Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 13

Part 13

By the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.

These secrets-filled disjointed letters are mentioned in the beginning of surah-yi A`raf (7:1): Alif, lam, mim, sad.

Alif = Universal Intellect = [Divine] Throne;
Lam = Universal Soul = [Divine] Pedestal;
Mim = marqum fi lawh-i mahfuz (transcribed in the Guarded Tablet);
Sad = surat-i Rahman (Image of the Compassionate) = God's face (wajhu'llah).

These magnificent and loftiest manifestations and theophanies are in the paradise of the Sacred Sanctuary. This paradise is at the confluence of two rivers of light wherein God, the One/Unifier, the Subduer has encompassed and reckoned everything of His theophanies. The law of Hayy is also here, i.e., everything of God's theophany is a living light and a great angel. Thus everything here [i.e., in the Sacred Sanctuary] is a theophany of God, the One/ Unifier.

This is expressed in the translation of a Burushaski verse:

'If you spread ten million crystals, does the sun not appear in all of them?'⁷

Sunday 23 January 2005

⁷`Allamah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai, Diwan-i Nasiri awr Bihishte Asquring (Burushaski) (Karachi, 2001), p. 165

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