فصوص الحكم · فصّ آدميّة
Fusus al-Hikam I (Bezel of Adam) -- the opening on the Beautiful Names beyond enumeration
Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam · Faṣṣ Ādamiyya
Ibn al-'Arabi (Muhyi al-Din), Damascus, 627/1230 CE
لَمَّا شَاءَ الحَقُّ سُبْحَانَهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ أَسْمَاؤُهُ الحُسْنَى الَّتِي لاَ يَبْلُغُهَا الإِحْصَاءُ أَنْ يَرَى أَعْيَانَهَا،
When the Real — glory be to Him — willed, in respect of His most beautiful Names, which no enumeration can exhaust, to behold their entities (aʿyān) —
وَإِنْ شِئْتَ قُلْتَ: أَنْ يَرَى عَيْنَهُ، فِي كَوْنٍ جَامِعٍ يَحْصُرُ الأَمْرَ كُلَّهُ.
or, if you prefer, to behold His own entity (ʿayn) — in a comprehensive engendered being (kawn jāmiʿ) that gathers the whole affair…
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