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

hadarat al-ghayb
Presence of the Unknowable

(Al Hadarat al Ghayb).


See also: Presence of the Essence
(Al Hadarat al Dhatiyyah). The Presence of the Essence is the Absolute Unknowableness, Sheer Being, Pure Ipseity, the Unknown of the Unknown. This is the Presence of the Mother of the Book. Below it, in the Presence of the All-Compelling, the Mother of the Book becomes the Inscribed Book (al Kitab al Mastur), in that it appears as chapters.

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