Gems of Qur'anic Knowledge and Wisdom - Part 88

Part 88

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

The ta'wili purport of a wisdom-filled saying of surah-yi Tawbah (9:72): The sublime paradise is mentioned everywhere in the wise Qur'an. Paradise is spatial as well as non-spatial. It is spiritual as well as luminous and theophanic (tajalliyyati). The Lord of kaf-u nun, i.e., kalimah-yi kun (Be!) is Himself the gardener, i.e., Rizwan of the theophanic paradise (tajalliyyati bihisht). It is said in above-mentioned verse: "And God's good pleasure is the greatest. That is the supreme triumph." (9:72). It means that God's pleasure as well as the greatest success of the lovers is to pass through the paradises of all ranks and to ultimately merge in the Lord of theophanic (tajalliyyati) and instantaneous (ibda`i) paradises, i.e., Hazrat-i mubdi`-i haqq.

Thursday 10 March 2005

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