ على ذلكَ أيْ عَلَىٰ أَحْوالِ عَيْنِهِOnly al-Qāshānī comments here.
al-Qāshānī
﴿إذا أطلعه الله تعالى على ذلك أي إلى أحوال عينه﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿أي على أحوال عينه﴾
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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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