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

kalimat al-hadra
Word of the Presence

(Kalimat al Hadra). This is Allah's Word of Command, "Be!" ("Kun!"), by which He instantaneously creates every thing He desires.


See also: Be! Command Fixed Entities
(Kun). The Word of Divine Command through which existence is bestowed upon the fixed entities.
Al Amr - see 'Divine Command'.
(Ayan al Thabita). The immutable entities or fixed prototypes or established essences or potentialities. These are the infinite and immutable Possibilities which are fixed in the Ipseity. The fixed entities are the images of the Divine Names and Qualities and 'things' of the Ipseity in the Presence of Knowledge, with specific individuation. The term signifies the essential character of every individual existing from eternity in the Divine Knowledge. They are established according to non-existence and they are not qualified by existence.

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