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Philosophy of Sufis

Primordial Mirror

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There are two categories of love:

1. Unary Love: A loves A

2. Binary Love: A loves B

Within the language of Sufis the Unary Love is called Ishq (Unrestrained Unary Love) and Binary Love is called Hubb.

Insan Kamil

Azizeddin Nasafi

“O Darwish! senses (e.g. touch) have no way to access the realm of Jabarut (Seed universe for all universes), and Aql (Intellect) bewildered with it and these senses only allow you to access the Mulk (Corporeal Realm) and Aql (Intellect) lets you access the Malakut (Spiritual Realm), while Ishq (Unary Unrestrained Love) lets you access the realm of Jabarut (Seed universe for all universes) since Jabarut is the real of Ishq and all the dwellers of Jabarut are in love with their own self. Thus they need a mirror to see their own beauty and to observe their own attributes. ”

انسان کامل
عزیزالدّین نَسَفی
ای درویش! حسّ را بعالم جبروت راه نیست، و عقل در وی سرگردان است حس ترا بعالم ملک رساند، و عقل ترا بعالم ملکوت رساند و عشق ترا بعالم جبروت رساند از جهت آن که عالم جبروت عالم عشق است، خلقانی که در عالم جبروتاند جمله بر خود عاشقاند. مرآتی میخواهند تا جمال خود را ببینند و صفات خود را مشاهده کنند. مفردات و مرکبّات عالم مرآت اصل جبروتاند.

Abhar Al-‘Ashiqin (The Lovers’ Daffodil), chapter 32, Roozbehan Baqli Shirazi

“Know O brother—may Allah provide for you and give you the benevolence of the Nation of Kamāl’s (Those reached the Perfection) ‘Ishq (Unrestrained Love)—That Allah’s Dhāt (Innate Essence), sempiternally and eternally, is characterized with the Sifāt (Divine Attributes) which are Qadim: from time immemorial i.e. infinitely ancient. And from amongst of these Attributes, ‘Ishq (Unrestrained Love) is one. Hu’s Nafs (Divine Self) loved ITself. Therefore, the lover the love and the beloved are but One! And a dye originated from that ‘Ishq (Unrestrained Love) that remains to be Hu’s Divine Attribute, free and cleansed from the variance of the temporal transience. ‘Ishq is the Kamāl (Perfection) of the Mahab-bat (Divine Love) and the latter is one of the Divine Attributes. Don’t be fooled by the names, that Love and ‘Ishq are the same. It is ITs Divine Attribute subsisting upon ITs own Dhāt (Innate Essence). There is no variance within this, not that Hu is the lover(Muhibb) for the Hu, but Hu has ‘Ishq (Unrestrained Love) for Hu! ( Love is binary relationship and yet ‘Ishq is unary)

 

Nur Muhammadi was lit in Jabarut, Jabarut being the singleton seed of all multiverse.

Nur Muhammadi loves itself but it could not SEE itself, it could not see to adore its own beauty!

As in the case of all else, we cannot see our own self and we need an external object to form an image of us, outside our own selves, namely a mirror.

Therefore Allah created a Mirror for Nur Muhammadi to see itself in that mirror to see its own beauty.

And when Nur Muhammadi viewed its own beauty in the said mirror, it lost its focus on the Divine Beauty of Allah, and for that reason felt shame and felt shy and timid and prostrated to Allah: You are the ONLY beautiful ONE!

And this primordial mirror serve yet another purpose: It helps different universes in the Multiverse to reflect images into each other, and this is the only way they know about each other, since they are absolutely disjoint entities:

Insan Kamil

Azizeddin Nasafi

“O Darwish! The relatedness of these universes are brimful with Ishq (Unary Unrestrained Love), every relatedness (say A in one universe is related to B in another universe) serves as mirror (reflects an image of A into B) while the antecedent and precedent (A and B) are actually in love with each other, and both in love with the mirror as well. Consequently these forms of existence are brimful with such unrestrained love, and when Salik (Voyager) reaches the rank of Ishq (Unary Unrestrained Love), ablaze with the flame of Ishq, purified from all impurities i.e. infinitely simplified free of any designs or shapes, finds affinity with the dwellers of the Jabarut since they are all infinitely simple free of any designs or shapes as well.

And when the mirror of the Salik’s (Voyager’s) heart has affinity with the dwellers of Jabarut, due to this close association, he knows what is leaving the realm of Jabarut (Seed universe for all universes) (into another universe to become existent) therefore he is aware of such transference (prior to actualization in target universe) and while this might be seen in dreams by some, he sees them while awake!”

انسان کامل
عزیزالدّین نَسَفیای درویش! مراتب این وجه جمله مملوّ از عشقاند، هر مرتبهئی که میآید، آن مرتبه مرآت مرتبۀ ماقبل است و مرتبۀ ماقبل بر خود عاشق است، و بر مرآت هم عاشق است، پس این وجود مملوّ از عشق است و سالک چون بمرتبۀ عشق رسد، و بآتش عشق سوخته شود و پاک و صافی و ساده و بی نقش گردد وی را با اهل جبروت مناسبت پیدا آید که اهل جبروت بغایت ساده و بینقشاند، چون آیینۀ دل سالک را با اهل جبروت مناسبت پیدا آید، آنگاه با آن مناسبت بر عالم جبروت اطلاع یابد تا هر چیز که از عالم جبروت روانه شود تا بیان عالم آید، پیش از آن که باین عالم رسد وی را بر آن اطلاع باشد، چنانکه دیگران در خواب میبینند وی در بیداری میبیند.

Shajara-t: Botanical Nature of Yaqin (Certitude)

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Q:Why tree?

A:

Aizzed-Din Nasafi

“Alam (Realm) of the Jabarut is the very seed of both Mulk (The Corporeal) and Malakut (Spiritual) realms i.e. the realms of Mulk and Malakut are a tree (sprouted from the seed of Jabarut) while matter and plants and all living animals are the fruits of this tree!”

Jabarut is found in the Qur’an and the language of the Prophet peace be upon him.

Nasafi gives us the cognizance of the botanical nature of the Jabarut:

1. Seed: It is a seed that is hidden some place beyond the reach of anyone

2. Sprout: It sprouts as in the form of botanical growth from that unreachable world to this world where we are (Mulk)

3. Fruit: It bears fruits of all kinds, spiritual or corporeal

The same botanical concept is applied to the Yaqin or Certitude.

Q: What is Yaqin (Certitude)?

A: Any aspect of human existence and endeavour that is completely free of doubt.

From Farhange Istilahat Irfani (Dictionary of Sufi terminologies) by Dr. Sajjadi:

Dhan-nun Al-Masri:  What is being seen by the eye is called Ilm (Knowledge) and what is seen by the heart is called Yaqin.

Junaid: Elevation and flight of doubt (away from the person)

Ibn Ata: Yaqin is a (continual) state (of existence) wherein the person finds nothing incongruent to the wish of Allah: No question occurs within the person’s mind about Allah’s ordained destinies e.g. calamities and so on.

Nasired-Din Tusi: A form of belief and understanding that has no cessation nor any abatement i.e. it is always with the person and will not go away or diminish.

Mulla Sadra: (a state of being) such that what is inside the person is complete congruence to what is outside him.

 

Botanical processes and concepts might shape Yaqin (Certitude) but they might not be of plant nature i.e. made from plant materials.

The botanical looking delta structures of rivers are caused by the fact that the rive has extraordinary amounts of kinetic energy and yet when it hits the accumulated the sediments the energy does not simply bore a single passageway through, rather it makes many smaller passageways and decreases its energy into smaller streams.

Yaqin has to sprout from the seed of Jabarut, so it can exist in Malakut (Spiritual Realm) and Mulk (Corporeal Realm). The original energy level of Yaqin is infinite and cannot enter either universe of Malakut and Mulk and therefore it must sprout into branches, hence the botanical nature.

Q: Why Shajara-t is in female form?

A: Because it is an extension via annexation of the sprouting growth of branches annexed to the original seed of Jabarut. These sorts of annexations are often gendered as female in the language of Arab. Since the male form of the words have the minimal word length.

 

 

Ibn Arabi: Kitab Al-Mim

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Ibn Arabi [1]

Mim is actually Adam and Muhammad, peace be upon both, and the Ya (y letter in Arabic, sounding as eee) between them is the cause for their mutual linkage, because of the placement of Harf (Divine Alphabet) Illat (Same as Madd prolonged letter usually eeee or oooo or aaaa sound). (Jalal: M sound can be prolonged either through nasalization or addition of stretched eeee between the two ‘M’ sounds i.e. Meeee….eeeeM) This prolonged letter or phoneme allowed Muhammad to act upon Adam (from a distance in time and place and across universes, free of causality) a Spiritual Action, as said by the Prophet: I was a Nabi (Informer) while Adam was still between the water and mud. Conversely Adam acted upon Muhammad a corporeal action (causal action), again by mediation of the agency of Ya (y letter in Arabic, sounding as eee) (i.e. through the genomic and biological processes on this planet.)

كتاب
الميم و الواو و النون i
من مجموعة رسائل
الشيخ محيى الدين بن عربي
وأما الميم فهو لآدم ومحمد عليهما الصلاة والسلام والياء بينهما سبب الوصلة لهما فإنه حرف علة فعمل محمد عليه الصلاة والسلام في آدم بالياء عملا روحانيا من هذا العمل كانت روحانيته وروحانية كل مدبر في الكون من النفس الكلية إلى آخر موجود وهو الروح الإنساني قال صلى الله عليه وسلم (كنت نبيا وآدم بين الماء والطين) وعمل آدم في محمد عليهما السلام بواسطة الياء عملا جسمانيا من هذا العمل كانت جسمانية كل إنسان في العالم وجسمانية سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم فآدم أبو محمد وأبونا وأبو عيسى في الجسمية ومحمد أبو آدم وأبونا وجد عيسى في الروحانية.

Q: Did Ibn Arabi made this up or there was some evidence for it?
A: The Prophet said [2]: When Allah created Adam made him see the virtues of some of his off-springs (and while he was browsing) he saw a radiant light all the way from the back so he asked: O my Lord who is that? And Allah replied: That is your son Admad, he is the Al-Awwal (The first) and he is Al-Akhir (The Last)

كنز العمال- للمتقي الهندي
المجلد الحادي عشر >> تتمة الإكمال من فضائل متفرقة تنبيء عن التحدث بالنعم
32056- لما خلق الله عز وجل آدم خبره (خبره: إذا بلاه، واختبره، وبابه نصر. المختار (129) ب) ببنيه فجعل يرى فضائل بعضهم على بعض فرأى نورا ساطعا في أسفلهم فقال: يا رب! من هذا؟ قال: هذا ابنك أحمد، هو الأول وهو الآخر، وهو أول شافع وأول مشفع.
(ابن عساكر – عن أبي هريرة)

Jalal: Until less than 100 years ago we had no idea how human beings are linked to each other, now through the molecular science of Genome we all know and very well know how people are linked in past and in future. Mim is the prolonged phoneme/letter that links the first and the last Prophet, both spiritually and genomically, Muhammad was a Nabi (Informer) informing through the radiation of Nur-Muhammadi, a peculiar form of Nur (Divine Light), from extremely close sanctified nearness which in this Surah we hear as Sabbihi. In return Adam acts upon Muhammad in a molecular causal fashion i.e. via his genome and thus the two form a close loop or a circle.

[1] Ibn Arabi, Kitab Al-Mim, from compendium of letters.

[2] Muttaqi Al-Hindi, Kanz Al-‘Ummāl, Vol 11.

Nur Muhammadi

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Hadith Nur Muhammadi [1]

Jabir asked the Prophet: Inform me of the first thing Allah created prior to all other things. Prophet replied: Indeed before all things Allah created the Nur (Divine Light) of your Prophet from ITs own Nur, and made this Light to traverse via Hu’s power however where Allah willed, and at that time there were no Lauh (Tablet) no Qalam (Pen) no Paradise no hell no angels no heaves no earth no sun no moon no Jinn and no human being, and when Allah willed to create the people divided this light into four parts:
1.    From first portion created Qalam (Pen)
2.    From the second portion created the Lauh (Tablet)
3.    From the third portion the ‘Arsh (Throne)
And then portioned the remaining fourth portion, again into four portions:
1.    The foundation of the ‘Arsh (Throne)
2.    The Kursi (Chair)
3.    The angels
And then portioned the remaining fourth, again into four portions:
1.    Heavens
2.    The two earths
3.    Paradise and Hell
And the portioned the remaining fourth, again into four portions:
1.    The Nur (Divine Light) of the believers’ eyes
2.    The Nur (Divine Light) of the believers’ heart i.e. Ma’refat (Divine Gnosis)
3.    The Nur (Divine Light) of the humanity and that is the Tauhid (Divine Oneness) i.e. “There is no deity but Allah and Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger”

Note: Shibr Amlasi said with regards to Allah creating the Prophet’s light from ITs own Light: This does not mean that the substance of Muhammad’s light was made up of Allah’s light or essence! It rather means that Allah willed the formation of a Light that was without participation of anything from Allah’s Dhāt (Most Innate Essence). (or any other intermediary created object)

In other words when Allah created the Nur (Divine Light) of Muhammad, there was no other entity in the creation or you may say this Light was not entangled with anything else. When Allah created from this light other lights/objects, each time a new creation was added the said light fell into an ever-more superimposed state i.e. imposed by the existence of something a priori, or you may say less pure. 

Sufis believe that the human creation is a circle, with Adam being the first point of the circle and going around the circumference all the way to reach to Muhammad who is the last point and indeed the first point too! Since the circle’s first and last points are one and the same. So really Adam and Muhammad where both the first primordial fathers of humanity, however one was the template for Nafs (Self) i.e. Adam and one template for Ruh (Soul) i.e. Muhammad.

Adam being the prophet and Muhammad being the prophet this gives the Ma’refat (Divine Gnosis) for what it means: The last of prophets!

This Light is called Nur-Mahammadi (Muhammad’s Light).

كشف الخفاء،  – للإمام العجلوني
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827 – أول ما خلق اللهُ نورُ نبِيكِ يا جابر – الحديث
رواه عبد الرزاق بسنده عن جابر بن عبد الله بلفظ قال قلت: يا رسول الله، بأبي أنت وأمي، أخبرني عن أول شيء خلقه الله قبل الأشياء. قال: يا جابر، إن الله تعالى خلق قبل الأشياء نور نبيك من نوره، فجعل ذلك النور يدور بالقُدرة حيث شاء الله، ولم يكن في ذلك الوقت لوح ولا قلم ولا جنة ولا نار ولا ملك ولا سماء ولا أرض ولا شمس ولا قمر ولا جِنِّيٌ ولا إنسي، فلما أراد الله أن يخلق الخلق قسم ذلك النور أربعة أجزاء: فخلق من الجزء الأول القلم، ومن الثاني اللوح، ومن الثالث العرش، ثم قسم الجزء الرابع أربعة أجزاء، فخلق من الجزء الأول حَمَلَة العرش، ومن الثاني الكرسي، ومن الثالث باقي الملائكة، ثم قسم الجزء الرابع أربعة أجزاء: فخلق من الأول السماوات، ومن الثاني الأرضين، ومن الثالث الجنة والنار، ثم قسم الرابع أربعة أجزاء، فخلق من الأول نور أبصار المؤمنين، ومن الثاني نور قلوبهم وهى المعرفة بالله، ومن الثالث نور إنسهم وهو التوحيد لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله. الحديث. كذا في المواهب.
وقال فيها أيضا: واختُلِف هل القلم أول المخلوقات بعد النور المحمدي أم لا؟ فقال الحافظ أبو يعلى الهمداني: الأصح أن العرش قبل القلم، لِما ثبت في الصحيح عن ابن عمر قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: قدر الله مقادير الخلق قبل أن يخلق السماوات والأرض بخمسين ألف سنة، وكان عرشه على الماء، فهذا صريح في أن التقدير وقع بعد خلق العرش، والتقدير وقع عند أول خلق القلم، فحديث<صفحة 311> عبادة بن الصامت مرفوعا “أول ما خلق الله القلم، فقال له أكتب، فقال رب وما أكتب؟ قال أكتب مقادير كل شيء” رواه أحمد والترمذي وصححه.
وروى أحمد والترمذي وصححه أيضا من حديث أبي رزين العقيلي مرفوعا: إن الماء خلق قبل العرش.
وروى السدي بأسانيد متعددة إن الله لم يخلق شيئا مما خلق قبل الماء، فيجمع بينه وبين ما قبله بأن أولية القلم بالنسبة إلى ما عدا النور النبوي المحمدي والماء والعرش انتهى.
وقيل الأولية في كل شيء بالإضافة إلى جنسه، أي أول ما خلق الله من الأنوار نوري وكذا باقيها، وفي أحكام ابن القطان فيما ذكره ابن مرزوق عن علي بن الحسين عن أبيه عن جده أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال كنت نورا بين يدي ربي قبل خلق آدم بأربعة عشر ألف عام. انتهى ما في المواهب،
تنبيه: قال الشبراملسي ليس المراد بقوله من نوره ظاهره من أن الله تعالى له نور قائم بذاته لاستحالته (1) عليه تعالى. لأن النور لا يقوم إلا بالأجسام، بل المراد خلق من نور مخلوق له قبل نور محمد، وأضافه إليه تعالى لكونه تولى خلقه، ثم قال ويحتمل أن الإضافة بيانية، أي خلق نور نبيه من نور هو ذاته تعالى لكن لا بمعنى أنها مادة خلق نور نبيه منها، بل بمعنى أنه تعالى تعلقت إرادته بإيجاد نور بلا توسط شيء في وجوده، قال وهذا أولى الأجوبة نظير ما ذكره البيضاوي في قوله تعالى {ثم سواه ونفخ فيه من روحه} حيث قال أضافه إلى نفسه تشريفا وإشعارا بأنه خلقٌ عجيب وأن له مناسبة إلى حضرة الربوبية انتهى ملخصا.
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(1) [في الأصل “لاستحاله” وهو خطأ مطبعي واضح. دار الحديث]
[1] Al-‘Ajūlūni, Harf Al-Hamza, Harf Al-Hamza Ma’a Waw