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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ حَقِّيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ إِسْحَاقِيَّةٍ

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لِأَنَّهُ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّ مَوْطِنَ الخَيَالِ يَطْلُبُ التَّعْبِيرَ فَغَفَلَ فَمَا وَفَّى المَوْطِنَ حَقَّهُ وَصَدَّقَ الرُّؤْيَا لِهَذَا السَّبَبِ كَمَا فَعَلَ بَقِيُّ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ الإِمَامُ صَاحِبُ المُسْنَدِ سَمِعَ فِي الخَبَرِ الَّذِي ثَبَتَ عِنْدَهُ أَنَّهُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ قَالَ مَنْ رَآنِي فِي النَّوْمِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي فِي اليَقَظَةِ فَإِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ لَا يَتَمَثَّلُ عَلَى صُورَتِي فَرَآهُ بَقِيُّ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ وَسَقَاهُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي هَذِهِ الرُّؤْيَا لَبَنًا فَصَدَّقَ بَقِيُّ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ رُؤْيَاهُ فَاسْتَقَاءَ فَقَاءَ لَبَنًا وَلَوْ عَبَّرَ رُؤْيَاهُ لَكَانَ ذَٰلِكَ اللَّبَنُ عِلْمًا فَحَرَمَهُ اللَّهُ عِلْمًا كَثِيرًا عَلَى قَدْرِ مَا شَرِبَ

For he knows that the abode of imagination calls for interpretation; yet he was heedless, and so did not give the abode its due, and he took the vision as true [to its literal form] (ṣaddaqa al-ruʾyā; cf. Q 37:105) for this reason. [This is] just as Baqī ibn Makhlad, the imam and author of the Musnad, did. He had heard, in the report that was established [as sound] in his view, that he [the Prophet], upon him be peace, said: “Whoever sees me in sleep has seen me in wakefulness, for Satan does not take on the likeness of my form” [ḥadīth]. Then Baqī ibn Makhlad saw him, and in this vision the Prophet, God bless him and give him peace, gave him milk to drink. Baqī ibn Makhlad took his vision as true [to its literal form], so he made himself vomit, and he vomited milk. Had he interpreted his vision, that milk would have been knowledge. So God deprived him of much knowledge, in the measure of what he drank.

al-Qayṣarī

﴿يعلم أن موطن الخيال يطلب التعبير. فغفل … فما وفي الموطن حقه. وصدق الرؤيا لهذا السبب.﴾

وإنما اختبره، ليكمله ويطلعه على أن المعاني تظهر بالصور الحسية والمثالية دائما، فلا ينبغي أن تجمد على ظواهرها فقط، بل يجب أن يطلب ما هو المقصود منها، لئلا يكون محجوبا بظواهر الأشياء عن بواطنها، فيفوته علم الباطن والحقيقة، خصوصا علم التعبير الذي به ينتفع السالكون في سلوكهم. وجميع الابتلاءات كذلك، للتكميل ورفع الدرجات

He tested him only in order to perfect him and inform him that meanings always appear in sensory and imaginal forms, so one ought not to remain fixed upon their outward aspects alone, but must seek what is intended by them, lest one be veiled by the outward aspects of things from their inward realities, thereby losing knowledge of the inward and the Reality—especially the science of interpretation, which benefits those traveling the [spiritual] path. And all trials are likewise for perfecting and raising [spiritual] ranks

Ibn Turka

﴿لأنّه يعلم أنّ موطن الخيال يطلب التعبير ، فغفل فما وفّى الموطن حقّه وصدّق الرؤيا لهذا السبب … كما فعل تقي بن مخلد الإمام صاحب المسند﴾

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«هو الحافظ بقي بن مخلد ابن يزيد 200هـ. سير أعلام النبلاء ومعجم الأدباء وتذكرة الحفاظ والأعلام للزركلي » - وذلك من سراية حكم ولاية الأنبياء المرسلين في ولاية الأولياء المحمّديين -

— and that is from the overflowing of the ruling governing the sainthood (walāya) of the sent prophets into the sainthood of the Muḥammadan saints (al-awliyāʾ al-Muḥammadiyyūn) —

Bālī Zāde

﴿یعلم أن موطن الخيال يطلب التعبير فغفل﴾

إبراهيم عليه السلام عن طلب موطن الخيال التعبير فإذا غفل

—Abraham, peace be upon him, was heedless of seeking [knowledge of] what the station of imagination requires by way of interpretation; and since he was heedless...

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يَطْلُبُ التَّعْبِيرَ

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Jāmī

﴿يطلب التعبير﴾

غالب (فغفل) إبراهيم عليه السلام عما تستحقه مواطن الخيال

most likely. (So he was heedless) — Abraham, peace be upon him — of what the loci of imagination deserve

Jāmī

﴿فما وفي الموطن حقه وصدق الرؤيا لهذا السبب، كما فعل تقي بن مخلد الإمام صاحب المسند … سمع في الخبر الذي ثبت عنده أنه عليه السلام قال من رآني﴾

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على ما أنا عليه من الحلية

— in the guise in which I truly am —

Bālī Zāde

﴿فما وفي الموطن حقه وصدق الرؤيا لهذا السبب﴾

وهو الغفلة . وإنما قال : فغفل إبراهيم عليه السلام ولم يقل فلم يعلم لأن إبراهيم عليه السلام يعلم أن موطن الخيال يطلب التعبير في بعض الرؤيا ولم يطلب في بعضها . واعتمد على أن هذه الرؤيا من قبيل الثاني مع علمه أن عادة رؤيا الأنبياء لا يدخل التعبير فغفل لذلك ولم يعبر

— that is, heedlessness (ghafla). He said "so Abraham, peace be upon him, became heedless" and did not say "so he did not know," because Abraham, peace be upon him, knew that the locus of imagination requires interpretation in some visions and does not require it in others. He relied on the fact that this vision was of the second kind, while knowing that it is customary for the visions of the prophets not to require interpretation; so he became heedless on that account and did not interpret it.

al-Qayṣarī

﴿كما فصل تقى بن مخلد، الإمام صاحب المسند﴾

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وهو كتاب في الحديث. (سمع في الخبر الذي صح عنده أنه، عليه السلام، قال

which is a book of ḥadīth. (He heard in the report, authenticated with him, that he, peace be upon him, said

Bālī Zāde

﴿كما غفل تقي بن مخلد الإمام﴾

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بفتح الميم وسكون الخاء المعجمة

— with fatḥa on the mīm and sukūn on the dotted khāʾ.

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صَاحِبُ المُسْنَدِ

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Bālī Zāde

﴿صاحب المسند﴾

كتاب في الحديث من تصنيفاته. " والصحيح أن اسمه بقي ابن مخلد ابن يزيد الأندلسي 201 - 276هـ المحدث الحافظ المفسر الفقيه "

— a book of Hadith among his compositions. "The correct form is that his name was Baqī ibn Makhlad ibn Yazīd al-Andalusī (201–276 AH), the traditionist, the Ḥāfiẕ, the exegete, the jurist."

Ibn Turka

﴿سمع في الخبر الذي ثبت عنده أنّه عليه السّلام قال : « من رآني في النوم فقد رآني في اليقظة »﴾

وذلك لختم صورته وتمام إحاطته فيه

— this is because of the sealing of his form and the completeness of his encompassment within it.

Bālī Zāde

﴿سمع في الخبر الذي ثبت عنده أنه قال عليه السلام: من رآني في النوم فقد رآني في اليقظة فإن الشيطان لا يتمثل على صورتي﴾

رواه البخاري . فرآه تقي بن مخلد وسقاه النبي عليه السلام في هذه الرؤيا لبنا

— related by al-Bukhārī. So Baqī ibn Makhlad saw him, and the Prophet, peace be upon him, gave him milk to drink in this vision.

al-Qayṣarī

﴿من رآني في المنام، فقد رآني في اليقظة، فإن الشيطان لا يتمثل على صورتي﴾

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فرآه تقى بن مخلد : أي، رأى تقى بن مخلد النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم

[Text: 'Whoever sees me in a dream has indeed seen me in waking life, for Satan cannot take on my form') And Taqī ibn Makhlad saw him—that is, Taqī ibn Makhlad saw the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him

﴿من رآني في النوم، فقد رآني في اليقظة﴾

أراد أن يحقق أن المرئي ما هو؟ وفي أي عالم هو؟ فقال

he intended to establish what the thing seen actually is, and in which world it is. So he said

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فِي النَّوْمِ فَقَدْ رَآنِي

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Jāmī

﴿في النوم … فقد رآني في اليقظة﴾

أي حكما أي لرؤيتي في النوم حكم رؤيتي في اليقظة فيما سيأتي

— that is, in ruling; meaning: seeing me in sleep has the same ruling as seeing me in waking life, in what is to come —

Ibn Turka

﴿« فإنّ الشيطان لا يتمثّل على صورتي »﴾

لكونه محاطا فيها - ولذلك تراه عارض آدم وقابله ، وأسلم على يده وأذعن له

— because he [Satan] is encompassed within it — and that is why you see that he confronted Adam and faced him, yet [Satan] submitted (aslama) at his [Adam's] hand and yielded to him.

Jāmī

﴿فإن الشيطان لا يتمثل على صورتي﴾

رواه البخاري وغيره وإنما لم يتمثل الشيطان بصورته عليه السلام، لأنه مظهر لاسم الهادي ومبعوث للهداية والشيطان مظهر للاسم المضل ومخلوق للإضلال. فلو كان له تمكن من التمثال بصورته عليه الصلاة والسلام لاختل أمر الهداية. فإن قلت : لا يلزم من عدم تمكن الشيطان من التمثال بصورته عليه السلام أن تكون صورته المثالية عينه عليه السلام لا غيره لجواز أن يتمثل بصورته ملك أو روح أو إنسان أو بمعنى من المعاني كشرعه وسننه و غير ذلك مما فيه نسبة إليه في معنى الهداية وغيرها. قلت: يمكن أن تكون سنة الله تعالى جارية بأن لا يتمثل بصورته وحلبته عليه السلام شيء أصلا تعظيما لشأنه ويكون تخصيص الشيطان بالذكر الاهتمام بنفي تمكنه من التمثل بصورته عليه السلام لما لا يخفى وجهه . (فرآه تقي بن مخلد) ، أي النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

— narrated by al-Bukhārī and others. Satan cannot take on his form, peace be upon him, because he [the Prophet] is a locus of manifestation for the Name 'the Guide' and was sent for guidance, whereas Satan is a locus of manifestation for the Name 'the Misleader' and was created for misguidance. Had Satan the power to take on his form, peace and blessings be upon him, the affair of guidance would be thrown into disorder. If you should say: it does not follow, from Satan's inability to take on his form, peace be upon him, that his imaginal form [in visions] is necessarily his own self, peace be upon him, and none other — since it is possible that an angel, or a spirit, or a human being might take on his form, or [the form might represent] some meaning connected to him, such as his Law, his practices, and the like, insofar as there is a relation (nisba) to him in the meaning of guidance or otherwise — I would say: it is possible that it is God's running practice that absolutely nothing take on his form and bearing, peace be upon him, out of reverence for his station, and that the singling out of Satan for mention is [meant] to emphasize the negation of his ability to take on his form, peace be upon him, for a reason that is not hidden. (So Taqī ibn Makhlad saw him) — that is, the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace —

Ibn Turka

﴿فرآه تقيّ بن مخلد ، وسقاه النبيّ صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم في هذه الرؤيا لبنا ، فصدّق تقيّ بن مخلد رؤياه فاستقاء ، فقاء لبنا ولو عبّر رؤياه لكان ذلك اللبن علما﴾

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لأنّه أوّل ما يظهر بصورة الحياة ويغتذي به الحيوان ، فيصير حيّا كما أنّ العلم أوّل ما يتعيّن به الذات فيظهر به عالما ولأنّه أكرم ثمرة أثمرها شجرة النشأة الجسمانيّة الإنسانيّة ، كما أنّ العلم أكرم ثمرة أثمرها شجرتها الروحانيّة الجسدانيّة . وأيضا في لفظه تلويح بيّن على تأويله ذلك ، بما فيه من لام « العلم » و « التفصيل » والباء والنون المشعرين بالإبانة والظهور حيثما اجتمعا

— for milk is the first thing to appear in the form of life and by which the animal is nourished, so that it becomes living, just as knowledge is the first thing by which the essence (al-dhāt) is determined (yataʿayyan) and thereby appears as knowing; and because milk is the noblest fruit yielded by the tree of the human corporeal constitution, just as knowledge is the noblest fruit yielded by its spiritual-corporeal tree. Moreover, in the very word [laban, "milk"] there is a clear indication (talwīḥ) pointing to this interpretation, through what it contains of the lām of "knowledge" (ʿilm) and of "differentiation" (tafṣīl), and the bāʾ and nūn which signify manifestation and appearance wherever the two are joined together.

Jāmī

﴿فرآه تقي بن مخلد وسقاه النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في هذه الرؤيا لبنا فصدق تقي بن مخلد رؤياه فاستقاء فقاء لبنا. ولو عبر رؤياه لكان ذلك اللبن علما. فحرمه الله علما كثيرا على قدر ما شرب.﴾

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al-Qayṣarī

﴿وسقاه النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم، في هذه الرؤيا لبنا. فصدق تقى بن مخلد رؤياه﴾

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ي صدق ما رآه في نومه عند اليقظة. (واستقاء فقاء لبنا. ولو عبر رؤياه لكان ذلك اللبن علما، فحرمه الله علما كثير على قدر ما شرب. ألا ترى رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم، أتى في المنام بقدح لبن، قال

that is, he confirmed as true what he saw in his sleep, upon waking. (He drank it and was given to drink milk. Had he interpreted his vision, that milk would have been knowledge; but God deprived him of much knowledge in proportion to what he drank.) Do you not see that the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, was brought in a dream a vessel of milk, and said

Jāmī

﴿وسقاه النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم لبنا فصدق تقي بن مخلد رؤياه﴾

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بعدما استيقظ

— after he woke up —

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فَصَدَّقَ بَقِيُّ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ رُؤْيَاهُ

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Bālī Zāde

﴿فصدق تقي بن مخلد رؤياه﴾

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في نومه عند اليقظة (فاستقاء) في اليقظة (فسقاه لبنا) ولو عبر رؤياه لكان ذلك اللبن علم فحرمه الله علما كثيرا على قدر ما شرب . قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه : ألا ترى أن رسول الله أنتي (على بناء المفعول

in his sleep upon waking — ("he sought drink") in waking life — ("so he gave him milk to drink"). Had he interpreted his vision, that milk would have been [symbolic of] knowledge; so God deprived him of much knowledge in proportion to what he drank. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said: "Do you not see that the Messenger of God was brought" (in the passive construction)...

Jāmī

﴿فاستقاء فقاء لبنا، ولو عبر رؤياه لكان ذلك اللبن علما﴾

تمثل بصورة اللبن فإن اللبن كما أنه يغذي الأبدان ويربها من أول الفطرة إلى آخرها كذلك العلم يغذي الأرواح في جميع أحواله (فحرمه) إليه ، أي تقي بن مخلد

— taking form as milk; for just as milk nourishes bodies and rears them from the very beginning of their formation to the very end, so too knowledge nourishes spirits in all their states — (so he was deprived) — that is, Taqī ibn Makhlad was deprived —

Ibn Turka

﴿فحرّمه الله علما كثيرا على قدر ما شرب﴾

لما قاء به . رؤيا رسول الله صلَّى الله عليه وآله

because of what he vomited up of it. The Vision of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him and his family):

Jāmī

﴿علما كثيرا على قدر ما شرب﴾

ثم قاء من اللبن فكان الأحرى بحاله أن يعبر اللبن بالعلم ولا يستقيء وإن أورث له ذلك زيادة طمأنينة بصدق ذلك الخبر. قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

— then he vomited up the milk; and the more fitting course for him would have been to interpret the milk as knowledge and not induce vomiting, even though doing so afforded him an increase in certainty as to the truthfulness of that report. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said:

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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

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0835SainDinTaraka.SharhFususHikam.IAC00087-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)

Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.

Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/taraka.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.

Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.

Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898/1492), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0898NurDinJami.SharhMatnFususHikam.IAC00088-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)

Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.

Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/jami_matn.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.

Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.

Muṣṭafā b. Sulaymān Bālī Zāde (d. 1073/1663), Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 1073MustafaSulaymanBaliZadah.SharhFususHikam.IAC00082-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)

Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.

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.

Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.

Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d. 673/1274), al-Fukūk fī asrār mustanadāt ḥikam al-Fuṣūṣ

Digital text: OpenITI barzakh, 0673AbuMacaliQunawi.Fukuk.IAC00079-ara1 (commit 6b19bdc)

Print edition behind it: Not recorded by OpenITI: the barzakh file has no .yml metadata record, and the ibnalarabi.com page it was taken from names no printed edition.

Taken from: ibnalarabi.com/fusus/qunawi.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.

Licence: OpenITI distributes its texts under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; ibnalarabi.com states © 1999–2024. The commentary itself is a classical work in the public domain; the edition behind the digital text is unidentified.

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.

Arabic of the commentaries from the OpenITI digital texts (each comment links to its line); Bosnevî's Ottoman Turkish from our collation of two OCRs of the 1873 Istanbul print (each comment links to its page scan at HathiTrust); passages matched to the commentators' quotations automatically.English translations of the commentaries and of the passage are AI (Claude) and marked. Differences are computed by comparing the words each commentator quotes with our working text; they may reflect a different manuscript reading, a paraphrase, or an alignment error. About this text.