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| 1 | باری ای سلمان آنچه عرفا ذکر نمودهاند جمیع در رتبهٴ خلق بوده و خواهد بود چه که نفوس عالیه و افئدهٴ مجرّده هر قدر در سماء علم و عرفان طیران نمایند از رتبهٴ ممکن و ما خلق فی انفسهم بأنفسهم تجاوز نتوانند نمود کلّ العرفان من کلّ عارف و کلّ الأذکار من کلّ ذاکر و کلّ الأوصاف من کلّ واصف ینتهی الی ما خلق فی نفسه من تجلّی ربّه و هر (edit)
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– CXLVIII – O Salmán! All that the sages and mystics have said or written have never exceeded, nor can they ever hope to exceed, the limitations to which man’s finite mind hath been strictly subjected. To whatever heights the mind of the most exalted of men may soar, however great the depths which the detached and understanding heart can penetrate, such mind and heart can never transcend that which is the creature of their own conceptions and the product of their own thoughts. The meditations of the profoundest thinker, the devotions of the holiest of saints, the highest expressions of praise from either human pen or tongue, are but a reflection of that which hath been created within themselves, through the revelation of the Lord, their God. (edit) | O Salman, that which the mystics have mentioned has all been, and will be, within the rank of creation; for however much lofty souls and sanctified hearts may soar in the heaven of knowledge and gnosis, they cannot pass beyond the station of the contingent and that which they have created within themselves by themselves. All gnosis from every gnostic, and all remembrances from every rememberer, and all descriptions from every describer, end in what he has created within himself from the manifestation of his Lord, and every (edit) |
| 2 | نفسی فیالجمله تفکّر نماید خود تصدیق مینماید باینکه از برای خلق تجاوز از حدّ خود ممکن نه و کلّ امثله و عرفان از اوّل لا اوّل بخلق او که از مشیّت امکانیّه بنفسه لنفسه لا من شیء خلق شده راجع فسبحان الله من ان یعرف بعرفان احد او ان یرجع الیه امثال نفس لم یکن بینه و بین خلقه لا من نسبة و لا من ربط و لا من جهة و اشارة و دلالة و قد (edit)
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Whoever pondereth this truth in his heart will readily admit that there are certain limits which no human being can possibly transgress. Every attempt which, from the beginning that hath no beginning, hath been made to visualize and know God is limited by the exigencies of His own creation — a creation which He, through the operation of His own Will and for the purposes of none other but His own Self, hath called into being. Immeasurably exalted is He above the strivings of human mind to grasp His Essence, or of human tongue to describe His mystery. No tie of direct intercourse can ever bind Him to the things He hath created, nor can the most abstruse and most remote allusions of His creatures do justice to His being. (edit) | If the soul, in brief, reflects, it itself affirms that for the creation it is not possible to تجاوز beyond its own limit; and all similitudes and all knowledge, from the beginning without beginning, return to His creation—the one who, by the contingent Will, was created by Himself for Himself, from no thing. So glorified is God above being known by the knowledge of anyone, or that there should return to Him any likenesses. There was between Him and His creation neither relation nor connection, nor aspect, indication, or sign, and indeed. (edit) |
| 3 | خلق الممکنات بمشیّته الّتی احاطت العالمین حقّ لمیزل در علوّ سلطان ارتفاع وحدت خود مقدّس از عرفان ممکنات بوده و لایزال بسموّ امتناع ملیک رفعت خود منزّه از ادراک موجودات خواهد بود جمیع من فی الأرض و السّمآء بکلمهٴ او خلق شدهاند و از عدم بحت بعرصهٴ وجود آمدهاند چگونه میشود مخلوقی که از کلمه خلق شده بذات قدم ارتقا نماید... (edit)
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Through His world-pervading Will He hath brought into being all created things. He is and hath ever been veiled in the ancient eternity of His own exalted and indivisible Essence, and will everlastingly continue to remain concealed in His inaccessible majesty and glory. All that is in heaven and all that is in the earth have come to exist at His bidding, and by His Will all have stepped out of utter nothingness into the realm of being. How can, therefore, the creature which the Word of God hath fashioned comprehend the nature of Him Who is the Ancient of Days? (edit) | He created contingent beings by His will that has encompassed the worlds. The True One has ever been, in the loftiness of the sovereign exaltation of His oneness, sanctified beyond the knowledge of contingent beings; and He will ever be, in the sublime inaccessibility of the kingly eminence of His exaltation, exalted above the comprehension of created things. All who are on earth and in heaven have been created by His word and have come forth from absolute nonexistence into the realm of being. How can a creature that has been created by the Word ascend to the Essence of pre-existence... (edit) |
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