Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 59
Part 59
By the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.
Surah-yi Ma`arij (70:1-7) mentions the spiritual resurrection and it mentions the word ma`arij (sing. mi`raj), i.e., ladders or ranks, see Qamusu'l-Qur'an.31 According to Hakim Pir Nasir Khusraw (May God sanctify his secret) at this very place there may be a hidden allusion to infinite resurrections whose Lord is God.
Certainly every spiritual resurrection through the light of Imamat is the ladder of the heaven of the Sacred Sanctuary. The fact is that in all times the pure light of the Imam works as the ladder of the heaven of recognition. Undoubtedly the exalted Imam is the ladder of salvation (sullamu'n-najat). It means that the ladder of spiritual resurrection and the salvation of hereafter is attained [only] through the holy light of the living and present true Imam.
A wisdom-filled example of sullam (ladder) is present in surah-yi Tur (52:38).
Saturday 19 February 2005
31 Qamusu'l-Qur'an, p. 526
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