(Mustanad). Support (or reality) of a thing. Everything in the cosmos can be traced back to the Divine Names. The support or reality of each existent thing is a Divine Name. Therefore, all things have a support within the Divine Knowledge. We are all...
(Mustanad al ilahi). The Divine support (or reality). Every quality of the creature is firmly rooted within or supported by the Creator. He is its Divine support.
(Mustaqim). Straight and without deviation. That which is straight is all that leads to ultimate felicity. The Sacred Law, which has been set down for mankind, is the Straight Path. The higher teaching is the method by which man can transform his lo...
(Mustarih) is ease. The one who stands at ease has arrived at the station of 'everlasting ease' (rahat al abad). This ease results from his never seeing himself as the locus of manifestation of the Name 'Allah'. He always regards his own slaveness. I...
(Mustaslim). The one who is inwardly surrendered to the Will of Allah. This is an exalted condition for man to attain. It is reached through sincere endeavour, high 'spiritual resolve', untainted love of Allah and His Messenger and ultimately through...
(Mutsawwif). The one who pretends to have mystic knowledge. Through such pretence the mutsawwif becomes a danger to himself and others. While being held firmly in the grip of his own lower self, this pretender alleges that he can guide others to the...
(Muta'). This term indicates the supreme controller of the universe who is the viceregent of Allah. The muta' is equated with the Reality of Muhammad. Allah says in The Qur'an, "He who obeys the Messenger obeys Allah". Were it not for the muta' ever...
(Al Muta'ali). The Supreme One. One of the Beautiful Names of Allah.
(Al Mutajalli). The Self-discloser. A Divine Name.
(Mutakabbir). The Magnificent. One of the Beautiful Names of Allah.
(Mutakallim). The Speaker. A Divine Name.
(Mutakhayyalat). These are the forms which become manifest as 'imaginalized things' within the Realm of Imagination.
(Mutarjim). Spokesman or interpreter. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (May the Salutations of Allah be upon him and Peace) is the spokesman of Allah. Through The Qur'an, which is Allah's Word, he acts as the supreme spokesman to all of mankind. The entire ...
(Mutasawwif). He is the one who aspires to reach high spiritual knowledge. The one who aspires is not the one who has attained. The one who aspires is not the purified knower (Sufi). The one who aspires must put himself under the direction of a Spiri...
(Mutawassitun). Those travellers who are in the middle of the Path. They are the ones who experience exile, though it is not yet the exile of the advanced ones. al mutawassitun are struggling and striving, sometimes seeing only Allah, sometimes seein...