Conclusion: miscellaneous useful notes on the stray points of this question

Khātimah

« fī fawāʼid mutafarriqāt min shawārid hādhihi al-masʼalah »

( ʼ ) li-al-bāḥithīn fī tamaththul al-arwāḥ ārāʼ ʻadīdah wa-anẓār mutanawwiʻah nadhkur minhā ṭarafan qāla fī al-khulāṣah : iʻtiqād qudamāʼ al-Yahūd bi-māhīyah al-arwāḥ al-mughayyabah annahā ammā hawāʼ khāliṣ aw lahīb nār ( thumma qāla ) fa-ʻalá hādhā fa-li-al-malāʼikah ajsām hawāʼīyah laṭīfah lā-tará mā-lam tumaththal ka-al-hawāʼ alladhī natanaffasuhu fa-annahu jism lākinnahu ghayr mubṣar lanā ( thumma qāla ) wa-aqrab shāhid li-al-tamaththul huwa al-hawāʼ fa-annahu wa-an lam yaqbal fī ḥāl takhalkhulihi shaklan wa-lā-lawnan illā annahu matá takāthaf amkan tashakkuluhu wa-talawwunihi kamā yattaḍiḥ fī al-saḥāb wa-ʻalá hādhā al-namaṭ yajūz an tatakāthaf ajsām al-malāʼikah bi-al-qudrah al-Rabbānīyah ʻalá qadr mā-yalzam li-takwīn al-jism al-murād ittikhādhahu wa-baqdarūn baʻd al-tajassud an yafʻalū afāʻīl ḥayawīyah ah

Wa-qaddamnā ʻan al-Qāḍī Abī Yaʻlá annahu qāla : lā-qudrah li-al-shayāṭīn ʻalá taghyīr khalqihim wa-al-intiqāl fī al-ṣuwar wa-innamā yajūz an yuʻallimahum Allāh ḍarban min ḍurūb al-afʻāl idhā faʻalahu naqalahu Allāh min ṣūrah ilá ṣūrah al-kh : wa-naqala al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar fī Fatḥ al-Bārī ʻan Imām al-Ḥaramayn an tamaththul Jibrīl maʻnāhu an Allāh afná al-zāʼid min khalqihi aw azālahu ʻanhu thumma yuʻīduhu ilayhi baʻd . Wa-jazama Ibn ʻAbd al-Salām bi-al-izālah dūn al-fanāʼ wa-qarrara dhālik bi-annahu lā-yalzam an yakūn intiqālahā mūjaban li-mawtihi bal yajūz an yabqá al-jasad ḥayyan li-an mawt al-jasad bi-mufāraqah al-rūḥ laysa bi-wājib ʻaqlan bal bi-ʻādah ajrāhā Allāh taʻālá fī baʻḍ khalqihi wa-naẓīruhu intiqāl arwāḥ al-shuhadāʼ ilá ajwāf ṭayr khuḍr tasraḥ fī al-jannah , wa-qāla shaykhunā shaykh al-Islām — Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī — mā-dhakarahu Imām al-Ḥaramayn lā-yanḥaṣir al-ḥāl fīhi bal yajūz an yakūn al-ātī huwa Jibrīl bi-shaklihi al-aṣlī illā annahu inḍamma fa-ṣāra ʻalá qadr hayʼat al-rajul wa-idh taraka dhālik ʻāda ilá hayʼatʹhu wa-mithāl dhālik al-quṭn idhā jumiʻa baʻd an kāna muntafishan fa-annahu bi-al-nafsh yaḥṣul lahu ṣūrah kabīrah wa-dhātuhu lam tataghayyar wa-hādhā ʻalá sabīl al-taqrīb wa-al-ḥaqq an tamaththul al-malak rajulan laysa maʻnāhu an dhātuhu inqalabat rajulan bal maʻnāhu annahu ẓahara bi-tilka al-ṣūrah taʼnīsan li-man yukhāṭibuhu wa-al-ẓāhir ayḍan an al-qadr al-zāʼid lā-yazūl wa-lā-yafná bal yakhfá ʻalá al-rāʼī faqaṭ wa-Allāh aʻlam ah kalām : al-Ḥāfiẓ kulluhu mabnī ʻalá ḥaml al-iṭlāq fī mawāridihi ʻalá al-ḥaqīqah fa-li-yataʼammal wa-qāla al-Ustādh al-Imām al-Shaykh Muḥammad ʻAbduh raḥimahu Allāh fī risālat al-Tawḥīd : ammā wujūd baʻḍ al-arwāḥ al-ʻāliyah — wa-hum al-malāʼikah al-mukarramūn — wa-ẓuhūrihā li-ahl tilka al-martabah al-sāmiyah ( al-anbiyāʼ ʻalayhim al-salām ) fa-mā lā-istiḥālah fīhi baʻd mā-ʻarafnā min anfusinā wa-arshadanā ilayhi al-ʻilm qadīmuhu wa-ḥadīthuhu min ishtimāl al-wujūd ʻalá mā-huwa alṭaf min al-māddah wa-an ghuyyiba ʻannā fa-ay māniʻ min an yakūn baʻḍ hādhā al-wujūd al-laṭīf mushriqan li-shayʼ min al-ʻilm al-ilāhī wa-an bakūn li-nufūs al-anbiyāʼ ishrāf ʻalayhi fa-idhā jāʼa bihi al-khabar al-ṣādiq ḥamalanā ʻalá al-idhʻān bi-ṣiḥḥatihi , ammā tamaththul al-ṣawt wa-ashbāḥ li-tilka al-arwāḥ fī ḥiss man ikhtaṣṣahu Allāh bi-tilka al-manzilah fa-qad ʻuhida ʻinda aʻdāʼ al-anbiyāʼ mā-lā-yabʻud ʻanhu fī baʻḍ al-muṣābīn bi-amrāḍ khāṣṣah ʻalá zaʻmihim fa-qad sallamū an baʻḍ maʻqūlātʹhum yatamaththal fī khayālihim wa-yaṣil ilá darajat al-maḥsūs fa-yaṣduq al-marīḍ fī qawlihi an yará wa-yasmaʻ bal yujālid wa-yuṣāriʻ wa-lā-shayʼu min dhālik fī al-ḥaqīqah bi-wāqiʻ fa-an jāza al-tamthīl fī al-ṣuwar al-maʻqūlah wa-lā-manshaʼ lahā illā fī al-nafs wa-an dhālik yakūn ʻinda ʻurūḍ ʻāriḍ ʻalá al-mukhkh fa-lima lā-yajūz tamaththul al-ḥaqāʼiq al-maʻqūlah fī al-nafs al-ʻāliyah wa-an yakūn dhālik lahā ʻinda mā-tanziʻ ʻan ʻālam al-ḥiss , wa-tattaṣil bi-ḥaẓāʼir al-Quds , wa-takūn tilka al-ḥāl min lawāḥiq ṣiḥḥat al-ʻaql fī ahl tilka al-darajah li-ikhtiṣāṣ mizājihim bi-mā-lā-yūjad fī mizāj ghayrihim ? Wa-ghāyat mā-yalzam ʻanhu an yakūn li-ʻalāqat arwāḥihim bi-abdānihim shaʼn ghayr maʻrūf fī tilka al-ʻalāqah min siwāhum wa-huwa mā-yasʹhal qabūlihi bal yataḥattam li-an shaʼnuhum fī al-nās ayḍan ghayr al-shuʼūn al-maʼlūfah wa-hādhihi al-mughāyarah min ahamm mā imtāzū bihi wa-qāma minhā al-dalīl ʻalá risālatʹhum , wa-al-dalīl ʻalá salāmat shuhūdihim wa-ṣiḥḥat mā-yuḥaddithūn ʻanhu an amrāḍ al-qulūb tushfá bi-dawāʼihim wa-an ḍuʻf al-ʻazāʼim wa-al-ʻuqūl yatabaddal bi-al-qūwah fī umamihim allatī taʼkhudh bi-maqālihim , wa-min al-munkar fī al-badīhah an yaṣdur al-ṣaḥīḥ min muʻtall , wa yastaqīm al-niẓām bi-mukhtall ah wa-qaddamnā ʻan al-Ghazālī kalimah fī tamthīl al-malak fa-tadhakkaruhu

( b ) shāʻa waṣf al-jinn « bi-al-arwāḥ » fī al-maʼthūr wa-fī kalām al-ḥukamāʼ qāla Ibn al-Athīr fī ḥadīth : innī uʻālij min hādhihi al-arwāḥ : al-arwāḥ hāhunā kināyah ʻan al-jinn summū arwāḥan li-kawnihim lā-yarawn fa-hum bi-manzilat al-arwāḥ : illā annahu ghalaba lafẓ « rūḥ » mufradan fī al-tanzīl al-Karīm ʻalá al-malak qāla fī al-khulāṣah : an kalimat « rūḥ » allatī buwṣaf bihā al-malāʼikah tataḍamman maʻná yadull ʻalá māhīyatʹhum wa-huwa annahum mujarradūn ʻan kathāfat al-ajsām fa-laysū mithlanā ( qāla ) li-an aṣl maʻná al-rūḥ fī al-ʻIbrānī wa-al-Yūnānī kamā fī al-ʻArabī rīḥ ay harāʼ mutaḥarrik wa-ka-an lughat al-bashar taqṣur ʻan al-taʻbīr bi-tamām al-kunh wa-al-ḥaqīqah fa-iktafá bi-lafẓ yūḍiḥ al-ḥaqīqah wa-an lam yajlihā tamām al-jalāʼ ah wa-qāla Ibn al-Athīr fī ḥadīth ( al-malāʼikah al-rūḥānīyūn ) yurwá bi-ḍamm al-rāʼ wa-fatḥihā ka-an nisbah ilá al-rūḥ aw-al-rawḥ wa-huwa nasīm al-rīḥ wa-al-alif wa-al-nūn min ziyādāt al-nasab wa-yurīd bihi annahum ajsām laṭīfah lā-yudrikuhā al-baṣar ah wa-fī kullīyāt Abī al-Baqāʼ : al-rūḥ bi-al-ḍamm huwa al-rīḥ al-mutaraddid fī makhāriq al-insān wa-manāfidhihi wa-ism li-al-nafs al-kh wa-fī al-Tāj ʻan al-Farrāʼ qāla : samiʻtu Abā al-Haytham yaqūl : al-rūḥ innamā huwa al-nafs alladhī yatanaffasuhu al-insān wa-huwa jār fī jamīʻ al-jasad fa-idhā kharaja lam yatanaffas baʻd khurūjihi : wa-fī naqd al-Muḥaṣṣal li-al-Ṭūsī : al-falāsifah yufarriqūn bayn al-nufūs wa-al-arwāḥ fa-an al-nufūs ʻindahum jawāhir basīṭah mujarradah mutaʻalliqah bi-al-abdān , wa-al-arwāḥ ajsām murakkabah min al-abkhirah wa-al-adkhinah al-murtafiʻah min al-dam al-muḥtabis fī al-ʻurūq : wa-rawá Ibn Jarīr ʻan Qatādah fī tafsīr āyat « wa-yasʼalūnaka ʻan al-rūḥ » qāla al-rūḥ huwa Jibrīl qāla Qatādah : wa-kāna Ibn ʻAbbās yaktumuhu thumma asnada ilá Ibn ʻAbbās an al-rūḥ malak wa-ka-dhā ʻan ʻAlī raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu annahu qāla : huwa malak min al-malāʼikah :

( j ) jāʼa fī muʻjam Lārūs : an Suqrāṭ kāna yazʻam an lahu shayṭānan khāṣṣan yūḥī ilayhi maqāṣidihi wa-jamīʻ mabādiʼ falsafatihi wa-ḥikmatihi . Fa-iddaʻá baʻḍuhum an dhālik kāna rūḥan aw-ʻāmilan fawq qūwah al-bashar wa-aṭlaqa ākharūn hādhā al-ism ʻalá maʻná adabī laṭīf wa-ḥāssah ṭabīʻīyah rāʼiqah sarīʻah al-idrāk anmatʹhā tajārib ṭawīlah wa-hum ʻalá mā-yarawn an shayṭān Suqrāṭ lam bakun ghayr ilhāmāt bāṭinah taʻriḍ li-qalbihi wa-ʻaqlihi muwaqqatah ʻinda taṣawwur aʻlá maṭālib al-falsafah fa-maʻnī istishārat Suqrāṭ li-shayṭānihi al-khāṣṣ huwa annahu yastashīr ilhāmahu al-dākhilī wa-ʻaqlihi wa-ḥikmahu allatī lā-yarāhā nafḥah wa-niʻmah bal hiya munbaʻithah ʻan al-ulūhīyah wa-hiya juzʼ minhā . Wa-raʼá ākharūn an hādhā al-zaʻm kāna min Suqrāṭ ḥīlah yurīd an yatawaṣṣal bihā ilá taḥqīq iṣlāḥ siyāsī kabīr . Wa-al-ẓāhir an Suqrāṭ iqtanaʻa bi-ṣiḥḥat mā-waqaʻa fī nafsihi fa-lam yukhāmiruhu wa-lā-talāmidhatihi adná shakk fī mudʻāhu wa-kāna dhālik min ākad al-asbāb fī al-ḥukm ʻalayhi bi-al-mawt .

— Wa-jāʼa fīhi ayḍan fī māddat jannī : an al-jinn fī al-asāṭīr al-Rūmānīyah ishārah ilá al-Shayṭān ʻinda al-Yūnān wa-hiya ʻibārah ʻan al-rūḥ aw-al-mabdaʼ al-ḥayawī fa-kānū yadhhabūn ilá an kull ʻamal yaʻmaluhu al-insān yumlīhi ʻalayhi shayṭānuhu al-khāṣṣ . Fa-al-ẓāhir annahu kāna min taʼthīrāt al-zandaqah al-ṭabīʻīyah an tawahhum ʻāmmat al-Lātīn bi-an li-marʼ shayṭānayn wa-dhālik li-yaḥillū kamā yashāʼūn masʼalat al-khayr wa-al-sharr fa-shayṭān al-khayr buwḥī al-afkār al-ṣāliḥah al-nāfiʻah wa-shayṭān al-sharr yulhim al-aʻmāl al-sharīrah wa-al-ḥawādith al-mukaddarah wa-hākadhā raʼá al-qāʼidān Brūtūs wa-Kāsiyūs ʻinda mā kutibat al-hazīmah ʻalá aʻlāmihimā shayṭānayhimā al-sharīrayn

Wa-kāna al-qawm fī Rūmiyah yaʻbudūn al-shayāṭīn al-khāṣṣah wa-al-shayāṭīn al-maḥallīyah fa-idhā wulida lahum walad yaqūmūn bi-iḥtifāl ikrāman li-shayṭānihi wa-kathīran mā tuqaddam fākihah wa-thimār li-shayāṭīn al-makān wa-ʻalá ʻahd al-Imbarāẓūrīyah kāna shayṭān al-Imbarāṭūr yuʻbad ʻibādah khāṣṣah ikrāman wa-iḥtirāman ah

( d ) jāʼa fī dāʼirat al-Maʻārif al-Brīṭānīyah mā-taʻrībihi :

An kalimat al-Shayṭān hiya ism wuḍiʻa fī al-Injīl wa-al-madhhab al-Naṣrānī ʻalá sharīr kabīr yuẓann annahu yarʼas mamlakat min al-arwāḥ al-khabīthah wa-huwa al-malik fīhā wa-annahu ʻaduww li-Allāh dāʼiman wa-al-lafẓah al-ʻIbrīyah wa-hiya al-Shayṭān al-dāllah ʻalá maʻná al-muʻākasah ayḍan tustaʻmal li-hādhā al-sharīr al-kabīr aw-malik mamlakat al-sharr wa-mimmā lā-shakk fīhi an rūḥan khabīthah ka-hādhihi kathīran mā istuʻmilat fī al-ʻahd al-Jadīd wa-qad summiya bi-asmāʼ mutaʻaddidah ghayr mā-dhukira mithl kalimat al-mumtaḥan , Baʻl Zabūb , malik al-shayāṭīn , al-quwá , al-sharīr al-khāṭiʼ , al-ʻaduww al-aladd , wa-hādhihi al-asmāʼ istuʻmilat mutarādifah fī al-Injīl wa-ḥaythumā istuʻmilat tadull ʻalá nafs al-qūwah al-mutaḥarrikah al-sharīrah al-khārijah ʻan al-insān wa-al-muʼaththirah fīhi aw-allatī lahā sāṭah ʻalayhi wa-min al-masāʼil mā-huwa mablagh iʻtiqād al-Masīḥ nafsihi fī wujūd mithl hādhihi al-qūwah al-khabīthah , illā annahu mimmā lā-shakk fīhi an qūwah ka-hādhihi kāna muʻtarafan bihā fī muʻtaqadāt al-Yahūd fī ayyāmihi wa-min al-muḥaqqaq ayḍan an hādhā al-iʻtiqād bayn al-Yahūd lam yanmu dafʻah wāḥidah bal nashaʼa ʻalá mahl wa-lā-yataʼaththaruhu al-muṭāliʻ fī al-ʻahd al-qadīm bi-wuḍūḥ kamā najiduhu wāḍiḥan fī al-ʻahd al-Jadīd wa-fī al-ḥaqīqah an kalimat al-Shayṭān lā-tūjad fī al-Tawrāh illā fī khams mawāḍiʻ wa-fī āthār al-anbiyāʼ al-ʻIbrīyīn al-ūlá lā-yūjad iʻtirāf bi-rūḥ sharīrah tuqāwim irādat Allāh wa-al-ṣūrah allatī ṣuwwirat bihā hādhihi al-rūḥ al-sharīrah fī āthār mutaʼakhkhirīhim takhtalif kathīran ʻan al-ṣūrah allatī ṣawwarahā mutaʼakhkhirū ʻulamāʼ al-Lāhūt . Idhan mā-huwa aṣl al-iʻtiqād bi-al-Shayṭān min ḥaythu annahu rūḥ khabīthah maṭrūdah « fa-al-jawāb » alladhī badhkuruhu al-munaqqiḥūn min al-muʻāṣirīn an hādhā al-iʻtiqād nashaʼa min ikhtilāṭ — al-Yahūd bi-al-Furs lammā kānū manfīyīn fī bilād Fāris fa-al-iʻtiqād al-Fārisī yaqsim al-dunyā bayn ilāhayn mawjūdayn mukhtalifayn al-wāḥid khayr wa-al-ākhar sharr illā an kilayhimā lahu ḥiṣṣah fī al-khalq wa-al-insān . Fa-Ahramazdah kāna muqaddasā-ṣādiqan tajib lahu al-ʻibādah wa-al-iḥtirām wa-ammā Ahraman rūḥ al-ẓalām dhū-al-ʻaql al-sharīr fa-lam yakun aqall qudrah wa-kāna yaddaʻī al-ḥaqq bi-musāwāt Ahramazdah min ḥaythu iṭāʻat al-insān lahu « wa-fī al-qurūn al-wusṭá » kāna al-iʻtiqād bi-al-Shayṭān ʻaẓīman fa-al-qiddīsūn kānū yaḥsubūn anfusahum wa-ghayrihim bi-khiṣām dāʼim maʻahu wa-min al-ṣaʻb ʻalaynā al-ān an nataṣawwur miqdār al-taʼthīr li-hādhā al-iʻtiqād fī maʻīshat al-nās ḥīnaʼidh fa-annahu kāna al-fikr al-thābit fī raʼs kull insān khuṣūṣan min al-qarn al-thālith ʻashar ilá al-qarn al-khāmis ʻashar wa-hiya muddah yumkinunā an naʻudd hādhihi al-khurāfah balaghat fīhā muntahāhā wa-min al-muḥaqqaq an hādhihi al-ʻaqīdah lam tanquṣ illā qalīlan fī al-qarn al-khāmis ʻashar bal ḥattá fī al-qarn al-sādis ʻashar aw-al-sābiʻ ʻashar , wa-Lūthīrūs kāna yashʻur dāʼiman bi-tamāss al-rūḥ al-sharīrah wa-muʻākasatʹhā fa-fī maktabatihi wa-fī firāshihi wa-ḥujratihi kāna al-Shayṭān yatadākhal fī ashghālihi aw rāḥatihi wa-lammā kāna yubāshir darsahu samiʻa ṣawtan ʻarafahu ḥālan annahu ṣādir min ʻaduwwuhu « al-Shayṭān » « qāla » fa-lammā wajadtu annahu yurīd an yaʻūd marrah thāniyah ilá ʻamalihi jamaʻtu kutubī wa-dhahabtu ilá firāshī wa-samiʻtuhu marrah thāniyah fī al-layl māshiyan fī al-riwāq lākinnanī lammā kuntu aʻlam an al-Shayṭān lam ahtamm bihi bal ghariqtu fī nawmī wa-ka-dhālik yaqūl Lūthīrūs wa-lammā afaqtu fī hādhā al-ṣabāḥ bākiran jāʼanī al-sharīr wa-ibtadaʼa yujādilunī fa-qāla lī anta mudhnib ʻaẓīm fa-ajabtuhu a-lā yumkinuka an taʼtīnī bi-nabaʼ jadīd yā-Shayṭān . Wa-lammā taqaddama al-maʻqūl fī al-qarn al-thāmin ʻashar tanāqaṣa hādhā al-iʻtiqād bi-intishār al-taʼthīrāt al-Shayṭānīyah wa-al-shuʻūr bi-mā fawq al-ṭabīʻah taḍāʼal min jamīʻ jihātihi wa-lā siyamā al-iʻtiqād al-qadīm bi-sulṭat al-Shayṭān al-muṭlaqah ʻalá maṣīr al-insān wa-maʻa an al-shuʻūr al-dīnī izdāda kathīran mundhu dhālik al-ḥīn fa-lā yumkin an yuqāl bi-an al-iʻtiqād al-qadīm bi-al-Shayṭān wa-aʻmālihi tajaddada wa-min al-mumkin an yakūn iʻtiqād al-Naṣrānīyah al-yawm an hunālik qūwah sharīrah fī al-ʻālam tumākis irādat Allāh wa-lākin hal hādhihi al-qūwah hiya shakhṣ wa-mā-huwa fiʻluhā fī irādat al-insān wa-ayḍan hal hunālik mamlakat arḍīyah li-al-shayāṭīn yarʼasuhā malik wa-mā-hiya ʻalāqat hādhihi al-mamlakah al-Shayṭānīyah bi-maṣīr al-insān? Kull dhālik masāʼil lam tuqarrar baʻd aw mashkūk bihā fī ay madhhab min madhāhib al-Kanīsah . Wa-waẓīfatunā an nulāḥiẓ hādhā al-taghayyur fī iʻtiqād al-Naṣārá min ghayr an nubayyin manāfiʻihi aw-ghayr dhālik wa-min al-muḥaqqaq an al-iʻtiqād bi-al-Shayṭān lā-yashghal makānan ʻaẓīman fī taṣawwurāt al-Naṣārá al-yawm kamā kāna min dhī qabl wa-annahu laysa li-sāṭatihi al-ān al-athar alladhī kāna lahu fī al-insān wa-ikhtibārihi ah kalām dāʼirat al-Maʻārif al-Brīṭānīyah wa-lam nūriduhu maʻa kalām al-muʻjam qablahā illā li-yatimma li-al-wāqif ʻalá hādhihi al-masʼalah al-iṭṭilāʻ ʻalá ārāʼ baqīyat al-mufakkirīn min al-milal al-ukhrá fīhā

( h ) tazʻam al-Furs an al-jinn yaskunūn fī bilād tusammá Jinnistān wa-yusammīhā shuʻarāʼuhum arḍ al-ʻafārīt , wa-al-jinnīyāt wa-yaqūlūn annahā wāqiʻah fī al-ṭaraf al-gharbī min Ifrīqīyah wa-minhum man yaqūl an maqarrahum fī jazīrat al-ḥayyāt fī baḥr al-Hind wa-yuṣawwirūnahum bi-hayʼah mukhīfah bi-qurūn ṭawīlah wa-adhnāb wa-ʻuyūn mashqūqah ṭūlan wa-shaʻr wāqif ka-dhā fī dāʼirat al-Maʻārif

( w ) qāla Walī al-Dīn : yaddaʻī baʻḍ shuyūkh al-ḍalālah wa-rusul al-buhtān an lahum taʻāzīm yastaḥḍirūn bihā al-jinn wa-yajʻalūnahum taḥt taṣarrufihim wa-lā-yazāl li-hādhihi al-aḍālīl athar yudhkar yatanāqaluhu al-nās wa-yaʻtaqidūn bi-ṣiḥḥatihi ah

( z ) qāla al-Rāzī fī muqaddimat tafsīrihi fī baḥth al-istiʻādhah : hāʼulāʼ alladhīn yumārisūn ṣanʻat al-taʻzīm idhā tābū min al-akādhīb baʻtarifūn bi-annahum qaṭṭ mā-shāhadū atharan min hādhā al-jinn « qāla al-Rāzī » wa-dhālik mimmā yaghlib ʻalá al-ẓann ʻadam hādhihi al-ashyāʼ « qāla » wa-samiʻtu wāḥidan mimman tāba ʻan tilka al-ṣanʻah qāla : innī wāẓabtu ʻalá al-ʻazīmah al-Fulānīyah ka-dhā min al-ayyām wa-mā-taraktu daqīqah min al-daqāʼiq illā ataytu bihā thumma innī mā-shāhadtu min tilka al-aḥwāl al-madhkūrah atharan wa-lā khabaran ah

( ḥ ) dhakara baʻḍ al-muḥaqqiqīn an Iblīs ʻalam jins li-al-Shayṭān muʻarrab Dhiyāqūlīs bi-al-Yūnānīyah wa-maʻnāhu mawqiʻ al-khilāf aw-muṭghī aw-mubʻid al-insān ʻan sabīlihi , wa-yataḍamman ismuhu maʻná ākhar fī kutub al-waḥī wa-huwa raʼīs al-arwāḥ al-sharīrah « qāla » wa-kāna shuʻarāʼ al-Furs alladhīn yanẓimūn fī al-khurāfāt yaṣifūnahu bi-lawn aswad wa-ʻaynayn taqdhifān nāran wa-rāʼiḥah kibrītiyah wa-qurūn wa-dhanab wa-aẓāfir muʻawwajah wa-ḥāfirayn mashqūqayn ah

( ẓ ) lafẓ shayṭān ʻIbrānī bi-maʻná mukhāṣim aw-muḍādd thumma uṭliqa ʻalá rūḥ sharīrah ghayr marʼīyah tadʻū ilá al-maʻāṣī wa-al-āthām « ka-dhā fī al-Murshid » qāla al-Rāghib ʻan Abī ʻUbaydah : al-Shayṭān ism li-kull ʻārim min al-jinn wa-al-ins wa-al-ḥayawānāt « qāla » wa-qad yusammá kull khalq dhamīm li-al-insān shayṭānan ah wa-naqalahu al-Sayyid al-Zabīdī ʻanhu fī Tāj al-ʻArūs sharḥ al-Qāmūs

( á ) qāla baʻḍ al-afāḍil : min al-iʻtiqādāt al-shāʼiʻah an al-jinn taskun baʻḍ al-amākin wa-lā siyamā al-kharibāt wa-al-qubūr wa-al-ʻuyūn wa-al-ābār wa-al-buyūt al-mahjūrah ḥattá al-ʻāmirah ayḍan fa-yaḥtāj ahluhā ilá al-khurūj minhā wa-kānū fī al-Jāhilīyah idhā arādū suknỳ dār dhabaḥū li-al-jinn dhabīḥah ḥattá lā-taḍurruhum wa-hādhā al-iʻtiqād al-mutaqādim al-ʻahd lam yazal bāqiyan ilá al-ān fī amākin kathīrah wa-rubbamā rawá baʻḍ al-ʻāmmah marāʼī wa-asāṭīr min hādhā al-qabīl , wa-mā-dhālik illā awhām wa-taṣawwurāt tantij min al-mukhayyalah al-munṭabiʻah fīhā min jary akthar al-akhbār , āthār lā-tamḥá illā bi-kurūr al-ayyām , wa-intishār alwiyat al-ʻilm fī kull al-aqṭār bi-ḥaythu tatamazzaq ḥujub al-awhām , wa-taʼkhudh al-ḥaqāʼiq makānahā fī afkār al-anām , sahhala Allāh sulūk sabīl al-ʻilm wa-al-ʻirfān annahu al-Karīm al-ʻAllām

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