The Book of Stations

1. Mawqif 20 · The light of the Book and the Sunna

   See the print: Damascus 1966, p. 61, Damascus 1966, p. 62, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 72 (archive.org)

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   طَلَبْتُ مِنَ الْحَقِّ- تَعَالَى- يَجْعَلُ لِي نُوراً أَكْشِفُ بِهِ، حَتَّى أَعْرِفَ مَا آتِي وَمَا أَذَرُ.

   I asked the Real (exalted is He) to make for me a light by which I might unveil, so that I might know what I should take up and what I should leave.

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   فَقَالَ لِي فِي الْحِينِ: هَا هُوَ ذَا فِي الْكِتَابِ وَالسُّنَّةِ.

   He said to me at once: Here it is, in the Book and the Sunna.

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   فَانْتَبَهْتُ حِينَئِذٍ لِقَوْلِهِ- تَعَالَى-: «قَدْ جَاءَكُمْ مِنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُبِينٌ يَهْدِي بِهِ اللَّهُ مَنْ اتَّبَعَ رِضْوَانَهُ سُبُلَ السَّلَامِ، وَيُخْرِجُهُمْ مِنَ الظُّلُمَاتِ إِلَى النُّورِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَيَهْدِيهِمْ إِلَى صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ».

   Then I became alert to His saying (exalted is He): “There has come to you from God a light and a clear Book, by which God guides whoever follows His good pleasure to the ways of peace, and He brings them out of the darknesses into the light by His leave, and guides them to a straight path” (Q 5:15–16).

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   فَعَرَفْتُ أَنَّهُ لَانُورَ يَرْغَبُ فِيهِ الرَّاغِبُونَ مِثْلُ الِاسْتِقَامَةِ عَلَى الْكِتَابِ وَالسُّنَّةِ.

   So I knew that there is no light that those who long for it long for like steadfastness upon the Book and the Sunna.

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   لِأَنَّهُ ـ تَعَالَى ـ ضَمِنَ النَّجَاةَ فِي الْعَمَلِ بِهِمَا، وَمَا ضَمِنَهُمَا فِي الْعَمَلِ بِالْكَشْفِ

   For He (exalted is He) guaranteed salvation in acting by the two of them, and He did not guarantee it in acting by unveiling.

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   وَلِذَا قَالَ اُسْتَاذُنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ الشَّاذِلِيُّ: اِنَّهُ يَرِدُ عَلَيَّ الْوَارِدُ؛ فَلَا أَقْبَلُهُ اِلاَّ بِشَاهِدَيْنِ عَدْلَيْنِ، وَهُمَا: الْكِتَابُ وَالسُّنَّةُ.

   That is why our master Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī said: The inrush comes upon me, and I do not accept it except with two just witnesses, and they are the Book and the Sunna.

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   أَوْ كَمَا قَالَ.

   Or as he said.

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   وَاِنَّ طَوْقَ الشَّرِيعَةِ لَا يَزُولُ عَنْ رَقَبَةِ عَارِفٍ وَلَا مُكَاشِفٍ؛ مَادَامَ بِدَارِ التَّكْلِيفِ.

   And the collar of the Law does not leave the neck of any knower or anyone who has unveiling, so long as he is in the abode of obligation.

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