The Book of Stations

1. Mawqif 33 · The muezzin at the Sacred Mosque

   See the print: Damascus 1966, p. 79, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 88 (archive.org)

   سَمِعْتُ الْمُؤَذِّنَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ يَتْلُو عَلَى الْمَنَارَةِ قَوْلَهُ تَعَالَى: «إنَّ اللَّهَ لَايَخْفَى عَلَيْهِ شَيْءٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فِي السَّمَاءِ»

   I heard the muezzin in the Sacred Mosque reciting from the minaret His words (exalted is He): "Truly nothing in the earth or in the heaven is hidden from God" (Q 3:5).✦

   ¶ 682

2. فَعَجِبْتُ مِنْ هَذِهِالْاِخْبَارِ لِرَسُولِهِ- صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ- مَعَ تَأْكِيدِهِ بِأَنَّ!!

   I marvelled at this informing of His Messenger (God bless him and grant him peace), together with His emphasising it with "truly" (inna)!!✦

   ¶ 683

3. ثُمَّ أَلْقَى الْحَقُّ اِلَيَّ: أَنَّ الْمَقْصُودَ بِهَذَا الْخِطَابِ وَالْاِخْبَارِ؛ الْعَامَّةُ الْجَاهِلُونَ بِالْحَقِّ.

   Then the Real cast to me that those intended by this address and informing are the common folk who are ignorant of the Real.✦

   ¶ 684

4. وَأَمَّا الْعَارِفُونَ؛ فَاِنَّهُمْ عَرَفُوهُ- تَعَالَى- عَيْنَ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاءِ.

   As for the knowers, they have known Him (exalted is He) to be the very essence of everything in the earth and the heaven.✦

   ¶ 685

5. فَكَيْفَ يَخْفَى عَلَيْهِ شَيْءٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاءِ؟

   So how could anything in the earth and the heaven be hidden from Him?✦

   ¶ 686

6. وَهَـلْ تَخْفَى عَلَيْهِ عَيْنُهُ

   Can His own essence be hidden from Him?✦

   ¶ 687

7. فَهَذَا الْخِطَابُ بِمَنْزِلَةِ قَوْلِهِ: أَنَا عَالِمٌ بِذَاتِي، وَلَا يَخْفَى عَلَيَّ شَيْءٌ مِنْ ذَاتِي

   So this address is as if He said: I know My Essence, and nothing of My Essence is hidden from Me.✦

   ¶ 688

8. وَهَذَا غَيْرُ مُفِيدٍ لِلْعَارِفِينَ شَيْئاً لَمْ يَكُنْ عِنْدَهُمْ، وَجَلَّ الْحَقُّ- تَعَالَى- عَنِ الْخِطَابِ بِغَيْرِ فَائِدَةٍ.

   This gives the knowers nothing they did not already have, and the Real (exalted is He) is far too majestic to address anyone without benefit.✦

   ¶ 689

9. فَتَعَيَّنَ أَنَّ الْمَقْصُودَ بِهَذَا الْاِخْبَارِ؛ لِأَنَّ تَأْكِيدَ الْخَبَرِ لَا يَكُونُ اِلَاّ لِمُنْكِرٍ أَوْ مُتَرَدِّدٍ،

   So it is established that the one intended by this informing [is …]; for emphasising a statement is only ever for one who denies it or one who hesitates,✦

   ¶ 690

10. وَالرَّسُولُ- صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ- وَوَرَثَتُهُ؛ مَا وَقَعَ مِنْهُمْ تَرَدُّدٌ، فَضْلاً عَنِ الْاِنْكَارِ.

    and no hesitation ever arose in the Messenger (God bless him and grant him peace) or his heirs, let alone denial.✦

    ¶ 691

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