The Language of the Future
Sufi Terminology
by Murshid F.A. Ali ElSenossi

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khatar
Danger

(Khatar). This term signifies the danger of relying on reflection because reflection is a state that is not preserved from error. Khatar also implies the danger faced by advanced ones on the Path who think they can leave the Sacred Law.

khatir
Incoming Thought

(Khatir). Every divine command descends to the creation. As the thoughts descend, they gather all of the emanations of that which they pass through. Each thought penetrates all of the Celestial bodies and affects them in every movement according t...

khawatir
Incoming Thoughts

(Khawatir). Incoming thoughts, which are either praiseworthy or blameworthy, i.e. divine, spiritual, egocentric or satanic. The Spiritual Master possesses the science of khawatir, and therefore knows the source of his murid's incoming thoughts. He su...

khatm
Seal

(Khatm). The Holy Prophet Muhammad (May the Salutations of Allah be upon him and Peace) is the Seal of the Prophets and the Seal of the Messengers. Khatm is also the sign or seal of Allah upon the hearts of His Lovers. Such sanctified hearts are perm...

khawf
Fear

(Khawf). Fear acts as a warning of something terrifying in the future. In the initial stages of the Spiritual Journey the murid experiences great fear of the treachery of his own self, and also the fear of falling short of his Murshid's directions. ...

khayal
Imagination

(Khayal). Imagination indicates a reality that becomes manifest in three different places. Firstly, the Khayal is manifest within the cosmos where existence is the same as imagination. Secondly, the Khayal is manifest within the macrocosm where the ...

khayal haqiqi
Imagination - True

(Khayal Haqiqi). The dream-visions seen by the Men of Allah (al Malamatiyya; al Muhaqqiqun; Rijal; Sufis) are 'True' because these perfected human beings have overcome their individual limitations. Their visions, not being coloured by their own selve...

al-khayal al-munfasil
Imagination - Discontiguous

(Khayal al Munfasil). The discontiguous Imagination which is the intermediate world of imagination that exists independently of the viewer.

al-khayal al-muqayyad
Imagination - Delimited

(Khayal al Muyaqqad). The World of Imagination is the isthmus between the World of the Unseen and the Visible World. It has two levels. The first is the level of delimited imagination (al Khayal al Muqayyad) which stands closer to the Visible World. ...

al-khayal al-mutlaq
Imagination - Nondelimited

(Khayal al Mutlaq). The World of Imagination is the isthmus between the World of the Unseen and the Visible World. It has two levels. The first is the level of delimited imagination (al Khayal al Muqayyad) which stands closer to the Visible World. T...

al-khayal al-muttasil
Imagination - Contiguous

(Khayal al Muttasil). This is the faculty of imagination which is connected to the viewing subject.

khayr
Goodness

(Khayr). Allah is the Sovereign Good. All goodness derives from Allah. Allah is not Goodness because He Wills to be Goodness, but rather He Wills Goodness because Goodness is what Allah Is in His Essence. Khayr is everything that is positive, useful...

khayr al-khalq
Best of Creation

(Khayr al Khalq). The Holy Prophet Muhammad (May the Salutations of Allah be upon him and Peace) is the best of creation. Allah said, "If not for you, if not for you (Oh Muhammad), I would not have created the creation".

khayrat
Good things

(Khayrat). All the good things were brought to humanity by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (May the Salutations of Allah be upon him and Peace). They are the things which will ensure man's felicitous Return to Allah.

al-khayr al-mahd
Goodness - Sheer

(Khayr al Mahd). Allah, as Being Itself, is Sheer Goodness.