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A
Glimpse from its Light
[Enough is a
glimpse from its light, but
with good faith, I will endow you with its light]
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Form
the
pearls of Imam Fakhreddin [AAH] that are far above the understanding,
the brains and the hearts. He [AAH] says about it:
[for whoever hopes for protection from matters,
then the pillars of protection are in its refuge]
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[The first desire of the souls is drinking
and if it becomes thirsty, then it did not get its wish]
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[It is not, for the hearts or the brains,
to understand it, nor the beginning of its end]
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[Whereas there is no one, except me, all-knowing
of what it contains and what is its content]
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[Enough is a glimpse from its light, but
with good faith, I will endow you with its light]
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Here, the
word
“matters” here means: the matters and affairs and whoever wants the
protection from worldly life age’s matters, whether it was
complicated or simple, it suffices him to know that the protection
pillars are in the refuge of these poems. As its meanings are drawn
from the Holy Qur'an, driven to us by a knower of Allah from those
whom Allah, Almighty, said about them [And know that the
Messenger of Allah is among you. If he were to obey you in much of
the matter, you would surely be in trouble; but Allah has endeared
the faith to you and has beautified it in your hearts, and has made
disbelief
 and lewdness and rebellion hateful unto you. Such are they
who are the rightly guided]
al-Hujurat 49:7.
The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH]
is in them with his Sunna, with his knowledge, with his wisdom, and
with his morals. Those are the rightly guided ones. The Messenger [PPBUH]
is with them, teaching them and if you want to know more, read this
honorable verse [He is Who has sent among the unlettered ones
a messenger from among them, recite unto them His verses, to purify
them and to teach them the book and wisdom that they were in a
manifest astray before ¤ Along with others of them who have not yet
joined them. For He is the Almighty, the All-Wise ¤ That is the
grace of Allah, which He grants unto whom He wills. For Allah is of
the greatest grace]
al-Jumu’ah 62:2-4.
Look at these words [to purify them and to teaching them the
Book and wisdom], look also at [Along with others of
them who have not yet joined them. For He is the Almighty, the
All-Wise] that is; which means that they have not come yet [That
is the grace of Allah, which He grants unto whom He wills. For Allah
is of the greatest grace]. By Allah, we have never been
wronged in this worldly life, as there came to us who inherited the
Messenger of Allah [PPBUH].
And the Hadith said (The knowledgeable scholars are the
successors of the prophets). And the other Hadith says (The
knowledgeable scholars of my nation are like the prophets of Bani
Israel). Another Hadith says (You should follow my Sunna and
the Sunna of the rightly guided orthodox Caliphs after me, bite on
it with the molars and fangs). That is; hold and follow that
Sunna insistently. Also there is another Hadith which was mentioned
in the Musnad of Imam Ahmed [AAH], the founder of one of the
main Shari'a doctrines, says “Mohamed bin Ga’far narrated from
Abo-Hazem saying: I stayed with Abo-Hurayrah [AAH]
for five years. Once, I heard him talking about the Prophet [PPBUH]
that he said (Bani Israel were governed by the prophets, whenever
a prophet passes away, another prophet succeeds him. And there will
be no prophet after me, there will be successors and there will be
much). They said: and what is the thing you order us to do? He [PPBUH]
said (fulfill the homage of the first one then the next one, and
give them the rights that Allah made for them, as Allah will ask
them about whom He made them sponsor). Another Hadith said (Allah
sends for this nation, on the top of each hundred year, someone who
renews its religion).
Abo-Ahmed said: Mohamed ibn Ali ibn al-Husain said: I heard our
companions saying: Omar ibn Abdel-Aziz was from the first hundred
and Mohamed ibn Idris ash-Shafei’y was in the second hundred. Sheikh
Ahmed said: we narrated from Ahmed ibn Hanbal [AAH]
that he said:
and Omar ibn Abdel-Aziz was at the top of the hundred
and I hope that ash-Shafei’y will be at the top of the other
hundred. When this Imam speaks, everyone should listen. Imam
Fakhreddin [AAH]
has come with many attributes and signs, from these signs, these
poems that we are studying, and that the eloquence failed to reach
it
and which rendered the eloquent, the rhetoricians and the
grammarians impotent. That is because the one who said it is a
successor of he who was granted “the controls of the language”
[PPBUH],
and because Allah sent him out to renew. As long as Allah had sent
him out, so what could we say with that?
Sorry for the expatiation. And back to the poem
 verses; if we said
that the pillars of protection are the five basic pillars of Islam,
for example, as a meaning from the meanings, we would find that this
means: whoever is sheltered by embracing Islam and testified to the
five basic pillars. We should know that Islam was built on the five
basic pillars, but these pillars are not the whole Islam. Otherwise
where is the method? Is it possible to testify to the pillars while
leaving the method? The basic pillars that you testified to, must be
protected by working with the method which is Qur'an. The meanings
of Qur'an must be taken from a possessor of insight. And here is the
possessor of insight, who brought the right meanings in the form of
a marvelous poetry in order to facilitate its memorizing for us. He
described for us a method and path to follow and to make it easy for
us to find out what is fabricated from it. He [AAH]
says:
[The first desire of the souls is drinking
and if it becomes thirsty, then it did not get its wish]
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The drinking here means, in Arabic language, “the share”, as
the first thing the souls wish and desire is to have a share of the
meanings of the Book of Allah, Almighty, to straighten up the
worshiping, otherwise, the souls will be thirsty in the clouds of
light and will not get its straightness and find the way to those
whom Allah blessed from the prophets, saints, martyrs, righteous
people and what an honorable companions are those. Then he [AAH]
says:
[It is not, for the hearts or the brains,
to understand it, nor the beginning of its end]
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How can we perceive the meanings that Allah, Almighty, bestowed upon
His Messenger [PPBUH]
and those who have insights? As they are the ones He chose to spread
and renew the religion. How can we perceive these meanings before
they tell us? As long as the hearts still turning over and did not
settle and become “Fo’ad” (Fo’ad also means a heart, but in another
higher better state, when the heart stops turning over and becomes
settled). The highly great meanings of these poems, which are drawn
from the Holy Qur'an, will be the drink of the souls and the
connection as the saying of the Imam [AAH]:
[My words, are the drink of the souls for
connection
if you do not drink from it, then from where]
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Then he [AAH]
says:
[Whereas there is no one, except me, all-knowing
of what it contains and what is its content]
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We always hear the common poetical phrase, in Arabic language, that
(The right meaning is inside the poet), so what do you thinking of
the possessor of this versified pearls, who is not a poet. As he [AAH] says what he sees with his
insight and he never says except the truth.
[Enough is a glimpse from its light, but
with good faith, I will endow you with its light]
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Enough from its highly great meanings and facts, is a glimpse
from the light to lighten the path for us. Galaleddin as-Seyouti [AAH]
interpreted that meaning also in his famous poet verse after
testifying to the meaning of Shari'a, saying:
[O, Aal Ta-Ha you are the light th-
-at Moses believed it is a fire glimpse]
 Ta-Ha: is a Qur'anic name of the names of the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH]. That
is; Aal al-Bait [The Household of the
Messenger of Allah [PPBUH]] are that
glimpse. The interpretation of those who are versed in knowledge
interprets Moses as the heart like sayydi Mohyeddin ibn Arabi [AAH]
and others from the knowledgeable scholars [AAT].
This meaning will not be strange to us if we know the Hadith Imam
Ali [AHHF]
“Mo’awiyah ibn Hesham narrated that Ali said “truly, we are, in this
nation, like the ship of Noah and the book of Hittah in Bani
Israel”.
mentioned in Sunna al-Kubra of an-Nisa’y. Another Hadith was mentioned in Sunan at-Turmuzy
and narrated that: Ali ibn al-Munzer - from Kufa - narrated that
from zaid ibn Arquam [AAH],
that the
Messenger of Allah [PPBUH]
said (I left among you what if you
adhere to them, you will never go astray after me. One of them is
greater than the other, the book of Allah, an extended rope from
heaven to earth and my kinship, my Household [Ahl-al-Bait]. And they
will never be separated till they come to me on the river bank of
al-Hawd in paradise. So, consider how you will succeed me with them).
At-Turmuzy said: this a strange good Hadith.
If we have good faith in whom Allah sent out and loved his household
who are the household of the Beloved, Al-Mustafa, [the Chosen One] [PPBUH]
and quoted from them, this will endow us with its light and will
light us with its knowledge. May Allah benefit us from them and
resurrect us in their group and may Allah accept all our masters and
Imams. Prayers be upon sayyduna Muhammad and all his Household and
Companions.
Written by
Mohamed Maqbul
Translated by Fatima az-Zahraa
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