A074
Surah: 011 - Ayah: 074
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11:74
According to this law, if we accept that everything has already perished in the light of Intellect; does this mean that the world of the light of Intellect contains the intellectual existence of a stone also? Yes, it is true. And in this connection, see the verse (11:74), in which it is mentioned that the streams of knowledge and wisdom are gushing from an intellectual stone. Nay, rather, wherever in the Wise Qur'an, a stone or a mountain is mentioned, the intellectual gems are presented with the beauty of wisdom. See the following examples:
1. The personal worlds of the Prophets and the Imams are under the same law of spirituality. If we accept this reality that God manifested His glory on the intellectual mountain of Hazrat Musa and crashed it into pieces, then we have to accept that this miracle of the Divine law happens to every Perfect Man, so that a world of knowledge and wisdom may be built from these innumerable pieces of intellect. (7:143).
2. Since, as an example, Mount Sinai of the Intellect has been crashed into pieces, hence where there is the mention of the mountain, by it is meant these pieces. As it is said to the bee that it should build its habitations in the hills (16:68). It means that from these pieces of the mountain of the Intellect is obtained the honey of ta'wil.
3. It is said in the Qur'an: "And among the hills are streaks, white and red of diverse hues and (others) raven-black" (35:27). In this verse there is an allusion that the intellectual mountain (i.e. the Pearl of Intellect) represents the pearls and gems of all kinds and all colours.
4. It is said in the Qur'an: "And God has given you, of that which He has created shelter from the sun; and has given you places of refuge in the mountains" (16:81). This shows that in the mountain of Intellect there is a hidden house for everyone.
5. God says: "If We had caused this Qur'an to descend upon a mountain, thou (0 Muhammad) verily hadst seen it humbled, rent asunder by the fear of God" (59:21). The glory which God had manifested upon the mountain of Intellect was in the form of knowledge and wisdom, therefore, this mountain (of Intellect) was crashed into pieces. Thus the Qur'an in Its spiritual and intellectual state is the same manifestation of God, which crashes the mountain of the personal world Into pieces.
6. See the verse (13:31): "If there were a Qur'an with which mountains were moved, or the earth were cloven asunder, or the dead were made to speak" (13:31). Certainly this Inner miracle of the Qur'an comes forth In the world of similitude (personal world), In which the mountain of Intellect moves by the hand of God.
7. God says: "And (We created) a tree that springs forth from Mount Sinai (i.e. Olive tree) that grows oil and relish for the eaters" (23:20). By the olive tree ls meant that Perfect Man who represents the Face of God, by Mount Slnal, the Mountain of Intellect and by the oil of Olive, the Divine Word (kalimah-i bari), and relish Is the interpretation and explanation of the Divine Word. The word "relish (sibgh)" implies to dip and colour the bread with it, which alludes to go in the depth of the Divine Word and attain some meaning.
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