The Book of Stations

1. Mawqif 79 · “Whoever is pleased by his good deed”

   See the print: Damascus 1966, p. 154, Damascus 1966, p. 155, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 157, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 158 (archive.org)

   وَرَدَ فِي الْخَبَرِ: «مَنْ سَرَّتْهُ حَسَنَتُهُ، وَسَاءَتْهُ سَيِّئَتُهُ؛ فَهُوَ الْمُؤْمِنُ».

   It has come in the report: «Whoever is pleased by his good deed and grieved by his evil deed, he is the believer.»✦

   ¶ 2094

2. رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ.

   Al-Tirmidhī transmitted it.✦

   ¶ 2095

3. وَهَٰذِهِ صِيغَةُ حَصْرٍ، حَصَرَ— عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ— الْاِيمَانَ فِي الْمَوْصُوفِ بِهَا.

   This is a form of restriction: he (upon him be blessing and peace) restricted faith to the one described by it.✦

   ¶ 2096

4. لِأَنَّ غَيْرَهُ، اِمَّا جَاحِدٌ مُكَذِّبٌ، وَاِمَّا عَارِفٌ مُشَاهِدٌ مُكَاشِفٌ، صَارَ الْغَيْبُ عِنْدَهُ شَهَادَةً، فَلَا يُطْلَقُ عَلَيْهِ اسْمُ الْمُؤْمِنِ اِلاّ بِالْمَجَازِ.

   For anyone other than him is either a denier who gives the lie, or a knower who beholds and is granted unveiling, for whom the unseen has become the witnessed; so the name of believer is not applied to him except figuratively.✦

   ¶ 2097

5. فَهَٰذَا تَعْرِيفٌ لِلْمُؤْمِنِ.

   This, then, is a definition of the believer.✦

   ¶ 2098

6. فَمَنْ كَانَ بِهَٰذِهِ الْمَثَابَةِ؛ فَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌ، أَيْ مُصَدِّقٌ بِالْغَيْبِ مِنْ أَخْبَارِ الشَّارِعِ بِنِسْبَةِ الْأَفْعَالِ اِلَى مَنْ صَدَرَتْ عَنْهُ مِنَ الْعِبَادِ فِي بَادِىءِ الرَّأْيِ، وَأِثَابَتِهِمْ وَعُقُوبَتِهِمْ عَلَيْهَا.

   Whoever is in this position is a believer, that is, one who assents to the unseen, from the reports of the Lawgiver, regarding the attribution of acts to those servants from whom they issued, at first view, and regarding their being rewarded and punished for them.✦

   ¶ 2099

7. وَاَمَّا غَيْرُ الْمُؤْمِنِ، وَقَدْ قَدَّمْنَا أَنَّهُ يَشْمَلُ الْجَاحِدَ وَالْعَارِفَ الْمُكَاشِفَ، فَالْعَارِفُ وَهُوَ الَّذِي كَشَفَ اللَّهُ لَهُ عَنْ حَقِيقَةِ الْأَمْرِ، فَعَرَفَ نَفْسَهُ، فَعَرَفَ رَبَّهُ.

   As for the one who is not a believer (and we said before that this includes both the denier and the knower granted unveiling): the knower is the one to whom God has unveiled the reality of the matter, so that he knew himself, and so knew his Lord.✦

   ¶ 2100

8. فَاِنَّهُ لَا تَسُرُّهُ حَسَنَتُهُ وَلَا تَسُؤْهُ مَعْصِيَتُهُ، وَلَوْ قُدِّرَ عَلَيْهِ قَتْلُ أَلْفِ نَبِيٍّ؟ مَا تَغَيَّرَ وَلَا حَزِنَ.

   His good deed does not please him and his act of disobedience does not grieve him; and were the killing of a thousand prophets decreed for him, he would not be changed and would not grieve.✦

   ¶ 2101

9. الدِّيَةُ عَلَى الْقَاتِلِ.

   The blood-money is on the killer.✦

   ¶ 2102

10. وَلَوْ بُشِّرَ بِالْقُطْبَانِيَّةِ الْكُبْرَى؟ مَا سَرَّهُ ذَٰلِكَ، وَلَا تَغَيَّرَ لَهُ•

    And were he given the glad tidings of the supreme Polehood, that would not please him, nor would he be changed by it.✦

    ¶ 2103

11. فَاِنَّهُ عَارِفٌ بِأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ شَيْءٌ،

    For he knows that nothing of the matter belongs to him,✦

    ¶ 2104

12. فَهُوَ وَاِنْ شَارَكَ الْمُؤْمِنَ فِي تَصْدِيقِ الشَّارِعِ فِيمَا أَخْبَرَ بِهِ مِنَ الْمُغَيَّبَاتِ؟ فَقَدْ زَادَ عَلَى مُطْلَقِ الْمُؤْمِنِ، وَصَارَ مَا كَانَ غَيْباً شَهَادَةً لَهُ•

    so even if he shares with the believer in assenting to the Lawgiver in the hidden things he reported, he has gone beyond the believer as such, and what was unseen has become the witnessed for him.✦

    ¶ 2105

13. فَالْعَارِفُ لَا يَرَى لَهُ حَسَنَةً وَلَا سَيِّئَةً؟ اِلاَّ بِالنِّسْبَةِ الشَّرْعِيَّةِ، الَّتِي هِيَ لِحِكَمٍ لَا يَعْلَمُهَا اِلَّا اللَّهُ– تَعَالَى–، أَوْ مَنْ أَطْلَعَهُ اللَّهُ– تَعَالَى– مِنْ خَوَاصِّ عِبَادِهِ•

    So the knower sees no good deed and no evil deed as his own, except by the attribution of the Law, which exists for wise purposes that none knows but God (exalted is He), or those of His elect servants whom God (exalted is He) has let see them.✦

    ¶ 2106

14. فَالشَّرِيعَةُ جَامِعَةٌ لِلُّبُّ وَالْقِشْرِ، وَالْحَقِيقَةُ لُبٌّ فَقَطْ•

    The Law, then, comprises both the kernel and the husk, while the Reality is the kernel alone.✦

    ¶ 2107

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