The supreme imamate

Khilāfan li-al-Muʻtazilah fī jamīʻ dhālika, wa-yakfur mustaḥill al-maʻṣiyah wa-lā nukaffir aḥadan min ahl al-qiblah, wa-al-mustaḥill khārij minhum li-annahu mukadhdhib bi-al-risālah

Wa-li-Allāh kutub anzalahā ʻalá anbiyāʼihi naʻlam baʻḍahā wa-ilayhi ʻilm al-bāqī, minhā al-Qurʼān al-sharīf wa-al-Tawrāh wa-al-Injīl wa-al-Zabūr wa-ṣuḥuf sayyidinā Ibrāhīm, wa-li-Allāh malāʼikah lā yaʻlam ʻiddatahum illā Allāh lā yūṣafūn bi-dhukūrah wa-lā bi-unūthah (lā yaʻṣūn Allāh māamarahum wa-yafʻalūn māyuʼmarn) wa-al-miʻrāj li-nabīyinā ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam ḥaqq, wa-al-duʻāʼ nāfiʻ kamā waradat bihi al-sunnah wa-dalla ʻalayhi al-kitāb khilāfan li-al-Muʻtazilah al-nāfīn dhālika al-muʼawwilīn ṣarīḥ al-dalāʼil, wa-karāmat al-awliyāʼ thābitah wa-hiya al-amr al-khāriq li-al-ʻādah yuẓhiruhu Allāh ʻalá yad ẓāhir al-ṣalāḥ, wa-al-ṣalāḥ ittibāʻ al-sharʻ wa-al-wuqūf ʻinda aḥkāmihi wa-ḥudūdihi wa-dhālika khilāfan li-al-Muʻtazilah wa-baʻḍ al-Ashāʻirah al-dhāhibīn ilá nafy karāmat al-awliyāʼ,

Al-imāmah al-ʻuẓmá

Wa-min al-wājib naṣb imām ʻadl yuqīm al-ḥudūd wa-yaḥmī al-ḥawzah wa-yafṣil bayna al-nās wa-yalzam an yakūn min Quraysh wa-lā yakhtaṣṣ bi-Banī Hāshim aw ʻAlī karrama Allāh wajhahu, wa-sharṭuhu al-ʻilm bi-lawāzim māyuʻhad ilayhi min hādhā al-amr al-ʻaẓīm wa-an yakūn min ahl al-wilāyah al-muṭlaqah al-kāmilah qādiran ʻalá tanfīdh al-aḥkām al-sharʻīyah, wa-lā yalzam an yakūn maʻṣūman khilāfan li-al-Shīʻah,

Wa-awwal al-aʼimmah wa-afḍal al-nās baʻda nabīyinā ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam sayyidunā Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu, wa-yalīhi fī al-faḍl tālīhi fī al-khilāfah sayyidunā ʻUmar al-Fārūq, wa-baʻdahu sayyidunā ʻUthmān, wa-yalīhim fī al-faḍl wa-al-khilāfah sayyidunā ʻAlī ibn Ṭālib karrama Allāh wajhahu, wa-afḍal al-khalq ʻalá al-iṭlāq nabīyunā ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam wa-faḍluhu thābit ḥattá ʻalá sayyidinā Jibrīl wa-baqīyat al-malāʼikah al-muqarrabīn wa-ghayrihim bi-al-awlá khilāfan li-al-Muʻtazilah al-zāʻimīn afḍalīyah sayyidinā Jibrīl ʻalá al-nabī ṣallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallam,

Wa-taʼwīl al-nuṣūṣ ilá mā yubīḥ tark al-aʻmāl al-ẓāhirah kamā yaddaʻīhi al-Bāṭinīyah ilḥād, wa-al-yaʼs min rawḥ Allāh kufr, wa-al-iʻtiqād bi-taʼthīr al-kawākib wa-al-nujūm wa-taṣdīq al-kāhinīn al-muddaʻīn ʻilm al-ghayb bi-ḍalālātihim kufr,

Wa-al-īmān bi-jamīʻ māqaddamnā min al-ʻaqāʼid huwa al-taṣdīq bihā wa-yazīd al-taṣdīq rusūkhan fī al-nafs bi-al-aʻmāl al-ṣāliḥah, wa-lā dakhl li-al-aʻmāl fī ḥaqīqat al-īmān khilāfan li-al-Muʻtazilah, wa-huwa wa-al-Islām maʻná wāḥid, illā anna imtithāl al-awāmir al-sharʻīyah wa-ijtināb al-manhīyāt, wa-al-taʼaddub bi-ādāb al-sharīʻah al-muṭahharah yuṣaffī al-rūḥ wa-yushʻil fī al-qalb nūran wa-yuwajjih al-wijhah ilá al-jānib al-ilāhī wa-yuṭliq al-nafs min qayd al-ʻādāt wa-al-akhlāq al-radīʼah wa-yadhhab bihā ʻan hādhā al-ʻālam ʻālam al-ladhāʼidh wa-al-shahawāt al-jismānīyah, ʻinda dhālika yanqaṭiʻ al-ʻabd ʻan al-ʻamal illā li-Allāh fa-lā yaʻmal illā mā yanfaʻ li-ākhiratihi wa-minhu al-qiyām bi-mā yanfaʻ al-nās wa-yufīd al-kāffah ʻalá qadr imkānihi, fa-idhā jadda bihi al-sayr fī hādhā al-sabīl wa-ẓalla muqbilan ʻalá Allāh fī jamīʻ shuʼūnihi istaḥkamat fī rūḥihi uṣūl al-ʻirfān, wa-fāḍat ʻalá jamīʻ mashāʻirihi anwār al-ḥubb al-ilāhī, fa-ghalaba ʻaqluhu al-rūḥānī ʻalá kāffat iḥsāsātihi, fa-dhahila ʻan kull māsiwá Allāh, fa-lā yará fī al-wujūd illā alladhī tawallāhu, wa-huwa al-ḥaqq jalla ʻalāhu (1) wa-al-ḥamd li-Allāh fī al-badʼ wa-al-khitām

Nasaqa ʻibāratahā wa-rattaba maʻānīhā al-faqīr ilá rabbihi Muḥammad ʻAbduh waffaqahu Allāh li-mā yurḍīhi āmīn wa-dhālika fī nahār al-yawm al-khāmis min Jumādá al-Ākhirah sanat 1294 min tārīkh al-hijrah wa-ʻalá ṣāḥibihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-atamm al-taslīm, wa-tamma nashruhā fī sādis Rabīʻ al-Awwal sanat 1299 hijrīyah wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam

— al-ḥawāshī —

[31] 1» hādhā mā yusammá waḥdat al-shuhūd wa-hiya ḥaqq bi-khilāf waḥdat al-wujūd fa-hiya bāṭil wa-kāna al-muʼallif yunkiruhā ilá ākhir ʻumrihi raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá