North-African path · level 2 · Ḥāshiyat al-Bājūrī ʿalā al-Sullam · الدَّرْسُ 3 مِنْ 18

Conception, assent, and the names of the two roads

Introduction · anwāʿ al-ʿilm al-ḥādith · pp. 39–43

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Ḥāshiyat al-Bājūrī ʿalā al-Sullam حاشِيَةُ الباجُورِيِّ عَلَى السُّلَّمِ

Ibrāhīm al-Bājūrī (d. 1276/1860)

Text: Arabic: passages quoted in the lessons, transcribed by The Mantiqi from this print (the whole text is not reproduced): Ḥāshiyat al-Bājūrī ʿalā matn al-Sullam, with al-Anbābī's taqrīr in the margin, al-Maṭbaʿa al-Azhariyya al-Miṣriyya (2nd printing), Cairo 1324/1906, pp. 26–112 (passages) View the scan
Lessons follow: The lessons are The Mantiqi's own explanations of the Sullam, verse by verse, following Ibrāhīm al-Bājūrī; his words are quoted where they matter most.
Translation: The Mantiqi's own; a draft.
Review: Draft, awaiting review by Ustadh Muhammad Yusuf.

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Quoted from the Arabic of Ḥāshiyat al-Bājūrī ʿalā matn al-Sullam, with al-Anbābī's taqrīr in the margin, Cairo 1324/1906

المُرادُ بِإِدْراكِ المُفْرَدِ الإِدْراكُ الَّذِي لَمْ يَتَعَلَّقْ بِالنِّسْبَةِ الخارِجِيَّةِ عَلَى وَجْهِ الإِذْعانِ، بِأَنْ لَمْ يَتَعَلَّقْ بِنِسْبَةٍ أَصْلًا، وَذٰلِكَ إِدْراكُ المَوْضُوعِ وَحْدَهُ وَإِدْراكُ المَحْمُولِ وَحْدَهُ وَإِدْراكُهُما دُونَ النِّسْبَةِ بَيْنَهُما، أَوْ تَعَلَّقَ بِنِسْبَةٍ غَيْرِ خارِجِيَّةٍ.

By “grasping the single” is meant a grasp that is not bound to the external relation by way of yielding to it: either it is bound to no relation at all — the grasp of the subject alone, of the predicate alone, or of both without the relation between them — or it is bound to a relation that is not external.

p. 39

المُرادُ أَنَّهُ يُسَمَّى حُجَّةً، وَإِنَّما سُمِّيَ بِذٰلِكَ لِأَنَّ مَنْ تَمَسَّكَ بِهِ حَجَّ خَصْمَهُ وَغَلَبَهُ.

What is meant is that it is called an argument (ḥujja); and it is so called because whoever holds fast to it overcomes (ḥajja) his opponent and defeats him.

p. 43

The lesson

The Sullam divides originated into the grasp of a single thing, which is (taṣawwur), and the grasp of a relation, which is (taṣdīq). Al-Bājūrī explains why the poet says “originated” (ḥādith): to leave out God's knowledge, which is not divided into kinds.

He then makes “the grasp of a single” exact. It is a grasp not bound to the external relation by way of yielding: the grasp of the alone, of the alone, of both without the relation between them, or of a relation that is not held as true. So the doubter and the one who only imagines a judgement have ; only the one who yields to the relation has an .

What leads to a is called a , and what leads to an an (ḥujja). Al-Bājūrī gives the reason for the second name: whoever holds fast to an argument overcomes (ḥajja) his opponent. He also notes that “the intelligent” (al-ʿuqalāʾ) in the poem means the people of this , the .

Terms

التَّصَوُّرُ al-taṣawwur: conception: the grasp of a single, without yielding to a relation
التَّصْدِيقُ al-taṣdīq: assent: the grasp of a relation, yielded to
الحُجَّةُ al-ḥujja: argument: what leads to an assent

Examples

زَيْدٌ قائِمٌ
“Zayd is standing”: grasping Zayd, standing, or the link without yielding to it is conception; yielding to it is assent

اخْتَبِرْ نَفْسَك

3 questions on this lesson. With 6 out of 10 or more (two stars) the next lesson opens.

السؤال 1
Why, according to al-Bājūrī, does the Sullam say “originated knowledge”?
السؤال 2
Someone grasps the subject and the predicate and the link between them, but doubts it. What does he have?
السؤال 3
Why is what leads to an assent called a ḥujja?

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