Al-Uqud al-Durriyya - Ibn Abd al-Hadi - (الكتاب/369)

Al-Uqud al-DurriyyaIbn Abd al-Hadi

and have turned it upside-down, spurning the law brought by the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

As for the Yūnusiyya: they deify their shaykh, regard him as a manifestation of the True, belittle the prescribed acts of worship (1), and parade about with pharaonic swagger, domineering bravado, crassness, and sheer absurdities, all springing from the corrupt fantasies lodged in their hearts. Their qiblah is Shaykh Yūnus (2); the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—and the Noble Qur’an stand far removed from them: they voice belief with their tongues while denying it through their deeds.

The same holds for the advocates of “oneness of being” (the Ittihādiyya). They treat all existence as a manifestation of the True, claiming that there is no mover in the cosmos but Him (3) and no speaker among persons other than Him (4). Some of them draw no line between the apparent and what appears; they liken the matter to the waves of the sea, making no distinction between the essence of a wave and the essence of the sea itself, until one of them imagines he is God, speaks as though God were on his tongue, and then proceeds to commit whatever indecencies and sins he pleases—convinced that duality has disappeared (5): who, then, is the worshipper and who the One worshipped? It has all become a single entity!

We have encountered this sort in ribāṭs and zawiyas.

By Allah’s grace, you too have stood firm against such people: you aid Allah and His Messenger, defend His religion, strive to repair what they have ruined, and to straighten what they have twisted. These individuals have erased every trace of the religion and uprooted it altogether, so it cannot be said that they merely corrupted it, nor

(1) MS B reads “wa-yashtahirun” (and they become well-known). (2) His biography appeared earlier, p. 65. (3) The additional wording is from MSS F and K. (4) The bracketed phrase is taken from MS F; MS K reads “wa la natiq” (nor any speaker). It is absent from both the autograph and MS B, which instead read “ghayruhum” (others). (5) MS B reads “al-thanawiyya” (the dualists).

وقلبوه، وأعرضوا عن شريعةِ رسول الله ﷺ . فاليونسية: يتألَّهون شيخَهم، ويجعلونه مَظْهَرًا للحقّ، ويستهينون (١) بالعبادات، ويظهرون بالفَرْعَنة والصَّولة، والسفاهة والمحالات، لما وَقَر في بواطنهم من الخيالات الفاسدة. وقِبلتهم الشيخ يونس (٢). ورسولُ الله ﷺ والقرآنُ المجيد عنهم بمعزل، يؤمنون به بألسنتهم، ويكفرون به بأفعالهم. وكذلك الاتحاديّة، يجعلون الوجود مَظْهَرًا للحقِّ، باعتبار أن [لا] (٣) متحرِّك في الكون سواه، و [أن لا] ناطق في الأشخاص غيرُه (٤). وفيهم من لا يفرق بين الظاهر والمظهر، فيجعل الأمر كموج البحر، فلا يفرّق بين عين الموجَة وبين عين البحر، حتَّى إن أحدهم يتوهَّم أنه الله، فينطق على لسانه، ثم يفعل ما أراد من الفواحش والمعاصي؛ لأنَّه يعتقد ارتفاع المثنوية (٥)، فمن العابدُ ومن المعبود؟ صار الكلُّ واحدًا! ! اجتمعنا بهذا الصنف في الرُّبُط والزوايا. فأنتم بحمد الله قائمون في وجه هؤلاء أيضًا تنصرون الله ورسوله، وتذبُّون عن دينه، وتعملون على إصلاح ما أفسدوا، وعلى تقويم ما عوّجوا. فإنَّ هؤلاء محوا رَسْم الدِّين، وقلعوا أثره، فلا يقال: أفسدوا ولا

(١) (ب): «ويشتهرون». (٢) تقدمت ترجمته (ص ٦٥). (٣) الزيادة من (ف، ك). (٤) ما بين المعكوفين من (ف)، وفي (ك): «ولا ناطق»، وسقطت من الأصل وب. وفي الأصل وب: «غيرهم». (٥) (ب): «الثنوية».