Gleanings83

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1	ملاحظه در نفس ناطقه که ودیعهٴ ربّانیّه است در انفس انسانیّه نمائید مثلاً در خود ملاحظه نما که حرکت و سکون و اراده و مشیّت و دون آن و فوق آن و هم‌چنین سمع و بصر و شمّ و نطق و مادون آن از حواسّ ظاهره و باطنه جمیع بوجود آن موجودند چنانچه اگر نسبت او از بدن اقلّ من آن مقطوع شود جمیع این حواسّ از آثار و افعال خود محجوب و ممنوع شوند و این بسی واضح و معلوم بوده که اثر جمیع این اسباب مذکوره منوط و مشروط بوجود نفس ناطقه که آیهٴ تجلّی سلطان احدیّه است بوده و خواهد بود (edit)	– LXXXIII – Consider the rational faculty with which God hath endowed the essence of man. Examine thine own self, and behold how thy motion and stillness, thy will and purpose, thy sight and hearing, thy sense of smell and power of speech, and whatever else is related to, or transcendeth, thy physical senses or spiritual perceptions, all proceed from, and owe their existence to, this same faculty. So closely are they related unto it, that if in less than the twinkling of an eye its relationship to the human body be severed, each and every one of these senses will cease immediately to exercise its function, and will be deprived of the power to manifest the evidences of its activity. It is indubitably clear and evident that each of these aforementioned instruments has depended, and will ever continue to depend, for its proper functioning on this rational faculty, which should be regarded as a sign of the revelation of Him Who is the sovereign Lord of all. Through its manifestation all these names and attributes have been revealed, and by the suspension of its action they are all destroyed and perish. (edit)	Consider the rational soul, which is a divine trust in human beings. For example, observe within yourself that motion and rest, will and intention, what is below them and above them, and likewise hearing, sight, smell, speech, and what lies beneath these of the outward and inward senses—all exist by its existence. Thus, if its connection with the body were severed even to the slightest degree, all these senses would be veiled from and prevented from their effects and functions. And it is very clear and known that the effect of all the aforesaid means is dependent upon and conditioned by the existence of the rational soul, which is the sign of the manifestation of the Sovereign of Oneness, and has been and will be so. (edit)
2	چنانچه از ظهور او جمیع این اسماء و صفات ظاهر و از بطون آن جمیع معدوم و فانی شوند حال اگر گفته شود او بصر است او مقدّس از بصر است چه که بصر باو ظاهر و بوجود او قائم و اگر بگوئی سمع است مشاهده میشود که سمع بتوجّه باو مذکور و کذلک دون آن از کلّ ما یجری علیه الأسمآء و الصّفات که در هیکل انسانی موجود و مشهود است و جمیع این اسماء مختلفه و صفات ظاهره از این آیهٴ احدیّه ظاهر و مشهود ولکن او بنفسها و جوهریّتها مقدّس از کلّ این اسماء و صفات بوده (edit)	It would be wholly untrue to maintain that this faculty is the same as the power of vision, inasmuch as the power of vision is derived from it and acteth in dependence upon it. It would, likewise, be idle to contend that this faculty can be identified with the sense of hearing, as the sense of hearing receiveth from the rational faculty the requisite energy for performing its functions. This same relationship bindeth this faculty with whatsoever hath been the recipient of these names and attributes within the human temple. These diverse names and revealed attributes have been generated through the agency of this sign of God. Immeasurably exalted is this sign, in its essence and reality, above all such names and attributes. Nay, all else besides it will, when compared with its glory, fade into utter nothingness and become a thing forgotten. (edit)	Since from His appearance all these names and attributes become manifest, and from His hiddenness all become nonexistent and vanish—now if it is said that He is sight, He is sanctified above sight, for sight is manifested through Him and subsists by His existence; and if you say He is hearing, it is observed that hearing is mentioned through attention to Him, and likewise for all else to which names and attributes apply that is existent and witnessed in the human temple. And all these diverse names and manifest attributes are revealed and witnessed from this verse of oneness, yet He, in His very essence and quiddity, is sanctified above all these names and attributes. (edit)
3	بلکه دون آن در ساحت او معدوم صرف و مفقود بحت است و اگر الی ما لا نهایه بعقول اوّلیّه و آخریّه در این لطیفهٴ ربّانیّه و تجلّی عزّ صمدانیّه تفکّر نمائی البتّه از عرفان او کما هو حقّه خود را عاجز و قاصر مشاهده نمائی و چون عجز و قصور خود را از بلوغ بعرفان آیهٴ موجودهٔ در خود مشاهده نمودی البتّه عجز خود و عجز ممکنات را از عرفان ذات احدیّه و شمس عزّ قدمیّه بعین سر و سرّ ملاحظه نمائی و اعتراف بر عجز در این مقام از روی بصیرت منتها مقام عرفان عبد است و منتها بلوغ عباد... (edit)	Wert thou to ponder in thine heart, from now until the end that hath no end, and with all the concentrated intelligence and understanding which the greatest minds have attained in the past or will attain in the future, this divinely ordained and subtle Reality, this sign of the revelation of the All-Abiding, All-Glorious God, thou wilt fail to comprehend its mystery or to appraise its virtue. Having recognized thy powerlessness to attain to an adequate understanding of that Reality which abideth within thee, thou wilt readily admit the futility of such efforts as may be attempted by thee, or by any of the created things, to fathom the mystery of the Living God, the Daystar of unfading glory, the Ancient of everlasting days. This confession of helplessness which mature contemplation must eventually impel every mind to make is in itself the acme of human understanding, and marketh the culmination of man’s development. (edit)	Rather, apart from Him, in His realm it is sheer nonexistence and absolute loss; and if you were to reflect without end with the first and last intellects upon this divine subtlety and the theophany of the august, self-subsisting One, you would assuredly find yourself powerless and deficient in attaining knowledge of Him as He truly is. And when you behold your own inability and deficiency to reach knowledge of the sign existing within yourself, you will certainly, with the eye of the head and of the secret, observe your inability and the inability of contingent beings to know the Essence of the Divine Unity and the Sun of pre-eternal glory; and to confess one’s incapacity in this station, out of insight, is the utmost station of the servant’s knowledge and the furthest attainment of the servants... (edit)
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