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

Mithal/Amthal
Analogy

Mithal/Amthal - see 'Similitude' and 'World of Similitudes'.


See also: Similitude World of similitudes
(Mithal). Image or form or analogy or symbol. This term is synonymous with Imagination (khayal). The Mithal is the isthmus between the World of the Unseen and the Visible World and it is within this Realm of Imagination that man is given the clearest expression of the 'He, not He' mystery of existence.
('Alam al amthal / 'Alam al mithal / 'Alam al khayal).The world of analogies and images. This is the World of Imagination. It is the isthmus in which the mystery of cosmic ambiguity can be unlocked. It is the place of 'He/not He'.

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