The Book of Stations

1. Mawqif 6 and 7 · “I” and “He”: the other vanishes

   See the print: Damascus 1966, p. 38, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 50, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 51 (archive.org)

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   كَانَ الْحَقُّ تَعَالَى لِحَقِيقَتِهِ يَقُولُ: أَنَا، وَالْعَبْدُ لِجَهْلِهِ يَقُولُ: أَنَا،

   The Real, exalted is He, would say, by virtue of His reality: "I"; and the servant would say, out of his ignorance: "I";

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   وَالْعَبْدُ يَقُولُ: هُوَ لِشُهُودِهِ مِنْ رَبِّهِ الْبُعْدَ، وَالرَّبُّ يَقُولُ: هُوَ لِكَوْنِ ذَلِكَ مَشْـهُودَ الْعَبْدِ،

   and the servant would say "He", because he beheld distance from his Lord; and the Lord would say "He", because that is what the servant beheld.

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3. ¶30
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   فَلَمَّا تَنَفَّسَ صُبْحُ الْعِنَايَةِ، وَجَعَلَ مُنَادِي الْهِـدَايَةِ، وَأَشْرَقَتِ السِّتُّ وَالْخَمْسُ، بِاِشْرَاقِ الشَّمْسِ، زَالَ الْهُوَ مِـنَ الْبَيْنِ،

   Then, when the dawn of providential care breathed, and the caller of guidance began [to call], and the six and the five shone with the shining of the sun, the "He" vanished from between [us],

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4. ¶31
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   وَالْتَبَسَ أَنَا بِأَنَا، عَيْناً بِعَيْنٍ، مِنْ غَيْرِ امْتِزَاجٍ، وَلَا اتِّحَادٍ، وَلَا حُلُولٍ، اِذِ الْكُلُّ فِي طَرِيقِنَا وَتَوْحِيدِنَا مَعْزُولٌ،

   and "I" became indistinguishable from "I", essence with essence, without mixing, or union, or indwelling, since all of these are deposed in our path and our tawḥīd.

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5. ¶32
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   فَلَيْسَ عِنْدَنَا اِلَاّ وُجُودٌ وَاحِدٌ، هُوَ عَيْنٌ وَشَرْطُ الثَّلَاثَةِ عِنْدَ الثَّلَاثَةِ: تَعَدُّدُ الْوُجُودِ وَالْعَيْنِ،

   For with us there is nothing but a single existence, which is [one] essence; and the condition of the three, according to the [holders of the] three, is the multiplicity of existence and of essence.

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6. ¶33
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   فَلَا يُكَدِّرُونَ صُفُوفَنَا بِجَمْجَمَتِهِمْ، وَلَا يُرَوِّعُونَنَا بِمَمْتِهِمْ•

   So they do not muddy our ranks with their mumbling, nor alarm us with their […].

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7. Mawqif 7 · begins here, on the same printed page (D p. 38)

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   أَخَذَنِي الْحَقُّ عَنِّي، وَقَرَّبَنِي مِنِّي،

   The Real took me away from myself, and brought me near to myself,

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8. ¶35
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   فَـزَالَتِ السَّمَاءُ بِزَوَالِ الْأَرْضِ، وَامْتَزَجَ الْكُلُّ بِالْبَعْضِ، وَانْعَدَمَ الطُّولُ وَالْعَرْضُ، وَصَارَ النَّفْلُ اِلَى الْفَرْضِ، وَالِانْصِبَاغُ اِلَى الْمَحْضِ،

   and heaven vanished with the vanishing of earth, the whole mingled with the part, length and breadth ceased to be, the supererogatory came to the obligatory, and the being-dyed came to the pure,

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9. ¶36
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   وَانْتَهَى السَّيْرُ، فَانْتَفَى الْغَيْرُ، وَصَحَّ النَّسَبُ، بِاِسْقَاطِ الْاِضَافَاتِ وَالِاعْتِبَارَاتِ وَالنِّسَبِ،

   The journeying came to its end, so the other was negated, and the lineage was established by dropping the attributions, the aspects and the relations;

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10. ¶37
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    الْيَوْمَ أَضَعُ اَنْسَابَكُمْ• وَأَرْفَعُ نَسَبِي،

    "Today I lower your lineages and raise My lineage";

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11. ¶38
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    ثُـمَّ قِيلَ لِي، مِثْلُ قَوْلَةِ الْحَلَّاجِ، غَيْرَ أَنَّ الْحَلَّاجَ قَالَهَا، وَأَنَا قِيلَتْ لِي، وَلَا أَقُولُهَا،

    Then there was said to me the like of al-Ḥallāj's saying, except that al-Ḥallāj said it, whereas it was said to me, and I do not say it.

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12. ¶39
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    وَهَذَا الْكَلَامُ يَعْرِفُهُ، وَيُسَلِّمُهُ أَهْلُهُ، وَيَجْهَلُهُ وَيُنْكِرُهُ، مَنْ غَلَبَ جَهْلُهُ•

    This speech is known and accepted by its people, and is unknown to and denied by the one whose ignorance has prevailed.

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