An intimation on the nature of perception, and another on the will

bi-kull shayʼ « lā yaʻzub ʻanh mithqāl dharrah » fa-daqqiq al-naẓar wa-iyyāk an taḥjubak al-kathrah ʻan dhāt al-waḥdah, fa-inna al-baḥr law ʻalima bi-dhātih fa-laysa yaḥtāj ilá ʻilm ākhar yaʻlam bih amwājah wa-hādhā qad yuwāfiq min wajh qawl man qāla : anna al-ʻilm qadīm wa-taʻalluquh ḥādith wa-lākin qad ḍalla ʻan sawāʼ al-sabīl, fa-waqaʻa fī tīh al-abāṭīl, wa-ayḍan yaqrub mimmā yuqāl inna lil-ashyāʼ wujūdan ʻilmīyan wa-wujūdan shuhūdīyan, wa-mimmā yuqāl anna lil-shayʼ wujūdan bi-ḥasab dhātih wa-wujūdan fī dhāt al-ʻillah fa-tafaṭṭan wa-ṭabbiq in kunta min ahl al-naẓar

Wāridah

Ka-annī bik idhā iltafatta li-nafsik, wa-qad wajadta ʻilmak bi-nafsik ʻayn nafsik, wa-hādhā ghayr ʻasīr, thumma daqqaqta ʻalimta annak lātudrik ghayr nafsik, fa-inna al-idrāk in kāna huwa mujarrad irtisām al-ṣuwar, fa-qad takarrara ghayr marrah annah lā yaṣiḥḥ mūjiban lil-ʻilm, wa-in kāna al-infiʻāl bi-tilka al-ṣuwar, fa-huwa huwa aw qarīb minh wa-ḥukmuh ḥukmuh, fa-laysa al-idrāk illā tajallá nafsik bi-al-ṣuwar ʻalá ḥasab al-istiʻdād, fa-idrākuk li-nafsik fī tilka al-ḥālah idrāk li-tilka al-ṣuwar bi-ʻaynih, fa-adrakta nafsak bi-nafsik, wa-mā adrakta khārijan ʻank, wa-lākin bi-al-tajawwuz taqūl adrakta Zaydan al-khārijī, wa-lākinnak ẓaharta bi-muṭābiqih, fa-qulta ẓaharta bih, wa-hādhā daqīq fa-ifham

Wāridah

Ka-annak fīmā ulqiya ilayk adrakta anna al-ḥaqq murīduh fī tashāʼ bih, (١) wa-lākin laysa yashtāq wa-yatafakkar, thumma yūjid ʻalá ḥasab māyuʼaddī ilayh fikruh, bal irādatuh ʻayn fiʻlih ay lāyatakhallal bayna al-irādah wa-al-fiʻl (١) « innamā amrunā li-shayʼ idhā aradnāh an naqūl lah kun fa-yakūn ٭ innamā amruh idhā arāda shayʼan an yaqūl lah kun fa-yakūn » fa-unẓur ilá ḥaṣr al-umūr fī al-fiʻl fī jawāb al-irādah, ay laysa lanā shaʼn min al-shuʼūn al-mutaʻalliqah bi-dhālika al-shayʼ idhā aradnāh illā qawlunā lah kun, wa-dhālika ka-mā idhā taṣawwarta Zaydan alladhī taʻrifuh min

— al-ḥawāshī —

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