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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ نَفْثِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ شِيثِيَّةٍ
¶ 9 · 71 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word
فإنَّهُ لَيْسَ في وُسْعِ المَخْلُوقِ إذا أَطْلَعَهُ اللهُ على أَحْوالِ عَيْنِهِ الثَّابِتَةِ التي تَقَعُ صُورَةُ الوُجُودِ عَلَيْها أَنْ يَطَّلِعَ في هذِهِ الحالِ على اطِّلاعِ الحَقِّ على هذِهِ الأَعْيانِ الثَّابِتَةِ في حالِ عَدَمِها لأنَّها نِسَبٌ ذاتِيَّةٌ لا صُورَةَ لها فَبِهذَا القَدْرِ نَقولُ إنَّ العِنَايَةَ الإلهِيَّةَ سَبَقَتْ لِهذَا العَبْدِ بِهذِهِ المُساواةِ في إِفادَةِ العِلْمِ ومِنْ هُنا نَقُولُ اللهُ حَتَّىٰ نَعْلَمَ وهي كَلِمَةٌ مُحَقَّقَةُ المَعْنَى ما هيَ كما يَتَوَهَّمُهُ مَنْ لَيْسَ لهُ هذا المَشْرَبُ
For it is not within the capacity of the created being, when God gives him insight into the states of his fixed entity, upon which the form of existence falls, to gain insight, in this state, into the Real's insight into these fixed entities in the state of their nonexistence, because they are relations of the Essence that have no form. So it is to this extent that we say the divine solicitude has preceded for this servant through this equality in the conferring of knowledge. And from here God says: "until We know" [Q 47:31]. It is a word whose meaning is realized, not as it is imagined by one who does not have this drinking-place.
Words 1–39 · 5 of 7
فإنَّهُ لَيْسَ في وُسْعِ المَخْلُوقِ إذا أَطْلَعَهُ اللهُ على أَحْوالِ عَيْنِهِ الثَّابِتَةِ التي تَقَعُ …al-Qāshānī
﴿فإنه ليس في وسع المخلوق إذا أطلعه الله تعالى على أحوال عينه الثابتة التي يقع صورة الوجود عليها أن يطلع في هذه الحال على اطلاع الحق على هذه الأعيان الثابتة في حال عدمها ، لأنها نسب ذاتية لا صورة لها﴾
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al-Qayṣarī
﴿ليس في وسع المخلوق، إذا أطلعه الله على أحوال عينه الثابتة التي تقع صورة الوجود عليها، أن يطلع في هذه الحال على إطلاع الحق على هذه الأعيان الثابتة في حال عدمها، لأنها نسب ذاتية لا صورة لها﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فإنه ليس في وسع المخلوق إذا أطلعه الله على أحوال عينه الثابتة التي تقع صورة الوجود عليها﴾
Jāmī
﴿ليس في وسع المخلوق إذا أطلعه الله﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ليس في وسع المخلوق إذا أطلعه الله﴾
﴿فليس في وسع المخلوق﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿علی أحوال عينه الثابتة﴾
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Words 18–33 · 3 of 7
أَنْ يَطَّلِعَ في هذِهِ الحالِ على اطِّلاعِ الحَقِّ على هذِهِ الأَعْيانِ الثَّابِتَةِ في حالِ …Ibn Turka
﴿أن يطلع في هذه الحال على اطلاع الحق على هذه الأعيان الثابتة في حال عدمها ، لأنها﴾
Jāmī
﴿أن يطلع في هذه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿أن يطلع … في هذه الحال﴾
Words 23–32 · 2 of 7
على اطِّلاعِ الحَقِّ على هذِهِ الأَعْيانِ الثَّابِتَةِ في حالِ عَدَمِهاJāmī
﴿اطلاع الحق على هذه الأعيان الثابتة في حال عدمها﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿على اطلاع الحق على هذه الأعيان الثابتة في حال عدمها﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿الأعيان الثابتة﴾
Jāmī
﴿لا صورة لها﴾
Words 39–52 · 4 of 7
فَبِهذَا القَدْرِ نَقولُ إنَّ العِنَايَةَ الإلهِيَّةَ سَبَقَتْ لِهذَا العَبْدِ بِهذِهِ المُساواةِ في إِفادَةِ العِلْمِal-Qāshānī
﴿فبهذا القدر نقول : إن العناية الإلهية سبقت لهذا العبد بهذه المساواة في إفادة العلم﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿فبهذا القدر نقول، إن العناية الإلهية سبقت لهذا العبد بهذه المساواة في إفادة العلم﴾
Jāmī
﴿فبهذا القدر﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فبهذا القدر … نقول إن العناية الإلهية قد سبقت لهذا العبد بهذه المساواة … في إفادة﴾
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Words 41–43 · 2 of 7
نَقولُ إنَّ العِنَايَةَIbn Turka
﴿يقول : إن العناية الإلهية سبقت لهذا العبد بهذه المساواة في إفادة العلم … ومن هنا﴾
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Jāmī
﴿نقول إن العناية﴾
Jāmī
﴿سبقت لهذا العبد بهذه المساوات﴾
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Jāmī
﴿في إفادة العلم﴾
Words 53–71 · 3 of 7
ومِنْ هُنا نَقُولُ اللهُ حَتَّىٰ نَعْلَمَ وهي كَلِمَةٌ مُحَقَّقَةُ المَعْنَى ما هيَ كما يَتَوَهَّمُهُ …al-Qāshānī
﴿ومن هنا يقول الله " حَتَّى نَعْلَمَ " وهي كلمة محققة المعنى ، ما هي كما يتوهمه من ليس له هذا المشرب﴾
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Jāmī
﴿ومن هنا﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ومن هنا﴾
﴿يقول الله تعالى "حتى نعلم" وهي كلمة محققة المعنى﴾
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Words 55–62 · 1 of 7
نَقُولُ اللهُ حَتَّىٰ نَعْلَمَ وهي كَلِمَةٌ مُحَقَّقَةُ المَعْنَىOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿يقول الله : "حتى نعلم" وهي كلمة محققة المعنى﴾
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Words 57–59 · 5 of 7
حَتَّىٰ نَعْلَمَ وهيal-Jandī
﴿حَتَّى نَعْلَمَ﴾
al-Tilimsānī
﴿حتى نعلم﴾
Jāmī
﴿"حتى نعلم" وهي﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿حتى نعلم﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿وهي كلمة محققة المعنى﴾
Words 63–71 · 3 of 7
ما هيَ كما يَتَوَهَّمُهُ مَنْ لَيْسَ لهُ هذا المَشْرَبُIbn Turka
﴿ما هي كما يتوهمه من ليس له هذا المشرب﴾
Jāmī
﴿ما هي﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ما هي﴾
Words 65–71 · 2 of 7
كما يَتَوَهَّمُهُ مَنْ لَيْسَ لهُ هذا المَشْرَبُJāmī
﴿كما يتوهمه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿يتوهمه من ليس له هذا المشرب﴾
Jāmī
﴿من ليس له هذا المشرب﴾
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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
Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0751DawudQaysari.MatlacKhususKalam.IAC00085-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)
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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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