Confluence of Spiritual Science and Material Science - Part 12
Part 12
Tags: Niche, Luminous Lamp, Law of renewal
In the name of God, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful
O my `azizan in knowledge and soul! May He enable you to remember this fundamental principle that the law of renewal (qanun-i tajaddud) is in both the external world and the internal world.
Hazrat-i Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah (May peace be through him), the greatest of the Imams, has drawn special attention to the verse of Lamp: "Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth." (24:35) By his inner and luminous guidance it has become known that its living and luminous ta'wil is in the manifestations of the Sacred Sanctuary, such as: the holy niche is the mouth of the blessed qalb (heart, intellect) of the Imam (May peace be through him) of the time; the luminous lamp is the supreme Name of the pure light; lamp stand (fanus) is the verbal supreme Name; shining of the star like the pearl is the manifestations and theophanies of the pearl of Intellect and the hidden Book whose inspirational (ilhami) ta'wil is always from the supreme Light; the olive tree is the Universal Soul; neither of the east nor of the west is the non-spatial rank.
Note: The greatest of the Imams is "The night of qadr is better than a thousand months" (97:3) See Wajh-i Din.1
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1Nasir-i Khusraw (Pir), Wajh-i Din, ed. Gh. R. Aavani (Tehran, 1977), pp. 260-61; trans. into Urdu `Allamah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai, (Karachi, 2000), pp. 320-21.
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