The Book of Stations
المواقف
Context: The Emir, who fought France and sheltered Damascus Christians in 1860, holds both the Akbarī view that every creature is a locus of the Real, not to be despised, and the rulings of jizya (Q 9:29) and ḥadd, kept unsoftened. Readers stress one side or the other; Ibn Taymiyya's line rejects that God appears in unbelievers' states (m80:11).AI
وَرَدَ فِي الصَّحِيحِ: «لَا هِجْرَةَ بَعْدَ الْفَتْحِ وَلَكِنْ جِهَادٌ وَنِيَّةٌ»•
Quotes a hadith: al-Bukhārī 2825, part of it · in a Ṣaḥīḥ, no separate grade · sunnah.com ↗
It has come in the Ṣaḥīḥ: “There is no emigration after the Conquest, but jihād and intention.”
In briefAI
The Emir reads the ḥadīth “No emigration after the Conquest, but jihād and intention” by way of allusion. The knower who beholds Unity pervading all things, without indwelling or union, may not shun or despise any creature, whatever its religion or sect, for all creatures are God's sacred signs, and honouring them is the piety of the people of hearts. Yet beholding does not cancel the Law. Jihād and intention remain: fighting non-Muslims until they pay the jizya, forbidding the reprehensible, and applying the prescribed punishments. Holding both together is the knowers' hardest burden.
See the print: Damascus 1966, p. 155 ↗, Damascus 1966, p. 156 ↗, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 158 ↗, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 159 ↗ (archive.org)
يُرِيدُ– عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ– بِطَرِيقِ الْاِشَارَةِ؟ أَنَّهُ لَايَصِحُّ وَلَا يَسْتَقِيمُ لِمَنْ فَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَيْنَ بَصِيرَتِهِ، وَأَرَاهُ سَرَيَانَ الْأَحَدِيَّةِ بِلَا سَرَيَانٍ، وَقِيَامَ الْقَيُّومِيَّةِ عَلَى كُلِّ ذَرَّةٍ مِنْ ذَرَّاتِ الْوُجُودِ، وَرُؤْيَةَ الْوُجُودِ الْحَقِّ– تَعَالَى– فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ، مِنْ غَيْرِ حُلُولٍ وَلَا اتِّحَادٍ أَنْ يَهْجُرَ شَيْئاً مِنَ الْمَخْلُوقَاتِ، بِأَنْ يَحْتَقِرَهُ وَيَزْدَرِيَهُ وَيَجْعَلَهُ كَالشَّيْءِ اللَّقَي•
By way of allusion he means, upon him be blessing and peace, that it is not right or fitting for one whose eye of inner sight God has opened, and to whom He has shown the pervading of Unity without pervading, the standing of Self-Subsistence over every atom of the atoms of existence, and the seeing of the Real Being, exalted is He, in everything, without indwelling or union, to shun any created thing by despising it, holding it in contempt and treating it like a cast-off thing.
فَاِنَّ هَذَا لَايَصِحُّ مِنْ عَارِفٍ مُشَاهِدٍ، كَانَ مَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ الْمَخْلُوقُ، حَيَوَاناً أَوْ غَيْرَهُ وَعَلَى أَيِّ دِينٍ كَانَ، وَعَلَى أَيِّ مِلَّةٍ وَنِحْلَةٍ حَصَلَ،
For this is not right for a beholding knower, whatever that creature may be, an animal or something else, of whatever religion it may be, and in whatever creed and sect it is found;
فَاِنَّهَا كُلُّهَا شَعَائِرُ اللَّهِ، وَمَنْ يُعَظِّمْ شَعَائِرَ اللَّهِ؟ فَاِنَّهَا مِنْ تَقْوَى الْقُلُوبِ،
for they are all the sacred signs of God, and “whoever honours the sacred signs of God, that is of the piety of hearts” (Q 22:32);
أَيْ مَنْ يُعَظِّمْ مَخْلُوقَاتِ اللَّهِ الَّتِي هِيَ شَعَائِرُهُ؟ فَاِنَّ ذَلِكَ التَّعْظِيمَ مِنْ تَقْوَى أَهْلِ الْقُلُوبِ، وَهُمْ أَهْلُ الشُّهُودِ•
that is, whoever honours the creatures of God, which are His sacred signs, that honouring is of the piety of the people of hearts, and they are the people of beholding.
رُوِيَ أَنَّ عِيسَى– عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ– مَرَّ عَلَيْهِ خِنْزِيرٌ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: عِمْ صَبَاحاً!!
It is reported that Jesus, upon him be peace, was passed by a pig, and he said to it: “Good morning!”
وَمَا قَالَ– تَعَالَى– فَاِنَّهَا مِنْ تَقْوَى أَهْلِ الْعُقُولِ، وَلَا مِنَ التَّقْوَى،
And He, exalted is He, did not say “that is of the piety of the people of intellects”, nor simply “of piety”;
وَلَكِنْ مَعَ هَذَا الشُّهُودِ وَعَدَمِ الْهِجْرَةِ لِشَيْءٍ، وَالِاحْتِقَارِ لَهُ وَالْأِعْرَاضِ عَنْهُ، لَابُدَّ مِنَ الْجِهَادِ، وَالنِّيَّةِ، أَيِ الْمُجَاهَدَةِ وَالْقَصْدِ،
but along with this beholding, and the absence of shunning anything, of despising it and of turning away from it, there must be jihād and intention, that is, striving and purpose:
أَيِ الْجَمْعِ بَيْنَ شُهُودِ الْحَقِيقَةِ، وَاِجْرَاءِ أَحْكَامِ الشَّارِعِ، مِنْ قِتَالِ مُخَالِفِي دِينِ الْاِسْلَامِ، حَتَّىٰ يُعْطُوا الْجِزْيَةَ عَنْ يَدٍ وَهُمْ صَاغِرُونَ، وَتَغَيُّرِ الْمُنْكَرِ شَرْعاً، وَتَحْسِينِ مَا حَسَّنَهُ الشَّرْعُ، وَتَقْبِيحِ مَا قَبَّحَهُ حِكْمَةً وَعَدْلاً،
that is, the joining of the beholding of the Reality with the carrying out of the rulings of the Lawgiver: fighting those who oppose the religion of Islam “until they pay the jizya from hand, humbled” (Q 9:29), changing what is reprehensible according to the Law, deeming good what the Law has deemed good, and deeming ugly what it has deemed ugly, out of wisdom and justice.
لِأَنَّهُ– تَعَالَى– قَالَ لِهَذَا الْعَارِفِ الْمُشَاهِدِ، عَلَى لِسَانِ الرَّسُولِ– صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ–: «اِذَا وَجَدْتَنِي مُتَلَبِّساً بِاَحْوَالِ اَهْلِ الْكُفْرِ؛ فَاضْرِبْ عُنُقِي. وَاِذَا رَاَيْتَنِي مُتَلَبِّساً بِاَحْوَالِ أَهْلِ الْعِصْيَانِ؛ فَازْجُرْنِي، وَاَقِمِ الْحُدُودَ عَلَيَّ. مَعَ الشُّهُودِ وَالْمَعْرِفَةِ.
Quotes a hadith: a divine saying, not found in the Six Books or the Muwaṭṭaʾ (sunnah.com data, 11 Nov 2026) · grade not yet checked by a person
For He, exalted is He, has said to this beholding knower, on the tongue of the Messenger (God bless him and grant him peace): “If you find Me clothed in the states of the people of unbelief, strike My neck. And if you see Me clothed in the states of the people of disobedience, rebuke Me, and carry out the prescribed punishments upon Me.” — together with beholding and knowledge.
وَهَذَا أَصْعَبُ شَيْءٍ يُكَابِدُهُ الْعَارِفُونَ.
And this is the hardest thing the knowers have to endure.
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