Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 4
Part 4
Tags: Tasbih, Kullu shay', Supreme Human
By the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.
The unprecedented and everlasting poem in Diwan-i Hazrat `Ali (a.s)1 is indeed a pleasing garden from the gardens of paradise. Benefit repeatedly from its fruits and flowers!
There is a wisdom-filled saying in surah-yi Bani Isra'il (17:44) that the True Worshipped (ma`bud-i barhaq) is the one for whom each and every thing of the universe and its existents do tasbih at the rank of intellect (maqam-i `aql). At the rank of intellect and recognition the macrocosm is the Supreme Human = the Universal Soul, which is the all-embracing ocean of human souls, the subtle world and the Guarded Tablet. In the same way, one of its names is also kullu shay' (i.e., everything) because everything is encompassed and present in it. In whatever form the Supreme Human may be, they continue to prostrate to and obey God and to purify Him [from creaturely attributes]. It is extremely difficult to understand all these secrets of recognition (ma`rifat), therefore it is said that you don't understand their purification of God [from creaturely attributes] (tasbih, 17:44).
Tuesday 18 January 2005
1Mawlawi Sa`id Ahmad A`zam Garhi, Diwan-i Hazrat `Ali (a.s) (Lahore, 2016), p. 71
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