Chapter Eight: On the Conclusion and the Counsel

Fī kull waqt min awqāt hādhā al-dhikr jāziman bi-an kull mā siwá Allāh bāṭil zāʼil wa-Allāh huwa al-bāqī ·

Fa-idhā dāma ʻalá al-dhikr muddah ẓahara lahu maḥabbat Allāh thumma yashtāq ilá liqāʼ Allāh thumma yusarr bi-al-wuṣūl ilá Allāh · wa-hādhā darajat al-awliyāʼ wa-hiya lā taḥṣul bi-al-kasb ʻinda man yaqūl bihi wa-ammā man baʻdahu min kawn al-ʻabd ḥabīb Allāh wa-shafīʻan ʻinda Allāh fa-lā kasb fīhi wa-lā ikhtiyār [ Allāh yaṣṭafī min al-malāʼikah rusulan ] Allāhumma aʻinnā ʻalá dhikrika wa-shukrika wa-ḥusn ʻibādatika ·

Al-Bāb al-thāmin fī al-khātimah wa-al-naṣīḥah

Iʻlam ayyadaka Allāh bi-ʻawnihi wa-ayyadaka fī ṣawnihi anna al-aʻmāl bi-khawātīmihā wa-al-marʼ yaʻmal bi-ʻamal ahl al-jannah ḥattá yakūn baynahu wa-baynahā qāba qawsayn aw qīdu rumḥ fa-yasbiq al-taqdīru al-tadbīra wa-yaghlib al-qaḍāʼ al-ḥadhar wa-al-taḥdhīr fa-yaʻmal bi-ʻamal ahl al-nār wa-yamūt ʻalayhi fa-yaḥull dār al-bawār · wa-yaʻmal ākhar bi-ʻamal ahl al-nār ḥattá yakūn baynahu wa-baynahā qadr shibr aw buʻda bāʻ fa-yaʻmal bi-ʻamal ahl al-jannah wa-yukhtam ʻalayhi al-aʻmāl fa-yurfaʻ ilá dār al-qarār kamā warada bihi al-khabar al-ṣaḥīḥ ·

Thumma inna ḥālī ʻibrah li-ūlá al-albāb wa-ḥujjah ʻalá Rabb al-arbāb (hākadhā) musabbib al-asbāb fa-innī fī ṣighar sinnī tamakkana al-ḍaʻf minnī bi-sabab asqām aṭālat bī al-maqām wa-kathrat ālām aḥālat minnī al-ʻiẓām ḥattá raqqa laḥmī wa-daqqa ʻaẓmī wa-abī fī taḍāʻīf ḍaʻfī maʻa an bī min al-ḍaʻf mā yakfī yukāfinī taklīfan yufattit al-ḥaṣá wa-anā fīhi lā ashuqq lahu al-ʻaṣá · fa-aʼtī bi-waẓāyif al-tikrār fī al-masā wa-al-ṣabāḥ fawq ṭawq al-ṣighār al-aqwiyāʼ al-ṣiḥāḥ ḥattá ḥafiẓtu al-bulghah wa-al-maṣādir wa-anā ibn ʻashr thumma ḥaffaẓanī al-Lumaʻ wa-Nuzhah al-ṭarf wa-al-Maqāmāt wa-kathīran min al-shiʻr qabla awān inbāt al-shaʻr · thumma shaghghalanī bi-al-tafaqquh zamānan yasīran idh kāna fī ʻazmihi an yuʻallimanī min al-ṭibb shayʼan kathīran li-mā ḥadatha min khumūd wa-khumūl al-fuqahāʼ wa-raʼá kathrat ḥājat al-aḥyāʼ ilá al-aṭibbāʼ fa-ḥaffaẓanī masāʼil Ḥunayn wa-Murshid Ibn Zakarīyāʼ wa-anā tarānī bi-al-ʻayn · · · yāwashkalāzaryā [١] thumma qarraʼanī Dhakhīrat Thābit ibn Qurrah wa-anā min al-mashaqqah fī ḥayāh murrah · ará fī al-mawt aʻẓam masarrah fa-lammā balaghtu min sinnī al-ḥulm wa-malaktu fī nafsī al-ḥukm taraktu al-ishtighāl aṣlan wa-raʼsan min shiddat al-malālah wa-ʻāshartu fī al-sūq ahlan wa-nāsan ghāba ʻalayhim al-jahālah wa-fataḥtu fī jiwār abī dukkānan wa-ittajartu fīhi zamānan wa-kuntu ka-masjūn uṭliq fa-ʻaṣartu ka-majnūn aḥniq · tarānī li-al-ishtighāl bi-al-ʻilm kārihan · wa-fī al-ḥirfah fārisan fārihan · fa-qāla lī abī fī baʻḍ al-layālī law faʻalta mā faʻalta wa-ishtaghalta bi-mā ishtaghalta lā budda min an yakūn laka fī al-ʻilm shaʼn · wa-innī urītu dhālika fī hādhā al-zamān wa-iʻlam annī kuntu fī ṣigharī ʻalá ḍidd ṭabʻika wa-naqīḍ ṣunʻika fa-innī yaʼmurunī wālidī bi-muʻāsharat ahl al-sūq wa-anā ilá arbāb al-ʻilm mashūq fa-uʻāshir al-tujjār bi-sabab mā ʻalayya min al-iḥtijār wa-anfalitu aḥyānan ilá al-taʻallum wa-ajidu ʻalá fawātihi ashadd taʼallum · wa-baqiya ḥubb al-taʻallum fī qalbī ilá an ḥamalatka ummuka fa-shaghghalanī ʻan ṭalab al-ʻilm hammuka wa-zāla minnī al-ṭalab wa-māla qalbī ilá jamʻ al-māl fa-qultu fī nafsī al-juzʼ al-ṭālib minnī hādhā alladhī infaṣala ʻannī · wa-tafarrastu anna al-ḥaml bi-dhakar yaʻīsh wa-yakūn lahu dhikr fa-lammā ṣaḥḥa baʻḍ firāsatī wa-jāʼanī walad dhakar wa-ʻāsha maʻa kathrat al-amrāḍ · wa-balagha al-ḥulm wa-zālat al-aʻrāḍ · qultu lā budda min an yaṣduq fī al-bāqī firāsatī · wa-li-hādhā shaqaqtu ʻalayka fī taʻlīmī iyyāka wa-dirāsatī · thumma saffaranī ilá Ibn Hubal al-ṭabīb li-aqraʼa ʻalayhi al-Qānūn fa-raghghabanī qawm fī al-ishtighāl fī funūn al-ẓunūn wa-kāna fī dhālika al-zamān ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn al-Ṭāwūsī bi-Hamadān maqṣad al-rijāl wa-maḥaṭṭ al-riḥāl yutqin al-jadal wa-yuḥsin al-jidāl fa-irtaḥaltu ilayhi wa-ishtaghaltu ʻalayhi · thumma ḥamalanī jamʻ ʻalá safar Khurāsān li-taʻallum al-uṣūl wa-al-takallum fī al-maʻqūl fa-qaṣadtu al-Imām Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī wa-kāna wāḥid al-ʻaṣr wa-anwāʻ ʻulūmihi fāta al-ḥaṣr fa-wajadtu fī al-safar shiddah wa-aqamtu ʻindahu muddah fa-dabbara abī shayʼan wa-qaddara Rabbī ghayrahu wa-ishtaghaltu bi-ghayr al-ṭibb wa-jaʻala Allāh fīhi khayrī wa-khayrahu ·

Fa-unẓur kayfa kāna ḥālī fīmā maḍá · wa-kayfa qaḍá Allāh ishtighālī bi-amr al-qaḍā · wa-ḥabbaba ilayya uṣūl al-sharīʻah wa-furūʻahā · wa-karraha ilayya fuṣūl al-ṭabīʻah wa-fuḍūlahā · wa-shaghghalanī bi-tilāwat kitābihi · wa-tafahhum laṭāyif khiṭābihi · wa-taqrīr aḥkāmihi · wa-tafsīr kalāmihi · fa-Allāh taʻālá yajʻal al-khātimah bi-khayr ·

Wa-iʻlam anna baʻḍ al-ẓann ithm · wa-inqāʼ masākhiṭ al-Rabb ḥatm · fa-lā taẓunnanna bi-kalimah kharajat min fam akhīka sūʼan wa-anta tajid lahu fī al-khayr maḥmalan · wa-lā tuṭliq lisānaka fīmā maḍá illā bi-al-khayr wa-ijʻal dhikrahu mujmalan · wa-qul Allāh aʻlam bi-mā kharaja ʻalayhi min dunyāhu · wa-amruhu ilá Allāh laʻallahu yarḥamunā wa-iyyāhu · wa-lā takun ka-baʻḍ man lā yaʻrif fī shayʼ shayʼan · wa-lā yanjū aḥad min lisānihi mayyitan wa-ḥayyan fa-tarāhu ʻadīm al-ʻilm qalīl al-ʻamal · athīm al-qawm kathīr al-amal yaẓunn anna al-jannah lam tuzayyan illā lahu wa-anna al-darajāt lam tuʻayyan illā li-man kāna mithlahu · fa-yukaffir arbāb al-ʻilm li-jahlihi wa-yuzrī bi-manṣib man fīhi al-faḍl wa-ahlahu · aʻūdhu bi-Allāh min al-Shayṭān wa-al-ḥamd li-Allāh wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi · tamma al-kitāb

Tamma ṭabʻuhu thālith ʻashar shahr Shawwāl sanat ١٣٤٧ wa-٢٤ Ādār sanat ١٩٢٩

— al-ḥawāshī —

[31] (١) bayāḍ bi-al-aṣl qadr ḥarfayn ahamm