Forty Keys of Luminous Ta'wil - Part 20
Part 20
Tags: Sacred Sanctuary, Surat-i Rahman, Image of the Compassionate
By the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.
Sacred Sanctuary – the Paradise of the Personal World, Part 46 in "Sacred Sanctuary", p. 75
It is mentioned in a hadith: "Allah created Adam according to His Image." (Bukhari, hadith no. 6227, Riyaz, 1999, p. 1084). There is another hadith in this connection: "Whoever enters paradise will be in the image of Adam."
Q. When and where did God create Adam (a.s.) in His Image?
A. When he entered the Sacred Sanctuary = Paradise. We now have to conceive two images or forms of Adam (a.s.) here: one before entering the Sacred Sanctuary and becoming fana' fi'llah i.e., merging in God and one after entering the Sacred Sanctuary and merging in God, which is the Image of the Compassionate (surat-i Rahman).
Q. When a person enters paradise in the image of Adam (a.s.), which will it be: the human one or the Image of the Compassionate? If it is the latter, what is its Qur'anic proof?
A. The Qur'anic proof is verse (7:11) in which God says: "We created you (in the Single Soul = unity of Adam physically, spiritually and intellectually), then We fashioned you (in the Sacred Sanctuary in the Image of the Compassionate), then We said to the angels: Prostrate yourselves to Adam."
The angels by God's command prostrated to Adam (a.s.) at two places: In the beginning of the stage of Israfil (a.s.) and then in the Sacred Sanctuary. In both places you were among the angels as well as in Adam (a.s.).
Another important Qur'anic verse is (31:28): "Your creation and resurrection is but like that of the Single Soul (Adam)." That is, to create you all (physically) and to resurrect after the death of the carnal soul is like a Single Soul (Adam (a.s.)).
Austin,
Friday, 24-02-2006
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