al-Amīr ʿAbd al-Qādir b. Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Jazāʾirī · Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī baʿḍ ishārāt al-Qurʾān ilā al-asrār wa-l-maʿārif
المواقف
The Book of Stations
Mawqif 84 · A swoon in beholding
Context: the Emir reports an experience at home, with his wife, in which he heard himself addressed. Sufi tradition calls this inspiration, which is not prophetic revelation.
See the print: Damascus 1966, p. 163, Cairo, vol. 1, PDF p. 165 (archive.org)
كُنْتُ مَعَ أَهْلِي فِي لِحَافٍ، وَأَنَا فِي مُشَاهَدَةٍ، فَصَعِقْتُ، فَكَلَّمَنِي الْحَقُّ ـ تَعَالَى ـ وَقَالَ لِي: «إِنَّنِي أَنَا اللَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلاَّ أَنَا».
I was with my wife under a quilt, and I was in beholding; then I swooned, and the Real (exalted is He) spoke to me and said to me: “Truly I, I am God; there is no god but I” (Q 20:14).
الرَّبُّ الْمُبَارَكُ،
The Blessed Lord.
فَحَصَلَ لِي بَعْدَ الرُّجُوعِ اِلَى الْحِسِّ فَرَحٌ، وَعَرَفْتُ مِنْهُ بِشَارَةً وَاَيَّ بِشَارَةٍ!!
After returning to the senses, joy came over me, and I recognised from it a glad tiding, and what a glad tiding!!
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