Ascertaining the realities of things and the subtleties of the sciences and opinions

Bism Allāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm

Al-ḥamd li-Allāh alladhī ʻalima fī al-azal bi-ʻayn ʻilmihi bi-dhātihi jamīʻ mā ẓahara wa-yaẓhar ilá al-abad min maknūnātihi ʻalá mā hiya ʻalayhi min ṣifātihi ʻilman kullīyan bi-kullīyātihi wa-juzʼīyan bi-juzʼīyātihi wa-kayfa lā wa-innahu maʻa al-kull ḥāḍir li-annahu al-Awwal wa-al-Ākhir wa-al-Ẓāhir wa-al-Bāṭin wa-kull mā lā yakhfá ʻalayhi shayʼ mimmā fī al-ḍamāʼir thumma lā yataqayyad ʻilmuhu bi-zamān aw makān fa-yaḥjubahu ḥājib aw yasturahu sātir yakūn ʻilmuhu bi-mā fī al-māḍī wa-al-ghābir ka-ʻilmihi al-ḥālī al-ānī jazman bi-lā taraddud aḥadīyan fī dhātihi bi-lā taʻaddud fa-lā yughayyiruhu al-dahr wa-al-dāhir wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nuskhah al-kāmilah al-kāfilah bi-jamīʻ al-maẓāhir sayyidinā Muḥammad dhukhr al-awāʼil wa-fakhr al-awākhir ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-ʻalá ālihi wārithī ḥālihi wa-maqāmihi al-fākhir wa-baʻd fa-iʻlam ayyuhā al-mutashawwif ilá al-taṭalluʻ ʻalá ḥaqīqat al-tawḥīd alladhī yuṭābiquhu ṣarīḥ al-kitāb al-majīd wa-yuwāfiquhu ṣaḥīḥ al-khabar bi-al-jawāb al-mufīd kamā qāla Allāh taʻālá (wa-naḥnu aqrabu ilayhi min ḥabl al-warīd) anna taḥqīqahu ʻalá wajh al-taʼkīd masbūq bi-muqaddimāt tusammá sābiqat al-tamhīd (al-ūlá) anna ḥaqīqat kull shayʼ kayfīyat taʻayyunihi fī ʻilm al-Ḥaqq subḥānahu wa-taʻālá wa-wujūd kull shayʼ taʻayyun al-wujūd al-Ḥaqq min ḥaythu ḥaqīqat dhālika al-shayʼ allatī kānat shaʼnahu fa-al-ḥaqāʼiq taʻaqqulāt al-ashyāʼ ka-anna al-ashyāʼ taʻayyunāt tilka al-ḥaqāʼiq aw taʻayyun al-Ḥaqq min ḥaythu tilka al-ḥaqāʼiq (al-thāniyah) anna taʻayyun al-shayʼ ṣifatuhu fa-wujūd kull shayʼ lammā kāna taʻayyun al-wujūd kāna ṣifatahu fa-al-ashyāʼ min ḥaythu taʻayyunāt al-ḥaqāʼiq allatī hiya shuʼūn al-Ḥaqq ṣifātuhā wa-min annahā taʻayyun al-Ḥaqq min ḥaythu tilka al-ḥaqāʼiq ṣifātuhu fa-sawāʼ kānat al-ashyāʼ taʻayyunāt shuʼunihi aw taʻayyunāt wujūdihi kānat asmāʼahu al-dāllah ʻalayhi wa-ṣifātihi wa-kull min al-ism wa-al-ṣifah fī ṭawr al-taḥqīq ʻayn al-musammá wa-al-mawṣūf min ḥaythu al-wujūd wa-al-shuhūd wa-ghayruhumā min ḥaythu al-mafhūm wa-al-maʻqūl wa-al-ḥudūd

(al-thālithah) anna ittiḥād al-wujūd wa-al-huwīyah maʻa ikhtilāf al-mafhūm wa-al-māhīyah huwa alladhī yadūr ʻalayhi ṣiḥḥat al-amr bihi wa-huwa huwa bi-al-muwāṭaʼah al-khārijīyah wa-dhālika mimmā ittafaqa ʻalayhi ahl al-maʻqūl wa-al-manqūl bi-al-kullīyah

(al-rābiʻah) anna al-wujūd al-Ḥaqq lammā ittaḥada huwīyatan kamā qulnā wa-ikhtalafa al-mawjūdāt ʻulima anna al-taʻaddudāt innamā hiya bi-ḥasab al-taʻayyunāt allatī hiya ṣifatuhu wa-ismuhu fa-al-ṣuwar min ḥaythu hiya mutaʻaddidah mutafāwitah hiya ṣuwar al-asmāʼ wa-al-nisab al-muʻabbar ʻanhā bi-al-taʻayyunāt al-iʻtibārīyah lā ṣuwar al-musammá illā bi-iʻtibār anna al-asmāʼ fī al-wujūd ʻayn al-musammá fa-al-mutaʻaddidāt min ḥaythu al-nisab hiya al-mafhūmāt wa-ṣuwar tilka al-nisab wāḥidah min ḥaythu al-dhāt wa-al-ḥaqīqah hādhihi hiya al-waḥdah al-ḥaqīqīyah allatī tathbut li-kull māhīyah bi-al-nisbah ilá afrādihā ammā al-wāḥidah waḥdah ʻadadīyah aw al-mutakaththirah fa-nisbat al-waḥdah al-ḥaqīqīyah ilá al-waḥdah al-ʻadadīyah wa-kathratihā sawāʼ min ḥaythu anna kullan minhumā ṣifātuhā wa-ʻawāriḍuhā al-lāḥiqah bi-ḥasab nisbatihā al-aḥadīyah ilá al-qawābil al-mutaʻaddidah bi-ḥasabihā ka-al-ibṣār al-mutaʻalliq bi-ʻashr mubṣarāt

(al-khāmisah) kamā anna afrād kull māhīyah ṣuwar nisabihā ilá qawābilihā wa-hiya hiya fī al-kull ka-dhālika ṣuwar al-taʻayyunāt al-musammāh bi-al-mawjūdāt bi-al-nisbah ilá al-māhīyah al-muṭlaqah al-shāghilah lahā al-musammāh bi-al-wujūd al-Ḥaqq fa-kull mawjūd huwa al-wujūd fī al-ḥaqīqah ṣūrat ṣifatihi aʻnī taʻayyunuhu al-lāḥiq bi-ḥasab martabatihi fī al-maẓāhir

(al-sādisah) anna al-taʻayyunāt al-madhkūrah li-al-wujūd in kānat fī martabah lā tufīd nisbat al-wujūd ilayhā bi-an lā tufīd al-taʻaddud al-wujūdī bal al-taʻaddud al-ʻaqlī fa-qad yusammá dhālika al-taʻayyun bi-shayʼīyat al-thubūt wa-tilka al-martabah ḥaḍrat al-maʻānī wa-al-asmāʼ wa-al-ḥaqāʼiq wa-hiya al-musammāh bi-ʻālam al-jabarūt ʻinda al-Imām al-Ghazālī raḥimahu Allāh wa-in kānat fī martabah tufīd al-taʻaddud al-wujūdī al-iḍāfī al-musammá shayʼīyat al-wujūd fa-in lam tablugh ilá ḥadd tudrikuhā al-qūwah al-jismānīyah min al-khayāl wa-al-ḥiss bal innamā yudrikuhā al-ʻaql bi-āthārihā ka-al-quwá al-sabʻah al-jismānīyah al-mūdaʻah fī al-badan tusammá tilka al-martabah ḥaḍrat al-arwāḥ al-nūrīyah wa-al-malakīyah min al-ʻuqūl wa-al-nufūs wa-hiya ḥaḍrat al-malakūt al-aʻlá wa-al-asfal wa-ʻinda al-Shaykh al-Kabīr ʻālam al-jabarūt ʻālam al-nufūs wa-illā fa-in balaghat ilá ḥadd yudrikuhā al-khayāl al-muṭlaq fa-hiya ḥaḍrat al-mithāl al-muṭlaq al-barzakh al-jāmiʻ bayn al-ṭarafayn wa-in balaghat ilá ḥadd yudrikuhā al-khayāl al-muqayyad bi-al-ḥayawān fa-hiya ḥaḍrat al-mithāl al-muqayyad wa-in balaghat ilá ḥadd min shaʼnihi an yudrikahā al-ḥiss fa-hiya ḥaḍrat al-ḥiss wa-al-shahādah wa-al-mulk fa-hādhihi al-marātib al-kullīyah al-khams fī al-ḥaḍarāt al-khams wa-min kawnihā martabat al-taʻayyunāt al-kullīyah allatī lā taʻayyun fawqahā tusammá al-asmāʼ al-dhātīyah wa-al-mafātīḥ al-uwal kamā dhakarahu al-Shaykh raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu fī sharḥ al-ḥadīth

(al-sābiʻah) anna ḥaḍrat al-maʻānī wa-al-asmāʼ hiya allatī yaẓhar fīhā mabdaʼīyat al-Ḥaqq wa-fayyāḍīyatuhu li-anna mā qablahā ḥaḍrat al-dhāt allatī hiya istihlāk al-taʻayyunāt fīhā martabat al-ghiná ʻan al-ʻālamīn wa-martabat kāna Allāh wa-lam yakun maʻahu shayʼ wa-martabat kuntu kanzan makhfīyan ka-dhā fī al-Nuṣūṣ wa-al-Fukūk fī tilka al-ḥaḍrah allatī hiya ḥaḍrat al-maʻānī wa-al-asmāʼ yatawajjah al-nafas al-raḥmānī ilá al-ḥaqāʼiq bi-iʻṭāʼ al-wujūd ilayhā bi-ḥasab qābilīyat kull minhā al-maʻlūmah thumma al-murādah ḥasab al-ʻilm thumma al-maqdūrah ḥasab taʻayyun al-irādah fa-al-tawajjuh al-ḥāṣil bayn al-irādah li-al-ʻilm bi-al-mutābaʻah li-al-ḥayāh wa-bayn al-qudrah wa-min muqāraʻatihimā huwa al-qawl al-ilāhī al-musammá bi-al-khalq wa-al-takwīn wa-laysa dhālika illā bi-al-jamʻ al-musammá bi-al-nikāḥ al-awwal bayn tilka al-ḥaqāʼiq allatī ʻayyanahā al-ʻilm wa-mayyazahā al-irādah fa-aẓharahā al-qudrah kull dhālika bi-ṭalabihā al-wujūd bi-lisān al-istiʻdād ammā tartīb ẓuhūrātihā fa-bi-ḥasab tartīb tamām al-istiʻdād wa-ammā ḥukmuhā fa-bi-ḥasab awwalīyat al-ṭalab li-al-ẓuhūr min ayy ḥaqīqah min tilka al-ḥaqāʼiq ḥaṣalat

(al-thāminah) anna al-ḥaqāʼiq al-ʻilmīyah in kānat muʻtabarah lā bi-aḥwālihā tusammá ḥurūfan ghaybīyah wa-maʻa al-aḥwāl kalimāt ghaybīyah wa-al-wujūdīyah bi-lā aḥwālihā ḥurūfan wujūdīyah wa-maʻahā kalimāt wujūdīyah fa-al-dāll minhā ʻalá jumlah mufīdah āyah wa-al-baʻḍ al-jāmiʻ li-tilka al-jumal sūrah wa-majmūʻ al-maʻqūlāt wa-al-mawjūdāt bi-iʻtibār al-tafṣīl furqānan wa-bi-iʻtibār al-jamʻ qurʼānan wa-li-kawn jamīʻihā fī al-insān al-kāmil yusammá nafsuhu ayḍan qurʼānan wa-ʻibāratuhā al-wāridah ʻalayhā min al-Ḥaqq ayḍan qurʼānan fa-li-yufham

(al-tāsiʻah) anna ḥaḍrat al-asmāʼ hiya aʻlá al-ḥaḍarāt wa-aqdamuhā wa-aʻlá hādhihi al-ḥaḍrah hiya ummahāt al-asmāʼ al-ilāhīyah allatī hiya al-ḥayāh wa-al-ʻilm wa-al-irādah wa-al-qudrah wa-al-qawl wa-al-jūd wa-al-iqsāṭ idh mā taḥtahā ka-al-sadanah li-hādhihi al-sabʻah fa-hādhihi ka-al-ẓilālāt wa-al-sadanah li-al-asmāʼ al-dhātīyah allatī hiya al-mafātīḥ al-uwal wa-hiya al-ḥaqāʼiq al-kullīyah allatī laysa fawqahā illā al-ḥaqīqah al-muṭlaqah wa-al-huwīyah al-kubrá wa-hiya aḥadīyat jamʻ tilka al-ḥaqāʼiq fa-kamā anna mā taḥtahā mustahlak fī aḥadīyat iṭlāqihā ka-dhālika hiya mustahlakah fī aḥadīyat jamʻ al-ḥaqīqah al-kubrá

(al-ʻāshirah) anna aqdam hādhihi al-marātib al-ilāhīyah allatī yumkin al-ishārah ilayhā ʻaqlan wa-yudhkar ismuhā hiya al-musammá bi-al-taʻayyun al-awwal li-al-ḥaqīqah al-muṭlaqah wa-dhālika iʻtibār annahā huwa wa-huwa wa-huwa al-musammá bi-al-dhāt wa-al-ulūhīyah khāṣṣah hiya martabat jamʻ al-asmāʼ al-musammāh bi-al-taʻayyun al-thānī fa-innahu ism al-dhāt wa-tilka al-martabah maʻan ka-anna al-Raḥmān ism dhāt al-wujūd alladhī huwa al-raḥmah al-ʻāmmah idhā ʻarafta hādhihi al-muqaddimāt sahula ʻalayka qawluhu raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu

Kunnā ḥurūfan ʻāliyātin lam nuqal ٭ mutaʻalliqātin fī dhurá aʻlá al-qulal Anā anta fīhi wa-naḥnu anta wa-anta hū ٭ wa-al-kull fī hū fa-sal ʻamman waṣal wa-dhālika anna ḥāṣil al-bayt al-awwal ishārah ilá anna al-ḥaqāʼiq al-musammāh bi-al-aʻyān al-thābitah azalīyah ghayr majʻūlah li-anna al-ḥaqāʼiq kamā marra kayfīyāt taʻayyun al-ashyāʼ fī ʻilm al-Ḥaqq subḥānahu wa-ʻilmuhu azalī fa-ka-dhā kayfīyātuhu idh law lam takun azalīyah kāna al-Ḥaqq fī al-azal khāliyan ʻan al-ʻulūm thumma ḥadathat lahu wa-taʻālá Allāh ʻan dhālika thumma annahā ghayr majʻūlah wa-ghayr makhlūqah li-annahā ṣifāt al-Ḥaqq wa-shuʼunuhu fa-lā tattaṣif bi-al-jaʻl li-kawnihā min marātib al-ulūhīyah wa-illā kāna dhāt al-Ḥaqq subḥānahu maḥall al-ḥawādith wa-huwa muḥāl wa-shayʼīyatuhā shayʼīyat al-thubūt wa-al-muttaṣif bi-al-jaʻl laysa huwa illā min marātib al-kawn wa-shayʼīyatuhu shayʼīyat al-wujūd wa-al-farq bayn al-shayʼīyatayn anna shayʼīyat al-thubūt huwa al-madhkūr fī qawlihi taʻālá innamā amrunā li-shayʼin idhā aradnāhu an naqūla lahu kun fa-yakūn wa-huwa al-thābit fī ʻilm Allāh taʻālá lā mā huwa al-thābit ʻinda al-Muʻtazilah wa-shayʼīyat al-wujūd huwa al-madhkūr fī qawlihi taʻālá hal atá ʻalá al-insān ḥīnun min al-dahr lam yakun shayʼan madhkūran wa-huwa al-madhkūr al-muḥaqqaq

(fa-al-qāʻidah) anna al-jaʻl wa-al-khalq ʻibārah ʻan iḍāfat al-wujūd ilá al-thābit al-ṭālib min ghayrihi al-qābil lahu fa-al-māhīyāt qabl iḍāfat al-wujūd ilayhā thābitah ghayr majʻūlah wa-ashāra ilá dhālika bi-qawlihi kunnā ḥurūfan ay ḥaqāʼiq ghaybīyah thābitah fī al-ḥaḍrah al-ʻilmīyah min jumlat al-aʻyān al-thābitah lam nuqal ay lam nukhlaq wa-lam yataʻallaq binā al-qawl al-ījādī wa-al-takwīn al-ilāhī wa-kunnā mutaʻalliqāt bi-aḥwālinā wa-bi-imkāninā wa-ṣuwarinā wa-āthārinā fa-inna li-kull mawjūd māhīyah wa-ḥālan wa-martabah wa-ḥukman lahā wa-qad taqarrara fī ʻilm al-kalām anna al-shuʼun al-ilāhīyah wa-al-ṣifāt al-rabbānīyah maʻa taʻalluqihā bi-al-kāʼin wa-al-ḥādith azalīyah bi-jamīʻ khuṣūṣīyātihā al-muʻayyanah thumma qāla fa-kāna dhālika fī dhurá aʻlá al-qulal fa-yajūz an yurīd bi-al-qulal al-samawāt wa-aʻlāhā al-ʻarsh wa-dhurwat al-ʻarsh al-raḥmānīyah al-mustaqirrah fīhi kamā dhakarahu al-Ḥaqq fī kitābihi al-karīm bi-qawlihi al-Raḥmān ʻalá al-ʻarsh istawá fa-inna al-ḥaḍrah al-ʻilmīyah allatī yaḥwīhā yuqābiluhā al-nafas al-raḥmānī al-sārī fī jamīʻ al-ḥaqāʼiq bi-ḥasab qābilīyatihā wa-yajūz an yurīd bi-al-qulal al-taʻayyunāt al-jismānīyah wa-bi-aʻlāhā al-taʻayyunāt al-raḥmānīyah wa-bi-dhurá dhālika al-taʻayyunāt al-asmāʼīyah wa-yajūz an yurīd bi-al-qulal al-taʻayyunāt al-asmāʼīyah al-ʻilmīyah wa-bi-aʻlāhā al-ummahāt al-sabʻah wa-bi-dhurāhā al-asmāʼ al-dhātīyah al-musammāh bi-al-mafātīḥ al-uwal fa-inna al-ummahāt al-sabʻah sadanat tilka al-asmāʼ wa-hādhā al-tawjīh al-thālith ansab li-al-bayt alladhī baʻdahu al-mushīr ilá al-waḥdah al-ḥaqīqīyah allatī fī al-taʻayyun al-awwal alladhī arkānuhu al-mundamijah hiya al-asmāʼ al-dhātīyah idh al-qāʻidah anna kull ḥaqīqah laysat min ḥaythu hiya shayʼ min afrādihā aw awṣāfihā al-mutaqābilah wa-aḥwālihā al-mutabāyinah bal al-kull mustahlak al-taʻayyunāt wa-al-tamayyuzāt fīhā fa-al-ḥaqīqah al-insānīyah wa-hiya kayfīyat taʻayyun al-insān fī ʻilm Allāh taʻālá aʻnī al-taʻayyun al-jāmiʻ li-taʻayyunāt al-kawn yuʻadd fīhā jamīʻ afrād al-insān min al-mutakallim wa-al-mukhāṭab wa-al-ghāʼib wa-al-wāḥid wa-al-mutaʻaddid idh law kānat al-insānīyah min ḥaythu hiya shayʼ min al-afrād kāna huwa muqtaḍá dhātihi fa-lā yajtamiʻ maʻa ghayrihi fa-fī muṭlaq al-ḥaqīqah al-insānīyah yakūn anā anta wa-naḥnu anta wa-anta huwa wa-huwa wa-hum huwa wa-anta anā ilá ghayr dhālika min al-taʻaddudāt al-muḥtamalah fa-al-taʻaddudāt ṣuwar nisab tilka al-ḥaqīqah bi-ḥasab al-qawābil al-mukhtalifah wa-kull mā lā yataʻaddad illā bi-al-ʻawāriḍ yakūn mutaʻaddidan bi-al-ḥaqīqah fa-ifham hādhā mā tayassara taḥrīruhu wa-istabāna taqrīruhu min ʻajālat al-waqt fa-inna al-maqām maqām al-īmāʼ fa-lā yaḥtamil tamām al-istīfāʼ wa-al-ḥamd li-Allāh al-fayyāḍ li-funūn al-ālāʼ lā siyyamā bi-taḥqīq ḥaqāʼiq al-ashyāʼ wa-daqāʼiq al-ʻulūm wa-al-ārāʼ ʻalá lisān adillāʼ al-hudá ilá sabīl al-najāh min al-radá wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá khayr al-khalāʼiq al-dalīl ilá aqrab al-ṭarāʼiq Muḥammad wa-ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi ajmaʻīn

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