An intimation: existence is perfection

kāna hunāka wujūdān, fa-ammā lāimtiyāz baynahā, fa-yalzam kawn al-ithnayn wāḥidan, hādhā khulf . wa-immā baynahumā imtiyāz . fa-ammā bi-wujūd mughāyir lahumā fa-nanqul al-kalām ilayh wa naṭlub al-mumayyiz ʻanhumā, wa-hākadhā fa-yatasalsal wa-huwa muḥāl . wa-immā bi-ʻadam fa-yalzam imtiyāz al-wujūd bi-al-ʻadam, wa-al-ʻadam lātamayyuz lah fī dhātih ḥattá yumayyiz ghayrah : hādhā khulf, in taqul : ka-annak lam taʻtabir al-tasalsul muḥālan ka-mā yalūḥ min wajh qawlik fa-aqūl : innī aʻtabiruh fī hādhā al-maqām lā li-istiḥālatih fī dhātih, wa-lākin li-istilzāmih ʻadam al-imtiyāz, wa-illā intahat al-silsilah fa-ifham — fa-idhan laysa hunāka illā wujūd wāḥid juzʼī ḥaqīqī lāqayd fīh bi-wajh min al-wujūh, wa-al-kull nisabuh, wa-hādhā maʻlūm mimmā sabaqa

Wāridah

Ka-annak tudrik anna al-kamāl huwa al-wujūd, wa-anna al-naqṣ huwa al-ʻadam, fa-innak taʻlam anna kull shayʼ law balagha ghāyatah fīmā yalzam li-dhātih fī jamīʻ aḥwālih min ḥaythu dhātih fa-huwa al-kāmil wa-kull mā lam yakun ka-dhālika fa-huwa al-nāqiṣ ʻalá qadr darajatih min ʻadam bulūgh ghāyatih, fa-in tarattaba ʻalá shayʼ naqṣ fī ākhar, fa-al-shayʼ kāmil wa-al-ākhar nāqiṣ, wa-qīla : lil-shayʼ nāqiṣ li-annah nāqiṣ fī dhātih, wa-lākin min ḥaythu lazima ʻalayh māhuwa naqṣ wa-huwa al-ʻadam, wa-dhālika sahl ʻalayk taḥṣīluh, fa-in awradnā al-mithāl yaṭūl al-maqāl wa-al-maqām ḍayyiq

Idhā taḥaṣṣala ʻindak hādhā fa-qad ʻarafta anna kamāl al-shayʼ bi-qadr mālah min jihāt al-wujūd, wa-naqṣuh bi-qadr mālah min jihāt al-ʻadam — fa-hallā taḥaqqaqta min hādhā anna māhuwa wujūd al-kull alladhī lāwujūd illā wujūduh, wa-kull mā siwāh ʻadam, huwa al-kamāl li-dhātih, ḥaythu lāʻadam lah fī shayʼ min jihātih, wa-anna kull kamāl fa-huwa burūz kamālih, wa-kull naqṣ fa-huwa ʻadam, wa-al-ʻadam ghayruh fa-huwa al-kamāl, wa-ghayruh al-nuqṣān ( tabāraka ism rabbik dhī al-jalāl wa-al-ikrām — subḥāna rabbik rabb al-ʻizzah ʻammā yaṣifūn )

Wa-laʻallak tamīl ilá al-tanazzul ʻan hādhā al-maqām fa-naqūl : waṣf shayʼ bi-shayʼ yaqtaḍī an yakūn dhālika al-shayʼ manshaʼ li-dhālika al-waṣf aw fī dhātih māhuwa ka-dhālika, wa-dhālika li-anna jamīʻ al-ṣifāt bi-al-nisbah ilá jamīʻ al-dhawāt min ḥaythu hiya ṣifāt wa-dhawāt mustawiyah