(Nawafil al Khayrat). Through the Infinite Grace of Allah the sincere practising of the nawafil al khayrat may result in the spiritual perfection in which the slave's hearing, sight, speech etc. are negated. He then hears, sees and speaks through Al...
(Nawalah). The gift of the robes of honour. This is the gift from Allah designating the Individuals known as the Solitaries.
(Nawm). The hadith says, "Man is asleep and when he dies he wakes". The Sufi is the one who has died to self and is awake in the Supreme Self. Once man has awoken there is no more sleep. Within mystical poetry and Sufi songs the lover often complains...
(Nawm al Ghafla). The sleep of forgetfulness and sleep of habit are not desirable. It is a defect or sickness and it is related to his brother, death. It has been said “If there is a benefit in sleep, the Beloved Allah will have provided it in Para...
(Naz). When the lover begs and petitions the Beloved for just one glance at him, the Beloved responds with perfect coquetry.
(Nadhar). Consideration or to look, to gaze, to inspect or to investigate.
(Nadhr sahih) is to look, consider and reflect upon the manifest and unmanifest signs, thereby recognizing the true situation of the cosmos.
(Naadhir). The naadhir is the one who does the looking. The true observer is he who looks only at Allah. Every observer of Allah is under the controlling property of one of the Divine Names. Through that particular Name the observer experiences a spe...
(Naadhirun). The naadhirun are those people whose knowledge is inferior to the direct knowledge possessed by the people of unveiling.
(Nida'). Allah calls mankind to felicity. The different Names call the creatures. Man calls to his Lord in supplication and need.
(Nifaq). While in Union it becomes hypocrisy for the slave to affirm the 'other-than-Allah'.
(Nikah). The 'Divine Marriage' is the one in which Allah, the Real, turns His Attentiveness towards the possible thing and brings it into existence. The ecstatic may utter phrases concerning his marriage to the Beloved, with the bliss of union and sa...
(Nisab). The cosmos, which is plurality, consists of relations. Allah has placed the Divine Names between Himself and the cosmos, and from this connection relationships are formed. Examples of such correlations are the Creator and the created, the...
(Nisab Dhatiyyah). The archetypes, or fixed entities, in their state of non-existence, are the pure essential relations without proper forms.
(Nisba). Lordship is the relationship of the 'He-ness' to the entity. The 'He-ness' in Itself does not require such a relationship, but it is the entities that demand it. Allah has placed the Divine Names between Himself and the cosmos, and from th...
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