The rule of Ibn Atallah of Alexandria

The rule of Ibn Atallah of Alexandria

Ibn Ata Allah Al-Iskandari, his name is Taj Al-Din Abu Al-Fadl Ahmed bin Muhammad bin Abdul-Karim bin Abdul-Rahman bin Abdullah bin Ahmed bin Isa bin Al-Hussein bin Atta Allah Al-Judhami, relative to the leprosy tribe in Egypt, born in (658 AH). One of the Sufi jurisprudents of the Shadhili order, founded by Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili, and he had many titles, Qutb al-Arifin, “Tarjuman al-Wasalin” and “Guide of the Wayfarers.”

Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandariyah died, leaving behind many books and wisdom in the year 709 AH in the Egyptian capital (Cairo), and he was buried in the place where he used to worship in the Mokattam cemetery. English and Spanish, but now we will mention some of his wisdom

1. There is no distance between you and Him until your journey covers it, and there is no severance between you and Him until your connection erases it.

2. He placed you in the middle world between His kingdom and His kingdom, to teach you the majesty of your destiny among His creatures, and that you are a jewel whose constituent shells grieve over you, and that the universe encompasses you in terms of your physicality, and does not contain you in terms of your spirituality.

3. The being in the universe, and the fields of the unseen were not opened to him, he is imprisoned in his surroundings, and confined to the structure of himself. 4. You are with the universes as long as you do not witness the component, and if you witness it, the universes are with you.

5. Evidence of privacy does not necessitate not describing humanity, but rather the likeness of privacy is like the sunshine of the day, it appeared on the horizon and is not from it

6. Sometimes the suns of His attributes shine on the night of your existence, and at other times He seizes that from you and returns you to your limits, for the day is not from you to Him, but it comes to you.

7. The existence of his effects indicates the existence of his names, and the existence of his names indicates the evidence of his attributes, and the existence of his attributes indicates the existence of his essence, since it is impossible for the description to be established by itself. To the witnesses of its effects, and the travelers are the opposite of this, so the end of the travelers is the beginning of those who are attracted, and the beginning of those who are attracted is the end of the travelers, for what is intended by the travelers is witnessing things to God, and the destination of those who are attracted is the witness of things to God, and the travelers are working to achieve annihilation and obliteration, and those who are attracted are followed by the path of survival And awakening, but not in one sense, perhaps they met on the way, this is in promotion and this is in declination.

8. The value of the lights of the hearts and the secrets is not known except in the unseen of the Kingdom, just as the lights of the sky do not appear except in the testimony of the King.

9. It was found that the fruits of acts of worship sooner are the good tidings of the workers with the existence of the reward for it later.

10. How do you ask for compensation for a deed that he has given you in charity, or how do you ask for a reward for the honesty that he has given you.

11. A people whose lights precede their remembrances, and a people whose remembrances precede their lights, and a people whose remembrances and lights are equal, and a people who have neither remembrances nor lights, we seek refuge in Allah from that.

12. A remembrance of remembrance to enlighten his heart, so he was remembrance, and he who remembrance enlightened his heart, so he was remembrance, and the one whose lights and remembrances are equal, so by his remembrance he is guided and by his light he is followed.

13. There was no outward remembrance except through inward witnesses and thoughts. I testified to you before I martyred you, so you spoke of his outward divinity, and hearts and secrets were realized by his oneness.

14. He honored you with three honors: He made you a remembrance of Him, and had it not been for His bounty, you would not be worthy of His remembrance upon you, and He made you mentioned by Him when He fulfilled His lineage with you, and He made you mentioned with Him to complete His favor upon you.

15. Lord, his lifespan was long and his supply was short, and maybe his life is short, his lifespan is many, so whoever blesses him in his life will realize in a short period of time some of the favors of God Almighty that do not fall under the circles of the phrase and the reference does not follow him.

16. Forsaking is all forsaking, to free yourself from preoccupations and then not turn to Him, and reduce your obstacles and then not leave to Him.

17. The idea is the movement of hearts in the fields of the Gentiles, and the idea is the lamp of the heart, and if it goes away, it has no illumination.

18. The idea is two ideas, the idea of ​​belief and belief, and the idea of ​​witnesses and eyewitnesses.