An intimation: how God created creation

ʻāqil fa-laysa illā kamā samiʻta, fa-wujūd dhātihi ʻayn al-ḥikmah wa-al-gharaḍ li-dhātihi fa-lā takun min al-ghāfilīn.

Wāridah kayfa baraʼa Allāh al-khalq

Min al-qaḍāyā al-awwalīyah anna al-ṭafrah muḥāl ay kawnuka fī makān lam takun fīhi lāyumkin ṭafrah ay bi-dūn qaṭʻ masāfah ʻalá ay wajh kāna min al-makān alladhī kunta fīhi ilá mālam takun fīhi, wa-illā lazima ʻadam al-masāfah, wa-kawnuka fīhi qabla kawnika fīhi. Wa-hākadhā fī kull shayʼ lahu bidāyah wa-nihāyah lāyumkin al-wuṣūl ilá al-ghāyah illā bi-qaṭʻ al-marātib al-mutawassiṭah wa-minhu al-luṭf wa-al-takaththuf, wa-al-qillah wa-al-kathrah, wa-al-iṭlāq wa-al-taqyīd wa-naḥw dhālika, fa-inna al-kathrah lāyumkin taḥaqququhā illā bi-taḥaqquq āḥādihā, wa-lā yakhfá ʻalayka mithl hādhā al-badīhī ghāyat al-amr annahu yatafāwat al-qaṭʻ bi-al-surʻah wa-al-buṭʼ, fa-idhan al-irtiqāʼ min martabat al-iṭlāq ilá aqṣá marātib al-taqyīd, lā budda fīhi min qaṭʻ marātib al-taqyīd ilá an yaṣila ilá aqṣāhā wa-illā lazima ʻadam al-marātib, wa-al-farḍ wujūduhā kamā ʻalimta min thubūt al-mabdaʼ wa-al-muntahá, wa-lammā tabayyana laka anna al-akwān shuʼūn al-wujūd, wa-darajāt tanazzulihi wa-aṭwārihi fa-iʻlam anna tanazzulahu ilá ghāyat al-taqyīd min martabat ghāyat al-iṭlāq lābudda fīhi min qaṭʻ marātib al-taqyīdāt allatī bayna al-mabdaʼ wa-al-muntahá. Fa-qad waqaʻa al-tajallī ʻalá marātib al-tanazzul al-alṭaf fa-al-laṭīf, wa-hākadhā ilá ākhir marātib al-tanazzul, wa-huwa al-ʻālam al-hayūlānī al-ṭabīʻī, fa-jamīʻ al-marātib allatī qabla hādhā al-ʻālam hiya allatī nusammīhā bi-al-malāʼikah wa-al-sarādiqāt, wa-nusammī al-baʻḍ ʻaqlan wa-al-baʻḍ nafsan. Wa-hākadhā fa-kull martabah ṭilsam li-allatī qablahā, wa-allatī qablahā ḥaqīqatuhā wa-bāṭinuhā, wa-al-qāʼim bihā ilá ḥaqīqat al-ḥaqāʼiq wa-aqrabuhā ilá al-wujūd huwa al-musammá bi-al-ʻaql li-mā annahu amām jamīʻ al-taʻayyunāt, wa-multaqá fayḍihā min al-mabdaʼ al-awwal, wa-fī kalām al-ḥakīm al-ilāhī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam «awwal mākhalaqa Allāh taʻālá al-ʻaql» wa-bāqī al-marātib qabla al-nāsūt hiya al-nufūs al-kullīyah. Wa-ashiʻʻatuhā al-munbaththah ʻanhā fī al-marātib al-ʻaraḍīyah hiya al-nufūs al-juzʼīyah. Wa-hādhā huwa al-musammá bi-ʻālam al-mujarradāt

Thumma ʻalá ḥasab māwaṣala ilayhi naẓarunā wa-intahá ilaynā min ḥaḍrat al-ḥakīm al-ilāhī anna al-nufūs al-kullīyah al-murabbiyah li-ʻālam al-nāsūt al-ẓāhirah fīhi ʻalá mātaqtaḍīhi martabatuhu fī al-tanazzul arbaʻ nufūs. Wa-hiya al-ḥāmilah li-ʻarsh al-rabb alladhī huwa hādhā al-ʻālam wa-hiya (nafs Mīkāʼīlīyah) wa-hiya allatī turakkib kull dharrah min dharrāt al-wujūd maʻa al-ukhrá li-mā yaqtaḍīhi wa-hādhā huwa al-rizq al-ʻāmm. Wa-minhu al-jadhabāt al-ʻumūmīyah. Al-kāʼinah bayna dharrāt al-wujūd (wa-nafs Isrāfīlīyah) wa-hiya allatī bihā ḥaṣala al-ḥayāh fī kull dharrah min dharrāt al-wujūd wa-minhā fayḍ al-ḥayāh al-ʻāmm. (Wa-nafs Jibrāʼīlīyah) wa-hiya al-mufḍiyah li-al-idrāk fī kull dharrah min dharrāt al-wujūd (wa-nafs ʻIzrāʼīlīyah) wa-hiya al-qābiḍah rūḥ al-ḥayāh ʻan baʻḍ dharrāt al-wujūd li-amr yaqtaḍīhi al-muḥillah li-baʻḍ al-ajzāʼ ʻan baʻḍ al-mukhliyah li-baʻḍ al-marātib ʻammā kāna lahu kull dhālika fī kull shayʼ bi-ḥasabihi: thumma innahu kamā yaḥṣul dhālika fī al-dharrāt al-juzʼīyah yaḥṣul fī al-murakkabāt. Wa-min dhālika qabḍ ḥayāt al-ḥayawānāt bi-al-nafs al-ʻIzrāʼīlīyah wa-rizquhā bi-al-Mīkāʼīlīyah. Wa-ḥayātuhā bi-al-Isrāfīlīyah. Wa-idrākuhā bi-al-Jibrāʼīlīyah.

Wa-al-martabah al-Jibrāʼīlīyah kamā ḥaṣala al-taʻlīm minhā li-al-kullīyāt wa-al-juzʼīyāt qad yaḥṣul minhā al-taʻlīm al-ẓāhirī kamā ḥaṣala dhālika li-baʻḍ al-qiddīsīn mithl al-anbiyāʼ. Wa-hādhihi al-martabah kathīran mājāʼa dhikruhā ʻalá al-alsinah al-ilāhīyah khuṣūṣan ʻalá lisān nabīyinā ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam, fa-jāʼa annahu raʼāhu wa-qad sadda al-ufq. Wa-laysa hādhā illā ramz li-mā qarrarnāhu, wa-ishārah li-mā awḍaḥnāhu, wa-lā tastabʻidanna mithl hādhihi al-afkār. Fa-innahu qad takallama qawm bi-al-sayyāl al-kahrabāʼī fī al-ʻālam. Wa-laysa yaẓhar illā āthāruhu. Wa-huwa kalām ḥaqīqī mubarhan fa-qul anta bi-al-sayyāl al-rūḥī fī al-ʻālam

Wa-laysat hādhihi al-marātib mutabāyinah mutafāriqah. Bal kull shayʼ fī kull shayʼ wa-lafẓat fī ḍayyiq ʻibārah wa-li-narjiʻ ilá itmām mānaḥnu bi-ṣadadihi fa-naqūl

Fa-lammā intahat marātib al-tajallī ilá ʻālam al-nāsūt. Wa-qad kunta taʻlam anna al-tanazzul laysa illā ʻibārah ʻan tanaqqul al-wujūd fī al-aṭwār, wa-lasta tudrik minhu illā al-ḥarakah. Wa-lākin lasta taʻlam kayfīyatahā wa-al-bāṭin ḥaqīqat al-ẓāhir wa-al-ẓāhir tajallīhi. Fa-barazat jamīʻ al-maʻnawīyāt fī al-ḥissīyāt fī hādhā al-ʻālam al-ḥissī ʻalá mātaqtaḍīhi marātib al-tajallī, fa-kānat al-ḥarakah al-lā kayfīyah ḥarakah kayfīyah. Fa-baraza hādhā al-ʻālam shayʼan wāḥidan basīṭan laysa fīhi tajazzuʼ