The Book of Stations
المواقف
Context: That every prophet warned of the Dajjāl was a known puzzle; commentators on al-Bukhārī say its timing was hidden. The Emir instead gives each prophet his own Mahdī and Dajjāl, via the Akbarian perfect human, and sees the Dajjāl present 'as meaning' in his age's deceivers while affirming a literal end-time Dajjāl. Outsiders find no textual basis for this.AI
رَوَى الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي صَحِيحِهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ- رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا- قَالَ: «قَامَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ- صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ- فِي النَّاسِ، فَأَثْنَى عَلَى اللَّهِ بِمَا هُوَ أَهْلُهُ، ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ الدَّجَّالَ فَقَالَ: «اِنِّي اُنْذِرُكُمُوهُ. مَا مِنْ نَبِيٍّ اِلاّ اَنْذَرَهُ قَوْمَهُ، لَقَدْ اَنْذَرَهُ نُوحٌ قَوْمَهُ..» الْحَدِيثَ.
Quotes a hadith: al-Bukhārī 3337, in other words · in a Ṣaḥīḥ, no separate grade · sunnah.com ↗
Al-Bukhārī related in his Ṣaḥīḥ, from Ibn ʿUmar (God be pleased with them both), who said: "The Messenger of God (God bless him and grant him peace) stood up among the people, praised God as befits Him, then mentioned the Dajjāl and said: "I warn you of him. There is no prophet who did not warn his people of him; Noah warned his people of him ..." (to the end of) the ḥadīth.
In briefAI
Some found it hard to see how every prophet could warn his people of the Dajjāl, who comes only near the Resurrection. The Emir answers that each prophet, as a perfect human being, realizes the comprehensive rank of Divinity while one name predominates in him. God teaches each that he is the dearest of creatures, that a Mahdī will rise in his community, and that a Dajjāl will come in his time or his community's. In Muḥammad's community these things have already appeared as meanings, in the impostors of the Emir's own day, and they will appear as visible persons at the end of time.
See the print: Damascus 1966, p. 1034 ↗, Damascus 1966, p. 1035 ↗ (archive.org)
اسْتَشْكَلَ بَعْضُ النَّاسِ هَذَا، وَقَالَ: كَيْفَ يُنْذِرُ كُلُّ نَبِيٍّ قَوْمَهُ الدَّجَّالَ. وَهُوَ لَايَخْرُجُ اِلاَّ قُرْبَ الْقِيَامَةِ؟!
Some people found this problematic and said: How can every prophet warn his people of the Dajjāl, when he will only come forth near the Resurrection?!
وَيَبْعُدُ أَنْ يَجْهَلَ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ كُلُّهُمْ هَذَا.
And it is unlikely that the prophets, all of them, were ignorant of this.
وَالْجَوَابُ: أَنَّ كُلَّ نَبِيٍّ اِنْسَانٌ كَامِلٌ، لَابُدَّ أَنْ يَتَحَقَّقَ بِمَرْتَبَةِ الْوَاحِدِيَّةِ، مَرْتَبَةِ الْأُلُوهَةِ الْجَامِعَةِ، لِجَمِيعِ أَسْمَاءِ الْأُلُوهَةِ.
The answer is that every prophet is a perfect human being, who must necessarily realize the rank of Unicity, the rank of Divinity that comprises all the names of Divinity.
وَمَعَ ذَلِكَ لَابُدَّ أَنْ يَتَمَيَّزَ بِغَلَبَةِ تَجَلِّي اسْمٍ مَخْصُوصٍ،
Yet together with that, he must be distinguished by the predominance of the self-disclosure of one particular name,
فَيَتَجَلَّى لَهُ الْحَقُّ- تَعَالَى- وَحْياً، وَيُعَلِّمُهُ أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَخْلُقْ خَلْقاً أَعَزَّ عَلَيْهِ مِنْهُ، وَأَنَّهُ أَوْجَدَهُ تَعَالَى لَهُ.
So the Real (exalted is He) discloses Himself to him as revelation, and teaches him that He has created no creature dearer to Him than him, and that He (exalted is He) brought him into being for Himself.
وَأَوْجَدَ الْأَشْيَاءَ كُلَّهَا مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ النَّبِيِّ وَأَنَّهُ سَيَخْرُجُ فِي أُمَّتِهِ مَهْدِيٌّ يَحْكُمُ بِشَرِيعَتِهِ وَيَنْفِي تَحْرِيفَ الْمَائِلِينَ وَزَيْغَ الزَّائِغِينَ.
and brought all things into being for the sake of that prophet, and that a Mahdī will come forth in his community who will judge by his Law and cast out the distortion of those who swerve and the deviation of those who deviate.
وَسَيَخْرُجُ الدَّجَّالُ فِي زَمَانِهِ، أَوْ فِي زَمَانِ أُمَّتِهِ فَيُعْلِمُ النَّبِيُّ قَوْمَهُ بِذَلِكَ.
And the Dajjāl will come forth in his time, or in the time of his community; so the prophet informs his people of that.
وَبَعْدَ هَلَاكِ هَذَا النَّبِيِّ وَأُمَّتِهِ يَأْتِي نَبِيٌّ آخَرُ عَلَى هَذَا النَّمَطِ.
And after the perishing of this prophet and his community, another prophet comes after the same pattern.
وَكُلُّ ذَلِكَ مِنْ تِلْكَ النِّسْبَةِ لِهَذِهِ الْمَرْتَبَةِ الْجَامِعَةِ، وَظُهُورِ اللَّهِ بِهَذَا الِاسْمِ.
All of that stems from that relation to this comprehensive rank, and from God's manifesting Himself through this name.
كُلُّ هَذَا مِنْ هَذِهِ الْحَيْثِيَّةِ الْمَذْكُورَةِ.
All of this is from the respect just mentioned.
وَقَدْ ظَهَرَتِ الْأُمُورُ الَّتِي أَخْبَرَ اللَّهُ بِهَا كُلَّ نَبِيٍّ، وَأَخْبَرَ كُلُّ نَبِيٍّ أُمَّتَّهُ، لَكِنَّهَا ظَهَرَتْ مَعَانِيَ لَا صُوَراً قَائِمَةً، كَمَا ظَهَرَتِ الْآنَ فِي زَمَانِنَا، بِمَا ظَهَرَ مِنْ دَجْلِ الدَّجَّالِينَ وَزَيْغِ الزَّائِغِينَ.
The matters of which God informed every prophet, and of which every prophet informed his community, have indeed appeared; but they appeared as meanings, not as concrete forms, just as they have appeared now in our own time, through the imposture of the impostors and the deviation of the deviators that has appeared.
وَسَتَظْهَرُ صُوَرٌ قَائِمَةٌ، كَمَا أَخْبَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ- صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ- لِظُهُورِهِ- صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ- بِالِاسْمِ الْجَامِعِ اللَّهِ، الْمُهَيْمِنِ عَلَى جَمِيعِ الْأَسْمَاءِ.
And concrete forms will appear, as the Messenger of God (God bless him and grant him peace) foretold, because he (God bless him and grant him peace) is manifest through the comprehensive name Allah, which holds dominion over all the names.
فَلَابُدَّ مِنْ ظُهُورِهَا لِلْعِيَانِ، كَمَا ظَهَرَتْ مَعَانِيَ.
So they must necessarily appear to the eye, just as they have appeared as meanings.
فَمِنْ حَيْثُ انْدِرَاجُ نُبُوَّةِ جَمِيعِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ فِي نُبُوَّتِهِ- صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ- ظَهَرَتِ الْأَشْيَاءُ الَّتِي اَخْبَرَ بِهَا مَعَانِيَ، وَسَتَظْهَرُ أَشْخَاصاً مُعَايَنَةً تَمَاماً فِي آخِرِ الْأَمْرِ.
Thus, inasmuch as the prophethood of all the prophets is contained within his prophethood (God bless him and grant him peace), the things he foretold have appeared as meanings, and they will appear as individuals seen fully with the eyes at the last.
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