The spirit and the knowledge of it

al-ḥishmah aladhdh min al-maṭʻūm wa-al-mankūḥ fa-idhā ittafaq li-insān karīm al-nafs al-taʻāruḍ bayn al-ladhdhah al-ḥissīyah maʻa al-dhillah wa-al-danāʼah wa-al-alam al-ḥissī maʻa al-ʻizzah fa-innah yurajjiḥ al-alam ʻalá al-ladhdhah fa-inna kabīr al-nafs yastaṣghir al-jūʻ wa-al-ʻaṭash ʻinda al-muḥāfaẓah ʻalá māʼ al-wajh wa-yastaḥqir al-mawt ʻinda tawaqquʻ ladhdhah fa-ẓahar anna al-ladhdhāt al-bāṭinah mutaghallibah ʻalá al-ladhdhāt al-ḥissīyah wa-lays dhālik fī al-ʻāqil faqaṭ bal wa-fī al-ʻujm min al-ḥayawānāt fa-inna fī kilāb al-ṣayd mā-yaqtaniṣ ʻalá al-jūʻ thumma yumsikuh ʻalá ṣāḥibih wa-rubbamā ḥamalah ʻalayh wa-al-rāḍiʻah min al-ḥayawānāt rubbamā iṣṭādat shayʼan wa-dafaʻatʹhu ilá al-walad wa-ṣabarat ʻalá al-jūʻ wa-qad tulqī nafsahā fī al-mahlakah ʻinda ḥimāyatihā li-waladihā fa-idhā kānat al-ladhdhāt al-bāṭinīyah aʻẓam min al-ẓāhirah wa-in lam takun ʻaqlīyah fa-mā qawluk fī al-ʻaqlīyah, al-thānī annahā law lam tūjad al-saʻādah illā fī al-akl wa-al-shurb wa-al-nikāḥ la-kāna al-ḥimār asʻad ḥālan min al-malāʼikah al-muqarrabīn wa-dhālik lā-yaqūluh illā al-ḥimār ah

wa-laʻalla fī takrārinā lil-lafẓ al-rūḥ wa-taṭallubinā li-taṣfiyatihā wa-taqdīmihā ʻalá juthmānihā mā-yabʻathuk ʻalá maʻrifatihā wa-al-wuqūf ʻalá ḥaqīqatihā fa-la-naqul ʻalayk min anbāʼ al-rūḥ mā-yathlaj ṣadrak bi-bard al-kashf ʻanhā wa-al-īḍāḥ wa-in kāna al-wuqūf ʻalá ḥaqīqatihā amran ghayr maqdūr lil-bashar wa-lam yablugh darajat al-mustaḥīl ka-mā iddaʻá baʻḍahum wa-qālū inna al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayh wa-sallam kharaj min al-dunyā wa-lam yaʻrif amr al-rūḥ wa-istadallū bi-qawlih taʻālá ( wa-yasʼalūnak ʻan al-rūḥ qul al-rūḥ min amr rabbī ) wa-naḥnu naqūl inna al-āyah lā-tadull ʻalá istiḥālat maʻrifatihā wa-lā ṭalab ʻadam al-khawḍ fīhā li-anna al-āyah al-karīmah nazalat jawāban li-suʼāl al-Yahūd lammā saʼalū al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayh wa-sallam wa-qālū fīmā baynahum in lam yujib ʻan al-rūḥ fa-huwa nabī fa-lam yujib al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayh wa-sallam ʻanhā li-anna Allāh taʻālá lam yaʼdhan lah fa-tarkuh al-jawāb innamā huwa li-taṣdīq mā-fī kutubihim fa-mā qālū lā li-annah lā-yumkin al-khawḍ fīhā li-istiḥālat maʻrifatihā wa-bi-anna al-suʼāl ʻanhā kāna suʼāl taʻjīz wa-taghlīṭ idh al-rūḥ mushtarak bayn rūḥ al-insān wa-Jibrīl wa-malak ākhar yusammá bihā wa-ṣinf min al-malāʼikah wa-al-Qurʼān wa-ʻĪsá ibn Maryam fa-law ajāba ʻan wāḥid minhā la-qālū lam nurid hādhā taʻannutan minhum fa-jāʼa al-jawāb mujmalan ka-mā saʼalū mujmalan (1)

fa-al-Nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayh wa-sallam wa-huwa al-qawl al-muʻawwal ʻalayh annah lam yakhruj min al-dunyā ḥattá aṭlaʻah Allāh ʻalá mā kāna wa-ʻalá mā yakūn mimmā yunāsib ʻuqūl al-bashar

wa-la-qad akhṭaʼa man qāla mufassiran li-kalām (2) Abī Bakr al-Rāzī fī qawlih « man ʻarafa nafsah ʻarafa rabbah » anta lā-taʻrif nafsak fa-lā taṭmaʻ fī maʻrifat kunh rabbak fa-qad ʻallaqa mustaḥīlan ʻalá mustaḥīl

aqūl bi-munāsabat istiḥālat maʻrifat al-rūḥ ( inna al-dhāt al-ilāhīyah al-latī hiya mabdaʼ al-ibdāʻ wa-al-ījād qad iḍṭarab fīhā kathīr min al-ʻulamāʼ wa-ikhtalafat ārāʼuhum fī idrākihā fa-min qāʼil bi-al-istiḥālah (1) wa-min qāʼil bi-al-jawāz wa-lākinnah lam yaqaʻ ʻalá anna ruʼyatah fī al-dār al-bāqiyah fīh nawʻ idrāk fa-lā-taʻtaqid anna Allāh jalla shaʼnah lam yamnaʻak min maʻrifatih wa-al-wuqūf ʻalá tamām ḥaqīqatih wa-al-iḥāṭah bi-kunh dhātih li-shayʼ fī ʻadam qābilīyatik idh al-muhayyiʼ wa-huwa al-rubūbīyah al-manūṭah bi-tarbiyat al-ashyāʼ lā-budda min taḥqīq atharihā mā-dāma al-shayʼ fī ḥayyiz al-imkān bal idhā tawajjahat ṣāra al-amr musāwiyan rabban wa-marbūban fa-ifham sirr al-taḍyīq ʻalá dāʼirat al-ʻaql an yataʻaddá khārijahā fa-al-ḥikmah al-ḥajb idhan lā al-wuqūf ah

qāla al-Dahlawī fī kitābih Ḥujjat Allāh al-Bālighah ṣaḥīfah 18 qāla Allāh taʻālá ( wa-yasʼalūnak ʻan al-rūḥ ) al-āyah wa-qirāʼat al-Aʻmash ʻan riwāyat Ibn Masʻūd ( wa-mā-ūtū min al-ʻilm illā qalīlan ) (2) wa-yuʻlam min hunālik anna al-khiṭāb lil-Yahūd wa-al-sāʼilīn wa-laysat al-āyah naṣṣan fī annah lā-yaʻlam aḥad min al-ummah al-marḥūmah ḥaqīqat al-rūḥ ka-mā yuẓann wa-lays kull mā-sakata ʻanh al-sharʻ lā-yumkin maʻrifatih al-battah bal kathīran mā-yaskut ʻanh li-ajl anna maʻrifatah daqīqah lā-yaṣluḥ li-taʻāṭīhā jumhūr al-ummah wa-in amkan li-baʻḍahum

wa-iʻlam anna al-rūḥ awwal mā-yudrak min ḥaqīqatihā annahā mabdaʼ al-ḥayāh fī al-ḥayawān wa-annah yakūn ḥayyan bi-nafkh al-rūḥ fīh wa-yakūn mayyitan bi-mufāraqatihā minh thumma idhā amʻan fī al-taʼammul yatajallá lah anna fī al-badan bukhāran laṭīfan mutawallidan fī al-qalb min khulāṣat al-akhlāṭ yaḥmil al-quwá al-ḥassāsah wa-al-muḥarrikah wa-al-mudabbirah lil-ghidhāʼ yajrī fīh ḥukm al-ṭibb wa-takshif al-tajribah anna li-kull min aḥwāl hādhā al-bukhār min riqqatih wa-ghilāẓatih wa-ṣafāʼih wa-kudūratih atharan khāṣṣan fī al-quwá wa-al-afāʻīl al-munbajisah ay al-mutafarriʻah min tilk al-quwá wa-anna al-āfah al-ṭāriʼah ʻalá kull ʻuḍw wa-ʻalá tawlīd al-bukhār al-munāsib lah tufsid hādhā al-bukhār wa-tushawwish afāʻīlah wa-yastalzim takawwunah al-ḥayāh wa-takhallulah al-mawt fa-huwa al-rūḥ fī awwal al-naẓar wa-al-ṭabaqah al-suflá min al-rūḥ fī al-naẓar al-mumʻan wa-mithlah fī al-badan ka-mithl māʼ al-ward fī al-ward wa-ka-mithl al-nār fī al-faḥm thumma idhā amʻan fī al-naẓar ayḍan injalá lah anna hādhā al-rūḥ maṭīyah lil-rūḥ al-ḥaqīqīyah wa-māddah li-taʻalluqihā wa-dhālik annā nará al-ṭifl yashibb wa-yashīb wa-tatabaddal akhlāṭ badanah wa-al-rūḥ al-mutawallidah min tilk al-akhlāṭ akthar min alf marrah wa-yaṣghur tārah wa-yakbur ukhrá wa-yaswad marrah wa-yabyaḍ ukhrá wa-yakūn jāhilan marrah wa-ʻāliman ukhrá ilá ghayr dhālik min al-awṣāf al-mutabaddilah wa-al-shakhṣ huwa huwa wa-in nūqish fī baʻḍ dhālik qulnā an nafriḍ tilk al-taghayyurāt wa-al-ṭifl huwa huwa aw naqūl lā-najzim bi-baqāʼ tilk al-awṣāf bi-ḥālihā wa-najzim bi-baqāʼih fa-huwa ghayr hālik fa-al-shayʼ al-ladhī huwa bih lays hādhā al-rūḥ wa-lā-hādhā al-badan wa-lā-hādhih al-mushakhkhaṣāt al-latī tuʻraf wa-turá bi-bādiʼ al-raʼy bal al-rūḥ fī al-ḥaqīqah ḥaqīqah fardānīyah wa-nuqṭah nūrānīyah yajull ṭawrihā ʻan ṭawr hādhih al-aṭwār al-mutaghayyirah al-mutaghāyirah al-latī baʻḍahā jawāhir wa-baʻḍahā aʻrāḍ wa-hiya maʻa al-ṣaghīr ka-mā hiya maʻa al-kabīr wa-maʻa al-aswad ka-mā hiya maʻa al-abyaḍ ilá ghayr dhālik min al-mutaqābilāt wa-lahā taʻalluq khāṣṣ bi-al-rūḥ al-hawāʼī awwalan wa-bi-al-badan thāniyan min ḥayth anna al-badan maṭīyat al-nasamah wa-hiya kūwah min ʻālam al-quds yatanazzal minhā al-nasamah kull mā istaʻaddat lah fa-al-umūr al-mutaghayyirah innamā jāʼa taghayyurihā min qibal al-istiʻdādāt al-arḍīyah bi-manzilat ḥarr al-shams yubayyiḍ al-thawb wa-yusawwid al-qaṣṣār wa-qad taḥaqqaq ʻindanā bi-al-wijdān al-ṣaḥīḥ anna al-mawt infikāk al-nasamah ʻan al-badan li-faqd istiʻdād al-badan li-tawlīdihā infikāk al-rūḥ al-qudsī ʻan al-nasamah wa-idhā taḥallalat al-nasamah fī al-amrāḍ al-mudnifah wajab fī ḥikmat Allāh an yabqá al-shayʼ min al-nasamah bi-qadr mā-yaṣiḥḥ irtibāṭ al-rūḥ al-ilāhī bihā ka-mā annak idhā maṣaṣta al-hawāʼ min al-qārūrah wa-takhalkhal al-hawāʼ ḥattá yablugh ilá ḥadd lā-takhalkhal baʻdah fa-lā-tastaṭīʻ al-maṣṣ aw tanquṣ al-qārūrah wa-mā-dhālik illā li-sirr nāshiʼ min ṭabīʻat al-hawāʼ fa-ka-dhālik sirr fī al-nasamah wa-ḥadd lahā lā-yujāwizuhā al-amr fa-idhā māta al-insān kāna lil-nasamah nashʼah ukhrá fa-yanshaʼ fayḍ al-rūḥ al-ilāhī fīhā qūwah fīmā yabqá min al-ḥiss al-mushtarak takfī kifāyat al-samʻ wa-al-baṣar wa-al-kalām bi-ʻadad min ʻālam al-mithāl ʻan al-qūwah al-mutawassiṭah min al-mujarrad wa-al-maḥsūs al-munbaththah fī al-aflāk ka-shayʼ wāḥid wa-rubbamā tastaʻidd al-nasamah ḥīnaʼidh lil-libās nūrānī aw ẓulmānī ʻadad ʻālam al-mithāl wa-min hunālik tatawallad ʻajāʼib ʻālam al-barzakh thumma idhā nufikh fī al-ṣūr jāʼa fayḍ ʻāmm min bāriʼ al-ṣūr bi-manzilat al-fayḍ al-ladhī kāna minh fī mabdaʼ al-khalq ḥīn nufikhat al-arwāḥ fī al-ajsād wa-ussis ʻālam al-mawālīd awjaba fayḍ al-rūḥ al-ilāhī an yalbas libāsan jismānīyan aw libāsan bayn al-mithāl wa-al-jism fa-yataḥaqqaq jamīʻ mā-akhbara bih al-Ṣādiq al-Maṣdūq wa-lammā kānat al-nasamah barzakhan mutawassiṭan bayn al-rūḥ al-ilāhī wa-al-badan al-arḍī wajab an yakūn lahā wajh ilá hādhā wa-wajh ilá dhālik al-wajh al-māʼil ilá al-quds wa-al-malakīyah wa-al-wajh al-māʼil ilá al-arḍ huwa al-māʼil ilá al-bahīmīyah wa-lā yaqtaṣir min ḥaqīqat al-rūḥ ʻalá hādhih al-muqaddimāt li-tuslim fī hādhā al-ʻilm wa-tufarriʻ ʻalayhā al-tafārīʻ fa-taḥīl an yankashif al-ḥijāb fī ʻilm aʻlá min hādhā al-ʻilm wa-Allāh aʻlam

wa-an-nazīdak ʻilman ʻalá mā-taqaddam laʻalla fī al-lāḥiq mā-yusʻidak ʻalá al-sābiq nadhkur lak mā-ḥaqqaqah al-Ālūsī wa-ghayrah naqlan ʻan al-ʻulamāʼ al-ajillāʼ .

al-rūḥ (1) ʻinda al-aṭibbāʼ jism laṭīf bukhārī yatakawwan min laṭāfat al-akhlāṭ wa-bukhārīyatihā ka-takawwun al-akhlāṭ min kathāfatihā wa-huwa al-ḥāmil lil-quwá al-thalāth wa-bi-hādhā al-iʻtibār yanqasim ilá thalāthat aqsām rūḥ ḥayawānī wa-rūḥ nafsānī wa-rūḥ ṭabīʻī wa-qāla Ibn al-ʻArabī annahum ikhtalafū fī al-nafs wa-al-rūḥ fa-qīl humā shayʼ wāḥid wa-qīl humā mutaghāyirān wa-qad yuʻabbar ʻan al-nafs bi-al-rūḥ wa-bi-al-ʻaks wa-huwa al-ḥaqq wa-qīl inna al-nafs jism laṭīf ka-laṭāfat al-hawāʼ ẓulmānīyah ghayr zākiyah muntashirah fī ajzāʼ al-badan ka-al-zubd fī al-laban wa-al-duhn fī al-jawz wa-al-lawz yaʻnī sarayān al-nafs fī al-badan ka-sarayān al-zubd fī al-laban wa-qīl al-rūḥ nūr rūḥānī ālah lil-nafs ka-mā anna al-sirr lahā ayḍan fa-inna al-ḥayāh fī al-badan innamā tabqá bi-sharṭ wujūd al-rūḥ fī al-nafs wa-ajmaʻa al-jumhūr ʻalá anna al-rūḥ maʻná yuḥyá bih al-jasad wa-qīl inna al-nafs jism kathīf wa-al-rūḥ fīh jism laṭīf wa-al-ʻaql fīh jawhar nūrānī

wa-fī Kullīyāt Abī al-Baqāʼ al-rūḥ bi-al-ḍamm huwa al-rīḥ al-mutaraddid fī makhāriq al-badan wa-manāfidhih wa-ism lil-nafs wa-ism ayḍan lil-juzʼ al-ladhī yaḥṣul bih al-ḥayāh wa-istijlāb al-manāfiʻ wa-istidfāʻ al-maḍārr wa-al-rūḥ al-ḥayawānī jism laṭīf manbaʻah tajwīf al-qalb al-jismānī wa-tantashir bi-wāsiṭat al-ʻurūq ilá sāʼir ajzāʼ al-badan wa-al-rūḥ al-insānī lā yaʻlam kunhah illā Allāh taʻālá wa-madhhab ahl al-Sunnah wa-al-Jamāʻah anna al-rūḥ wa-al-ʻaql min al-aʻyān laysā bi-ʻaraḍayn ka-mā dhahabat al-Muʻtazilah wa-ghayrihim wa-annahumā yaqbalān al-ziyādah min al-ṣifāt al-ḥasanah wa-al-qabīḥah ka-mā taqbal al-ʻayn al-nāẓirah ghishāwah wa-ramadan wa-al-shams inkisāfan wa-li-hādhā waṣaf al-rūḥ bi-al-ammārah bi-al-sūʼ marrah wa-bi-al-muṭmaʼinnah ukhrá

wa-qad allafa Allāh al-rūḥ wa-al-nafs al-ḥayawānīyah fa-al-rūḥ bi-manzilat al-zawj wa-al-nafs al-ḥayawānī bi-manzilat al-zawjah wa-jaʻala baynahumā taʻāshuqan fa-mā-dāma fī al-badan kāna al-badan ḥayyan yaqẓān wa-idhā fāraqah bi-al-kullīyah bal taʻalluqah bāqi kāna al-badan nāʼiman wa-idhā fāraqah bi-al-kullīyah fa-al-badan mayyit

inna al-insān (1) huwa al-rūḥ al-ladhī fī al-qalb wa-qīl annah ajzāʼ nārīyah mukhtaliṭah bi-al-arwāḥ al-qalbīyah wa-al-dimāghīyah wa-hiya al-musammáh bi-al-ḥarārah al-gharīzīyah wa-qīl huwa al-dam al-ḥāl fī al-badan wa-qīl wa-qīl ilá naḥw alf qawl wa-al-muʻawwal ʻalayh ʻinda al-muḥaqqiqīn qawlān al-awwal inna al-insān ʻibārah ʻan jism nūrānī ʻulwī ḥayy mutaḥarrik mukhālif bi-al-māhīyah li-hādhā al-jism al-maḥsūs sār fīh sarayān al-māʼ fī al-ward wa-al-duhn fī al-zaytūn wa-al-nār fī al-faḥm lā yaqbal al-taḥallul wa-al-tabaddul wa-al-tafarruq wa-al-tamazzuq mufīd lil-jism al-maḥsūs al-ḥayāh wa-tawābiʻahā mā-dāma ṣāliḥan li-qabūl al-fayḍ li-ʻadam ḥudūth mā yamnaʻ fī al-sarayān ka-al-akhlāṭ al-ghalīẓah wa-matá ḥaṣala dhālik ḥaṣala al-mawt. li-inqiṭāʻ al-sarayān wa-al-rūḥ ʻibārah ʻan dhālik al-jism wa-istaḥsanah al-Imām fa-qāla huwa madhhab qawī wa-qawl sharīf yajib al-taʼammul fīh fa-innah shadīd al-muṭābaqah li-mā warada fī al-kutub al-ilāhīyah fī aḥwāl al-ḥayāh wa-al-mawt wa-qāla Ibn al-Qayyim fī kitāb al-Rūḥ annah al-ṣawāb wa-lā yaṣiḥḥ ghayrah wa-ʻalayh dalīl al-Kitāb wa-al-Sunnah wa-ijmāʻ al-ṣaḥābah wa-adillat al-ʻaql wa-al-fiṭrah wa-dhakar māʼat dalīl wa-khamsah fa-lī-yurājaʻ ilá an qāla fī namrah 581 ikhtalaf al-nās fī al-rūḥ wa-al-nafs hal humā shayʼ wāḥid am shayʼān fa-ḥaká Ibn Zayd ʻan akthar al-ʻulamāʼ annahumā shayʼ wāḥid fa-qad ṣaḥḥaḥa fī al-akhbār iṭlāq kull minhumā ʻalá al-ākhar akhraja al-Bazzār bi-sanad ṣaḥīḥ ʻan Abī Hurayrah anna al-muʼmin yanzil bih al-mawt wa-yuʻāyin mā-yuʻāyin yawadd law kharajat nafsah wa-Allāh taʻālá yuḥibb liqāʼah wa-anna al-muʼmin la-taṣʻad rūḥah ilá al-samāʼ fa-taʼtīh arwāḥ al-muʼminīn fa-yastakhbirūnah ʻan maʻārifah min ahl al-dunyā al-ḥadīth ẓāhir fī dhālik

wa-qāla Ibn Ḥabīb humā shayʼān fa-al-rūḥ huwa al-nafs al-mutaraddid fī al-insān wa-al-nafs amr ghayr dhālik bihā yadān wa-rijlān wa-raʼs wa-ʻaynān wa-hiya al-latī tataladhdhadh wa-tataʼallam wa-tafraḥ wa-taḥzan wa-annahā hiya al-latī tatawaffá fī al-manām wa-takhruj wa-tasraḥ wa-tará al-ruʼyā wa-yabqá al-jasad dūnahā bi-al-rūḥ faqaṭ lā-yataladhdhadh wa-lā-yafraḥ ḥattá taʻūd wa-iḥtajja bi-qawlih ( Allāh yatawaffá al-anfus ḥīn mawtihā) wa-ḥukiya ʻan ākhar anna al-nafs nāsūtīyah wa-al-rūḥ lāhūtīyah wa-dhakar anna ahl al-athar ʻalá al-mughāyarah wa-anna qawām al-nafs bi-al-rūḥ wa-al-nafs ṣūrat al-ʻabd wa-al-hawá wa-al-shahwah wa-al-balāʼ maʻjūn fīhā wa-lā-ʻadūw aʻdá li-Ibn Ādam min nafsah lā-turīd illā al-dunyā wa-lā-tuḥibb illā iyyāhā wa-al-rūḥ tadʻū ilá al-ākhirah wa-tuʼthirihā ilá an qāla inna al-nafs hiya al-aṣl fī al-insān fa-idhā ṣuqilat bi-al-riyāḍah wa-anwāʻ al-dhikr wa-al-fikr ṣārat rūḥan thumma tataraqqá ilá an taṣīr sirran min asrār Allāh ilá an qāla fī namrah 583

ikhtalaf al-nās fī al-rūḥ hal hiya makhlūqah qabl al-badan aw baʻdah aw maʻah fa-qad zaʻam Ibn Ḥazm annahā fī barzakh huwa munqaṭiʻ al-ʻanāṣir fa-idhā istaʻadd jasad li-shayʼ habaṭa ilayh wa-annahā taʻūd ilá dhālik al-barzakh baʻd al-wafāh wa-lā dalīl li-hādhā min kitāb aw sunnah wa-baʻḍahum istadalla ʻalá dhālik bi-khabar ( khalaqa Allāh al-arwāḥ qabl al-ajsād bi-alfay ʻām ) wa-taʻaqqabah Ibn al-Qayyim bi-annah lā yaṣiḥḥ isnādah ilá an qāla wa-al-qawl al-ṣaḥīḥ al-ladhī ʻalayh al-sharʻ wa-al-ʻaql annahā makhlūqah maʻa al-ajsād wa-anna al-malak yanfukh al-rūḥ ay yuḥdithah bi-al-nafkh fī al-jasad idhā maḍá ʻalá al-nuṭfah arbaʻat ashhur wa-dakhalat fī al-khāmis

wa-hunā ʻuqdah wa-dhālik anna al-rūḥ ḥīnamā tatalabbas bi-badanihā al-muqaddar lahā wa-sakanat fīh baʻd inkimāshihā wa-karāhatihā alifatʹhu wa-aḥabbat al-baqāʼ fīh wa-karihat al-khurūj minh . wa-ilá dhālik yushīr Ibn Sīnā fī ʻaynīyatih al-mashhūrah

Habaṭat ilayka min al-maḥalli al-arfaʻi ٭ warqāʼu dhātu taʻazzuzin wa-tamannuʻi Maḥjūbatun ʻan kulli muqlati nāẓirin ٭ fa-hiya al-latī safarat wa-lam tatabarqaʻi Waṣalat ʻalá kurhin ilayka wa-rubbamā ٭ karihat firāqaka wa-hiya dhātu tawajjuʻi

( ilá an qāla fī ākhirihā )

In kāna ahbaṭahā al-Ilāhu li-ḥikmatin ٭ ṭuwiyat ʻan al-fadhdhi al-labībi al-arwaʻi fa-hubūṭuhā lā shakka ḍarbatu lāzibin ٭ li-takūna sāmiʻatan li-mā lam tasmaʻi wa-taʻūdu ʻālimatan bi-kulli khafīyatin ٭ fī al-ʻālamīna kharquhā lam yurqaʻi wa-hiya al-latī qaṭaʻa al-zamānu ṭarīqahā ٭ ḥattá la-qad gharabat bi-ghayri al-maṭlaʻi wa-kaʼannahā barqun taʼallaqa bi-al-ḥimá ٭ thumma inṭawá fa-kaʼannahu lam yalmaʻi Anʻim bi-raddi jawābin mā anā fāḥiṣun ٭ fīhi fa-nāru al-ʻilmi dhātu tashaʻshuʻi

wa-li-ḥall hādhih al-ʻuqdah maʻa sabab karāhat al-insān lil-mawt ay ḥall al-haykal maʻa annahā bāqiyah nasrud lak ʻibārat al-Asfār wa-Allāh yatawallá hudāk

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idhā kāna mawt al-badan fī hādhih al-nashʼah al-thāniyah ḥayāt al-nafs fī al-nashʼah al-bāqiyah wa-anna lil-nafs tawajjuhan jibilīyan ilá al-intiqāl ilá ʻālam al-ākhirah ʻan hādhā al-ʻālam wa-ḥarakah dhātīyah jawharīyah ilá al-qurb min Allāh taʻālá wa-al-dukhūl fī ʻālam al-arwāḥ wa-al-iḥtijāb ʻan dār al-ẓulumāt wa-al-ḥujub al-jismānīyah fa-inna al-tajassum ʻayn al-ḥijāb wa-al-ẓulmah wa-al-jahl fa-mā sabab karāhat al-nufūs wa-tawaḥḥushihā ʻan al-mawt wa-ṭarḥ al-jasad wa-fīh taʻarrī al-nafs ʻan thiqlah wa-kathāfatah wa-khalāṣahā ʻan al-ḥabs wa-inṭilāqahā ʻan al-sijn wa-qaydih fa-naqūl fī karāhat al-mawt al-badanī lil-nufūs al-insānīyah shayʼān fāʻilī wa-ghāʼī ammā al-sabab al-fāʻilī fa-huwa anna awwal nashʼat al-nafs hiya hādhih al-nashʼah al-ṭabīʻīyah wa-al-badanīyah wa-lahā al-ghalabah ʻalá al-nufūs mā-dāmat muttaṣilah bi-al-badan mutaṣarrifah fīh fa-tajrī ʻalayhā aḥkām al-ṭabīʻah al-badanīyah wa-yuʼaththir fīhā kullamā yuʼaththir fī al-ḥiss al-jawharī wa-al-ḥayawān al-ṭabīʻī min al-mulāʼimāt wa-al-munāfiyāt al-badanīyah wa-li-hādhā tataʼallam wa-tataḍarrar bi-tafarruq al-ittiṣāl wa-al-iḥtirāq bi-al-nār wa-ashbāh dhālik lā-min ḥayth kawnihā jawāhir nuṭqīyah wa-dhawātā ʻaqlīyah bal min ḥayth jawāhir ḥissīyah wa-quwá taʻalluqīyah fa-tawaḥḥushihā min al-mawt al-badanī wa-karāhatihā innamā yakūn li-maḥabbatih min al-nashʼah al-ṭabīʻīyah wa-hiya mutafāwitah bi-ḥasab shiddat al-inghimār fī al-badan wa-al-inkibāb fīh ʻalá annā lā nusallim al-karāhah ʻinda al-mawt al-ṭabīʻī al-ladhī yaḥṣul fī ākhir al-aʻmār al-ṭabīʻīyah dūn al-ājāl al-ikhtirāmīyah wa-ammā mā-yaqtaḍīh al-ʻaql al-tāmm wa-qūwat al-bāṭin wa-ghalabat nūr al-īmān bi-Allāh wa-al-yawm al-ākhir wa-sulṭān al-malakūt fa-huwa maḥabbat al-mawt al-dunyawī wa-al-tashawwuq ilá Allāh wa-mujāwarat muqarrabīh wa-malakūtah wa-al-tawaḥḥush ʻan ḥayāt al-dunyā wa-ṣuḥbat al-ẓulumāt wa-mujāwarat al-muʼdhiyāt fa-al-ʻārif yatawaḥḥash min ṣuḥbat ḥayawānāt al-dunyā tawaḥḥush al-insān al-ḥayy min muqāranat al-amwāt wa-aṣḥāb al-qubūr wa-ammā al-sabab al-ghāʼī wa-al-ḥikmah fī karāhat al-mawt huwa muḥāfaẓat al-nafs lil-badan al-ladhī huwa bi-manzilat al-markab fī ṭarīq al-ākhirah wa-ṣiyānatah ʻan al-āfāt al-ʻāriḍah li-yumkin lahā al-istiʻdādāt wa-al-istikmālāt al-ʻilmīyah ilá an yablugh kamālahā al-mumkin wa-ka-dhā irādat Allāh taʻālá taʻallaqat bi-ibdāʻ al-alam wa-al-iḥsās bih fī gharāʼiz al-ḥayawānāt

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[13] (1) min al-Bannānī ʻalá Jamʻ al-Jawāmiʻ al-mujallad al-thānī

[13] (2) qad ishtahar ʻinda al-muʼallifīn wa-arbāb al-ḥawāshī wa-al-ṣūfīyah bi-annah ḥadīth wa-lākin lays bi-ḥadīth bal innamā huwa min kalām Abī Bakr al-Rāzī ka-mā-fī al-Durar al-muntathirah lil-Suyūṭī wa-al-Fatāwá li-Ibn Ḥajar

[14] (1) wa-al-ḥaqq al-istiḥālah li-mā tashhad bih ẓawāhir al-Kitāb wa-kalām al-maʻṣūm al-ladhī huwa aʻlam al-nās bi-Allāh wa-ṣifātih

[14] (2) hādhih riwāyah shādhdhah ka-mā nabbah ʻalá dhālik al-Qasṭalānī fī sharḥih ʻalá al-Bukhārī qāʼilan annah mā-wajadahā illā fī kutub al-tafāsīr ah mukhtaṣaran

[17] (1) naqlan ʻan Dāʼirat al-Maʻārif lil-Bustānī mulakhkhaṣan

[19] (1) ʻan al-mujallad 4 namrah 583 mulakhkhaṣan min al-Ālūsī

[22] (1) mulakhkhaṣan min kitāb al-Asfār al-Arbaʻah li-Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī fī fann al-ḥikmah al-ʻaqlīyah wa-al-tawḥīd al-khāṣṣ al-mashwūb bi-taṣawwuf aʼimmat al-fann wa-rijālah fa-ʻalayk bih thumma al-ʻajab al-ʻajāb fī al-mabāḥith wa-al-daqāʼiq