Al-Zawrāʼ, with the glosses upon it, on ascertaining the Origin and the Return

Al-ḥamd li-dhātihi li-walīhi bi-dhātihi wa-al-ṣalāh minhu ʻalá al-martabah al-jāmiʻah li-jamīʻ ṣifātihi

fīhā kānat tahubb min bāb madīnat al-ʻilm wa-safīnat al-jūd al-mustawī ʻalá Jūdī al-ḥukm wa-al-ḥilm ʻalá al-Nabī wa-ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām wa-al-taḥīyah wa-al-i krām wa-sammaytuhā bi-al-Zawrāʼ wa-hiya ism al-Dijlah wa-al-munāsabah ẓāhirah maʻa mā-fīhi min al-talwīḥ ilá anna hādhā al-fayḍ min ziyārat al-mashāhid al-muqaddasah wa-al-mawāqif al-muʼnisah wa-Allāh taʻālá mannāḥ al-ghuyūb fattāḥ al-qulūb

(qawluhu al-ḥamd li-dhātihi li-walīhi bi-dhātihi) al-ḍamīr al-awwal rājiʻ ilá al-ḥamd wa-ka-dhā al-thānī wa-ḍamīr bi-dhātihi rājiʻ ilá al-walī ay al-ḥamd yakhtaṣṣ min ḥaythu dhātihi bi-man huwa walīyuhu bi-dhātihi wa-huwa Allāh taʻālá yaʻnī annahu lā yaḥtāj fī rujūʻihi ilayhi ilá tawjīh ḥāmid īyāhu ilayhi fa-inna ḥaqīqat al-ḥamd iẓhār al-ṣifāt al-kamālīyah wa-kull kamāl fa-huwa lahu fa-kull ḥamd fa-huwa lahu sawāʼ wujjiha ilayhi aw ilá ghayrihi bal huwa al-ḥāmid wa-al-maḥmūd li-annahu huwa al-muẓhir li-kamālāt nafsihi wa-in aẓharahā ʻalá lisān ghayrihi aw fiʻālihi aw aḥwālihi

(qawluhu wa-al-ṣalāh minhu ʻalá al-martabah al-jāmiʻah li-jamīʻ ṣifātihi) al-ṣalāh min Allāh taʻālá al-raḥmah wa-hiya ifāḍat al-khayr wa-al-kamāl wa-al-wujūd manbaʻ kull khayr wa-kamāl wa-ammā sāʼir al-kamālāt fa-tafarriʻah ʻalayhi wa-ghāyat al-kamāl al-tajallī bi-jamīʻ ṣifāt Allāh taʻālá wa-asmāʼihi wa-al-qābil li-al-fayḍ al-wujūdī wa-mā yatafarraʻ ʻalayhi min al-kamālāt awwalan min ḥaythu ḥaqīqatihi al-nūrīyah wa-ākhiran min ḥaythu nashʼatihi al-ṣūrīyah al-ẓuhūrīyah huwa al-ḥaqīqah al-Muḥammadīyah al-jāmiʻah li-jamīʻ al-ṣifāt al-ilāhīyah fa-kull raḥmah fa-hiya lahu bi-al-dhāt wa-li-ghayrihi bi-al-taṭafful wa-al-ʻaraḍ fa-al-ṣalāh min Allāh taʻālá bi-dhātihi lahu sawāʼ istanzalahā lahu aḥad aw lam yastanzil fa-ẓahara al-tawāfuq

Ammā baʻd fa-hādhihi nubdhah min al-ḥaqāʼiq bal zubdah min al-daqāʼiq munbiʼah ʻan tashbīhāt mabnīyah ʻalá tanbīhāt tunabbih al-rāqidīn ʻalá awṭiʼat al-ghaflāt fī ẓulmat layl al-ḥujub wa-al-jahālāt fa-qad ṭalaʻa al-ṣabāḥ wa-nādá munādī al-Ḥaqq ḥayya ʻalá al-falāḥ bal awshaka an taṭluʻa shams al-ḥaqīqah min maghribihā

bayn al-qarīnatayn

(qawluhu fa-hādhihi nubdhah min al-ḥaqāʼiq bal zubdah min al-daqāʼiq) yuqāl aṣāba al-arḍ nubdhah min al-maṭar ay shayʼ yasīr minhu wa-al-ḥaqīqah hiya al-amr al-thābit al-mutaʼaṣṣil fī al-wujūd wa-khuṣṣa fī al-iṣṭilāḥ bi-kunh al-shayʼ al-muḥaqqaq wa-al-daqīqah hiya al-sirr al-daqīq alladhī lā yaṭṭaliʻ ʻalayhi kull wāḥid fa-rutbat al-daqāʼiq ajall wa-aʻlá min martabat al-ḥaqāʼiq wa-li-dhālika uḍriba ʻanhā bi-lafẓ bal al-mushʻirah bi-al-taraqqī

(qawluhu awṭiʼah) jamʻ wiṭāʼ wa-huwa mā yunām ʻalayhi min al-liḥāf wa-ghayrihi

(qawluhu fī ẓulmat layl al-ḥujub wa-al-jahālāt) ifrād al-ẓulmah wa-al-layl maʻa jamʻ al-ḥujub wa-al-jahālāt ishārah ilá qawlihi ʻalayhi al-salām «al-kufr kulluhu millah wāḥidah» īmāʼ ilá tasāwī aqdāmihā fī ʻadam al-wuṣūl ilá al-maqṣad

(qawluhu fa-qad ṭalaʻa al-ṣabāḥ) ay ẓahara al-Ḥaqq

(qawluhu bal awshaka ilkh) fa-inna al-ḥaqīqah innamā takhtafī bi-al-ṣuwar al-rasmīyah ʻan naẓar al-maḥjūbīn wa-fī ākhir al-zamān tarqá al-istiʻdādāt ḥattá taṣīr tilka al-ṣuwar bi-ʻaynihā wasāʼil li-inkishāf al-ḥaqāʼiq hādhā maʻa anna anwār al-ḥaqāʼiq innamā intasharat fī āfāq nufūs al-mustaʻiddīn min sawād bilād al-Maghrib khuṣūṣan min ḥaḍrat al-Shaykh al-muḥaqqiq al-awḥad al-Imām al-mudaqqiq al-muʼayyad ʻayn aʻyān al-shuhūd insān ʻayn al-wujūd Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Andalusī al-Ṭāʼī raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu wa-arḍāhu hādhā wa-lā taẓunn annā rafḍ al-ẓāhir wa-taqaʻ al-amthāl al-wāridah ʻalá alsinat al-nubūwāt fī maḍribihā wa-annahā al-ʻalī namaṭ jadīd wa-ṭarz sadīd wa-al-naẓar fīhā ʻalá dhālika shahīd qad abrazahā al-raḥmah al-azalīyah ijābah li-duʻāʼ ṣadara ʻan lisān istiʻdād wa-Allāh al-hādī ilá sabīl al-rashād inna rabbaka la-bi-al-mirṣād

Tamhīd

al-ʻillah li-al-shayʼ bi-al-ḥaqīqah mā yakūn sababan li-nafs dhālika al-shayʼ fa-inna mā huwa ʻillah li-ẓuhūrihi mathalan fa-laysa bi-al-ḥaqīqah ʻillah lahu bal li-waṣf min awṣāfihi wa-huwa ẓāhir

wa-naqṣur al-maqṣūd min ishārāt al-kitāb wa-al-sunnah ʻalá al-taʼwīl bal nuthbit al-ẓāhir ʻalá murād Allāh taʻālá wa-rasūlihi wa-nastanbiṭ minhu bi-ṭarīq al-ramz ḥaqāʼiq ukhrá bāṭinah

(qawluhu wa-taqaʻ al-amthāl al-wāridah ʻalá alsinat al-nubūwāt) al-anbiyāʼ kulluhum khuṣūṣan sayyidinā al-Khātim ʻalayhi wa-ʻalayhim al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ashārū ilá khawāṣṣ ākhir al-zamān wa-gharāʼibihi wa-qad qurubat al-sāʻah wa-ʻajāʼibuhā wa-qad shāhadnā baʻḍ al-ʻajāʼib al-mawʻūdah fī zamāninā hādhā wa-min jumlat tilka al-ʻajāʼib al-ḥaqāʼiq al-madhkūrah fī hādhihi al-risālah wa-daqāʼiquhā

(qawluhu ijābah li-duʻāʼ ilkh) al-Ḥaqq subḥānahu wa-taʻālá lā yamnaʻ al-fayḍ ʻalá ʻabdihi al-qābil fa-al-duʻāʼ al-ṣādir ʻan lisān al-istiʻdād mustajāb albattah wa-tankīr al-istiʻdād ammā li-al-taʻẓīm īmāʼ ilá anna al-istiʻdād al-mustadʻī lahā istiʻdād ʻaẓīm wa-ammā li-al-ibhām fa-innahu ʻasá an yakūn al-ṭālib lahā istiʻdādan khafīyan ghayr mā yaẓhar ʻalá ṣāḥibihā min al-ṭālibīn al-multamisīn lahā ẓāhiran

(qawluhu wa-Allāh al-hādī) wajh munāsabat al-khātimah li-al-fawātiḥ ẓāhir fa-inna ibrāzahā innamā yakūn li-al-hidāyah

(qawluhu la-bi-al-mirṣād) ay kāʼin ʻalá al-ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm li-yahdī ilayhā

(qawluhu tamhīd) hādhā ka-al-muqaddimah li-al-mabāḥith wa-kawn al-māhīyāt ghayr majʻūlah bi-maʻná anna kawn al-insān insānan mathalan ghayr muḥtāj ilá al-fāʻil lā yunāfī mā-dhakarnā idh naʻnī bihi annahā bi-dhawātihā athar li-al-fāʻil wa-baʻd dhālika lā taḥtāj ilá taʼthīr ākhar fī kawnihā hiya wa-nafy al-iḥtiyāj al-lāḥiq lā yunāfī al-iḥtiyāj al-sābiq fa-aḥsin tadabburahu

Tadhkirah wa-istibṣār

al-ātiyah wa-li-hādhā ʻunwina bi-al-tamhīd

(qawluhu wa-kawn al-māhīyāt ghayr majʻūlah) qad ishtahara bayn al-ṭawāʼif anna al-māhīyāt ghayr majʻūlah fa-istashʻara an yuqāl mā dhakartahu mukhālif li-mā taqarrara ʻinda al-ḥukamāʼ bal ʻinda al-ʻuqalāʼ fa-ajāba ʻanhu bi-anna ʻadam majʻūlīyat al-māhīyah bi-maʻná annahā laysat bi-dhātihā athar li-al-fāʻil mamnūʻ wa-kayfa lā wa-kull mā yufraḍ annahu athar li-al-fāʻil māhīyah min al-māhīyāt bi-al-ḍarūrah fa-lā budd an yantahī ilá mā yakūn al-taʼthīr fīhi bi-ḥasab al-dhāt wa-bi-maʻná anna kawn al-insān insānan mathalan lā yaḥtāj ilá jāʻil ẓāhir wa-badīhī wa-lā yunāfī mā dhakarnā li-anna mā marra idnān al-māhīyāt bi-dhawātihā athar li-al-fāʻil ay al-fāʻil mustatbiʻ li-dhāt al-maʻlūl thumma al-ʻaql yantaziʻ min al-maʻlūl al-wujūd wa-yaṣifuhu bihi kamā huwa raʼy al-ishrāqīyīn lā anna al-fāʻil yajʻaluhu muttaṣifan bi-maʻná huwa al-wujūd kamā huwa madhhab al-mashshāʼīyīn fa-idhā ṣadarat dhāt al-maʻlūl ʻan al-ʻillah lā taḥtāj ilá jāʻil yajʻal tilka al-dhāt nafsahā fa-hiya mustaghnīyah baʻd ṣudūrihā ʻan al-ʻillah ʻan jāʻil yajʻaluhā īyāhā wa-dhālika lā yastalzim ʻadam al-iḥtiyāj fī dhātihā ilá al-jāʻil bi-al-maʻná alladhī ḥaqqaqnāhu bal taḥaqquq dhālika al-iḥtiyāj hādhā qawl ijmālī wa-tafṣīluhu yuṭlab min ḥawāshīnā ʻalá al-kutub al-ḥikmīyah

(qawluhu tadhkirah wa-istibṣār) wasama hādhā al-mabḥath bi-al-tadhkirah li-annahu mafrūgh ʻanhu fī al-ḥikmah al-rasmīyah ammā tabayyana bi-mā qaraʻa samʻaka fī al-ḥikmah al-rasmīyah min anna ḥudūth shayʼ lā ʻan shayʼ muḥāl anna al-shaʼn fī al-ḥudūth al-dhātī ayḍan ka-dhālika mā aysar an yaḥdus dhālika fa-idhan al-maʻlūl laysa mubāyinan li-dhāt al-ʻillah wa-lā huwa li-dhātihi bal huwa bi-dhātihi li-dhāt al-ʻillah shaʼn min shuʼunihi wajh min wujūhihi ḥaythīyah min ḥaythīyātihi ilá ghayr dhālika min al-iʻtibārāt al-lāʼiqah

Tabṣirah

fa-al-maʻlūl idhan laysa illā iʻtibārīyan maḥḍan fa-huwa in uʻtubira min ḥaythu nisbatihi ilá al-ʻillah wa-ʻalá al-naḥw alladhī intasaba ilayhā kāna lahu taḥaqquq wa-in uʻtubira dhātan mustaqillan kāna maʻdūman bal mumtaniʻan

Tashbīh

al-sawād in uʻtubira ʻalá al-naḥw alladhī huwa fī al-jism aʻnī annahu hayʼah li-al-jism kāna mawjūdan wa-in uʻtubira ʻalá annahu dhāt mustaqillah kāna maʻdūman wa-al-thawb in uʻtubira ṣūrah fī al-quṭn kāna mawjūdan wa-in uʻtubira mubāyinan li-al-quṭn dhātan ʻalá ḥiyālihi kāna mumtaniʻan min tilka al-ḥaythīyah fa-ijʻal dhālika miqyāsan li-jamīʻ al-ḥaqāʼiq taʻrif maʻná qawl man qāla al-aʻyān al-thābitah mā shammat rāʼiḥat al-wujūd wa-annahā lam taẓhar wa-lā taẓhar abadan bal innamā yaẓhar rasmuhā

yatadhakkar hāhunā li-yustaʻān bihi fī al-mabāḥith al-murattabah ʻalayhā

(qawluhu tabṣirah ilkh) lammā kāna fīhi ifādat mā lam yatabayyan fī al-ʻulūm al-mutadāwalah wasamahu bi-al-tabṣirah

(qawluhu taʻrif maʻná qawl man qāla ilkh) yaʻnī anna al-ḥaqāʼiq kullahā idhā uʻtubirat dhawātan mustaqillah mubāyinah li-dhāt al-ʻillah kamā hiya fī madārik al-maḥjūbīn fa-hiya mumtaniʻah wujūdan aw ẓuhūran ammā al-awwal fa-li-anna ghayr al-Ḥaqq al-wājib bi-dhātihi lā yumkin an

Tanbīh

lammā kāna muntahá silsilat al-ʻillīyah wāḥidan wa-al-kull maʻlūl lahu ammā ibtidāʼan aw bi-wāsiṭah fa-huwa al-dhāt al-ḥaqīqīyah wa-al-kull shuʼunuhu wa-ḥaythīyātuhu wa-wujūhuhu ilá ghayr dhālika min al-ʻibārāt al-lāʼiqah fa-laysa fī al-wujūd dhawāt mutaʻaddidah bal dhāt wāḥidah lahā ṣifāt mutakaththirah kamā qāla Allāh taʻālá «huwa Allāh alladhī lā ilāha illā huwa al-Maliku al-Quddūsu al-Salāmu al-Muʼminu al-Muhayminu al-ʻAzīzu al-Jabbāru al-Mutakabbiru»

yakūn mawjūdan wa-ammā al-thānī fa-li-anna al-ẓuhūr innamā yanshaʼ min irtibāṭihā bi-al-wujūd al-Ḥaqq wa-hiya bi-hādhā al-iʻtibār ukhidhat mughāyirah lahu dhātan fa-lā yutaṣawwar irtibāṭuhā bihi wa-ammā idhā ukhidhat min ḥaythu hiya tābiʻah lahu qāʼimah bihi fa-hiya mawjūdah bi-maʻná irtibāṭihā bi-al-wujūd ay ẓāhirah fa-al-aʻyān al-thābitah aʻnī tilka al-ḥaqāʼiq bi-dhawātihā allatī yaʻtabiruhā al-wahm laysat bi-mawjūdah aṣlan mathalan al-insān ʻaynuhu al-thābitah hiya al-māhīyah al-mughāyirah li-al-Ḥaqq al-muttaṣifah bi-al-ṣifāt al-makhṣūṣah wa-hiya laysat bi-mawjūdah aṣlan lā ḥaqīqah li-istiḥālatihi wa-lā bi-maʻná irtibāṭihā bi-al-wujūd li-annahā min tilka al-ḥaythīyah lā irtibāṭ lahā bi-al-wujūd al-Ḥaqq aṣlan bal innamā yanṣabigh al-Ḥaqq bihi bi-maʻná anna rasmahu yaẓhar fīhi fa-yaṣīr al-waṣf al-mujarrad ʻan al-dhāt mawjūdan bi-maʻná annahu yataʻallaq bi-al-wujūd fa-inna al-mawjūd ʻinda al-muḥaqqiqīn huwa mā ḥaqīqatuhu al-wujūd wa-ghayruhu lā yaṣīr mawjūdan bi-maʻná al-ittiṣāf fa-inna al-wujūd laysa waṣfan qāʼiman bi-ghayrihi bal dhātan ḥaqqan naʻam yaṣīr ghayruhu mawjūdan bi-maʻná taʻalluqihi bi-al-wujūd wa-ẓuhūrihi bihi fa-ifham hādhā al-mujmal fa-yahdīka ilá al-tafṣīl wa-huwa yuḥiqq al-Ḥaqq wa-yahdī al-sabīl

(qawluhu tanbīh) wajh al-ʻunwān ẓāhir fa-inna

Tadhkirah ukhrá

ka-annaka qad tafaṭṭanta fī-mā nabbahtu ʻalayhi fī al-mabāḥith al-naẓarīyah min anna inʻidām al-shayʼ bi-al-marrah muḥāl anna kull mumkin lammā kāna jāʼiz al-ʻadam li-dhātihi fa-lā yajūz intifāʼ mā-huwa al-dhāt bi-al-ḥaqīqah fīhi idh lā budd li-kull shayʼ jāʼiz al-zawāl min sinkh dhāt bāqin wa-yantahī ilá mā-lā yataṭarraq ilayhi jawāz al-ʻadam muṭlaqan wa-illā la-kāna lahu sinkh ākhar wa-yatasalsal fa-idhan «kullu shayʼin hālikun illā wajhahu» wa-al-wājib wāḥid fa-ittaḥadat al-mumkināt kullahā fī dhālika al-sinkh al-bāqī «kullu man ʻalayhā fānin wa-yabqá wajhu rabbika dhū al-jalāli wa-al-i krāmi»

Tanbīh

fa-zawāl al-maʻlūl bi-al-ḥaqīqah ẓuhūr al-ʻillah bi-ṭawr ākhar wa-tajallīhā bi-wajh nisbī

al-madhkūr fīhi maʻlūm bi-al-qūwah al-qarībah min al-fiʻl mimmā sabaqa

(qawluhu tadhkirah ukhrá) wajh al-ʻunwān ẓāhir bi-iʻtibār anna aṣl hādhā al-mabḥath aʻnī istiḥālat inʻidām al-shayʼ bi-al-marrah min al-mabāḥith al-madhkūrah fī al-kutub al-ḥikmīyah fa-kāna al-ẓāhir ʻalá minwāl al-baḥth al-sābiq an yursam fī hādhā al-matn hādhā al-aṣl bi-al-tadhkirah thumma yurdaf bi-istiḥālat inʻidām al-mumkināt kullihā mādīyah aw mujarradah bi-al-naẓar ilá mā huwa dhātuhā bi-al-ḥaqīqah maʻnūnan bi-al-tabṣirah illā annahu lammā kāna qarīban bi-ḥasab al-maʼkhadh fa-inna al-mabḥath al-sābiq muʻaddiluhu wa-muqarrib īyāhu iʻdādan tāmman lahu wa-taqrīban kāmilan īyāhu lam yultafat ilá dhālika wa-juʻilā baḥthan wāḥidan wa-ʻunwina bi-al-tadhkirah ʻalá sabīl al-taghlīb ishārah ilá ghāyat al-qurb min al-afhām bi-ḥaythu annahu bi-manzilat amr makhzūn madhhūl ʻanhu muḥtāj ilá al-tadhakkur

(qawluhu tanbīh) wajh al-ʻunwān annahu mimmā yuʻlam min al-sābiq bi-al-qūwah al-qarībah

(qawluhu ẓuhūr al-ʻillah bi-ṭawr ākhar) ḥaml al-ẓuhūr ʻalá al-zawāl bi-iʻtibār al-istilzām al-ẓāhir baynahumā mughāyir li-al-wajh al-awwal fa-huwa idhan muzāyalat al-ʻillah li-iʻtibārātihi wa-taṭawwuruhu fī shuʼun dhātihi

Izāḥat wahm wa-inārat fahm

nisbat al-awwal ilá al-thawānī umm jamīʻ al-nisab lā-yushābihuhā shayʼ min al-nisab ḥaqq al-mushābahah wa-lā-yubāyinuhā shayʼ minhā kull al-mubāyanah fa-kull mā-qīla aw yuqāl fī taqrīb tilka al-nisbah ilá al-afhām fa-huwa tabʻīd min wajh wa-taqrīb min wajh aʻnī annahu in ḥumila ʻalá annahu munṭabiq ʻalá ḥaqīqat al-amr kāna mubʻidan wa-in lūḥiẓa ʻalá al-wajh alladhī bihi yunāsib kāna muqarriban fa-lā taẓunnanna annahu taʻālá māddat al-mumkināt aw maʻrūḍ lahā ilá ghayr dhālika min al-iʻtibārāt allatī tuwahhimuhā al-ʻibārāt

٭ fa-lā kull mā ammalat ʻuyūn al-ẓibā yurwá ٭ (shiʻr)

wa-in qayṣan khīṭa min nasj tisʻah ٭ wa-ʻishrīn ḥarfan ʻan maʻānīhi qāṣir

Basṭ wiṭāʼ

mubālaghah fī dhālika al-talāzum ka-yuqāl ʻadam al-ʻadam huwa al-wujūd wa-zawāl al-ṣūrah al-fāsidah huwa ḥuṣūl al-ṣūrah al-kāʼinah ilá ghayr dhālika min al-naẓāʼir (qawluhu muzāyalat al-ʻillah li-iʻtibārātihi) ay zawāl al-maʻlūl fī al-ḥaqīqah rājiʻ ilá muzāyalat al-ʻillah li-iʻtibārātihi wa-ilá taṭawwurihi fī shuʼun dhātihi wa-jamʻ al-iʻtibārāt wa-al-shuʼun maʻa ifrād zawāl al-maʻlūl bi-iʻtibār ifrād zawāl al-maʻlūl fa-ifham (qawluhu izāḥat wahm) mimmā sabaqa (qawluhu inārat fahm) fī-mā yalḥaq qawluhu fa-kull mā qīla aw yuqāl ishārah ilá dhālika wa-hādhihi al-lamʻah nāfiʻah jiddan fī fahm tilka al-maṭālib al-ʻāliyah ʻalá wajh al-ṣawāb fa-iḥfaẓhā wa-iḥtafiẓ bihā (qawluhu basṭ wiṭāʼ) idhā iʻtabarta al-imtidād al-zamānī alladhī huwa maḥtad al-taghayyur wa-al-tabaddul wa-ʻarsh al-ḥawādith al-kawnīyah bi-mā yuqārinuhu min al-ḥawādith jumlah wāḥidah wajadtahu shaʼnan min shuʼun al-ʻillah al-ūlá muḥīṭan bi-jamīʻ al-shuʼun al-mutaʻāqibah thumma idhā amʻanta al-naẓar wajadta al-taʻāqub bi-iʻtibār ḥuḍūr ḥudūd dhālika al-imtidād wa-ghaybūbatihā bi-al-nisbah ilá al-zamānīyāt al-wāqiʻah taḥt ḥīṭatihi wa-ammā al-marātib al-ʻāliyah ʻalayhi fa-lā taʻāqub bi-al-nisbah ilayhā bal al-jamīʻ mutasāwiyah bi-al-nisbah ilayhā muḥādhiyah fī

ka-tamhīd muqaddimah li-mā yaʻqubuhu

(qawluhu wajadtahu shaʼnan ilkh) ishārah ilá anna al-ḥawādith bi-asrihā shaʼn wāḥid fa-inna al-imtidād al-sarmadī al-muʻabbar ʻanhu bi-al-zamān maʻa mā yanṭabiq ʻalayhi min al-ḥawādith bi-manzilat khaṭṭ muttaṣil wāḥid lā juzʼ fīhi bi-al-fiʻl wa-nisbat al-azminah al-mutajaddidah wa-al-ḥawādith al-mutaʻāqibah ilayhi nisbat al-ajzāʼ al-mafrūḍah fī al-khaṭṭ ilayhi wa-taḥqīquhu anna al-ajrām al-falakīyah lahā ḥarakah wāḥidah bi-al-shakhṣ hiya al-tawassuṭ bayn al-awḍāʻ al-mafrūḍah allatī yartasim minhā fī al-khayāl al-imtidād al-sarmadī al-muʻabbar ʻanhu fī ʻurf ahl al-naẓar bi-al-ḥarakah bi-maʻná al-qaṭʻ wa-al-zamān miqdār dhālika al-imtidād al-mawhūm wa-ka-lā juzʼ fī al-zamān bi-al-fiʻl ka-dhālika lā juzʼ fī dhālika al-imtidād ayḍan bi-al-fiʻl thumma anna hādhihi al-ḥarakah tastatbiʻ ḥarakat al-mawādd al-ʻunṣurīyah fī kayfīyātihā al-maḥsūsah wa-al-istiʻdādīyah ḥarakah wāḥidah mustamirrah ʻalá minwāl waḥdatihā wa-istimrārihā wa-ka-lā juzʼ fīhā bi-al-fiʻl ka-dhālika laysa fī hādhihi al-ḥarakah ayḍan juzʼ bi-al-fiʻl fa-nisbat al-ṣuwar al-mutaʻāqibah ilá ḥarakat tilka al-mawādd nisbat al-ajzāʼ al-mafrūḍah fī ḥarakāt al-aflāk wa-fī al-zamān ilayhā bal nisbatuhu nisbat al-alwān al-mutaʻāqibah wa-al-kammīyāt al-mutaʻāqibah fī al-ḥarakah al-kayfīyah wa-al-kammīyah ilayhā fa-kamā al-ḥuḍūr ladayhā fa-aẓunnuka bi-aʻlá shawāhiq al-ʻawālī laysa ʻinda rabbika ṣabāḥ wa-lā masāʼ

Tashbīh

idhā akhadhta imtidādan mukhtalif al-ajzāʼ fī al-lawn ka-khashabah aw khayṭ ikhtalafa al-lawn fī ajzāʼihi thumma amrartahu fī muḥādhāt dharrah aw ghayrihā mimmā yaḍīq ḥadaqatuhu ʻan al-iḥāṭah bi-jamīʻ dhālika al-imtidād a-laysa tilka al-alwān al-mukhtalifah mutaʻāqibah fī al-ḥuḍūr ladayhā li-ḍīq ḥadaqatihā mutasāwiyah fī al-ḥuḍūr ladayka li-qūwat iḥāṭatika «fa-iʻtabirū yā ulī al-abṣāri»

Kashf ghiṭāʼ

ʻasāka fī ṭayy hādhā al-wiṭāʼ qad inkashafa laka al-ghiṭāʼ wa-iṭṭalaʻta ʻalá nafāʼis asrār lam yankashif ilá al-ān qināʻ al-ijmāl ʻan jamāl ḥaqāʼiqihā wa-istaṭlaʻta ṭawāliʻ anwār lam taṭluʻ qabl hādhā min mashāriqihā minhā wajh iḥāṭat ʻilm al-Awwal taʻālá bi-al-māḍī wa-al-mustaqbal wa-al-ḥāl ʻalá wajh yataʻālá wa-yataqaddas

lā wujūd li-tilka al-alwān wa-al-maqādīr fī al-ḥarakah al-kayfīyah wa-al-kammīyah bi-al-fiʻl ka-dhālika lā wujūd li-tilka al-ṣuwar ayḍan bi-al-fiʻl wa-mā yatarāʼá fī bādiʼ al-naẓar min istimrār baʻḍ al-ṣuwar wa-baqāʼihi zamānan bi-manzilat mā yatarāʼá min istimrār al-kayfīyah wa-al-kammīyah fī al-ḥarakatayn al-madhkūratayn fa-inna shayʼan minhumā lā yastamirr wa-lā yabqá zamānan wa-lākin qad lā yaẓhar al-tafāwut li-al-ḥiss li-qillatihi fa-yukhayyal ilayhi annahu amr wāḥid mustamirr zamānan fa-ifham dhālika fa-innahu ajdá min tafārīq al-ʻaṣā

(qawluhu bi-aʻlá shawāhiq al-ʻawālī) wa-huwa al-Ḥaqq taʻālá

(qawluhu kashf ghiṭāʼ) wajh al-ʻunwān mustaghn ʻan al-bayān

(qawluhu minhā wajh iḥāṭat ʻilm al-Awwal ilkh) ʻan al-tabaddul wa-al-intiqāl fa-innahu mimmā khafiya ʻalá kathīr min ahl al-jidāl ḥattá tāhū fī tīh al-ḍalāl wa-wassaʻū dāʼirat al-qīl wa-al-qāl wa-minhā kayfīyat wujūd al-ḥawādith wa-zawālihā

lammā tabayyana anna al-ḥawādith lā taʻāqub lahā bi-al-nisbah ilá Allāh taʻālá fa-jamīʻ al-ḥawādith ḥāḍirah ladayhi taʻālá min ghayr tartīb wa-taʻāqub wa-muḍīy wa-istiqbāl fa-huwa taʻālá ʻālim bi-kull wāḥid minhā fī waqtihā min ghayr tabaddul fī dhālika al-ʻilm al-muḥīṭ aṣlan wa-yaʻlam māḍīhā wa-istiqbālahā wa-ḥuḍūrahā bi-al-nisbah ilaynā ayḍan min ghayr ittiṣāfihā bi-al-nisbah ilayhi taʻālá bi-shayʼ min al-māḍī wa-al-istiqbāl wa-al-tashbīh al-sābiq aqrab tamthīl fī taqrīb dhālika ilá al-afhām

(qawluhu fa-innahu mimmā khafiya ʻalá kathīr ilkh) ḥattá anna al-mutakallimīn qālū anna al-ʻilm qadīm wa-al-taʻalluq ḥādith wa-lā yakhfá anna hādhā yufḍī ilá nafy ʻilmihi taʻālá bi-al-ḥawādith fī al-azal li-anna al-ʻilm mā lam yataʻallaq bi-shayʼ lā yattaṣif ṣāḥibuhu bi-kawnihi ʻāliman bi-dhālika al-shayʼ illā bi-al-qūwah kamā anna al-baṣar idhā lam yataʻallaq bi-shayʼ min al-mubṣarāt lā yattaṣif ṣāḥibuhu bi-kawnihi mubṣir īyāhu bi-al-fiʻl bal bi-al-qūwah wa-al-ḥāṣil anna inkishāf al-shayʼ al-muʻayyan lā budd fīhi min taʻalluq al-ʻilm bihi wa-lā yakfī fīhi ḥuṣūl ṣifat al-ʻilm alladhī yuthbitūnahu min ghayr taʻalluq bihi wa-illā la-kāna al-wāḥid minnā ḥāl dhuhūlihi ʻan al-ashyāʼ ʻāliman bihā wa-huwa bāṭil wa-al-ḥukamāʼ li-dhālika ankarū ʻilmahu taʻālá bi-al-juzʼīyāt ʻalá al-wajh al-juzʼī wa-jamīʻ dhālika li-ʻadam iṭṭilāʻihim ʻalá jalīyat al-amr

(qawluhu wa-minhā kayfīyat wujūd al-ḥawādith wa-zawālihā) fa-inna wujūdahā ʻibārah ʻan ḥuḍūrihā ladaynā wa-zawālahā ʻibārah ʻan ghaybūbatihā bi-al-nisbah ilaynā wa-wajh ḥuḍūrihā wa-ghaybūbatihā bi-al-nisbah ilaynā anna al-mushār ilayhi bi-qawlinā anā amr mutaʻayyin mawhūm wāqiʻ bayn ṭarafay wa-al-takhalluṣ ʻan al-shubah allatī talzam ʻalá taḥqīq sabab ḥālayhā ʻalá ṭawr ahl al-naẓar wa-ʻan al-takallufāt al-shāqqah allatī yaltazimūnahā fī dhālika ʻalá al-naḥw alladhī yulāʼim ṭibāʻahum wa-yuwāfiq mā qaraʻa min ṣadá kalimāt aʼimmatihim al-ghābirīn asmāʻahum mimmā lā yakhfá bashāʻatuhu ʻalá man khallaṣa dhāʼiqatahu ʻan marārat al-mirāʼ wa-sallama baṣīratahu ʻan ghishāwat al-imtirāʼ

al-munqaḍī wa-al-ātī ka-al-ān al-mafrūḍ fī al-zamān wa-al-ḥarakah al-ḥāḍirah al-mafrūḍah fī al-ḥarakah al-imtidādīyah fa-al-anānīyah ayḍan min al-ḥawādith wa-kull mā-qārana min ḥudūdihā al-mafrūḍah bi-ḥadd mafrūḍ min anānīyatinā al-mudrikah lanā fa-huwa ḥāḍir ladaynā wa-mā siwāhu fa-in ittaṣafa qabl dhālika bi-al-muqāranah bi-ḥadd mafrūḍ ākhar min al-anānīyah fa-huwa māḍin wa-in lam yattaṣif baʻd wa-sa-yattaṣif bihā fa-huwa mustaqbal

(qawluhu wa-al-takhalluṣ ʻan al-shubah ilkh) yaʻnī anna taḥqīq sabab wujūd al-ḥawādith mabḥath mushkil fī al-ḥikmah al-rasmīyah wa-dhālika li-anna sabab wujūdihā in kānat qadīmah yalzam qidam al-ḥawādith wa-in kānat ḥādithah yalzam al-dawr aw al-tasalsul fa-ajābū ʻan dhālika bi-istinād al-ḥawādith ilá asbāb muʻaddidah lahā ghayr mutanāhiyah mumtaniʻat al-ijtimāʻ wa-hiya al-awḍāʻ al-falakīyah al-mutaḥaṣṣilah bi-ḥarakatihā al-sarmadīyah wa-kull min tilka al-awḍāʻ masbūq bi-ghayrihā illā ilá al-nihāyah wa-zaʻamū anna al-tasalsul fī al-umūr al-ghayr al-mujtamiʻah jāʼiz li-ʻadam ijtimāʻ āḥādihā fa-lā yatamakkan al-ʻaql min al-taṭbīq baynahā alladhī huwa madār al-burhān al-dāll ʻalá istiḥālat al-tasalsul ʻindahum wa-anta khabīr bi-mā fīhi li-anna ʻadam ijtimāʻihā fī al-khārij lā yadull ʻalá imtināʻ al-taṭbīq al-ʻaqlī al-rājiʻ ilá farḍ al-inṭibāq baynahā wa-ayḍan lammā kāna awāʼil al-ṣādirāt ʻan al-Wājib taʻālá hiya al-ʻuqūl al-mujarradah wa-hiya qadīmah fa-kayfa yutaṣawwar ṣudūr al-ḥawādith ʻanhā aw ʻan al-Wājib taʻālá bi-wāsiṭat tilka al-umūr al-qadīmah wa-irtibāṭ tilka al-ḥawādith bi-tilka al-umūr al-qadīmah fī silsilat al-ʻillīyah fa-ḥāwalū al-tafaṣṣī ʻan dhālika bi-anna al-ḥarakah al-waḍʻīyah al-falakīyah lahā jihatān iḥdāhumā ḥaythīyat dhātihā wa-hiya kawn al-jism bi-ḥālah yaṣiḥḥ an yufraḍ lahu fī kull ān fard min al-awḍāʻ ghayr al-fard al-mafrūḍ fī al-ān al-sābiq wa-al-lāḥiq wa-yuʻabbar ʻan hādhā al-maʻná bi-al-tawassuṭ bayn al-awḍāʻ wa-hiya bi-hādhā al-iʻtibār qadīmah mustamirrah min al-azal ilá al-abad wa-al-thāniyah ḥaythīyat al-nisab allatī talzamuhā wa-hiya bi-hādhā al-iʻtibār ḥādithah ḍarūrah anna al-nisbah al-munfaraḍah lahā bi-ḥasab al-qurb wa-al-buʻd min al-nihāyah al-mafrūḍah fī kull ān ghayr al-munfaraḍah lahā fī ān ākhar fa-al-ḥarakah qadīmah min ḥaythu al-dhāt ḥādithah min ḥaythu al-ʻawāriḍ al-lāzimah lahā fa-hiya mustanidah min ḥaythu al-dhāt ilá al-qadīm wa-min ḥaythu al-ʻawāriḍ yastanid ilayhā al-ḥawādith wa-lā yakhfá anna hādhā al-kalām ghayr muntij fa-inna tilka al-ʻawāriḍ ammā mustanidah ilá al-dhāt wa-al-mafrūḍ annahā qadīmah aw ilá mabādīhā wa-hiya ayḍan qadīmah aw ilá ghayrihimā wa-huwa muntaf hādhā kulluhu fī ʻillat wujūd al-ḥawādith wa-ammā ʻillat zawālihā fa-fīhā ayḍan ishkāl li-anna silsilat al-ḥawādith al-mutaʻāqibah al-muntahiyah ilá dhālika al-ḥādith hiya al-juzʼ al-akhīr min al-ʻillah al-tāmmah li-wujūd dhālika al-ḥādith ʻindahum bi-maʻná anna jamīʻ tilka al-ḥawādith lahā madkhal fī wujūd dhālika al-ḥādith bi-iʻtibār wujūdihā al-sābiq wa-ʻadamihā al-ṭārī fa-idhā wujida dhālika al-ḥādith fa-lā yumkin zawāluhu illā bi-zawāl ʻillatihi al-tāmmah wa-ʻillatuhu al-tāmmah murakkabah min al-mabādī al-qadīmah wa-min tilka al-ḥawādith al-mutaʻāqibah min ḥaythu annahā kānat mawjūdah thumma ṣārat maʻdūmah wa-zawāl al-mabādī al-qadīmah muḥāl wa-ka-dhā zawāl tilka al-ḥawādith min hādhihi al-ḥaythīyah muḥāl fa-innahā ilá al-abad muttaṣifah bi-annahā ṣārat maʻdūmah baʻd mā kānat mawjūdah wa-hiya bi-hādhā al-iʻtibār kānat mutammimah li-al-ʻillah al-tāmmah wa-zawāluhā bi-hādhā al-iʻtibār muḥāl wa-illā fa-yalzam zawāl al-maʻlūl maʻa baqāʼ ʻillatihi al-tāmmah ʻalá ḥālihā wa-huwa muḥāl fa-ṭalabū al-takhalluṣ ʻanhu bi-anna tilka al-silsilah ʻillah li-wujūd al-ḥādith bi-sharṭ intifāʼ ḥādith muʻayyan huwa al-māniʻ min wujūd dhālika al-ḥādith fa-idhā wujida dhālika al-ḥādith al-māniʻ zālat al-ʻillah al-tāmmah bi-zawāl juzʼihā aʻnī intifāʼ al-māniʻ alladhī huwa muʻtabar fīhā fa-inna wujūd al-māniʻ mustalzim li-zawāl intifāʼihi fa-in awrada ʻalayhi annahu yalzam an yaʻūd dhālika al-ḥādith ʻinda zawāl dhālika al-ḥādith al-māniʻ ʻalá taqdīr kawnihi jāʼiz al-zawāl li-taḥaqquq al-ʻillah al-tāmmah bi-jamīʻ ajzāʼihā ḥīnaʼidhin fa-lahum an yadfaʻū dhālika bi-anna ʻadam al-māniʻ al-sābiq ʻalá wujūdihi juzʼ al-ʻillah al-ḥādith lā ʻadamahu al-masbūq bi-wujūdihi fa-zawāluhu baʻd wujūdihi lā yaṣīr mutammiman li-al-ʻillah al-tāmmah aw yaqūlū anna ittiṣāf al-ḥādith bi-al-ʻadam baʻd ittiṣāfihi bi-al-wujūd yastalzim imtināʻ ittiṣāfihi bi-al-wujūd thāniyan bināʼan ʻalá istiḥālat iʻādat al-maʻdūm wa-al-umūr al-madhkūrah ʻillah tāmmah li-wujūdihi bi-sharṭ intifāʼ ittiṣāfihi bi-al-ʻadam baʻd al-wujūd fa-dhālika al-intifāʼ juzʼ akhīr min al-ʻillah al-tāmmah wa-huwa mafqūd ḥīnaʼidhin thumma yabqá anna dhālika al-ḥādith al-māniʻ yaḥtāj fī zawālihi ilá ḥādith ākhar māniʻ wa-hākadhā fa-ammā an yadūm dhālika al-māniʻ fa-yalzam ʻinda zawāl kull ḥādith ḥudūth ḥādith abadī wa-huwa ghayr lāzim ʻindahum aw yazūl fa-yakūn hunāka ḥādith ākhar māniʻ ʻanhu wa-hākadhā fa-yalzam an takūn hunāka salāsil ghayr mutanāhiyah min al-ḥawādith yastanid kull wāḥid min āḥādihā ilá wāḥid min āḥād al-silsilah al-ukhrá fī zawālihā wa-huwa muntaf wa-al-makhlaṣ ʻanhu an yuqāl anna al-ḥādith al-māniʻ huwa ayḍan min āḥād silsilat al-ḥawādith al-mutaʻāqibah lā khārij ʻanhā fa-idhā afḍat silsilat al-awḍāʻ al-falakīyah ilá ḥādith muʻayyan ka-wujūd ṣūrah muʻayyanah fa-tilka al-awḍāʻ ʻillah li-wujūd tilka al-ṣūrah al-muʻayyanah bi-sharṭ ʻadam wujūd al-waḍʻ al-muqtaḍī li-intifāʼ tilka al-ṣūrah thumma tilka al-silsilah al-waḍʻīyah bi-ʻaynihā tansāq ilá wujūd dhālika al-waḍʻ al-māniʻ min wujūd tilka al-ṣūrah fa-tantafī tilka al-ṣūrah ʻinda wujūd dhālika al-waḍʻ wa-taḥduth ṣūrah ukhrá yaqtaḍīhā dhālika al-waḍʻ thumma yabqá ʻalá dhālika an intaqala al-kalām ilá zawāl dhālika al-waḍʻ fa-in kāna zawāluhu li-ḥudūth al-waḍʻ al-lāḥiq wa-qad taqarrara ʻindahum anna al-waḍʻ al-sābiq li-wujūdihi wa-zawālihi ʻillah li-ḥudūth al-waḍʻ al-lāḥiq lazima al-dawr wa-in kāna zawāluhu li-zawāl al-waḍʻ al-sābiq ʻalayhi wa-qad kāna zawāluhu juzʼan akhīran min ʻillat ḥudūthihi mujāmiʻan lahu fa-yalzam kawn ʻillat al-ḥudūth wa-al-zawāl amran wāḥidan bi-ʻaynihi ḍarūrah anna tamām mā furiḍa ʻillah li-al-zawāl min al-mabādī al-qadīmah wa-al-awḍāʻ al-mutaʻāqibah wa-zawāl al-waḍʻ al-sābiq ʻalá hādhā al-waḍʻ alladhī furiḍa māniʻan huwa bi-ʻaynihi ʻillah li-al-ḥudūth wa-in kāna zawāl dhālika al-waḍʻ li-zawāl amr ākhar khārij ʻan silsilat al-awḍāʻ aw li-ḥudūth amr ākhar ka-dhālika lazima an yakūn hunāka salāsil ghayr mutanāhiyah min al-ḥawādith yastanid āḥād kull minhā fī zawālihā ilá āḥād al-ukhrá fī wujūdihā aw zawālihā wa-al-ḥawādith al-ghayr al-mutanāhiyah lā tantaẓim illā bi-al-ḥarakāt al-ghayr al-mutanāhiyah fa-yalzam an yakūn fī al-wujūd ajsām ghayr mutanāhiyah mutaḥarrikah wa-huwa bāṭil wa-hādhā ammā lā yumkin al-tafaṣṣī ʻanhu bi-wajh yakhlū ʻan ḥazāzah idh ghāyat mā yumkin an yuqāl anna hādhihi al-awḍāʻ ghayr mawjūdah fī al-khārij bal hiya mafrūḍah ka-al-ānāt al-mafrūḍah fī al-zamān wa-al-ḥudūd wa-minhā sirr al-naskh

al-mafrūḍah fī al-masāfah kamā ṣarraḥa bihi al-Fārābī wa-idhā lam takun tilka al-awḍāʻ mawjūdah fī al-khārij lā taqtaḍī ʻillah mawjūdah fī al-khārij wa-lā yakhfá mā fīhi fa-inna tilka al-awḍāʻ wa-in sullima annahā ghayr mawjūdah fa-hiya laysat farḍīyah maḥḍah ḍarūrah anna al-waḍʻ al-muqārin li-al-ān al-ḥāḍir fī al-yawm ghayr al-waḍʻ al-muqārin li-mithl hādhā al-ān min al-ams fa-inna al-ʻaql yushīr ilá hādhā al-waḍʻ wa-yaḥkum ʻalayhi bi-annahu muqārin li-hādhā al-ān wa-bi-annahu laysa muqārinan li-dhālika al-ān ḥukman ṣādiqan muṭābiqan li-al-wāqiʻ wa-law ḥakama bi-ʻaks hādhā lam yakun muṭābiqan li-al-wāqiʻ wa-law kānat farḍīyah maḥḍah lam yakun aḥad al-ḥukmayn awlá bi-al-taṣdīq min al-ākhar fa-hab anna dhālika al-amr ghayr mawjūd fī al-khārij illā anna lahu naḥwan min al-wujūd wa-law bi-al-qūwah al-qarībah qurban lam yakun lahu fī al-ān al-sābiq fa-lā budd lahu min ʻillah thumma idhā zāla ʻanhu hādhā al-naḥw min al-wujūd fa-lā budd lahu min ʻillah ayḍan fa-inna al-waṣf alladhī lam yakun li-al-shayʼ thumma thabata lahu lā budd lahu min ʻillah thumma idhā zāla dhālika al-waṣf ʻan dhālika al-shayʼ fa-lā budd lahu ayḍan min ʻillah ḍarūrah sawāʼ kāna dhālika al-waṣf mawjūdan bi-al-fiʻl aw bi-al-qūwah aw ghayrihi ay maʻná kāna wa-lā makhlaṣ ʻan tilka al-shubah wa-al-shukūk illā bi-mā ḥaqqaqnāhu min ḥāl al-ḥawādith al-kawnīyah annahā tarjiʻ ilá amr wāḥid mustamirr lā tabaddul fīhi lākin yufraḍ fīhi umūr mutakaththirah bi-ḥasab al-farḍ mutaghayyirah bi-ḥasabihi mutabaddilah bi-ḥasab al-nisab al-wāqiʻah baynahā mutaghayyirah bi-ḥasabihā min ḥaythu al-muqāranah wa-ʻadamihā wa-tilka al-nisab al-wāqiʻah baynahā maʻlūlah li-dhālika al-amr al-waḥdānī dafʻah wāḥidah kamā fuṣṣila al-kalām fīhi fī al-matn

(qawluhu wa-minhā sirr al-naskh) ay al-ḥikmah wa-al-ghāyah al-maṭlūbah fīhi wa-hiya murāʻāt al-maṣāliḥ allatī wa-ḥaqīqatuhu wa-annahu laysa fīhi mā yuwahhim naqḍan aw naqṣan

hiya muqtaḍá khuṣūṣīyāt al-azminah wa-mā yuqārinuhā min al-istiʻdādāt

(qawluhu wa-ḥaqīqatuhu) wa-hiya muqāranat baʻḍ al-ḥudūd al-mafrūḍah fī al-ḥukm al-tashrīʻī al-mustamirr bi-al-ḥudūd al-mafrūḍah fī al-ḥukm al-ījādī al-mustamirr

(qawluhu wa-annahu laysa fīhi mā yuwahhim naqḍan ilkh) ay naqḍan fī al-aḥkām al-ilāhīyah kamā yukhālij al-awhām al-ʻāmmīyah min anna al-ḥukm bi-ḥurmat al-shayʼ yunāqiḍ al-ḥukm bi-ḥillihi kamā anna al-ḥukm bi-wujūdihi yunāqiḍ al-ḥukm bi-ʻadamihi

(qawluhu aw naqṣan) kamā tawahhamahu baʻḍ al-wahmāʼ min anna al-ḥukm bi-ḥillīyat al-shayʼ wa-al-ḥukm bi-ḥurmatihi mutanāqiḍān fa-yalzam al-jahl ʻalá al-ḥākim awwalan wa-ākhiran ḍarūrah anna aḥad al-ḥukmayn kādhib wa-yaqrub min hādhā mā nuqila ʻan baʻḍ al-tābiʻīn fī sulūk maslak al-taḥqīq min istishkālihi ḥukm al-fuqahāʼ bi-najāsat al-khamr najāsah ʻaynīyah maʻa ibāḥatihā fī al-adyān al-sālifah wa-dhālika wahm baʻīd ʻan amthālihi fa-inna maʻná al-najāsah al-ʻaynīyah fī iṣṭilāḥ al-fuqahāʼ fī al-khamr mathalan lā yunāfī taqyīdahā bi-al-zamān al-muʻayyan idh laysa maʻnāhā annahā muqtaḍá dhāt al-khamr kayfa wa-al-aḥkām al-sharʻīyah jamīʻuhā waḍʻīyah bal maʻnāhā kawnuhā najāsan mā dāmat ḥaqīqatuhā al-khamrīyah bāqiyah fī dīn nabīyinā Muḥammad ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām wa-lā yanfakk ʻanhā ḥukm al-najāsah ilá an tastaḥīl ilá al-khall fa-tantafī al-ḥaqīqah al-khamrīyah bi-zawāl ṣūratihā al-nawʻīyah wa-ḥudūth al-ṣūrah al-nawʻīyah al-khallīyah fa-hādhā wa-hādhā wa-aʻjab minhu mā takallafahu baʻḍ man talāhu li-al-tafaṣṣī ʻan hādhā al-wahm alladhī takhayyalūhu ishkālan ʻaẓīman ḥaqīqan bi-an yushammir ʻan sāq al-jidd wa-al-ijtihād fī dafʻihi fa-qāla anna al-Khātim ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām kāna huwa al-wāqif ʻalá ḥaqāʼiq al-ashyāʼ wa-huwa al-mustajāb fī qawlihi «Allāhumma arinā al-ashyāʼ kamā hiya» fa-inna al-ḥukm al-tadwīnī yuḥādhī al-ḥukm al-takwīnī wa-ka-anna al-taʻāqub hunāka fī naẓar al-maḥbūsīn fī maṭmūrat al-zamān al-mulāḥiẓīn min maḍīq kūwat al-ḥāl fa-ka-dhā al-ḥāl hāhunā lā taghayyur wa-lā intiqāl illā fī naẓar man yataghayyar ʻalayhi al-māḍī wa-al-ḥāl wa-al-istiqbāl

Tadhkirah

a-laysat al-ḥaqīqah al-wāḥidah taẓhar ʻalá al-baṣar bi-al-ṣūrah al-muʻayyanah al-muktanifah bi-al-ʻawāriḍ al-mādīyah bi-sharṭ ḥuḍūr al-māddah wa-mulāzamat waḍʻ muʻayyan min

wa-li-dhālika ẓahara ʻalayhi mā khafiya ʻalá man qablahu min al-anbiyāʼ ʻalayhim al-salām min ḥurmatihā al-ʻaynīyah wa-hādhā al-ʻudhr ashadd min al-jurm wa-anta bi-mā faṣṣalnā laka wāqif ʻalá jalīyat al-ḥāl bi-tawfīq Allāh taʻālá wa-huwa al-muwaffiq li-kull khayr wa-kamāl

(qawluhu fa-inna al-ḥukm al-tadwīnī) ay al-tashrīʻī sammāhu bi-dhālika li-kawnihi mudawwanan kullifa al-nās bi-al-tadawwun bihi

(qawluhu yuḥādhī al-ḥukm al-takwīnī) ay yuḥādhī al-ḥukm al-ījādī wa-al-ḥukm al-awwal ʻinda al-muḥaqqiqīn yanshaʼ min al-kalām alladhī huwa ṣifah ḥaqīqīyah munshaʼah min al-muqāraʻah al-ghaybīyah al-wāqiʻah bayn al-ʻilm wa-al-irādah wa-al-ḥukm al-thānī min al-qawl al-muʻabbar ʻanhu bi-kun kamā qāla Allāh taʻālá «innamā amruhu idhā arāda shayʼan an yaqūla lahu kun fa-yakūn» wa-al-ḥukm al-takwīnī al-qawlī wājib al-iṭāʻah wujūban dhātīyan bi-ḥaythu yamtaniʻ al-takhalluf ʻanhu ʻaqlan wa-al-ḥukm al-tadwīnī al-kalāmī wājib al-iṭāʻah wujūban waḍʻīyan sharʻīyan yamtaniʻ al-takhalluf ʻanhu sharʻan bi-maʻná anna al-sharʻ yamnaʻ al-takhalluf ʻanhu wa-yaḥkum bi-wujūbihi kamā anna al-ʻaql yamnaʻ al-takhalluf ʻan al-awwal wa-yaḥkum bi-imtināʻihi fa-ifham

(qawluhu tadhkirah) wajh al-ʻunwān bihi ẓāhir wa-min hāhunā sharaʻa fī al-ishārah ilá taḥqīq al-maʻād wa-tafṣīl muḥādhāt wa-qurb wa-ʻadam ḥijāb ilá ghayr dhālika wa-hiya bi-ʻaynihā taẓhar fī al-ḥiss al-mushtarak bi-ṣūrah tushābihuhā min ghayr tilka al-sharāʼiṭ wa-hiya fī al-ḥālayn taqbal al-takaththur bi-ḥasab al-ashkhāṣ ka-ṣūrat Zayd wa-ʻAmr wa-Bakr thumma taẓhar tilka al-ḥaqīqah fī al-ʻaql bi-ḥaythu lā taqbal al-takaththur wa-taṣīr al-afrād al-mutakaththirah fī al-ṣūrah al-mubṣarah wa-al-mutakhayyalah muttaḥidah fī al-ṣūrah al-ʻaqlīyah thumma al-ṣūrah al-ʻaqlīyah mutafāwitah fī qubūl al-takaththur fa-inna ṣuwar al-anwāʻ min ḥaythu khuṣūṣ nawʻīyatihā mutakaththirah wa-hiya min ḥaythu ṣūrat jinsihā wāḥidah wa-hākadhā ilá jins al-ajnās fa-yattaḥid fī ṣūratihi jamīʻ anwāʻihā lākin yamtāz ʻan jins ākhar yuqābiluhu wa-idhā uʻtubirat min al-mafhūmāt mā yashmal jamīʻ al-ḥaqāʼiq wa-al-iʻtibārāt ittaḥada al-kull fī ṣūratihi ka-al-shayʼ wa-al-mumkin al-ʻāmm

Tabṣirah

baʻḍ aḥwālihi

(qawluhu tabṣirah) wajh al-ʻunwān bihā yaẓhar mimmā sabaqa fī naẓāʼirihi wa-muḥaṣṣal hādhihi al-tabṣirah anna al-ḥaqīqah mughāyirah li-jamīʻ al-ṣuwar allatī tatajallá fīhā ʻalá al-mashāʻir al-ẓāhirah wa-al-bāṭinah al-jismānīyah wa-al-rūḥānīyah mughāyirah dhātīyah ay mughāyirah min ḥaythu dhātihā illā min ḥaythu al-wujūd fa-inna tilka al-ḥaqīqah fī ḥadd dhātihā qābilah li-al-ẓuhūr bi-ṣuwar mukhtalifah mukhtalifat al-aḥkām wa-anna jamīʻ al-ṣuwar allatī taẓhar hiya bihā mutasāwiyat al-aqdām bi-al-nisbah ilayhā wa-laysa baʻḍ awlá bihā min al-baʻḍ fī ḥadd dhātihā bal innamā yukhaṣṣiṣ tilka al-ṣuwar bi-ʻaynihā aḥkām al-mawāṭin wa-al-mashāʻir fa-al-ʻilm ḥaqīqah wāḥidah taẓhar fī mawṭin al-yaqẓah bi-ṣūrah ʻaraḍīyah muḥtajibah ʻan al-ḥiss al-ẓāhir mudrakah bi-al-ʻaql kullīyah wa-bi-al-wahm juzʼīyah wa-hiya bi-ʻaynihā taẓhar fī mawṭin al-ruʼyā bi-ṣūrah jawharīyah aʻnī ṣūrat al-laban wa-kāna fa-idhā tadhakkarta dhālika fa-taḥdus anna al-ṣūrah wa-law ʻaqlīyah ghayr al-ḥaqīqah bal hiya malābisuhā al-mukhtalifah ʻalayhā bi-ikhtilāf al-mashāʻir wa-al-madārik thumma anna tilka al-ḥaqīqah maʻa waḥdatihā al-dhātīyah qad taẓhar fī ṣuwar mutakaththirah mutakhālifat al-ḥukm ka-ṣuwar al-ashkhāṣ wa-qad taẓhar fī ṣūrah wāḥidah ka-al-ṣūrah al-ʻaqlīyah ka-anna al-mukhtalifayn fī al-ṣūrah fī mawṭin qad yattaḥidān fīhā fī mawṭin ākhar wa-qad yataʻākas al-ṣūratān fī al-mawṭinayn aʻnī annahu taẓhar iḥdāhumā bi-ṣūrah khāṣṣah fī mawṭin wa-al-ukhrá bi-ṣūrah ukhrá fī dhālika al-mawṭin thumma yaẓharān fī mawṭin ākhar ʻalá ʻaks al-ṣūratayn fa-taẓhar hādhihi bi-al-ṣūrah allatī kānat li-al-ukhrá wa-al-ukhrá bi-al-ṣūrah allatī kānat li-hādhihi ka-al-faraḥ al-ẓāhir fī al-ruʼyā bi-ṣūrat al-bukāʼ ilá ghayr dhālika min al-umūr al-maʻlūmah bi-mumārasat al-taʻbīr fa-atqin dhālika fa-innahu mudrak ʻazīz al-manāl

al-ẓāhir ʻalá al-madārik al-bāṭinah fī al-yaqẓah ḥaqīqat al-ʻilm ka-dhālika al-ẓāhir ʻalá al-mashāʻir fī al-ruʼyā ḥaqīqat al-ʻilm illā annahu yatajallá fī kull mawṭin bi-ṣūrah bi-ʻaynihā lahā dhālika al-mawṭin thumma anna al-maḥjūb al-munghamis fī aḥkām al-ṭabīʻah alladhī lā yaʻrif al-ḥaqāʼiq illā bi-ṣuwarihā li-taʻawwudihi bi-al-ʻawāʼid al-maʼlūfah al-ṭabīʻīyah yunkir al-ḥaqīqah ʻinda tabaddul al-ṣūrah wa-lā yaʻrifuhā al-taḥawwul lahā fī malābisihā lākin al-ʻārif al-darrāk alladhī lahu nafs qawīyah lā yaṣīr maghlūban li-aḥkām khuṣūṣīyāt al-mawāṭin wa-lā yaḥjubuhā ḥukm mawṭin ʻan aḥkām al-mawāṭin al-ukhar fa-yaʻrifuhā fī sāʼir malābisihā wa-lammā kānat hādhihi al-nuktah khafīyah mukhālifah li-mā irtakaza fī al-ṭibāʻ al-maʼlūfah al-munhamikah fī al-ʻawāʼid al-maʼlūfah maʻa jalālat shaʼnihā wa-kawnihā mirqāh ilá al-iṭṭilāʻ ʻalá asrār nafīsah amara bi-itqānihā wa-ashāra ilá nabāhat shaʼnihā bi-qawlihi

Tanbīh

ka-annaka fī-mā qaraʻa samʻaka min hādhihi al-muqaddimāt iṭṭalaʻta ʻalá ḥaqīqat al-inṭibāq bayn al-ʻawālim bal ʻalá ḥaqīqat al-ʻawālim bal inkashafa ʻalayka asrār ghāmiḍah fī ḥaqīqat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād wa-tayassara ʻalayka mushāhadat al-wāḥid al-ḥaqīqī fī al-katharāt min ghayr shawb mumāzajah wa-lā infiṣāl wa-tasallaqta bihi ilá ḥaqāʼiq mā anbaʼa ʻanhu lisān al-nubūwāt min ẓuhūr al-akhlāq wa-al-aʻmāl fī al-mawāṭin al-maʻādīyah bi-ṣuwar al-ajsād wa-kayfīyat wazn al-aʻmāl wa-sirr ḥashr al-afrād bi-ṣuwar al-akhlāq al-ghālibah ʻalayhim wa-iṭṭalaʻta ʻalá sirr qawlihi taʻālá «wa-inna jahannama la-muḥīṭatun

fa-atqin dhālika fa-innahu mudrak ʻazīz al-manāl

(qawluhu tanbīh) wasamahu bihi li-kawnihi maʻlūman bi-al-qūwah mimmā sabaqa

(qawluhu iṭṭalaʻta ʻalá ḥaqīqat al-inṭibāq bayn al-ʻawālim) fa-innahā bi-asrihā ṣuwar li-ḥaqīqah wāḥidah mukhtalifah min jihat takhāluf aḥkām al-mawāṭin allatī yastawṭinuhā al-nafs fī madārij ṣuʻūdihā wa-madārik hubūṭihā wa-al-madārik allatī hiya muqtaḍá tilka al-mawāṭin

(qawluhu bal ʻalá ḥaqīqat al-ʻawālim) fa-innahā ṣuwar taẓhar ʻalá al-nafs fī mawāṭinihā

(qawluhu bal inkashafa ʻalayka asrār ghāmiḍah min ḥaqīqat al-mabdaʼ) wa-ẓuhūruhu tabāraka wa-taʻālá fī al-katharāt fa-inna dhālika yataḥaṣṣal wa-yataqawwam bi-al-nafs wa-marātibihā wa-ḥaqīqat al-maʻād min ẓuhūr al-aʻmāl wa-al-akhlāq al-ẓāhirah fī al-nashʼah al-dunyawīyah bi-al-ṣuwar al-khāṣṣah wa-fī al-nashʼah al-ukhrawīyah bi-al-ṣuwar al-mughāyirah allatī taqtaḍīhā aḥkām tilka al-nashʼah kamā fuṣṣila fī al-sharīʻah al-ḥaqqah

(qawluhu wa-iṭṭalaʻta ʻalá sirr qawlihi ilkh) fa-inna al-āyah bi-ẓāhirihā tadull ʻalá iḥāṭat jahannam bi-al-kāfirīn fī al-zamān al-ḥāl wa-lā ḥājah ilá al-ṣarf ʻan al-ẓāhir bināʼan ʻalá al-taḥqīq alladhī sabaqa fa-inna bi-al-kāfirīna» wa-qawluhu taʻālá «inna alladhīna yaʼkulūna amwāl al-yatāmá ẓulman

al-akhlāq al-radhīlah wa-al-ʻaqāʼid al-bāṭilah allatī hiya muḥīṭah bihim fī hādhihi al-nashʼah hiya bi-ʻaynihā jahannam allatī sa-taẓhar fī al-ṣuwar al-mawʻūdah ʻalayhim kamā andharahum al-Shāriʻ ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām illā annahum lā yaʻrifūna dhālika li-ʻadam ẓuhūrihā fī hādhihi al-nashʼah ʻalayhim bi-tilka al-ṣuwar wa-hum li-farṭ jahlihim bi-al-ḥaqāʼiq lā yaʻrifūna al-ḥaqāʼiq illā bi-ṣuwarihā wa-ammā al-nafs al-muḥīṭah bi-al-ḥaqāʼiq wa-taqallubihā fī al-ṣuwar bi-ḥasab al-mawāṭin fa-taʻrif ḥaqīqat al-amr bal qad yanʻakis dhālika al-maʻná ilá mirʼāt khayālihi allatī hiya mishkāt maṣābīḥ al-nafs fa-tushāhid tilka al-ṣuwar bi-aʻyānihā kifāḥan maʻa mushāhadatihi al-ṣuwar al-maḥsūsah fa-inna al-nufūs al-qawīyah lā yashghaluhā shān ʻan shān wa-lā yulhīhim mawṭin ʻan mawṭin wa-in lam takun hādhihi al-ḥāl dāʼimah lahum bal mukhtalifah bi-ḥasab khawāṣṣ al-awqāt wa-mā yatbaʻuhā min al-aḥwāl kamā warada fī al-ḥadīth al-mushtamil ʻalá ruʼyatihi ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam li-al-jannah wa-al-nār wa-huwa fī al-ṣalāh ḥidhāʼ al-ḥāʼiṭ wa-rubbamā yashghal baʻḍ al-mukāshifīn mushāhadat ṣuwar dhālika al-mawṭin ʻan ṣuwar hādhā al-mawṭin ʻalá ʻaks ḥāl al-maḥjūbīn kamā samiʻtu min ustādhī al-ʻālim al-fāḍil Muḥyī al-Millah wa-al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá naqlan ʻan baʻḍ man lāqāhu min al-thiqāt annahu kāna fī baʻḍ nawāḥī Fāris rajul min al-awliyāʼ fa-dakhala ʻalayhi dhāt yawm wāḥid min ahl al-dunyā wa-kāna dhālika al-walī mustaghriqan fī ḥālihi fa-lammā naẓara ilayhi qāla li-khādimihi akhrij hādhā al-ḥimār wa-lam yakun yará minhu illā ṣūrat al-ḥimār thumma baʻd an zāla ʻan hādhihi al-ḥāl akhbarahu al-khādim bi-mā jará fa-qāla mā qultu illā mā raʼaytu wa-lam akun wāqifan ʻalá mā naqūl

(qawluhu wa-qawluhu taʻālá inna alladhīna yaʼkulūna amwāl al-yatāmá ẓulman innamā yaʼkulūna fī buṭūnihim nāran» wa-qawl al-Fātiḥ al-Khātim ʻalayhi wa-ʻalá ālihi afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-taḥīyah «alladhīna yashrabūna fī āniyat al-dhahab wa-al-fiḍḍah innamā yujarjir fī buṭūnihim nār jahannam» wa-qawluhu ʻalayhi al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām «inna al-jannah qīʻān wa-inna ghirāsahā subḥān Allāh wa-bi-ḥamdihi» ilá ghayr dhālika min ghawāmiḍ al-ḥikam wa-al-asrār al-ilāhīyah wa-ʻalimta anna jamīʻ dhālika ʻalá al-ḥaqīqah lā ʻalá al-majāz wa-al-taʼwīl kamā intahá ilayhi naẓar baʻḍ al-wāghilīn fī al-faḥṣ ʻan al-ḥaqāʼiq bi-ṭarīq al-baḥth al-baḥt fa-innahu quṣūr ẓāhir ka-lā yakhfá

Shakk wa-taḥqīq

laʻallaka taqūl kayfa yakūn al-ʻaraḍ bi-ʻaynihi huwa al-jawhar wa-kayfa yakūn al-maʻná jasadan wa-al-ḥāl anna al-ḥaqāʼiq mutakhālifah bi-dhawātihā fa-naqūl qad lawwaḥnā ilayka anna

innamā yaʼkulūna fī buṭūnihim nāran) fa-inna ẓāhirahā yadull ʻalá wuqūʻ hādhā al-ḥāl fī al-ḥāl wa-ka-dhā al-ḥadīth yadull ʻalá wuqūʻ al-jarjarah fī al-ḥāl wa-al-jarjarah ammā bi-maʻná al-ṣabb wa-huwa mutaʻaddin fa-yakūn fāʻil qawlihi yujarjir al-ḍamīr al-rājiʻ ilá inna alladhīna wa-nār jahannam mafʻūluhu aw bi-maʻná al-ḥarakah wa-ḥīnaʼidhin fa-huwa lāzim wa-fāʻiluhu nār jahannam

(qawluhu inna al-jannah qīʻān ilkh) fa-inna al-ḥadīth yadull ʻalá anna hādhā al-qawl bi-ʻaynihi ghirāsuhā

(qawluhu ilá ghayr dhālika) minhā ḥaqīqat qawlihi ʻalayhi al-salām al-dunyā mazraʻat al-ākhirah fa-innahu ka-anna al-badhr huwa māddat mā yanbut minhu bal huwa alladhī yaẓhar bi-ʻaynihi baʻd inbisāṭihi bi-ṣūrat al-shajarah wa-aghṣānihā wa-awrāqihā wa-athmārihā fa-ka-dhā al-aʻmāl wa-al-akhlāq al-muktasabah fī al-dunyā māddat al-jannah wa-al-nār wa-hiya bi-ʻaynihā taẓhar fī dhālika al-mawṭin bi-ṣūratihimā wa-ṣuwar mā yaẓhar fīhimā min al-ladhāʼidh wa-al-makārih thumma lā ishkāl fī al-shakk wa-al-taḥqīq wa-qad faṣṣalnā al-ḥaqīqah ghayr al-ṣūrah fa-innahā fī ḥadd dhātihā wa-ṣarāfat sadhājatihā ʻāriyah ʻan jamīʻ al-ṣuwar allatī tatajallá bihā lākinnahā taẓhar fī ṣūrah tāratan wa-fī ghayrihā ukhrá wa-al-ṣūratān mutaghāyiratān qaṭʻan lākin al-ḥaqīqah al-mutajalliyah fī al-ṣūratayn bi-ḥasab ikhtilāf al-mawṭinayn shayʼ wāḥid

Tashbīh

mā ashbaha dhālika bi-mā yaqūluhu ahl al-ḥikmah al-naẓarīyah anna al-jawāhir bi-iʻtibār wujūdihā fī al-dhihn aʻrāḍ qāʼimah bihi muḥtājah ilayhi thumma hiya fī al-khārij qāʼimah bi-anfusihā mustaghnīyah ʻan ghayrihā fa-idhā iʻtaqadta anna ḥaqīqah taẓhar fī mawṭin bi-ṣūrah ʻaraḍīyah muḥtājah wa-fī ākhar bi-ṣūrah mustaqillah fa-ijʻal dhālika taʼnīsan laka taksir bihi ṣawlat nubūw ṭabʻika ʻanhu fī badʼ al-naẓar ḥattá yaʼtīka al-yaqīn wa-tataṣaʻʻad al-ufuq al-mubīn wa-tará bi-ʻayn al-ʻiyān mā yaʻjaz ʻanhu al-bayān wa-tashruf ʻalá ḥaqīqat qawl sayyidinā al-Nabī al-mabʻūth li-tatmīm bināʼ al-nabaʼ wa-al-inbāʼ «al-nawm akhā al-mawt» wa-qawl ṣāḥib sirrihi wa-bāb madīnat ʻilmihi ʻalayhi wa-ʻalayhi afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām «al-nās niyām fa-idhā mātū intabahū»

maḍmūnuhu fī al-ḥāshiyah al-sābiqah

(qawluhu wa-fī ākhar bi-ṣūrah mustaqillah) lam yaqul bi-ṣūrah jawharīyah li-allā yutawahham anna al-jawharīyah makhṣūṣah bi-al-wujūd al-khārijī fa-innahu mukhālif li-mā iṣṭalaḥa ʻalayhi ahl hādhā al-fann fa-innahum ʻarrafū al-jawhar bi-annahu al-mumkin alladhī idhā wujida fī al-aʻyān lam yaḥtaj ilá maḥall yaqūm bihi fa-yaṣduq ʻalayhi maʻa wujūdihi fī al-dhihn wa-iftiqārihi ilayhi annahu lā yaḥtāj ilá al-maḥall al-muqawwim fī al-wujūd al-khārijī wa-ʻarrafū al-ʻaraḍ bi-annahu al-mumkin al-qāʼim bi-al-ghayr fa-al-jawhar

Ziyādat kashf

a-raʼayta al-ḥaqīqah al-wāḥidah kayfa ẓaharat ʻalá al-qūwah al-ʻāqilah bi-ṣūrah waḥdānīyah laṭīfah mujarradah thumma ẓaharat ʻalá al-ḥawāss bi-ṣuwar mutakhālifah kathīfah mādīyah fa-ka-annahā tanazzalat maʻa al-nafs ʻan ṣarāfat tajarrudihā wa-waḥdatihā ilá al-takaththuf wa-al-taʻaddud fa-idhā waṣalat al-nafs ilá martabat al-ḥawāss waṣalat hiya ilá ghāyat al-takaththur wa-al-takashshuf wa-idhā taraqqat ilá martabat al-tajarrud tawaḥḥadat hiya fa-al-ḥaqāʼiq maʻa al-nafs ṣuʻūdan wa-hubūṭan fa-hiya idhan mawjūdah fī al-nafs lā khārijan ʻanhā wa-hiya tuṣāḥibuhā fī mawāṭinihā al-mukhtalifah wa-tanṣabigh fī kull mawṭin min mawāṭinihā bi-aḥkāmihi min al-waḥdah wa-al-kathrah wa-al-laṭāfah wa-al-kathāfah wa-min thamma aqūl shaʼn al-ʻilm takthīr al-wāḥid wa-tawḥīd al-kathīr

al-mawjūd fī al-dhihn jawhar wa-ʻaraḍ maʻan li-ṣidq maʻná taʻrīfihimā ʻalayhi wa-al-mawjūd fī al-khārij jawhar lā ʻaraḍ fa-al-tashbīh fī anna al-ʻaraḍīyah thābitah li-al-jawāhir bi-iʻtibār wujūdihā fī al-dhihn muntafiyah ʻanhā fī al-wujūd al-khārijī wa-lam yakun dhālika milāk al-amr bal al-ʻumdah ʻalá mā yuḥaṣṣiluhu al-dhawq al-ṣaḥīḥ wa-kāna al-gharaḍ minhu taʼnīs al-mustaʻiddīn min al-mumārisīn li-dhālika al-fann ḥattá lā yanbū ṭabʻuhum ʻanhu li-munāfaratihi li-mā taʻawwadūhu qāla fa-ijʻal dhālika taʼnīsan

(qawluhu ziyādat kashf) wasamahu bihi li-annahu tafṣīl li-mā sabaqa wa-mā-dhukira fī hādhā al-faṣl ẓāhir lā khafāʼ fīhi

(qawluhu shaʼn al-ʻilm takthīr al-wāḥid) wa-dhālika fī al-ʻilm al-tafṣīlī al-muttaṣil bi-mā yalī al-jihah al-sāfilah min al-nafs al-nāṭiqah wa-nihāyatuhu fī al-mashāʻir al-ẓāhirah

(qawluhu wa-tawḥīd al-kathīr) wa-dhālika fī al-ʻilm al-ḥaqīqī al-ijmālī al-mutaqawwim bi-mā yalī al-jihah al-ʻāliyah min al-nafs wa-kāluhu fī al-mudrak al-shuhūdī al-muʻabbar ʻanhu bi-nūr

Ramz

fa-al-mayz alladhī huwa maḥtad al-kathrah innamā huwa bi-al-nafs wa-fī al-nafs fa-idhā aghmaḍta ʻanhā wa-ʻammā yaẓhar ʻalayhā fī madārik hubūṭihā wa-madārij ṣuʻūdihā mā-wajadta illā ʻaynan sādhijah ʻan kull mayz wa-ghayrīyah bal mā-wajadta mā-wajadta idh wajadta fa-iṭfaʼ al-miṣbāḥ fa-qad ṭalaʻa al-ṣabāḥ

Tanbīh

fa-al-nafs ka-aẓhar māddat jamīʻ al-ṣuwar wa-arḍ kull al-ḥaqāʼiq fīhā thabatat uṣūluhā wa-fīhā anbatat furūʻuhā fa-huwa al-kitāb al-jāmiʻ wa-al-ism al-aʻẓam wa-al-ʻarsh al-muḥīṭ alladhī huwa mustawá al-Raḥmān al-muqtaḍī bi-al-raḥmah al-ījādīyah ẓuhūr jamīʻ al-mumkināt bi-tafāṣīlihā wa-bihā wa-fīhā yataʻaddad al-nafas al-raḥmānī al-wāḥid fī ḥadd dhātihi fa-al-ḥaqīqah wāḥidah mā-dāmat ʻaqlan ṣirfan fa-idhā taḥarrakat

al-wilāyah wa-huwa martabah min marātib ṣafāʼ al-nafs lā mazīd ʻalayhi wa-in kāna lahā marātib mutafāwitah wa-yalīhi fī al-sharaf martabat al-dhawq wa-huwa qad yakūn fiṭrīyan wa-qad yakūn muktasaban kamā fī ṭabʻ al-shiʻr wa-al-alḥān wa-al-balāghah wa-ghayrihā illā anna al-dhawq al-fiṭrī alladhī yalī martabat al-wilāyah ʻazīz al-wujūd jiddan wa-law wujida lā yastaghnī bi-al-kullīyah ʻan al-muḥāfaẓah bi-khilāf dhawq al-shiʻr wa-al-alḥān wa-mā yaqrub minhā (qawluhu ramz) wajhuhu al-ʻunwān bihi ẓāhir wa-lammā kāna min ḥaqq al-ramz kawnuhu bayn al-kashf wa-al-katm lam yurakhkhiṣ al-ḥāl al-taʻarruḍ lahu bi-mazīd al-kashf wa-al-tafṣīl wa-hādhā qalb hādhihi al-lumʻah wa-aṣluhā alladhī sāʼir ajzāʼihā bi-manzilat furūʻihā wa-shuʻabihā wa-al-sawābiq wa-al-lawāḥiq kāfiyah fī taḥqīqihi li-man lahu qalb aw alqá al-samʻ wa-huwa shahīd (qawluhu tanbīh) wasama bihi li-annahu madhkūr bi-al-qūwah hābiṭah wa-ẓaharat fī al-nafs ʻaddadathā al-nafs bi-mā lahā min al-istiʻdād al-dhātī li-qubūl aḥkām al-tanazzulāt fa-ṣārat ʻadadan wa-hādhā maʻná qawl qudamāʼ al-asāṭīn min al-ḥukamāʼ al-ʻadad ʻaql mutaḥarrik fa-iʻrifhu fa-qad inkashafa laka al-amr bi-qadr mā yumkin kashfuhu

Takmilah

fī taḥqīq al-nafs al-insānī thumma anna al-nafs lammā tamma bi-shuʻūrihā amr al-ẓuhūr aqāmat amr al-ishʻār bi-nafasihā al-hawāʼī al-mutaqaṭṭiʻ bi-al-taqṭīʻāt al-ḥarfīyah fa-kamā anna al-nafas al-raḥmānī ẓahara fīhā wa-bihā bi-ṣuwar al-ḥaqāʼiq al-mutaʻaddidah ẓahara nafasuhā al-insānī ayḍan bi-sababihā bi-ṣuwar al-kalimāt al-mukhtalifah fa-ka-annahā ṣadá li-aṣl al-ḥaqāʼiq aw ʻaks li-ṣuwarihā inʻakasat minhā al-shiddah ṣaqālatihā ilá

(qawluhu ʻaddadatʹhā al-nafs bi-mā lahā min al-istiʻdād ilkh) ishārah ilá mā-bayn lafẓay al-ʻadad wa-al-istiʻdād min al-ishtirāk al-ishtiqāqī al-munbī ʻalá al-ishtirāk fī-mā bayn maʻnayhimā wa-man tatabbaʻa al-lughah al-ʻarabīyah al-muʻribah ʻan kunh al-kull wajada fīhā laṭāʼif mufṣiḥah ʻan uṣūl al-ḥaqāʼiq kamā taʻarraḍa li-tafṣīl nubadh minhā baʻḍ al-mutaʼakhkhirīn min ahl al-dhawq al-kāmil jazāhu Allāh ʻan ṭalabat al-Ḥaqq ḥaqq al-jazāʼ

(qawluhu takmilah) fī taḥqīq al-nafs al-insānī wa-fī wajh al-taṭbīq baynahu wa-bayn al-nafas al-raḥmānī wa-wajh al-ʻunwān ẓāhir li-anna al-gharaḍ al-aṣlī min hādhihi al-risālah taḥqīq al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād wa-qad ḥaṣala dhālika mimmā sabaqa min al-fuṣūl lākin al-ishārah ilá baʻḍ al-laṭāʼif al-mutaʻalliqah bi-al-kalām tukmil hādhā al-maqṣūd fa-innahu akhaṣṣ khawāṣṣ al-nafs allatī hiya marjiʻ al-kull

(qawluhu fa-ka-annahā ṣadá li-aṣl al-ḥaqāʼiq ilkh) yaʻnī kāna al-kalimāt ṣadá mā yunāsibuhā min al-hawāʼ li-mā baynahu wa-bayn al-rūḥ al-ḥayawānī alladhī huwa mustawāhā awwalan min al-mujānasah thumma dhālika al-ṣadá mā-rajaʻa illā ilá al-nafs wa-tilka al-ʻukūs mā-ẓaharat illā ʻalayhā fa-rajaʻa al-amr kulluhu ilá al-nafs fa-idhā rajaʻat ilá Allāh fa-qad tamma al-amr «alā ilá Allāh taṣīr al-umūru»

Khatm wa-waṣīyah

qad awdaʻa fī tilka al-fuṣūl uṣūl in atqantahā sahulat ʻalayka al-ghawāmiḍ al-abīyah wa-ittaḍaḥat ladayka al-ḥaqāʼiq al-khabīyah fa-ṣunhā ʻan ghayr ahlihā wa-lā taḍinn bihā ʻalá ahlihā fa-inna tark al-awwal ḍalāl wa-iḍlāl wa-fiʻl al-thānī ẓulm wa-wabāl wa-ʻalayka bi-taʻarruf al-istiʼhāl bi-kathrat al-ikhtibār wa-īyāka wa-al-ightirār bi-ẓawāhir al-āthār fa-hādhihi al-ṭabaqah aʻazz min al-kibrīt al-aḥmar bal lā takād tūjad illā fī al-aqall al-andar wa-iʻlam anna mā yalḥaquka min al-tuʼadah fī sawqihā ilá ahlihā ahwan mimmā yalzamuka fī ifshāʼihā ʻinda ghayrihim fa-inna al-awwal taʼkhīr wa-al-thānī tafwīt wa-al-muʼakhkhar yatadārak dūn al-fāʼit wa-anta taʻlam anna al-zamān qad fashā fīhi

li-tilka al-ḥaqāʼiq fa-kāna al-ḥaqāʼiq bi-iʻtibār ṣuwarihā al-ʻaynīyah aṣwāt ghaybīyah wa-tilka al-kalimāt ṣadāhā aw tilka al-ḥaqāʼiq ṣuwar aṣlīyah wa-al-alfāẓ ʻaksuhā al-lāʼiḥ ʻalá mirʼāt al-hawāʼ li-shiddat ṣaqālat al-nafs wa-istidʻāʼ al-ṣaqālah ẓuhūr mā-fī al-ṣaqīl min al-ṣuwar ilá mā yunāsibuhā wa-yuḥādhīhā wa-al-munāsabah bayn al-nafs wa-al-hawāʼ al-mujānasah al-rūḥ al-ḥayawānī alladhī huwa mutaʻallaq al-nafs ibtidāʼan fa-inna al-rūḥ al-ḥayawānī jawhar hawāʼī wa-hādhihi al-munāsabah iqtaḍat inʻikās dhālika al-ṣadá ilayhi wa-Allāh aʻlam

(qawluhu fa-inna tark al-awwal ḍalāl) min ḥaythu iḍāʻat tilka al-nafāʼis wa-waḍʻihā ʻinda man lā yaʻrif ḥaqqahā wa-lā yatamakkan min al-ḥasad wa-al-ʻinād wa-shāʻa al-jahl wa-al-iṣrār fī al-bilād fa-kun ʻalá baṣīrah fī amrika dhā ʻazīmah fī sirrika wa-jahrika wa-tayaqqan anna bathth al-ḥaqāʼiq ilá ghayr ahlihā madhmūm fī al-ṭarāʼiq kullihā wa-qad tawāradat bi-dhālika al-indhārāt al-nabawīyah wa-taʻāḍadat fīhi al-ishārāt al-walawīyah wa-lā tuḍayyiq ṣadraka mimman yunkir qadraka wa-kun kamā qāla Aflāṭūn lā yaḍurranna jahl ghayrika bika ʻilmuka bi-nafsika wa-kun mutaʻarriḍan li-nafaḥāt Allāh fī ayyām dahrika fa-inna li-al-awqāt khawāṣṣ yaʻrifuhā al-ʻārifūn wa-idhā awradaka rāʼid al-naẓar hādhā al-martaʻ al-muqaddas wa-al-mawqif al-muʼnis fa-qul li-ahlika min al-quwá al-darrākah «umkuthū innī ānastu nāran laʻallī ātīkum minhā bi-qabasin aw ajidu ʻalá al-nāri hudan» «wa-akhlaʻ naʻlayka innaka bi-al-wādi al-muqaddasi Ṭuwan» wa-lā taghtarr bi-ḥiyāl khayāl ahl al-jidāl fa-innahu siḥr muftará «wa-alqi mā fī yamīnika talqaf mā ṣanaʻū inna mā ṣanaʻū kaydu sāḥirin wa-lā yufliḥu al-sāḥiru ḥaythu atá» wa-lā tansanī fī awqātika wa-ashriknī fī ṣawāliḥ daʻawātika wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá al-qudsīyīn khuṣūṣan sayyidinā sayyid al-kull fī al-kull wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn wa-al-ḥamd li-Allāh rabb al-ʻālamīn

al-qiyām bi-wājib ḥifẓihā wa-al-ʻamal bi-muqtaḍayātihā ḥālan wa-qawlan wa-fiʻlan wa-iḍlāl min ḥaythu anna al-mulqá ilayhi idhā lam yafham ḥaqāʼiqahā tashawwasha ʻalayhi mā taqarrara lahu min al-mujmalāt al-khafīyah al-munṭabiqah ʻalá al-tafāṣīl al-mukallaf bihā al-ʻāmmah allatī akhadhahā ʻan al-sunnah jumlat al-sharīʻah al-ḥaqqah fa-ẓalla hāʼiman fī mahāwī al-ḥayrah wa-ḍalla ḍalālan baʻīdan wa-li-hādhā tará akthar mutashaddiqī zamāninā bi-al-maʻārif qad ḍallū bi-muṣāḥabat aʼimmatihim wa-mujālasat ajillatihim ka-annahum lam yastafīdū minhum illā al-khabāʼith al-iʻtiqād wa-radhāʼil al-akhlāq wa-farṭ al-iʻjāb bihim wa-bi-mā samaḥa bihi ṣurūf al-dahr min intiẓām umūr maʻāshihim wa-lā yakādūn yafqahūn qawlan wa-lā yastaṭīʻūn ḥawlan tará aʻālīhim alladhīna ḥafiẓū min kutub al-Ṣūfīyah kalimāt mā lahum ʻilm bi-mawāridihā wa-mashāriʻihā wa-yanqulūnahā lā ʻalá wajhihā bal yuḥarrifūn al-kalim ʻalá mawāḍiʻihā wa-jamaʻū mā lā yashummūn rāʼiḥatahu min kutubihim jamʻan wa-hum yaḥsabūn annahum yuḥsinūn ṣunʻan ūlāʼika ka-al-anʻām bal hum aḍall aʻādhanā Allāh wa-sāʼir al-muslimīn min al-ḍalāl wa-al-zalal wa-waffaqanā Allāh li-mā yaʻnīnā min al-ʻaqd wa-al-qawl wa-al-ʻamal wa-lahu al-ḥamd ḥamdan yuwāfī ʻatīd niʻamihi wa-yukāfiʼ mazīd karamihi wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi wa-tābiʻīhi wa-aḥbābihi wa-al-ḥamd li-Allāh rabb al-ʻālamīn