The Sufis' theory of prophethood and messengership

li-nafsihi bi-tajallī yadʻū nafsahu li-nafsihi ʻalá māyaqtaḍīhi al-tajallī, wa-laysa bi-baʻīd, bal kamā yushāhad fīnā min zajr anfusinā illā nafsanā wa-ḥathhā iyyāhā. Wa-fayḍ hādhā al-tajallī bi-al-iltifāt ilá mabdaʼihi al-ḥaqīqī, fa-idhā istaghraqa fī daʻwat al-tajallīyāt, ḥaṣala lahu al-iltifāt ʻan ʻālam al-mujarradāt, fa-tafakkara wa-istashāra. Wa-lammā tanaffasa ṣubḥ al-ḥaqīqah wa-al-nāsūtīyūn fī sinah min jahālatihim baʻatha munādiyan: halummū ilá al-najāḥ, fa-qad ṭalaʻa al-ṣabāḥ. Fa-al-nās fī al-ijābah ʻalá ikhtilāf darajātihim fī sinat al-ghaflah, wa-man istayqaẓa min ghaflatihi, wa-istanāra bi-shams ḥaqīqatihi, nāba ʻan al-dāʻī fī daʻwatihi, li-hādhā tamma al-ʻaqd bi-risālatihi, wa-huwa lisān al-taṣawwuf

﴿Wāridah﴾

Laʻallaka fīmāsabaqa tanabbahta ilá anna al-mujarrad laysa muḥtadan li-al-taghyīr wa-al-tabdīl wa-al-kawn wa-al-fasād li-tanazzuhihi ʻan al-ḥarakah al-ḥissīyah al-muqtaḍiyah li-dhālika, fa-al-nufūs al-nāṭiqah al-insānīyah bāqiyah bi-baqāʼ al-wujūd. Wa-lammā kāna al-wujūd fī jamīʻ marātibihi faʻʻālan fa-li-al-nafs al-nāṭiqah min al-afʻāl ʻalá ḥasab rutbatihā wa-huwa fī badanihā laysa illā al-tadbīr, ammā baʻda mufāraqatihā al-badan al-insānī fa-iftaraqat al-ṭawāʼif fī ḥukmihā (fa-min qāʼil) bi-anna al-nafs laysa lahā ḥālah illā wa-hiya mudabbirah li-al-badan al-insānī fa-lā tatadanná ʻanhu ilá al-ḥayawān wa-al-nabāt wa-lā taftur ʻan al-tadbīr, wa-kullamā khalaqa thawb labisat ākhar min hādhā al-nawʻ bi-ʻaynihi, fa-huwa maẓhar khayrihā wa-sharrihā wa-ʻadhābihā wa-naʻīmihā

(Wa-min qāʼil) bi-annahā idhā taʻaṭṭala al-badan ẓahara lahā malakātuhā wa-idrākātuhā, fa-kāna lahā bi-dhālika immā al-ḥuzn wa-al-asaf wa-immā al-faraḥ wa-al-ibtihāj, fa-lā tataʻallaq bi-badan mādāmat tilka al-malakāt fīhā, fa-idhā zālat tilka wa-ṣārat sādhijah taʻūd ilá tadbīr al-nabāt wa-tataraqqá ilá al-insānīyah wa-hākadhā li-shawqihā li-martabatihā min al-tadbīr li-hādhā al-ʻālam

(Wa-min qāʼil) wa-hum al-ḥukamāʼ anna al-nafs qad tufāriq hādhā al-badan ilá ghayr al-nihāyah wa-lammā kāna al-ḥaqq fī jamīʻ marātibihi faʻʻālan kamā sabaqa wa-kāna li-al-nafs bi-dhālika rutbat al-fiʻl fa-tamām ẓuhūrihā yakūn fī ʻālam al-taʻaqqul wa-al-takhalluq ka-walad sulṭān yashtāq ilá martabat abīhi wa-lākin li-quṣūrihi yanzawī ilá baʻḍ al-jihāt wa-yuẓhir salṭanatahu fīhā wa-bihi yatasallá wa-yakūn mutaladhdhidhan mubtahijan yaʻzil wa-yuwallī wa-yuʻizz wa-yudhill. Fa-kadhā al-nafs fī ʻālam al-taʻaqqul wa-al-takhalluq, fa-in aṣlaḥtahu wa-rattabtahu ʻalá māhuwa ʻalayhi kānat baʻda firāq al-badan wujūdan fī ʻilalihā mutaladhdhidhah bi-martabatihā mubtahijah bi-salṭanatihā, wa-ʻalá qadr al-naqṣ fī dhālika yakūn al-ʻadhāb wa-al-alam

(Wa-min qāʼil) wa-hum al-Ṣūfīyah inna al-ḥaqq lammā nādá shuʼūnahu ʻalá lisānihi al-nabawī ilá al-dukhūl fī ḥaḍratihi amarahum an yatalabbasū ʻinda dhālika bi-malābis talīq bi-tilka al-ḥaḍrah, wa-an yatakhallaw ʻan ghayr dhālika, fa-man fahima al-ramz, wa-ḥalla al-lughz, wa-faniya bi-al-fanāʼ al-muṭlaq, wa-ittaṣala bi-ḥaḍrat al-jūd, wa-lam yara illā nafs al-wujūd fa-ladhdhatuhu nūr al-wujūd wa-huwa (mā) lāʻayn raʼat wa-lā udhun samiʻat wa-lā khaṭara ʻalá qalb aḥad. Wa-man naẓara ilá ẓāhir al-ḥāl, wa-ʻamila bi-mā fahima min madlūl al-maqāl, ghurisat lahu fī arḍ nafsihi ashjār al-naʻīm, fa-kull ʻamal ʻamilahu baraza lahu ʻinda kharāb al-badan ladhāʼidh ʻalá ḥasab mākāna yaʻhad wa-yataladhdhadh, wa-kāna lahu min dhālika al-ḥawz wa-al-wildān, wa-al-asāwir wa-al-tījān, wa-man tawajjaha naḥw al-ṭarīq, wa-lākin ghafala ʻammā yarūm al-farīq, wa-taqāʻada ʻan al-sayr, wa-labisa malābis al-ḍayr, ẓaharat lahu tilka al-naqāʼiṣ ḥayyāt wa-ʻaqārib wa-salāsil wa-aghlālan, wa-lā yazāl kadhālika ḥattá yataqaddas fa-yakūn aḥad al-sābiqīn. Wa-man aʻraḍa ʻan al-ṭarīq bi-al-marrah, wa-shughila bi-al-aghyār ʻan tilka al-kurah