(Du'a'). Du'a is the private and personal supplication of the slave to his Lord. "Your Lord has said Call upon Me and I will answer you" (The Qur'an 2:260). "Call upon Allah, or call upon Rahman (the Merciful), By whatever name ye call upon Him, (it ...
(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.
(Al Sanad). The Supporter. One of the beautiful Names of Allah.
(Mala al 'ala). The higher plenum or Supreme Assembly. The Supreme Assembly indicates the angels and those spiritual beings, the Noble Friends, who are closest to Allah.
(Al Sultaan). The Supreme Authority. One of the beautiful Names of Allah.
('Unsur al Atham). This is the Materia Prima as a non-manifested Divine possibility. It is 'the dust' in its purely principial nature.
(Tasnim). The Supreme Fountain in Paradise from which flows the Pure Wine sealed with musk. Those who are brought near drink from Tasnim. Tasnim is the place of sobriety after intoxication, abiding after annihilation, Divine Knowledge after Divine Lo...
(Al Bayt al 'Ala). This house is the human being who is the Perfect Man. He is Allah's viceregent because he is the highest manifestation of the Divine Perfections.
Barzakh al 'Ala - see 'Isthmus-Supreme'.
(Al Muta'ali). The Supreme One. One of the Beautiful Names of Allah.
(Al Qalam al 'Ala). The first objective individualisation takes place in the Supreme Pen which distinguishes the creatures from the Creator and imprints their forms of existence upon the Preserved Tablet.
(Bawadih). This term refers to whatever comes suddenly upon the heart from the Unseen causing a shock of grief or joy.
See - 'Islam' and 'Islam-complete'.
(Taslim) is pure, total and unconditional surrender to Allah in each moment and under every condition. When it is known, through unveiling, that each moment is Allah, the knower prostrates before the One and Only (al Ahad), the King (al Malik), the M...
