al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Jazāʾirī · Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī baʿḍ ishārāt al-Qurʾān ilā al-asrār wa-l-maʿārif
المواقف
The Book of Stations
Mawqif 101 · “Glory be to Him who carried His servant”
See the print: Damascus 1966, p. 219, Damascus 1966, p. 220, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 218, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 219 (archive.org)
قَالَ تَعَالَى: «سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلاً مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ لِنُرِيَهُ مِنْ آيَاتِنَا إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ».
He, exalted, said: "Glory be to Him who carried His servant by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose surroundings We have blessed, so that We might show him some of Our signs; truly he is the Hearing, the Seeing" (Q 17:1).
أَخْبَرَ تَعَالَى فِي هَذِهِ الْآيَةِ، أَنَّهُ أَسْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ مُحَمَّدٍ بِجَسَدِهِ وَرُوحِهِ؛
In this verse He, exalted, informed that He carried His servant Muhammad by night, with his body and his spirit;
لِيُرِيَهُ مِنْ آيَاتِ الْآفَاقِ، بَعْدَ أَنْ أَرَاهُ آيَاتِهِ فِي نَفْسِهِ، كَمَا قَالَ تَعَالَى: «سَنُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِنَا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ».
so as to show him some of the signs of the horizons, after He had shown him His signs in his own self, as He, exalted, said: "We shall show them Our signs on the horizons and in their own selves" (Q 41:53).
حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّ مَا رَأَوْهُ هُوَالْحَقُّ لَا غَيْرُهُ،
until it becomes clear to them that what they have seen is the Real and nothing else.
وَهَذِهِ حَالَةُ الْمُرَادِينَ الْمَجْذُوبِينَ، الْمُصْطَفَيْنَ، يُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِ الْأَنْفُسِ قَبْلَ آيَاتِ الْآفَاقِ، خِلَافَ الْمُرِيدِينَ•
This is the state of the sought, the drawn, the chosen: He shows them the signs of the selves before the signs of the horizons, unlike the seekers.
ثُمَّ أَخْبَرَ تَعَالَى: أَنَّهُ أَيْ مُحَمَّداً هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ، فَعِيلٌ بِمَعْنَى مَفْعُولٍ،
Then He, exalted, informed that he, that is, Muhammad, is "the Hearing, the Seeing", faʿīl in the sense of mafʿūl,
أَيْ كُلُّ مَا أَبْصَرَهُ وَسَمِعَهُ مُحَمَّدٌ فِي اِسْرَائِهِ؛ هُوَ مُحَمَّدٌ مِنْ حَيْثُ حَقِيقَتُهُ،
that is: everything that Muhammad saw and heard in his night journey is Muhammad, in respect of his reality,
فَاِنَّهَا هَيُولَى الْعَالَمِ وَحَقِيقَةُ الْحَقَائِقِ،
for it is the prime matter of the world and the Reality of realities,
وَهُوَ الْاِنْسَانُ الْأَزَلِيُّ، وَهُوَ الْأَوَّلُ وَالْآخِرُ، وَالظَّاهِرُ وَالْبَاطِنُ، وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ، كَمَا أَنَّ الْحَقَّ ــ تَعَالَى ــ لَهُ هَذِهِ الصِّفَاتُ•
and he is the pre-eternal Man; he is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward, and he has knowledge of all things, just as the Real, exalted, has these attributes.
فَاِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى لَمَّا أَوْجَدَ حَقِيقَتَهُ، قَالَ لَهُ: أَعْطَيْتُكَ اَسْمَائِي وَصِفَاتِي فَمَنْ رَآكَ رَآنِي، وَمَنْ عَلِمَكَ عَلِمَنِي، وَمَنْ جَهِلَكَ جَهِلَنِي،
For when God, exalted, brought his reality into existence, He said to him: "I have given you My names and My attributes; so whoever sees you sees Me, whoever knows you knows Me, and whoever is ignorant of you is ignorant of Me.
غَايَةُ مَنْ دُونَكَ أَنْ يَصِلُوا اِلَى مَعْرِفَةِ نُفُوسِهِمْ مِنْكَ، وَغَايَةُ مَعْرِفَتِهِمْ بِكَ الْعِلْمُ بِوُجُودِكَ، لَا بِكَيْفِيَّتِكَ وَكَذَلِكَ أَنْتَ مَعِي لَا تَعْرِفُنِي اِلَاّ مِنْ حَيْثُ الْوُجُودُ،
The utmost of those below you is to arrive at knowledge of their own selves from you, and the utmost of their knowledge of you is knowledge of your existence, not of your how; and likewise you, with Me, do not know Me except in respect of existence."
فَحَقِيقَةُ مُحَمَّدٍ هِيَ الْمَشْهُودَةُ لِأَهْلِ الشُّهُودِ،
So the reality of Muhammad is what is beheld by the people of beholding;
وَهِيَ الَّتِي يَتَغَزَّلُونَ بِهَا، وَيَتَلَذَّذُونَ بِحَدِيثِهَا فِي أَسْمَارِهِمْ،
it is what they court in their love-poetry, and in whose talk they delight in their night conversations;
وَهِيَ الْمَعْنِيَّةُ عِنْدَهُمْ بِلَيْلَى وَسَلْمَى،
it is what they mean by Laylā and Salmā;
وَهِيَ الْمُكَنَّى عَنْهَا بِالْخَمْرِ، بِالشُّرْبِ وَالْكَاسِ، وَالنَّارِ وَالنُّورِ وَالشَّمْسِ، وَبِالْبَرْقِ وَنَسِيمِ الصَّبَاءِ وَالْمَنَازِلِ وَالرُّسُومِ وَالرُّبَا،
it is what they allude to by wine, by drinking and the cup, and by fire, light and the sun, and by lightning, the breeze of the east wind, the encampments, the traces and the hills;
هِيَ نِهَايَةُ سَيْرِ السَّائِرِينَ، وَغَايَةُ مَطْلُوبِ الْعَارِفِينَ•
it is the end of the journey of the wayfarers and the goal of what the knowers seek.
وَبَعْدَمَا كَتَبْتُ هَذَا الْمَوْقِفَ؛ خَطَرَ فِي بَالِي أَنَّهُ اِذَا وَقَفَ عَلَيْهِ بَعْضُ مَنْ لَمْ يُكْشَفْ لَهُ سِرُّ الْحَقِيقَةِ الْمُحَمَّدِيَّةِ رُبَّمَا يَقُولُ مَا قَالَ الْحَافِظُ ابْنُ تَيْمِيَّهَ ـ رَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى ـ لَمَّا وَقَفَ عَلَى شِفَاءِ عِيَاضٍ: لَقَدْ تَغَالَى هَذَا الْمُغَيْرِبِيُّ،
After I had written this mawqif, it occurred to me that if someone to whom the secret of the Muhammadan Reality has not been unveiled came upon it, he might say what al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Taymiyya, God's mercy be upon him, said when he came upon the Shifāʾ of ʿIyāḍ: "This little Maghribī has gone to excess!"
ثُمَّ نِمْتُ فَقِيلَ لِي فِي الْمَنَامِ: زِدْ،
Then I slept, and it was said to me in a dream: "Add!"
وَهِيَ نَارُ مُوسَى وَعَصَا مُوسَى، وَنَفَسُ عِيسَى، الَّذِي كَانَ يُحْيِي بِهِ الْمَوْتَى وَيُبْرِىءُ الْأَكْمَهَ وَالْأَبْرَصَ•
And it is the fire of Moses and the staff of Moses, and the breath of Jesus, by which he used to bring the dead to life and heal the one born blind and the leper.
فَلَمَّا اسْتَيْقَظْتُ زِدْتُهَا•
When I woke, I added it.
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