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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ حَقِّيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ إِسْحَاقِيَّةٍ
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وَالعَارِفُ يَخْلُقُ بِالهِمَّةِ مَا يَكُونُ لَهُ وُجُودٌ مِنْ خَارِجِ مَحَلِّ الهِمَّةِ وَلَكِنْ لَا تَزَالُ الهِمَّةُ تَحْفَظُهُ وَلَا يَئُودُهَا حِفْظُهُ أَي حِفْظُ مَا خَلَقَتْهُ فَمَتَى طَرَأَ عَلَى العَارِفِ غَفْلَةٌ عَنْ حِفْظِ مَا خَلَقَ عُدِمَ ذَلِكَ المَخْلُوقُ إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ العَارِفُ قَدْ ضَبَطَ جَمِيعَ الحَضَرَاتِ وَهُوَ لَا يَغْفُلُ مُطْلَقًا بَلْ لَا بُدَّ لَهُ مِنْ حَضْرَةٍ يَشْهَدُهَا فَإِذَا خَلَقَ العَارِفُ بِهِمَّتِهِ مَا خَلَقَ وَلَهُ هَذِهِ الإِحَاطَةُ ظَهَرَ ذَلِكَ الخَلْقُ بِصُورَتِهِ فِي كُلِّ حَضْرَةٍ وَصَارَتِ الصُّوَرُ تَحْفَظُ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًا
The knower [ʿārif] creates by means of aspiration [himma] that which has existence outside the locus of the aspiration; yet the aspiration never ceases to preserve it, and its preserving does not weary it [cf. Q 2:255], that is, the preserving of what it has created. So whenever heedlessness of preserving what he has created befalls the knower, that created thing becomes nonexistent, unless the knower has taken firm hold of all the presences, so that he is never heedless at all; rather, there is always some presence that he witnesses. So when the knower creates by his aspiration what he creates while he possesses this all-encompassment, that creation becomes manifest in its form in every presence, and the forms come to preserve one another.
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al-Qāshānī
﴿فإذا خلق العارف بهمته ما خلق وله هذه الإحاطة، ظهر ذلك الخلق بصورته في كل حضرة وصارت الصورة تحفظ بعضها بعضا ، فإذا غفل العارف عن حضرة ما أو عن حضرات وهو شاهد حضرة ما من الحضرات حافظ لما فيها من صورة خلقه انحفظت جميع الصور بحفظه تلك الصورة الواحدة في الحضرة التي ما غفل عنها ، لأن الغفلة ما تعم قط لا في العموم ولا في الخصوص﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿وهو لا يغفل مطلقا، بل لا بدّ له من حضرة يشهدها، فإذا خلق العارف بهمّته ما خلق وله هذه الإحاطة، ظهر ذلك الخلق بصورته في كلّ حضرة، وصارت الصور يحفظ بعضها بعضا، فإذا غفل العارف عن حضرة ما، أو حضرات - وهو شاهد حضرة ما من الحضرات، حافظ لما فيها من صورة خلقه - انحفظت جميع الصور بحفظه تلك الصورة الواحدة في الحضرة التي ما غفل عنها، لأنّ الغفلة﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿فإذا خلق العارف بهمته ما خلق وله هذه الإحاطة ظهر ذلك الخلق بصورته في كل حضرة، وصارت الصور يحفظ بعضها بعضا. فإذا غفل العارف عن حضرة ما أو عن حضرات وهو شاهد حضرة ما من الحضرات، حافظ لما فيها من صورة خلقه، انحفظت جميع الصور بحفظه تلك الصورة الواحدة في الحضرة التي ما غفل عنها، لأن الغفلة ما تعم قط لا في العموم ولا في الخصوص.﴾
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﴿فإذا خلق العارف بهمته ما خلق وله هذه الإحاطة، ظهر ذلك الخلق بصورته في كل حضرة وصارت الصورة تحفظ بعضها بعضا ، فإذا غفل العارف عن حضرة ما أو عن حضرات وهو شاهد حضرة ما من الحضرات حافظ لما فيها من صورة خلقه انحفظت جميع الصور بحفظه تلك الصورة الواحدة في الحضرة التي ما غفل عنها ، لأن الغفلة ما تعم قط لا في العموم ولا في الخصوص﴾
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Bālī Zāde's gloss, printed inside al-Qāshānī's commentary in the ibnalarabi.com text (line 3792); moved here
Words 2–11 · 1 of 5
يَخْلُقُ بِالهِمَّةِ مَا يَكُونُ لَهُ وُجُودٌ مِنْ خَارِجِ مَحَلِّ الهِمَّةِOnly Ibn Turka comments here.
Ibn Turka
﴿يخلق بالهمّة ما يكون له وجود من خارج محل الهمّة﴾
Words 4–11 · 3 of 5
مَا يَكُونُ لَهُ وُجُودٌ مِنْ خَارِجِ مَحَلِّ الهِمَّةِal-Qayṣarī
﴿ما يكون له وجود من خارج محل الهمة﴾
Jāmī
﴿ما يكون له وجود من خارج محل الهمة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ما يكون له وجود من خارج محال الهمة﴾
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Words 12–20 · 4 of 5
وَلَكِنْ لَا تَزَالُ الهِمَّةُ تَحْفَظُهُ وَلَا يَئُودُهَا حِفْظُهُ أَيal-Qayṣarī
﴿ولكن لا تزال الهمة تحفظه﴾
Ibn Turka
﴿ولكن لا تزال الهمّة تحفظه ولا يؤدها حفظه أي حفظ ما خلقته … فمتى طرأ على العارف غفلة عن حفظ ما خلق﴾
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Jāmī
﴿ولكن لا تزال الهمة﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿ولكن لا تزال الهمة يحفظه﴾
Words 24–35 · 3 of 5
فَمَتَى طَرَأَ عَلَى العَارِفِ غَفْلَةٌ عَنْ حِفْظِ مَا خَلَقَ عُدِمَ ذَلِكَ المَخْلُوقُal-Qayṣarī
﴿فمتى طرأ على العارف غفلة عن حفظ ما خلق عدم ذلك المخلوق﴾
Jāmī
﴿فمتى طرأ على العارف غفلة عن حفظ ما خلق بهمته﴾
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Bālī Zāde
﴿فمتي طرأ على المعارف غفلة عن حفظ ما خلق عدم ذلك المخلوق﴾
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Words 36–65 · 4 of 5
إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ العَارِفُ قَدْ ضَبَطَ جَمِيعَ الحَضَرَاتِ وَهُوَ لَا يَغْفُلُ مُطْلَقًا بَلْ لَا …al-Qayṣarī
﴿إلا أن يكون العارف قد ضبط جميع الحضرات، وهو لايغفل مطلقا، بل لا بد له من حضرة يشهدها. فإذا خلق العارف بهمته ما خلق، ولهبه الإحاطة، ظهر ذلك الخلق بصورته﴾
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Ibn Turka
﴿إلَّا أن يكون العارف قد ضبط جميع الحضرات﴾
Jāmī
﴿إلا أن يكون العارف﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿إلا أن يكون العارف قد ضبط جميع الحضرات﴾
Jāmī
﴿قد ضبط جميع الحضرات وهو لا يغفل مطلقا، بل لا بد من حضرة يشهدها. فإذا خلق العارف بهمته ما خلق وله هذه الإحاطة ظهر ذلك الخلق بصورته في كل حضرة، وصارت الصور يحفظ بعضها بعضا. فإذا غفل العارف عن حضرة ما أو عن حضرات وهو شاهد حضرة ما من الحضرات، حافظ لما فيها من صورة خلقه، انحفظت جميع الصور بحفظه تلك الصورة الواحدة في الحضرة التي ما غفل عنها، لأن الغفلة ما تعم قط لا في العموم ولا في الخصوص. … قد ضبط جميع الحضرات﴾
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Words 44–53 · 2 of 5
وَهُوَ لَا يَغْفُلُ مُطْلَقًا بَلْ لَا بُدَّ لَهُ مِنْ حَضْرَةٍJāmī
﴿وهو لا يغفل مطلقا﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿لا بغفل مطلقا بل لا بد من حضرة يشهدها﴾
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Jāmī
﴿بل لا بد له من حضرة يشهدها فإذا خلق العارف بهمته ما خلق وله هذه الإحاطة … ظهر ذلك الخلق بصورته﴾
Bālī Zāde
﴿فإذا خلق العارف بهمته ما خلق﴾
Words 61–70 · 1 of 5
وَلَهُ هَذِهِ الإِحَاطَةُ ظَهَرَ ذَلِكَ الخَلْقُ بِصُورَتِهِ فِي كُلِّ حَضْرَةٍOnly Bālī Zāde comments here.
Bālī Zāde
﴿له هذه الإحاطة ظهر ذلك الخلق بصورته في كل حضرة﴾
Words 68–109 · 1 of 5
فِي كُلِّ حَضْرَةٍ وَصَارَتِ الصُّوَرُ تَحْفَظُ بَعْضُهَا بَعْضًاOnly al-Qayṣarī comments here.
al-Qayṣarī
﴿في كل حضرة، وصارت الصور تحفظ بعضها بعضا. فإذا غفل العارف عن حضرة ما، أو عن حضرات - وهو شاهد حضرة ما، من الحضرات حافظ لما فيها من صورة خلقه انحفظت جميع الصور بحفظه تلك الصورة الواحدة في الحضرة التي ما غفل عنها.﴾
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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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