BEŞİNCİ BÂB · İKİNCİ FASIL · Dördüncü Madde
Fourth Point
Regarding the Exaltation of God from Imperfection and Understanding the Path to It Through Man’s Faultless Perception of His Own Self.
O esteemed one! Know that the people of insight have said: It is possible for one to understand God's transcendence of all imperfection and deficiency through the example of perceiving his own self as faultless (exalted). For indeed, the human soul, from the heart to the limbs, possesses authority and control over them. Yet it is a divine essence whose reality is free from conjecture and illusion, measure and quantity; division and fragmentation are not applicable to it. It is devoid of form and color. And God is exalted above all fleeting thoughts, sanctified from all images in imagination; He is far removed from time and space. However, the acts emanating from Him are not exempt from time, nor are His manifestations free from place.
Just as love, comfort, sorrow, taste, pleasure, grief, joy, tranquility, delight, sadness, hearing, seeing, smelling, voice, and other capacities and powers reside within the human body, so too do the attributes of the soul reside therein. But their realities and how they are cannot be conceived. Likewise, all the attributes, names, and actions of God manifest in the world, and all things become a place of manifestation of God’s attributes, names, and acts. However, how God's acts occur, the essence of His attributes, and the reality of His names cannot be described; the human intellect cannot grasp them. Just as the eye does not derive pleasure from the ear’s hearing, nor does the nose derive enjoyment from the taste of food, similarly external senses do not partake of what the intellect comprehends. And the intellect does not know the states of the heart. For the human soul, being a divine act, has its place of descent in the lower realm which is the heart; its reality cannot be known nor described with attributes.
Just as the human soul possesses authority and influence over the entire body, yet man does not comprehend its mode of operation, so too is the Lord of the Worlds, God, the possessor of power over all the world and all things. How this occurs is something that man will not be able to perceive. The Lord of the Worlds, God, exercises authority over all things in the world, and His manner and nature cannot be conceived.
Just as the soul’s inclination, interest, and connection permeate all organs; its command prevails throughout the body. The entire body is entirely His servant. But the body is susceptible to separation and fragmentation. The human soul is free from this. God's light is also essential to all things. Every particle of the universe continues its existence by His power. And every object has passed beyond itself with His remembrance and glorification. All His creations serve and obey Him.
Everything is inclined towards Him in every moment, and His blessings are continuous for everyone. But He cannot be attributed to a place, compared to an object, or related to a direction; it is necessary to exalt Him above all of these things. The gate of God’s transcendence does not open to any soul unless the secret of his own self is revealed. And that secret is not permitted by the Sharia. Therefore, those who consider the human soul separate from the body and separate from it are more numerous than those who consider it within the body and of the body. However, Muslim philosophers (the unified wise men) have accepted the human soul as outside the body with rational proofs and exalted its origin from being within the body.
Verse
1-O He who raises the banners of His power,
Upon the possible forms of creations!
2-Who places the secrets of His wisdom,
Into the shapes of the universe!
3-O light of lights, O the transcendent One free from manifestation,
You are the light of all things. Through you is the emergence of every bounty!
4-Pour upon us the lights of Your knowledge! Deliver us
From the darkness of human desires with love for You!
5-Deliver us from being drawn into the whirlpools of the illusory world
And raise us by the cord of the light of holiness to the ascents of light.
Verse Translation
1-Hak said, "The light of the heavens and earth;
The Lord of the worlds described His essence."
2-The people of Hak found Him in their selves clearly;
The light of Hak is surely close to the world.
3-Hak said, “I hear with Him, I see with Him.”
Because he found his light, this water and clay mixture.
4-People of insight did not ascend in ecstasy;
Unless the secret of companionship became apparent.
5-If pure light had not been found by earth and water;
The form of meaning would not have appeared.
6 -Those who find the light "neither eastern nor western;"
Hearts become candles of light with certainty.
7-If you annihilate your existence and find annihilation;
The secret of the most excellent inheritor will appear.
8-The people of Hak found unity in multiplicity;
Safe, free from all ailments, and rich in spirit.
9-Entrust yourself to God, let God be your self;
Find the chosen agent, “You are the best helper.”
Truth! Come, entrust yourself to Truth; find the one who is master of your actions, for he is a most excellent helper.