“Whoever knows God knows Him by one
of His attributes, and the most elect of His attributes are of three kinds:
those connected with His beauty (jamal) and with His majesty (jalal) and with
His perfection (kamal).
His perfection is not attainable except
by those whose perfection is established and whose imperfection is banished. There
remain beauty and majesty. Those whose evidence in gnosis is the beauty of God
are always longing for vision, and those whose evidence is His majesty are always
abhorring their own attributes and their hearts are stricken with awe. Now longing
is an effect of love, and so is abhorrence of human attributes, because the lifting
of the veil of human attributes is the very essence of love. Therefore faith
and gnosis are love, and obedience is a sign of love”.
Page 288, Ali ibn Usman,
al-Jullabi al-Hujwiri, Kashf al-Mahjub : the oldest Persian treatise on
suffism, Translation by Reynold A. Nicholson.
“Some, again, say that faith comes entirely from
God, while others say that it springs entirely from Man. This has long been a
matter of controversy among the people in Transoxania. To assert that faith
comes entirely from God is sheer compulsion (jabr) because Man must then have
no choice; and to assert that it springs entirely from Man is pure free-will, for
Man does not know God except through the knowledge that God gives him. The
doctrine of unification is less than compulsion and more than free-will. Similarly,
faith is really the act of Man joined to the guidance of God, as God hath said:
[A`uzu Billahi Minash Shaytaan Nir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.] “Whomsoever
God wishes to lead aright, He will open his breast to receive Islam; and
whomsoever He wishes to lead astray, He will make his breast strait and narrow”;
(Kor. vi, 125). On, this principle, inclination to believe (girawish) is the guidance
of God, while belief (girawidan) is the act of Man”.
Page 288-289, Ali ibn Usman,
al-Jullabi al-Hujwiri, Kashf al-Mahjub : the oldest Persian treatise on suffism,
Translation by Reynold A. Nicholson.
Kashf al-Mahjub : the oldest Persian treatise on suffism, Translation by Reynold A. Nicholson (E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series: v.xvii) by Ali ibn Usman, al-Jullabi al-Hujwiri, Published 1911.
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