Dialogue 2
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My servant, I have reserved you for Myself.
If you want to make yourself known to other than Me, you would be
associating a partner with Me, and if you would listen to other than
Me, you would be associating a partner with Me.
I am your Sustainer who Sawwā (For the Aptitude to absorb the Nur (Light)
formed) you for Hu
and chose you for
conversation and showed you all Maqām (Stationary States)
before Hu
in order that, you
know that you have no Maqām (Stationary State)
before anything other than Hu.
Indeed
your Maqām (Stationary
State) is your vision of Hu
and your ‘Ifrād (Perfection out of the circle of Humanity) is only in Hu's
Presence.
O My servant, I have placed in everything a Maqām (Stationary State)
of Ma’refat (Divine Gnostics) for
you and placed in every Maqām (Stationary State)
of Ma’refat (Divine Gnostics) a station of attachment
for you, so that you are attached to Me and not to the stations and so
that you are seeking Me and not seeking the ends.
I have separated you away from the beginnings and walked you away from
them to the ends, then separated you away from the ends and navigated
you to the Ziādāt
(Excessive Nur (Light))
then separated you from the Ziādāt
and navigated you from that to Me.
The beginnings are your knowledge, the ends are your works and the
Ziādāt (Excessive Nur (Light)) is a
knowledge that found you with Me; I realize in him
whatever cognizance I will and I bestow upon him whatever bestowal I
will.
For I look at you and not at the beginnings or at the ends; not at the
Ziādāt (Excessive Nur (Light)) or
at whatever is between you and Me. For there is no
distance between you and Me, I am nearer to you than everything else,
no distance between us.
And I am nearer to you than you, without you being able to encompass Me.
You are your own limit and you are the veil of your own Nafs (Self).
How you came to be? How you become cognizant of you? And all the while
you were looking at Me! And yet no curtains were lowered between you
and Me! And only you sit in My company and not the barriers between you
and Me.
O my servant, there are those who sit in My company and whom I have
enabled to witness My presence. I protect them with Myself and I face
them with My Wajh (Face). I
stand in Ghairat (vigilance over them preventing the
nearness of all else), so that I keep them to Me away from all else, in
order that they learn from Me and in order that their hearts gain
certitude in Me.
It is I who addresses them.
They are the close companions of My Knowledge of which they may speak
and about which they may remain silent; for My Knowledge is the
sanctuary of their knowledge and their knowledge is the sanctuary of
their Nafs(s) (Selves).
O my servant, I have emerged you only to worship Me. If I uncover your
veils, it is in order that you talk to Me and if I approach you, it is
in order that you sit in My company.
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المواقف
والمخاطبات النفري
مخاطبة 2
يا عبد أخلصتك لنفسي فإن أردت أن يعلم بك سواي فقد أشركت بي وإذا سمعت من
سواي فقد أشركت بي، أنا ربك الذي سواك لنفسه واصطفاك لمحادثته وأشهدك مقام
كل شيء منه لتعلم أن لا مقام لك في شيء من دونه، إنما مقامك رؤيته وإنما
إفرادك حضرته.
يا عبد إني جعلت لك في كل شيء مقام معرفة وإني جعلت لك في مقام كل معرفة
مقام تعلق لتكون بي لا بالمقامات ولتكون عني لا عن النهايات، إني اصطفيتك
عن البدايات فأجريتك عنها إلى النهايات ثم اصطفيتك عن النهايات فرحلتك
عنها إلى الزيادات ثم اصطفيتك عن الزيادات فرحلتك عنها إلي، فالبدايات
علمك ونهاياتها عملك والزيادات علم وجدك عندي أتعرف إليه بما أشاء وألقى
إليه ما أشاء وأنا إليك أنظر لا إلى البدايات ولا إلى النهايات ولا إلى
الزيادات ولا إلى الشيء هو بينك وبيني إذ لا بين بيني وبينك، أنا أقرب
إليك من كل شيء فلا بين وأنا أقرب إليك منك فلا أحاطة لك بي، أنت حد نفسك
وأنت حجاب نفسك كيف كنت وكيف تعرفت إليك وأنت منظري فلا الستور المسدلة
بيني وبينك وأنت جليسي لا الحدود بينك وبيني
يا عبد لي جلساء أشهدتهم حضرتي وأتولاهم بنفسي وأقبل عليهم بوجهي وأقف
بينهم وبين
كل شيء غيرة عليهم من كل شيء، ذلك لأردهم إلي عن كل شيء وذلك ليفقهوا عني
ولتوقن بي قلوبهم، إني أنا أخاطبهم، أولئك أولياء معرفتي بها ينطقون
وعليها يصمتون فهي كهف علومهم وعلومهم كهوف أنفسهم
يا عبد إنما أظهرتك لعبادتي فإن كشفت عن سدولك فلمحادثتي وإن أقبلت عليك
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