Fusus al-Hikam The Seals of Wisdom by Shaykh al ... - ImagoMundi

10: The Seal of the Wisdom of Divine Unity (Ahadiyya)
in the Word of Hud
Allah has the straight path which is manifest
and unhidden among the common people.
Its source exists in great and small,
in those who are ignorant of matters
and those who know.
For this reason, 'His mercy encompasses everything,' (1) great and small. "There is no
creature He does not hold by the forelock. My Lord is on a Straight Path." (11:56) So all
that walks on the Straight Path of the Lord, and is not of those "against whom Allah is
wrathful" from this aspect, nor is he "astray". (2) As being astray is a non-essential
quality, so divine wrath is also a non-essential quality. The source to which they return
is the "mercy which extends to all things", and which preceded wrath. Everything which
is other-than-Allah is a creature which crawls and which has a spirit. There is nothing
which crawls by itself, rather it crawls by other than it. It crawls by the principle of
following the One who is on a Straight Path. It is only a path by virtue of the fact that it
is walked on.
If creation draws near you, Allah draws near you.
If Allah draws near you, creation does not follow.
So realise what we say on it,
and everything I have said to you is true.
There is no existent thing in phenomenal being
that you see which does not have articulation.
The eye only sees of creation
that its source is Allah.
But He is stored in it,
and for this reason, its forms are true.
Know that divine knowledges of taste (dhawq) which are acquired by the people of
Allah differ according to the different faculties acquired from them, even though they
derive from a single source. Allah said, "I am his hearing by which he hears and his
sight by which he sees and his hand by which he strikes and his foot by which he
walks." (3) So He mentioned that His He-ness is the source of the limbs which are the
same as the slave. Thus He-ness is one, but the limbs are different, and every limb has
one of the knowledges of taste which are specified from a single source, and differ
according to the different limbs. It is like water which is but a single reality, yet differs
in taste according to the different locations. The water of the Euphrates is sweet, and
brackish water is salty, yet it is water in all its states and its reality does not change,
even though the taste differs.
This wisdom is from the wisdom of the feet. It is the words of Allah, that whoever
establishes His Books will eat "from beneath their feet" (5:66). The path which is the
Straight Path is travelling on it, and walking and running on it. It is only by the feet. So
this witnessing of the taking by the forelock by the hand of the One who is one the
Straight Path only results in this special art from the knowledges of taste. "We will drive
the evildoers" (19:86), (4) who are those who deserve the station to which they are sent,