Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 8
Part 8
Tags: Khafizatun rafi`atun, Resurrection, Youthful
By the Name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful.
It is one of the great favours of Almighty Allah that this humble servant saw a luminous dream during the days in Austin in which nambar-dar Rahmat ibn-i Muhammad Zamir was with two young and extremely handsome sons in Hyderabad (my native village). This was a theophany of Mawla's mercy in which there was an allusion to [all] nufus-i Khanah-yi Hikmat from His sublime court that by virtue of Mawla's infinite grace, their souls are youthful and beautiful in this world as well as in paradise.
Mawla `Ali (a.s) said about his own holy personality: "I am the resurrection".4 Among many names of resurrection in the wise Qur'an, a confluence (sangam) name is "khafizatun rafi`atun" (56:3), i.e., abasing, exalting. These two names are for God too: al-Khafiz = abasing, and al-Rafi` = exalting.
Friday 21 January 2005
4Sayyid 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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