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

32. (ma qulta = I did not say).
33. Literally in the Arabic, "I was against them a witness."
34. This is the end of what 'Isa said in this verse.
35. On the Day of Gathering.
36. According to the commentator, the leaven is the predisposition for the arrival in the
presence of Allah. The dough is the clay of his substance.
37. All used in this verse.
38. i.e. with knowledge, weeping, and maintaining adab.
16: The Seal of the Wisdom of Mercy
in the Word of Sulayman (Solomon)
Bilqis said, (1) "It (the letter) is from Sulayman and it says 'In the Name of Allah, the
All-Merciful, Most Merciful.'" Some people criticise the fact that the name of Sulayman
comes before the name of Allah. That is not the case, and in saying this they say
something that does not befit the gnosis which Sulayman, peace be upon him, had of his
Lord. How could what they say be connected to him when Bilqis said of it, "a noble
letter had been delivered to me," that is, a letter which honoured her. In this they were
influenced by the story of how Chosroes tore up the letter of the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace. (2) He did not tear it up until he had read all
of it and knew what it contained. It was the same with Bilqis. Had she not accepted
what was established, respect for its author would not have prevented her from tearing
up the letter, whether his name, peace be upon him, had been mentioned before or after
the name of Allah.
Sulayman mentioned the two mercies: the mercy of graciousness and the mercy of
obligation, and they are ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. So Allah freely dispenses His bounty by
the Rahman, and it is incumbent on Him by the Rahim. This obligation comes from
graciousness, so Rahim is contained in Rahman. Allah "has prescribed mercy for
Himself," glory be to Him! in order that the slave might have what Allah spoke about of
the deeds which this slave brings, expecting his due from Allah who has required
Himself to have this mercy for them, the mercy of obligation. When one of the slaves is
like this, he knows that He is the author of the deed.
The deed is divided according to the eight organs of man. Allah informed us that He is
the He-ness of each organ. So the author of the action is none other than Allah while the
form is that of the slave. He-ness is embodied in him, i.e. only in his name because
Allah is the source of what is manifested and which is called "creation". Because of this,
the names of the Manifest and the Last belong to the slave since he was not and then
was. By the fact that his manifestation depends on Him and action issues from Him,