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

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al-tabi'a
Nature

(Tabi'a). This is one of the names by which the Supreme Isthmus is known. Nature is called the highest and greatest mother because she is the one who gives birth to all things while remaining herself unseen. Through her receptivity all of the existe...

tashbih
Similarity

(Tashbih) is to declare that a certain similarity can be found between Allah and His creation. This tashbih is through Allah as Possessor of the Names. The isthmus is the ontological locus of tashbih. The word tashbih derives from shabbaha which mean...

al-umm al-'aliyat al-kubra
Mother - the highest and greatest

(Umm al 'aliyat al kubra). This term refers to Nature as the Isthmus (al barzakh). She is the one who gives birth to all things.

wasita
Mediator

(Wasita). The intermediary or the mediator. The Mediator is the Holy Prophet Muhammad himself, from whose light all existence became manifest, may the Salutations of Allah be upon him and Peace. He is the Perfect man who stands as the isthmus between...

zulma
Darkness

(Thulmaa). Non-existence or nothingness is pure darkness. Creation is the isthmus between the Light of Allah and the darkness of non-existence.