{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/siim/siim15.htm","path":"isl/siim/siim15.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/siim/siim15.htm","text":"Studies in Islamic Mysticism, by Reynold A. Nicholson, [1921]\nMention has been made (p. 99, note 2 supra) of J\u00edl\u00ed's ode entitled al-Naw\u00e1diru \u2019l-\u2018 ayniyya fi \u2019l-baw\u00e1diri \u2019l-ghaybiyya. In the Ins\u00e1nu \u2019l-K\u00e1mil he cites 36 of its 534 verses (I. 30, 3; 39, 6 fr. foot; 52, 17; 66, 19; and 76, 15) and describes it as a magnificent and unique composition, too sublime to be fully understood. It is, however, little more than a versified summary of matter set forth in the Ins\u00e1nu \u2019l-K\u00e1mil, though in some instances the author expresses himself with a freedom and boldness which would hardly be tolerated in a prose treatise. As a poem, apart from its ungraceful style, it suffers from expounding a theory of mystical philosophy and cannot bear comparison with Ibnu \u2019l-F\u00e1ri\u1e0d's T\u00e1\u2019iyya\u2014the poetry of pure mysticism. The extracts given below have been copied from a manuscript in the British Museum (Or. 3684; Rieu's Suppl. to the Catalogue of Arabic MSS. No. 245) containing the text together with a commentary by \u2018Abdu \u2019l-Ghan\u00ed al-N\u00e1bulus\u00ed.\n \n \nClick to enlarge\n1 (f. 130 b)\nv. \u0662. Instead of \"there is no god but Allah\" the poet says, \"there is nothing but Absolute Beauty (jam\u00e1l) and phenomenal beauty (\u1e25usn),\" these being the inward and outward aspects of the Beloved.\n \n \nClick to enlarge\n2 (f. 139 b)\nvv. \u0667\u2013\u0666. The individualisations of the Divine Essence are named \"the creatures of God,\" but in reality they are no other than the Essence itself.\n \n \nClick to enlarge\n3 (f. 146 b)\nv. \u0662\u0660. The rhyme in this poem is muqayyad. Even J\u00edl\u00ed could not have written here, or , (4, v. \u0662\u0662). He neglects the rule that in this form of \u1e6caw\u00edl the third foot of the second hemistich should be \u0306 \u0304 \u0306 (not \u0306 \u0304 \u0304).\n \n \nClick to enlarge\n4 (f. 156 a)\nv. \u0666. MS. . Cf. p. 123 supra.\nv. \u0668 foll. The terms \"ascent\" and \"descent\" are improperly applied to the spirit, which has its being in God ( in v. \u0661. means ). In order to distinguish it from God, we say that it is particularised and individualised, i.e. created; and we give the name of \"spirit\" to this individualisation, by means of which God displays Himself as in a mirror.\nv. \u0661\u0664. is a correction of the MS. reading .\n \n \nClick to enlarge\n4 (f. 156 a) (cont.)\n \n \nClick to enlarge\n5 (f. 161 b)\nv. \u0662 foll. Cf. p. 151 infra.\nv. \u0661\u0662 foll. Cf. p. 126 supra.\n \n \nClick to enlarge\n5 (f. 161 b) (cont.)\n \n \nClick to enlarge\n6 (f. 170 b)","title":"Studies in Islamic Mysticism: Appendices: Appendix I. J\u00edl\u00ed's \u2018Ayniyya","type":"page"}