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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ سُبُّوحِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ نُوحِيَّةٍ
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اعْلَمْ أَنَّ التَّنْزِيهَ عِندَ أَهْلِ الحَقَائِقِ في الجَنَابِ الإِلَهِيِّ عَيْنُ التَّحْدِيدِ وَالتَّقْيِيدِ فَالمُنَزِّهُ إِمَّا جَاهِلٌ وَإِمَّا صَاحِبُ سُوءِ أَدَبٍ وَلَكِنْ إِذَا أَطْلَقَاهُ وَقَالا بِهِ فَالْقَائِلُ بِالْشَّرَائِعِ الْمُؤْمِنُ إِذَا نَزَّهَ وَوَقَفَ عِندَ التَّنْزِيهِ وَلَمْ يَرَ غَيْرَ ذَلكَ فَقَدْ أَسَاءَ الأَدَبَ وَأَكْذَبَ الحَقَّ وَالرُّسُلِ صلوات اللّٰهِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَهُوَ لا يَشْعُرُ وَيَتَخَيِّلُ أَنَّهُ فِي الْحَاصِلِ وَهُوَ فِي الفَائِتِ
Know that declaring incomparability (tanzīh), in the view of the folk of the realities, is—with respect to the divine side—the very self of delimiting and restricting. So the one who declares incomparability is either ignorant or someone of ill courtesy. But if the two of them declare it without qualification and profess it [as the whole truth], then the one who professes the revealed laws, the believer, if he declares incomparability and halts at declaring incomparability and sees nothing other than that, has behaved with ill courtesy and has given the lie to the Real and to the messengers (God's blessings be upon them) without being aware of it. He imagines that he is in [possession of] what has been attained, while he is in what has slipped away [from him].
On the whole passage · 4 of 6
al-Qāshānī
﴿فالقائل بالشرائع المؤمن إذا نزه ووقف عند التنزيه ولم ير غير ذلك فقد أساء الأدب وأكذب الحق والرسل صلوات الله عليهم وهو لا يشعر ، ويتخيل أنه في الحاصل وهو في الفائت ، وهو كمن آمن ببعض وكفر ببعض﴾
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al-Qayṣarī
﴿ولكن إذا أطلقاه وقالا به، فالقائل بالشرائع المؤمن، إذا نزه ووقف عند التنزيه ولم ير غير ذلك، فقد أساء الأدب وأكذب الحق والرسل، صلوات الله عليهم، وهو لا يشعر ويتخيل أنه في الحاصل وهو في الفائت. وهو كمن آمن ببعض وكفر ببعض﴾
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al-Tilimsānī
﴿ولكن إذا أطلقاه وقالا به، فالقائل بالشرائع المؤمن إذا نزه ووقف عند التنزيه ولم ير غير ذلك، فقد أساء الأدب وأكذب الحق تعالی والرسل، صلوات الله عليهم، وهو لا يشعر، ويتخيل أنه في الحاصل وهو في الفائت. وهو كمن آمن بعض وکفر ببعض، ولا سيما وقد علم أن ألسنة الشرائع الإلهية إذا نطفت في الحق تعالی بما نطقت إنما جاءت به في العموم على المفهوم الأول، وعلى الخصوص على كل مفهوم يفهم من وجوه ذلك اللفظ بأي لسان كان في وضع ذلك اللسان.﴾
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Jāmī
﴿و يتخيل أنه في الحاصل و هو من الفائت. و هو كمن آمن ببعض و كفر ببعض، و لا سيما وقد علم أن ألسنة الشرائع الإلهية إذا نطقت في الحق تعالى بما نطقت إنما جاءت به في العموم على المفهوم الأول، و على الخصوص على كل مفهوم يفهم من وجوه ذلك اللفظ بأي لسان كان في وضع ذلك اللسان. فإن للحق في كل خلق ظهورا: فهو الظاهر في كل مفهوم، و هو الباطن عن كل فهم إلا عن فهم من قال إن العالم صورته و هويته: و هو الاسم الظاهر، كما أنه بالمعنى روح ما ظهر، فهو الباطن. فنسبته لما ظهر من صور العالم نسبة الروح المدبر للصورة﴾
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Words 1–19 · 6 of 6
اعْلَمْ أَنَّ التَّنْزِيهَ عِندَ أَهْلِ الحَقَائِقِ في الجَنَابِ الإِلَهِيِّ عَيْنُ التَّحْدِيدِ وَالتَّقْيِيدِ فَالمُنَزِّهُ إِمَّا …al-Qāshānī
﴿اعلم أن التنزيه عند أهل الحقائق في الجناب الإلهي عين التحديد والتقييد﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿اعلم ، أن التنزيه عند أهل الحقائق في الجناب الإلهي عين التحديد والتقييد. والمنزه إما جاهل وإما صاحب سوء أدب﴾
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al-Tilimsānī
﴿اعلم أن التنزيه عند أهل الحقائق في الجناب الإلهي عين التحديد والتقييد، فالمنزه إما جاهل وإما صاحب سوء أدب.﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿اعلم أنّ التنزيه عند أهل الحقائق في الجناب الإلهي عين التحديد والتقييد﴾
Jāmī
﴿اعلم أن التنزيه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿اعلم أن التنزيه عند أهل الحقائق﴾
Jāmī
﴿عند أهل الحقائق﴾
Words 7–12 · 2 of 6
في الجَنَابِ الإِلَهِيِّ عَيْنُ التَّحْدِيدِ وَالتَّقْيِيدِJāmī
﴿في الجناب الإلهي﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿في الجناب الإلهي عين التحديد والتقييد﴾
Words 13–19 · 4 of 6
فَالمُنَزِّهُ إِمَّا جَاهِلٌ وَإِمَّا صَاحِبُ سُوءِ أَدَبٍal-Qāshānī
﴿فالمنزه إما جاهل وإما صاحب سوء أدب﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فالمنزّه إمّا جاهل﴾
Jāmī
﴿فالمنزه إما جاهل﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿إما جاهل﴾
Words 16–19 · 2 of 6
وَإِمَّا صَاحِبُ سُوءِ أَدَبٍIbn Turka
﴿وإمّا صاحب سوء أدب﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿وإما صاحب سوء أدب﴾
Words 20–24 · 4 of 6
وَلَكِنْ إِذَا أَطْلَقَاهُ وَقَالا بِهِal-Qāshānī
﴿ولكن إذا أطلقاه وقالا به﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿إذا أطلقاه … وقالا به﴾
Jāmī
﴿ولكن إذا أطلقاه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ولكن إذا أطلقاه﴾
Words 25–27 · 2 of 6
فَالْقَائِلُ بِالْشَّرَائِعِ الْمُؤْمِنُJāmī
﴿فالقائل بالشرائع﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿بالشرائع المؤمن﴾
Words 28–52 · 3 of 6
إِذَا نَزَّهَ وَوَقَفَ عِندَ التَّنْزِيهِ وَلَمْ يَرَ غَيْرَ ذَلكَ فَقَدْ أَسَاءَ الأَدَبَ وَأَكْذَبَ الحَقَّ …Ibn Turka
﴿إذا نزّه ووقف عند التنزيه ولم ير غير ذلك ، فقد أساء الأدب وأكذب الحقّ والرسل صلوات الله عليهم وهو لا يشعر ، ويتخيّل أنّه في الحاصل﴾
Jāmī
﴿إذا نزه … ووقف عند التنزيه ولم ير غير ذلك﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿إذا نزه ووقف عند التنزيه ولم ير غير ذلك﴾
Words 37–56 · 2 of 6
فَقَدْ أَسَاءَ الأَدَبَ وَأَكْذَبَ الحَقَّ وَالرُّسُلِ صلوات اللّٰهِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَهُوَ لا يَشْعُرُ وَيَتَخَيِّلُ أَنَّهُ …Jāmī
﴿فقد أساء الأدب وأكذب الحق … والرسل صلوات الله عليهم وهو لا يشعر﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فقد أساء الأدب وأكذب الحق والرسل وهو لا يشعر ويتخيل أنه في الحاصل وهو في الغائب وهو كمن آمن ببعض﴾
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Words 49–59 · 1 of 6
وَيَتَخَيِّلُ أَنَّهُ فِي الْحَاصِلِ وَهُوَ فِي الفَائِتِOnly Jāmī comments here.
Jāmī
﴿ويتخيل أنه في الحاصل وهو في الفائت وهو كمن آمن ببعض﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿وهو في الفائت﴾
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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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