Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 27

Part 27

Tags: Sacred Sanctuary, Seventy thousand

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

Secrets of the Sacred Sanctuary:

See surah-yi al-A`raf (7:137). The land of infinite blessings of Allah mentioned in this Divine speech is the Sacred Sanctuary. The easts and wests are the manifestations and theophanies of the blessed mouth (dahan-i mubarak). The Sacred Sanctuary is the paradise of the personal world (47:6). God enfolds the universe by becoming the hand of His friends and creates as many universal paradises as there are friend's souls whether it is seventy thousand or even more than that.

Remember that the ta'wili wisdom of the Sacred Sanctuary encompasses the wise Qur'an entirely. Therefore the recognition of the Sacred Sanctuary is the precondition to attain the eternal paradise (47:6).

     Jab barq-sawar aya tab bab khula az-khwud 
     Main mar ke huwa zindah jab shah-i shahan aya⁹

(When the lightning-rider came, the door opened of itself; I died and was brought back to life when the King of the kings came).

Sunday 30 January 2005

⁹`Allamah Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai, Diwan-i Nasiri (Urdu) (Gilgit, 2004), p. 7

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