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فَصُّ حِكْمَةٍ حَقِّيَّةٍ فِي كَلِمَةٍ إِسْحَاقِيَّةٍ

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كُلُّ رُوحٍ بِهَذِهِ المَثَابَةِ فَيَتَجَسَّدُ لَهُ رُوحُ النَّبِيِّ فِي المَنَامِ بِصُورَةِ جَسَدِهِ كَمَا مَاتَ عَلَيْهِ لَا يَخْرِمُ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ فَهُوَ مُحَمَّدٌ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ المَرْئِيُّ مِنْ حَيْثُ رُوحُهُ فِي صُورَةٍ جَسَدِيَّةٍ تُشْبِهُ المَدْفُونَةَ لَا يُمْكِنُ لِشَيْطَانٍ أَنْ يَتَصَوَّرَ بِصُورَةِ جَسَدِهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عِصْمَةً مِنَ اللَّهِ فِي حَقِّ الرَّائِي

Every spirit is of this standing. Thus the spirit of the Prophet takes on a body for him [the dreamer] in sleep in the form of his body as it was when he died, nothing of it being lacking. So he is Muḥammad (upon him be peace), the one seen with respect to his spirit, in a bodily form resembling the buried [form]. It is not possible for a satan to take on the form of his body (God bless him and give him peace), as a protection from God on behalf of the one who sees [him].

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Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿لا يمكن للشيطان أن يتصور بصورة جسده صلى الله عليه وسلم عصما من الله في حق الرائي. ولهذا من رآه بهذه الصورة يأخذ عنه جميع ما يأمره أو ينهاه عنه أو يخبره كما كان يأخذ عنه في الحياة الدنيا من الأحكام على حسب ما يكون منه اللفظ الدال عليه من نص أو ظاهر أو مجمل أو ما كان فإن أعصاه شيئا فإن ذلك الشيء هو الذي يدخله التعبير، فإن خرج في الحس كما كان في الخيال فتلك رؤيا لا تعبير لها. وبهذا القدر وعليه اعتمد إبراهيم عليه السلام وتقي بن مخلد. ولما كان للرؤيا هذان الوجهان. وعلمنا الله: فيما فعل بإبراهيم وما قال له: الأدب لما يعطيه مقام النبوة، علمنا في رؤيتنا الحق تعالى في صورة يردها الدليل﴾

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مثالية فإن الجسد في أصطلاح هذه الطائفة يطلق غالبة على الصورة المثالية (تشبه) الصورة (المدفونة) في البدنية (لا يتمكن الشيطان أن يتصور) ، أي يتمثل

a form of imaginal representation (mithāliyya), for "body" (jasad) in the technical usage of this group is mostly applied to the imaginal form, (resembling) the form (that is buried) in its bodily sense. (It is not possible for Satan to take the form), i.e., to represent himself,

al-Qayṣarī

﴿كل روح بهذه المثابة.﴾

ثم، بين أن المرئي هو الصورة الجسدانية، فقال

Then he explained that what is seen is the corporeal form, saying

Jāmī

﴿كل روح … بهذه المثابة﴾

أي ليس من شأنه أن يشاهد الحسن . (فيتجسد) أي يتمثل (له) ، أي للرائي

i.e., it is not of its nature to be witnessed by the senses. (So it takes bodily form) i.e., becomes manifested (for him), i.e., for the one seeing,

Bālī Zāde

﴿كل روح بهذه المثابة﴾

في أنه لا يرى إلا بالتمثل الجسد المثالي. قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

— in that it is not seen except through representation in an imaginal body. The Shaykh, may God be pleased with him, said:

al-Qayṣarī

﴿فيتجسد له﴾

أي،للرائي. (روح النبي، عليه السلام، في المنام بصورة جسده كما مات عليه). أي، تظهر له روح النبي بصورة جسده الذي هي كالجسم الذي مات عليه. (لا يخرم المتجسد) . أي، لا يقطع ولا يغير منه شيئا. (فهو محمد، صلى الله عليه وسلم، المرئي من حيث روحه في صورة جسدية تشبه المدفونة) . أي، الصورة المدفونة. والجسد في اصطلاح الطائفة مخصوص بالصورة المثالية

that is, for the seer. (The spirit of the Prophet, peace be upon him, [appears] in the dream in the form of his body as it was at death.) That is, the Prophet's spirit appears to him in the form of his body, which is like the body in which he died. ('The embodied form is not altered') that is, nothing of it is cut off or changed. ('So it is Muḥammad, peace and blessings be upon him, who is seen, in respect of his spirit, in a corporeal form resembling the buried one.') That is, the buried form. And 'body' (jasad), in the terminology of the [Sufi] group, is specifically applied to the imaginal form (al-ṣūra al-mithāliyya)

Bālī Zāde

﴿فيتجسد له روح النبي عليه السلام في المنام بصورة جسده كما مات عليه﴾

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فيرى الرائي روح النبي عليه السلام بصورة هذا الجسد ولا يمكن للرائي أن يرى روح النبي عليه السلام بصورة غير هذا الجسد الذي

— so the seer sees the spirit of the Prophet, peace be upon him, in the form of this body, and it is not possible for the seer to see the spirit of the Prophet, peace be upon him, in a form other than this body, which...

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رُوحُ النَّبِيِّ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿روح النبي … بصورة جسده﴾

المطهر المكرم حال كون تنك الصورة (كما مات عليها) ، أي مماثلة للصورة التي مات عنها النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

the purified, honored one, that form being (as he died upon it), i.e., corresponding to the form upon which the Prophet (peace be upon him) died

Jāmī

﴿لا يخرم﴾

بالخاء المعجمة والراء فمهملة من الخرم وهو القطع. أي لا يقطع (منه) أي مما مات عليه (شيئا فهو) أي ما رآه في المنام (محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم المرئي من حيث روحه) الظاهر

with the letters khāʾ, rāʾ, and mīm, from "al-kharm," which means cutting off. That is, nothing is cut off (from it), i.e., from what he died upon, (so it is), i.e., what he saw in the dream, (Muḥammad (peace be upon him) seen in respect of his spirit) the manifest one

Bālī Zāde

﴿لا يخرم منه شيئا﴾

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أي لا يقطع ولا يغير من أجزاء هذا الجسد شيء (نهر) أي ما پری للرائي في المنام بصورة جسده

— that is, nothing is subtracted from or altered in the parts of this body — (nahr) — that is, what is seen by the seer in the dream in the form of his body.

Bālī Zāde

﴿محمد عليه السلام المرئي من حیث روحه في صورة جسدية تشبه المدفونة﴾

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يعني لا پری محمد عليه السلام في نفس ذلك الجسد المدفون بل يرى في صورة جسدية مثالية تشبه المدفونة بحيث لا يميز الحس بينهما

— meaning Muhammad, peace be upon him, is not seen in the very same buried body, but is seen in an imaginal bodily form resembling the buried one, such that the senses cannot distinguish between the two.

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فِي صُورَةٍ جَسَدِيَّةٍ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿في صورة جسدية﴾

أي كالجسمانيات قال الشيخ رضي الله عنه

i.e., like corporeal things. The Shaykh (may God be pleased with him) said:

al-Qayṣarī

﴿لا يمكن للشيطان أن يتصور بصورة جسده، صلى الله عليه وسلم، عصمة من الله في حق الرائي.﴾

أي، تعظيما لشأن النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم، وعصمة من الله في حق الرائي أيضا

an immunity from God in respect of the one who sees him.] That is, out of exaltation of the Prophet's station, peace and blessings be upon him, and also as an immunity from God in respect of the seer

Bālī Zāde

﴿لا يمكن الشيطان أن يتصور بصورة جسده عليه السلام﴾

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أي الجد الذي مات عليه لا يقبل التغيير ولا النقص ولا الزيادة وتنكير الشيطان للتحقير

— that is, the body in which he died does not admit of alteration, diminution, or increase; and the indefinite form of "Satan" (al-shayṭān) is for the sake of belittlement.

Words 38–39 · 1 of 3

بِصُورَةِ جَسَدِهِ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿بصورة جسده﴾

المثالي المماثل لجسمه المطهر

the imaginal one, corresponding to his purified physical body

Words 40–42 · 1 of 3

صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ

Only Jāmī comments here.

Jāmī

﴿صلى الله عليه وسلم عصمة من الله … في حق الرائي﴾

أن يتلبس الأمر

that the matter be confused

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عِصْمَةً مِنَ اللَّهِ فِي حَقِّ الرَّائِي

Only Bālī Zāde comments here.

Bālī Zāde

﴿عصمة من الله في حق الرائي﴾

وتعظيما لشأن النبي عليه السلام فعلم منه أن جسد محمد عليه السلام الذي مات عليه لا يتمثل الشيطان بما يماثل ذلك الجسد . وكذلك الجسد في حال الصبابة والشبابة والشيخوخة لا يتمثل الشيطان بما يماثل بصورة الجسد الذي كان محمد عليه السلام عليه في ذلك الزمان بحيث لا امتیاز بينهما فإن تمثل فلا بد من فارق في الحس. إما بزيادة أو نقص أو عدم مشابهة بعض الأجزاء إلى بعض، فإن كان مشابهة في بعض الأجزاء إذ لا يمكن لأحد أن يتمثل في صورة جسدية محمد عليه السلام من كل الوجوه لعظمة شأن محمد عليه السلام . ولا يتمثل روح محمد، عليه السلام في صورة جسده في عالم الصبابة أو الشبابة أو الشيخوخة لعدم وسع هذا الجسد بالصورة المحمدية فلا يتمثل الشيطان أملا وإن كان مماثلا في بعض أجزائه لأن جسد محمد عليه السلام مجموع الهيئة الاجتماعية المعينة بالتعيين المحمدية عليه السلام فالتمثل الذي فرق الحس بینهما ليس جسد المحمدية عليه السلام. فلا يصدق التماثل إلا إذا كان مشابهة لمجموع الهيئة الاجتماعية بحيث لا امتیاز بينهما وليس كذلك فمن رأى محمد عليه السلام بغیر صورة الجسد الذي مات عليه لم ير روح محمد عليه السلام بل يرى أحوال نفسه يتمثل بصورة جسد محمد عليه السلام بندر المناسبة . (ولهذا) أي ولأجل عدم تمثل الشيطان بصورة جسد محمد عليه السلام عصمة من الله في حق الرائي

— and as a glorification of the Prophet's rank, peace be upon him. From this it is known that the body of Muhammad, peace be upon him, in which he died, cannot be represented by Satan in any form resembling that body. Likewise, the body in the state of early youth, young manhood, or old age — Satan cannot represent himself in a form resembling the body Muhammad, peace be upon him, had at that time, such that no distinction could be made between the two; for if he were represented, there would necessarily be some difference perceptible to the senses — either by addition or diminution, or by some parts not resembling others. Even granting resemblance in some parts, no one can represent the bodily form of Muhammad, peace be upon him, in every respect, due to the greatness of Muhammad's rank, peace be upon him. Nor can the spirit of Muhammad, peace be upon him, be represented in the form of his body in the state of early youth, young manhood, or old age, because this body does not have the capacity for the Muhammadan form [in its fullness]; so Satan cannot represent it at all, even if resembling in some of its parts — because the body of Muhammad, peace be upon him, is the totality of the specific configuration determined by the Muhammadan determination (al-taʿayyun al-Muḥammadī), peace be upon him. So any representation distinguishable by the senses from it is not the body of the Muhammadan reality, peace be upon him. Thus resemblance is not verified except when it corresponds to the totality of that configuration such that no distinction remains between the two — and this is not the case [with Satan's representations]. So whoever sees Muhammad, peace be upon him, in a form other than the body in which he died has not seen the spirit of Muhammad, peace be upon him, but rather sees states of his own soul represented in the form of Muhammad's body, peace be upon him, on rare occasions of correspondence. ("And for this reason") — that is, because of Satan's inability to represent the form of Muhammad's body, peace be upon him — there is a safeguarding from God with respect to the seer.

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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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