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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ سُبُّوحِيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ نُوحِيَّةٍ
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فَفِي لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِۦ شَىْءٌ إِثْبَاتُ المثل وَنَفْيُهُ وَلِهٰذَا قَالَ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ صلى اللهُ عليهِ وسلَّمَ أَنَّهُ أُوتِيَ جَوَامِعُ الكَلِمِ فَمَا دَعَا مُحَمَّدٌ قَوْمَهُ لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا بَلْ دَعَاهُمْ لَيْلًا فِي نَهَارٍ وَنَهَارًا فِي لَيْلٍ فَقَالَ نُوحٌ فِي حِكْمَتِهِ لِقَوْمِهِ يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا وَهِيَ المَعَارِفُ العَقْلِيَّةُ فِي المَعَانِي وَالنَّظَرُ الٱعْتِبَارِيُّ وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَٰلٍ أَيْ بِمَا يَمِيلُ بِكُمْ إِلَيْهِ فَإِذَا مَالَ بِكُمْ إِلَيْهِ رَأَيْتُمْ صُورَتَكُمْ فِيهِ فَمَنْ تَخَيَّلَ مِنْكُمْ أَنَّهُ رَآهُ فَمَا عَرَفَ وَمَنْ عَرَفَ مِنْكُمْ أَنَّهُ رَآى نَفْسَهُ فَهُوَ العَارِفُ فلهذا انْقَسَمَ النَّاسُ إِلَى غَيْرِ عَالِمٍ وَعَالِمٍ
So in "There is nothing like His likeness" [Q 42:11] there is both the affirmation of the likeness and its negation. For this reason he (God bless him and give him peace) said of himself that he had been given the all-comprehensive words. Thus Muḥammad did not summon his people "by night and by day"; rather, he summoned them by night in day and by day in night. Then Noah, in his wisdom, said to his people: "He will send the sky upon you in abundant rain" [Q 71:11], and that [sky] is the rational knowledges concerning the meanings and reflective consideration; "and He will supply you with wealth [amwāl]" [Q 71:12], that is, with that which inclines (yamīlu) you toward Him. And when it inclines you toward Him, you will see your own form in Him. So whoever among you imagines that he has seen Him has not known; and whoever among you knows that he has seen himself, he is the knower. For this reason people are divided into the non-knowing and the knowing.
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al-Tilimsānī
﴿(نوح: 11) وهي المعارف العقلية في المعاني والنظر الاعتباري، و يمددكم بأمواله أي بما يميل بكم إليه فإذا مال بكم إليه رأيتم صورتكم فيه. فمن تخيل منكم أنه رآه فما عرف ، ومن عرف منكم أنه رأى نفسه فهو العارف. فلهذا انقسم الناس إلى غير عالم وعالم. وولده وهو ما أنتجه لهم نظرهم الفكري، والأمر موقوف علمه على المشاهدة، بعيد عن نتائج الفكر.﴾
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Jāmī
﴿بكم إليه فإذا مال بكم إليه رأيتم صورتكم فيه. فمن تخيل منكم أنه رآه فما عرف، ومن عرف منكم أنه رأى نفسه فهو العارف. فلهذا انقسم الناس إلى غير عالم وعالم. «وولده» وهو ما أنتجه لهم نظرهم الفكري. والأمر موقوف علمه على المشاهدة بعيد عن نتائج الفكر. «إلا خسارا، فما ربحت تجارتهم» فزال عنهم ما كان في أيديهم مما كانوا يتخيلون أنه ملك لهم: و هو في المحمديين﴾
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Words 1–36 · 5 of 7
فَفِي لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِۦ شَىْءٌ إِثْبَاتُ المثل وَنَفْيُهُ وَلِهٰذَا قَالَ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ صلى اللهُ عليهِ …al-Qāshānī
﴿ففي – " لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِه شَيْءٌ " - إثبات المثل ونفيه . وبهذا قال عن نفسه صلى الله عليه وسلَّم إنه أوتى جوامع الكلم ، فما دعا محمد عليه الصلاة والسلام قومه ليلا ونهارا بل دعاهم ليلا في نهار ونهارا في ليل﴾
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al-Qayṣarī
﴿ففي "ليس كمثله شيء" إثبات المثل ونفيه. وبهذا قال عن نفسه، صلى الله عليه وسلم، أنه أوتى جوامع الكلم﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿ففي " لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِه ِ شَيْءٌ " [ 42 / 11 ] إثبات المثل ونفيه﴾
Jāmī
﴿ففي " ليس كمثله شيء"﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ليس كمثله شيء﴾
Words 5–35 · 2 of 7
إِثْبَاتُ المثل وَنَفْيُهُ وَلِهٰذَا قَالَ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ صلى اللهُ عليهِ وسلَّمَ أَنَّهُ أُوتِيَ جَوَامِعُ …al-Jandī
﴿إثبات المثل ونفيه وبهذا قال صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم عن نفسه : إنّه أوتي جوامع الكلم . فما دعا محمّد عليه السّلام قومه ليلا ونهارا ، بل دعاهم ليلا في نهار ونهارا في ليل﴾
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Jāmī
﴿إثبات المثل﴾
Words 8–17 · 1 of 7
وَلِهٰذَا قَالَ عَنْ نَفْسِهِ صلى اللهُ عليهِ وسلَّمَ أَنَّهُ أُوتِيَOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿ولهذا قال عن نفسه عليه السّلام أنّه أوتي جوامع الكلم﴾
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Words 10–16 · 2 of 7
عَنْ نَفْسِهِ صلى اللهُ عليهِ وسلَّمَ أَنَّهُJāmī
﴿قال صلى الله عليه وسلم … عن نفسه أنه أوتي جوامع الكلم﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿عن نفسه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿أوتي جوامع الكلم﴾
Words 20–38 · 3 of 7
فَمَا دَعَا مُحَمَّدٌ قَوْمَهُ لَيْلًا وَنَهَارًا بَلْ دَعَاهُمْ لَيْلًا فِي نَهَارٍ وَنَهَارًا فِي لَيْلٍ …al-Qayṣarī
﴿فما دعا محمد، صلى الله عليه وسلم، قومه ليلا ونهارا، بل دعاهم ليلا في نهار و نهارا في ليل﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿فما دعا محمّد قومه ليلا ونهارا﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فما دعا محمد عليه السلام قومه ليلا ونهارا﴾
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Words 26–33 · 3 of 7
بَلْ دَعَاهُمْ لَيْلًا فِي نَهَارٍ وَنَهَارًا فِي لَيْلٍIbn Turka
﴿بل دعاهم ليلا في نهار ونهارا في ليل﴾
Jāmī
﴿بل دعاهم ليلا في نهار﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿بل دعاهم ليلا في نهار ونهارا في ليل﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿ليلا في نهار ونهارا في ليل﴾
Jāmī
﴿ونهارا في ليل﴾
Words 34–64 · 4 of 7
فَقَالَ نُوحٌ فِي حِكْمَتِهِ لِقَوْمِهِ يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا وَهِيَ المَعَارِفُ العَقْلِيَّةُ فِي المَعَانِي …al-Qayṣarī
﴿وقال نوح في حكمته لقومه: "يرسل السماء عليكم مدرارا" وهي المعارف العقلية في المعاني والنظر الاعتباري و "يمددكم بأموال" أي بما يميل بكم إليه. فإذا مال بكم إليه، رأيتم صورتكم فيه﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿فقال نوح في حكمته﴾
Jāmī
﴿فقال نوح في حكمته لقومه: «يرسل السماء عليكم مدرارا» وهي المعارف العقلية في المعاني والنظر الاعتباري، «ويمددكم بأموال» أي بما يميل﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿فقال نوح في حكمته لقومه﴾
Words 38–42 · 5 of 7
لِقَوْمِهِ يُرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَآءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًاal-Qāshānī
﴿يُرْسِلِ السَّماءَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِدْراراً﴾
al-Jandī
﴿يُرْسِلِ السَّماءَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِدْراراً﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿يرسل السماء عليكم مدرارا﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿"يُرْسِلِ السَّماءَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِدْراراً "﴾
Jāmī
﴿لقومه "يرسل السماء "﴾
Words 41–43 · 2 of 7
عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًا وَهِيَJāmī
﴿"عليكم مدرارا " وهي﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿مدرارا وهي … المعارف العقلية في المعاني … والنظر الاعتباري﴾
Words 43–49 · 3 of 7
وَهِيَ المَعَارِفُ العَقْلِيَّةُ فِي المَعَانِي وَالنَّظَرُ الٱعْتِبَارِيُّal-Qāshānī
﴿وهي المعارف العقلية في المعاني والنظر الاعتباري﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿وهي المعارف العقليّة في المعاني والنظر الاعتباري﴾
Jāmī
﴿المعارف العقلية في طور فهم المعاني﴾
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Jāmī
﴿والنظر الاعتباري﴾
Words 50–56 · 3 of 7
وَيُمْدِدْكُم بِأَمْوَٰلٍ أَيْ بِمَا يَمِيلُ بِكُمْ إِلَيْهِIbn Turka
﴿" وَيُمْدِدْكُمْ بِأَمْوالٍ " أي بما يميل بكم إليه﴾
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Jāmī
﴿ويمددكم بأموال أي بما يميل بكم إليه﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿ويمددكم بأموال أي بما يميل بكم إليه﴾
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al-Qayṣarī
﴿ما يميل بكم إليه﴾
Words 57–63 · 4 of 7
فَإِذَا مَالَ بِكُمْ إِلَيْهِ رَأَيْتُمْ صُورَتَكُمْ فِيهِal-Qāshānī
﴿فإذا مال بكم إليه﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فإذا مال بكم إليه رأيتم صورتكم فيه﴾
Jāmī
﴿فإذا مال بكم إليه سبحانه﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿فإذا مال بكم﴾
Words 61–73 · 3 of 7
رَأَيْتُمْ صُورَتَكُمْ فِيهِ فَمَنْ تَخَيَّلَ مِنْكُمْ أَنَّهُ رَآهُ فَمَا عَرَفَ وَمَنْ عَرَفَ مِنْكُمْal-Qāshānī
﴿رأيتم صورتكم فيه … فمن تخيل منكم أنه رآه فما عرف﴾
Jāmī
﴿رأيتم صورتكم فيه﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿رأيتم صورتكم فيه … فمن تخيل منكم أنه راه … فما عرف ومن عرف منكم أنه رأى نفسه فهو العارف فلهذا انقم الناس﴾
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Words 64–85 · 4 of 7
فَمَنْ تَخَيَّلَ مِنْكُمْ أَنَّهُ رَآهُ فَمَا عَرَفَ وَمَنْ عَرَفَ مِنْكُمْ أَنَّهُ رَآى نَفْسَهُ فَهُوَ …al-Jandī
﴿فمن تخيّل أنّه رآه ، فما عرف ، ومن عرف منكم أنّه رأى نفسه فهو العارف﴾
al-Qayṣarī
﴿فمن تخيل منكم إنه رآه، فما عرف، ومن عرف منكم إنه رأى نفسه، فهو العارف. فلهذا انقسم الناس إلى عالم وغير عالم﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿فمن تخيّل منكم أنّه رأى﴾
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Jāmī
﴿فمن تخيل منكم أنه رآه﴾
Words 71–85 · 3 of 7
وَمَنْ عَرَفَ مِنْكُمْ أَنَّهُ رَآى نَفْسَهُ فَهُوَ العَارِفُ فلهذا انْقَسَمَ النَّاسُ إِلَى غَيْرِ عَالِمٍ …al-Qāshānī
﴿ومن عرف منكم أنه رأى نفسه﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿ومن عرف منكم أنّه رأى نفسه فهو العارف ، فلهذا انقسم الناس إلى عالم وغير عالم﴾
Jāmī
﴿ومن عرف منكم أنه رأى نفسه﴾
Words 77–81 · 2 of 7
فَهُوَ العَارِفُ فلهذا انْقَسَمَ النَّاسُal-Qāshānī
﴿فهو العارف فلهذا انقسم الناس﴾
Jāmī
﴿فهو العارف﴾
Jāmī
﴿فلهذا انقسم الناس﴾
Jāmī
﴿غير عالم﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿و " وَلَدُه " وهو ما أنتجه لهم نظرهم الفكري﴾
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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
Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 1073MustafaSulaymanBaliZadah.SharhFususHikam.IAC00082-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)
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Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/bali.php. The OpenITI file's own header (#META# source) names this page: the text was copied from the Ibn ʿArabī website directed by Dr Mohamed Ali Haj Yousef. Every IAC-coded file used here names a page of that site in its header; barzakh is OpenITI's repository for texts awaiting integration into the corpus.
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The ibnalarabi.com texts sometimes print other hands inside a commentary: Bālī Zāde's glosses inside al-Qāshānī («إضافة بالي زادة»), and notes by the modern editor (al-muḥaqqiq) or compiler (al-jāmiʿ). We cut these out of the commentator's own text and show them as separate entries, each labelled with its author and the line of the file it came from.
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