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اِنَّ قُرَّةَ العَيْنِ بِالشُّهُودِ عَلَى قَدْرِ المَعْرِفَةِ بِالمَشْهُودِ فَالرَّسُولُ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَامُهُ لَيْسَ مَعْرِفَةُ غَيْرِهِ كَمَعْرِفَتِهِ فَلَيْسَ قُرَّةُ عَيْنٍ كَقُرَّتِهِ وَاِنَّمَا قُلْنَا اِنَّ قُرَّةَ عَيْنِهِ فِى صَلَاتِهِ بِشُهُودِهِ جَلَالَ مَشْهُودِهِ لِاَنَّهُ قَدْ أَشَارَ اِلَى ذَلِكَ بِقَوْلِهِ فِى الصَّلَاةِ وَلَمْ يَقُلْ بِالصَّلَاةِ اِذْ هُوَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَامُهُ لَا تَقَرُّ عَيْنُهُ بِغَيْرِ رَبِّهِ وَكَيْفَ وَهُوَ يَدُلُّ عَلَى هَذَا المَقَامِ وَيَأْمُرُ بِهِ مَنْ سِوَاهُ بِقَوْلِهِ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَامُهُ اُعْبُدِ اللَّهَ كَأَنَّكَ تَرَاهُ وَمُحَالٌ أَنْ يَرَاهُ وَيَشْهَدَ مَعَهُ سِوَاهُ فَاِنْ قَالَ قَائِلٌ قَدْ تَكُونُ قُرَّةُ العَيْنِ بِالصَّلَاةِ لِاَنَّهَا فَضْلٌ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَبَارِزَةٌ مِنْ عَيْنِ مِنَّةِ اللَّهِ فَكَيْفَ لَا يَفْرَحُ بِهَا وَكَيْفَ لَا تَكُونُ قُرَّةُ العَيْنِ بِهَا وَقَدْ قَالَ سُبْحَانَهُ قُلْ بِفَضْلِ اللَّهِ وَبِرَحْمَتِهِ فَبِذَلِكَ فَلْيَفْرَحُوا الآيَةَ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّ الآيَةَ قَدْ أَوْمَأَتْ اِلَى الجَوَابِ لِمَنْ تَدَبَّرَ سِرَّ الخِطَابِ اِذْ قَالَ فَبِذَلِكَ فَلْيَفْرَحُوا وَمَا قَالَ فَبِذَلِكَ فَافْرَحْ يَامُحَمَّدُ قُلْ لَهُمْ فَلْيَفْرَحُوا بِالاِحْسَانِ وَالتَّفَضُّلِ وَلْيَكُنْ فَرَحُكَ أَنْتَ بِالمُتَفَضِّلِ كَمَا قَالَ فِى الآيَةِ الاُخْرَى قُلِ اللَّهُ ثُمَّ ذَرْهُمْ فِى خَوْضِهِمْ يَلْعَبُونَ
The coolness of the eye that comes through witnessing is in proportion to one's knowledge of the One witnessed. As for the Messenger (God's blessings and peace be upon him), no one else's knowledge is like his knowledge, and so no coolness of eye is like his. We have said that the coolness of his eye in his prayer lay in his witnessing the majesty of the One he witnessed only because he himself pointed to this when he said 'in the prayer' and did not say 'through the prayer.' For he (God's blessings and peace be upon him) found the coolness of his eye in nothing other than his Lord. And how could it be otherwise, when he points to this very station and commands it to others in his saying (God's blessings and peace be upon him): 'Worship God as though you see Him'? And it is impossible that one should see Him and witness alongside Him anything other than Him. Should someone object: 'The coolness of the eye may well come through the prayer, since it is a bounty from God and issues forth from the very source of God's gracious gift; so how should one not rejoice in it, and how should the coolness of the eye not come through it, when He (glory be to Him) has said: "Say: In the bounty of God and in His mercy, in that let them rejoice" (the verse)?' then know that the verse itself has hinted at the answer, for whoever ponders the secret of the address. For He said 'in that let them rejoice,' and did not say 'in that rejoice, O Muhammad.' That is: Say to them, let them rejoice in the beneficence and the bestowal of bounty, but let your own joy be in the Bestower of bounty, just as He said in the other verse: 'Say: God! Then leave them to play in their idle discourse.'
Ibn ʿAbbād al-Rundī (d. 792/1390)
Ghayth al-mawāhib al-ʿaliyya fī sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʿAṭāʾiyya (the opening of his commentary on each passage; the rest on the linked pages)
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