Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 38

Part 38

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

According to Kawkab-i Durri, the holy light of Shah-i Walayat Hazrat-i `Ali al-Murtaza (a.s) (which is always living and present in the world) is certainly that book of God in which there is no doubt (2:2).¹⁴

The wise Qur'an mentions "al-kitab (i.e., the book)" at 230 places and in all these places it esoterically refers to "the book in which there is no doubt", i.e., the pure light of the exalted Imam. The fact is that everything which is associated with Allah is a theophany from the theophanies of the light of "al-Hayy". That is, everything related to God is a theophany in the form of a living light. Translation of a Burushaski verse: 'If you spread ten million crystals, does not the sun appear in all of them?', however this sun and its image are both devoid of the essence of intellect and soul.

Sunday 6 February 2005

¹⁴Sayyid Muhammad Salih Kashfi, Manaqib-i Murtazawi, translated into Urdu by Sayyid Sharif Husayn as Kawkab-i Durri (Lahore, n.d.), p. 226

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