Recognition of Imam Part III - Key 20 Room for Everything in Mercy and Knowledge
Key 20 Room for Everything in Mercy and Knowledge
Tags: Mercy, Knowledge, Universal Soul, Universal Intellect
The holy Qur'ān says in verse (40:7): “Our Lord! You comprehend all things in mercy and knowledge.”
This noble verse alludes in a wisdom-filled way to the fact that the living mercy of God, may He be exalted, is the spirituality of the Universal Soul and His living knowledge is the luminosity of the Universal Intellect. All the things of the universe and the existents are submerged in the two oceans of spirituality and luminosity. This fact, in reality, is such that the Universal Body, which consists of the heavens, the stars, the planets and all the material objects, is submerged in the spirituality of the Universal Soul. The Universal Soul in turn, along with all these things (i.e., the Universal Body) is submerged in the luminosity of the Universal Intellect. So, this is the [meaning of] comprehension of everything in mercy and knowledge.
In addition, there is a special form of the comprehension of all things of the universe and the existents in mercy and knowledge, which is that all things, in addition to their external and material form, are also living and existing spiritually in mercy and intellectually in knowledge. In other words, everything exists simultaneously in three forms or in three places. That is, physically it exists in the Universal Body, spiritually in the Universal Soul and intellectually in the Universal Intellect.
A clear proof of this fact (that everything exists in the physical world in a material form, in the world of souls in a spiritual form and in the world of intellects in an intellectual form) is that in pre-eternity (azal), the Pen of the Universal Intellect, by the Divine Command, had inscribed the spiritual i.e., living pictures of all things of the world of its existence, on the Guarded Tablet of the Universal Soul, despite the fact that the things of the world of the Universal Intellect remained intact in their own places. Similarly, in accordance with the spiritual pictures of the Universal Soul or the Guarded Tablet, the material things of the world were created without anything being diminished from them.
From the above description, not only is it proven that everything is comprehended in mercy and knowledge, but it is also learnt that mercy is the attribute of the Universal Soul and knowledge is the attribute of the Universal Intellect. In addition, it also became evident that everything exists simultaneously in the intellect, soul and body. As one would say, the shadow of the intellect is the soul and the shadow of the soul is the body.
It is mentioned in a blessed farman of the exalted Imām that mu'mins are angels in their souls and human beings in their bodies. It is certain that the mu'mins who are angels in their souls are also angels in their intellects. The proof of this fact is the external existence of a human being, which consists of three things: body, soul and intellect.
When it is accepted that everything which is in the physical world, is also in the spiritual world as well as in the intellectual world, and it is also accepted that the spiritual world is the Universal Soul and the intellectual world is the Universal Intellect, this results in that the soul of the leader of the world of humanity, namely the manifest Imām is the spiritual angel who is called the Universal Soul and his intellect is the intellectual angel, who is called the Universal Intellect. The gist of this essay is that the supreme Soul of the manifest Imām is the source of mercy for the universe and his perfect Intellect is the source of knowledge for all the worlds.
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