An intimation on the existence of the Real, containing a discussion of wisdom and purpose

qabl, fa-taṣawwuruh fiʻl min afʻālik wa-marḍī lak wa-murād, wa-lākin mātaʻallaqat irādatuk bi-taṣawwurih, thumma faʻalta dhālika al-taṣawwur bal inna fiʻlak dhālika tajallī irādatik, fa-maʻná kawnih murīdan annah lājābir lah, bal tajallīh ʻan ʻilmih marḍī li-dhātih lāyaqaʻ fī mulkih illā māyurīd fa-taʼammal, fa-laysa māyafhamūnah min al-irādah yanbaghī fī ḥaḍrat al-ulūhīyah

Wāridah

Al-ḥaqq jawād ay yuʻṭī kull shayʼ māyanbaghī lah min ḥaythu annah yanbaghī ay yunazzil al-marātib manāzilahā « aʻṭá kull shayʼ khalqah » fa-lā yufīḍ fī martabah mātastaḥiqq ukhrá wa-lā yaḥjub ʻan martabah mālahā fī dhātihā, wa-dhālika ʻalá ḥasab mātaqtaḍīh marātib al-tajallī fī ʻālam al-tanazzulāt, wa-hādhā lāyakhfá ʻalayk min al-mabāḥith al-sābiqah, wa-al-qawm qad waqaʻa al-nizāʻ baynahum fī afʻālih tuʻallal bi-al-aghrāḍ am lā ؟ wa-kull min al-ṭāʼifatayn ayyada māyaddaʻīh wa-lākin al-jumhūr ʻalá annahā lātuʻallal, wa-illā lazima an yakūn lil-Bārī gharaḍ lāyatimm illā bi-ghayrih fa-yaḥtāj ilá al-ghayr fī itmām gharaḍih, bal huwa yafʻal bi-dūn gharaḍ, fa-lammā awrada ʻalayhim annah yalzam an yakūn ʻābithan ajābū ʻan dhālika bi-annah wa-in lam yulāḥiẓ al-gharaḍ, wa-lam yakun lah bāʻith ʻalá al-fiʻl, lākin jamīʻ afʻālih lātakhlū ʻan al-ḥikam wa-al-maṣāliḥ . wa-al-ʻajab lahum kayfa dafaʻū al-ʻabath bi-hādhā maʻa annā naʻlam anna man laʻiba bi-rijlih bi-dūn qaṣd shayʼ, fa-tarattaba ʻalá dhālika mawt thuʻbān mathalan fa-huwa ʻābith lāyuqāl lah aḥsanta wa-faʻalta ṣawāban . wa-min gharāʼib al-ittifāqāt māwaqaʻa fī baʻḍ al-buldān al-shamālīyah, annah ijtamaʻa khamsah surrāq fī maḥall li-yasriqū minh fa-samiʻū ṣawt ṣabī dākhil bayt fī tilka al-dār, fa-akhrajūh khawfan min an yūqiẓ ahlah ṣiyāḥuh fa-waḍaʻūh fī ṣaḥn al-dār fa-ṣāḥa . fa-istayqaẓat ummuh wa-ayqaẓat abāh : wa-kharajā li-ajl al-walad, thumma dakhala al-surrāq al-bayt, fa-akhrajū al-matāʻ ilá al-ṣaḥn ayḍan li-yaʼkhudhūh, fa-lammā dakhalū li-akhdh mābaqiya min al-matāʻ inhadama al-bayt ʻalayhim, fa-halakū jamīʻan wa-najā ahl al-manzil maʻa ghālib amtiʻatihim, fa-hal yuqāl li-hāʼulāʼ al-surrāq annahum ḥukamāʼ muḥsinūn, wa-hādhā al-fiʻl min jamīl akhlāqihim ḥaythu anjaw hāʼulāʼ min halāk al-hadm, wa-tarattaba ʻalá fiʻlihim hādhih al-maṣlaḥah al-kabīrah ؟ kallā bal lāyaqūl bih