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Madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn

Li-yuʻlam an min al-masāʼil al-jadīrah bi-al-ʻināyah wa-badhl al-juhd li-al-wuqūf ʻalá mā-qīla fīhā wa-kutiba ʻanhā ( masʼalat al-jinn ) fa-qad tanawwaʻat fī shaʼnihā al-mashārib wa-taʻaddadat fī mabāḥithihā al-madhāhib wa-kāna li-al-Aʻrāb maʻahā fī al-Jāhilīyah mazāyā wa-lahā fī kull ʻaṣr naghamāt jadīdah wa-ʻajāʼib wa-lā-ghirwa fa-hiya min aqdam al-masāʼil wa-arsakhuhā fī al-adhhān idh dāra ismuhā ʻalá kull lisān wa-warada dhikruhu fī jimāʻ al-niḥal wa-al-adyān

An masʼalah ka-masʼalat al-jinn laysat mimmā tudrak bi-lafẓah aw bushār ilayhā bi-laḥẓah ḥattá lā-yarfaʻ lahā al-ḥashwī raʼsan wa-lā yuqīm lahā al-jāmid waznan fa-law-ḍummat shawāridihā wa-quyyidat awābidihā wa-intaẓamat farāʼidihā athara ʻalá al-jamm min al-laṭāʼif al-fāʼiqah wa-al-nawādir al-rāʼiqah mā yamluk al-samʻ wa-al-baṣar iʻjāban wa-yartafiʻ ʻan al-qalb al-iṣghāʼ ḥijābuhu

Kull masʼalah lā-yatanāwaluhā al-fahm fī bidāyat al-naẓar wa-lā-yaṣil ilayhā illā bi-istiʻānah min darasa amrahā wa-sabara fa-lā budda min baḥth ʻanhā wa-tanqīb wa-istiqrāʼ wa-tanqīr lā-siyamā an tilka dhāt shuʻūb wa-aṭrāf wa-furūʻ wa-awṣāl lā-jarama yanbaghī istiqrāʼuhā wa-taʻarrufuhā wa-istijlāʼuhā iktishāfan li-mā khabaʼatʹhu kunūz al-ḥaqīqah wa-wuqūfan ʻalá kull jalīlah min durarihā wa-daqīqah

Akthar min allafa fī al-ʻilm al-ilāhī aw-mā-warāʼ al-māddah takallama fī ( al-jinn ) fa-mūjaz wa-musʹhab wa-muqārib wa-mughrib wa-al-wāqif ʻalá mā-katabahu falāsifat al-Islām yarāhu qarīban mimmā naḥāhu ʻulamāʼ ahl al-Kitāb fī shaʼnihā Allāhumma illā fī khayālāt shaṭṭa bihā al-baḥth fa-baʻudat ʻan al-qaṣd shaʼn kull shayʼ jāwaza ḥaddahu

Min istaqraʼa mā kutiba wa-badhala juhdahu fī al-tanqīb yamurru bihi min ʻulūm al-awāʼil mā-yughnī ʻan zahr al-Riyāḍ ḥusnuhu wa-ʻan fatīq al-misk nashruhu fa-man taʼammalahu izdāda ḥirṣan ʻalá taʼammulihi wa-taṣaffuḥihi mustaʻīdan mā-yastaḥlīhi min fawāʼidihi

Al-Ṭarīqah al-muthlá wa-al-khiṭṭah al-wusṭá hiya akhdh al-muhimm wa-īthār al-ajwad min kull shayʼ wa-hādhā mā-nūkhīnāhu fī hādhihi al-masʼalah mimmā ṭālaʻnāhu wa-illā fa-siʻat ʻilm al-salaf mimmā yudʹhish al-khalaf fa-laysa lanā illā al-mukhtār min ārāʼihim wa-al-muntaqá min anbāʼihim wa-li-Allāh Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ idh yaqūl « fa-muntahá ʻilminā ʻilm fī hādhā al-zamān — zamānihi raḥimahu Allāh — an yaʼkhudh min ʻilmihim wa-ghāyat iḥsān muḥsininā an yaqtadī bi-sīratihim wa-aḥsan mā yaṣīr min al-ḥadīth muḥdathan an yanẓur fī k⟨...⟩

An istiqṣāʼ-mā-al-qudamāʼ fī ( masʼalat al-jinn ) wa-istiqrāʼahu kullihi yaʻūz ilá ʻiddat mujalladāt wa-siʻat waqāt wa-al-ḥājīyāt kathīrah wa-al-maṭālib wafīrah li-dhā ātharnā jamʻ shadharāt takshif ʻan wajhahā ⟨...⟩qābihā wa-tajlī baʻḍ ʻawīṣātihā li-ṭullābihā

Yanḥaṣir mā-naʼthuruhu fī hādhihi al-masʼalah fī muqaddimah wa-maqṣadayn wa-khātimah

Ammā ( al-muqaddimah ) fa-naḥkī fīhā mā al-falāsifat al-lughah fī sharḥ al-murād min al-jinn wa-ishtiqāqihi wa-ʻumūmihi wa-khuṣūṣihi wa-ḥaqīqah wa-majāzihi

Wa-ammā ( al-maqṣad al-awwal ) fa-fī madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-mazāʻimihim fī al-jinn wa-qad ḥawá aḥad wa-ʻishrīn mabḥathan ( a ) man iddaʻá min al-Aʻrāb wa-al-shuʻarāʼ annahum yasmaʻūn ʻazīf al-jān wa-yarawn al-ghīlān wa-mā yushabbihūnahu bi-al-jinn wa-al-shayāṭīn wa-bi-aʻḍāʼihim wa-aʻmālihim ( b ) iḍāfatʹhum mabānī Tadmur wa-amthālihā ilá al-jinn ( j ) tafriqatʹhum bayn mawāḍiʻ al-jinn ( d ) tanzīlihim al-jinn fī marātib ( h ) zaʻmuhum an al-ghūl min unthá al-jinn wa-ka-dhālik al-siʻlāh ( w ) zaʻmuhum annahum yaẓharūn lahum wa-yukallimūnahum wa-yunākiḥūnahum ( z ) mazāʻimuhum fī al-hātif wa-al-nāqil wa-al-raʼī ( ḥ ) mā-rawá min hutūfihim bi-al-baʻthah al-Muḥammadīyah ( ṭ ) mazāʻimuhum fī awṣāfihim wa-man qatalūhu ( á ) man istahwawhu wa-minhum Khurāfah ( yā ) tawṣīfuhum rajul al-ghūl wa-ʻayn al-Shayṭān ( yab ) mazāʻimuhum fī arḍ Wabār wa-bilād al-Ḥarsh ( yaj ) mazāʻimuhum fī al-ṣaraʻ ( yad ) mazāʻimuhum fī al-ṭāʻūn ( yah ) mā-yazʻamūnahu fī tamaththulihim wa-taṣawwurihim ( yaw ) raʼyuhum fī quranāʼ al-shuʻarāʼ al-nuḥūl ( yaz ) khayālihim fī jinn al-Shām wa-al-Hind ( yaḥ ) tawahhumuhum malāmiḥ al-jinn fī al-ins ( yaṭ ) ⟨...⟩