The Language of the Future

Sufi Terminology by Murshid F.A. Ali ElSenossi

English words starting with I

Imagination - Contiguous
al-khayal al-muttasil

(Khayal al Muttasil). This is the faculty of imagination which is connected to the viewing subject.

Imagination - Delimited
al-khayal al-muqayyad

(Khayal al Muyaqqad). The World of Imagination is the isthmus between the World of the Unseen and the Visible World. It has two levels. The first is the level of delimited imagination (al Khayal al Muqayyad) which stands closer to the Visible World....

Imagination - Discontiguous
al-khayal al-munfasil

(Khayal al Munfasil). The discontiguous Imagination which is the intermediate world of imagination that exists independently of the viewer.

Imagination - Nondelimited
al-khayal al-mutlaq

(Khayal al Mutlaq). The World of Imagination is the isthmus between the World of the Unseen and the Visible World. It has two levels. The first is the level of delimited imagination (al Khayal al Muqayyad) which stands closer to the Visible World. T...

Imagination - True
khayal haqiqi

(Khayal Haqiqi). The dream-visions seen by the Men of Allah (al Malamatiyya; al Muhaqqiqun; Rijal; Sufis) are 'True' because these perfected human beings have overcome their individual limitations. Their visions, not being coloured by their own selve...

Immaculately Pure, The
Al Taahir

(Al Taahir). The Immaculately Pure.

Immoral behaviour
fajir

(Faajir). Depending upon the root from which fajir derives it can mean either 'a man who commits sinful acts of infidelity' or 'a man who manifests or unveils what is veiled'. That is, he can either be a disbeliever or he can be one who manifests the...

Immutability
Thubut

Thubut - see 'Latency'.

Immutable Substance
al-jawhar al-thabit

(Al Jawhar al Thabit) is also known as the Cloud and the Breath of the All Merciful. However, sometimes it is said that the Cloud is not altogether identical with the Breath because the Cloud comes into existence through the Breath.

Impenetrable, The
As Samad

(As Samad). The Principle insofar as nothing can be added to It, given that It contains everything; there is nothing that It does not already possess, thus nothing can enter into It. The mystery of Exclusivity.

Imperfect Nature of the Created
an-naqs al-khalqi

(Naqs al khalqi). Of necessity the created must have an imperfect nature, being as it is 'other-than Allah'. Allah Alone is Perfect. The creature can attain to the type of Perfection which its level requires. All of the existent things are perfect i...

Imperfection
naqs

(Naqs). Part of the perfection of existence (the Divine Reality) is the existence of imperfection within it, since, were there no imperfection the perfection of existence would be imperfect. But this imperfection is relative. When existence is seen...

Impossible
mamnu'

(Mamnu'). The People of Truth declare that Self-disclosure of the Essence is impossible.

Impossible
muhal

(Muhal). The Realm of Imagination is the domain in which contraries meet and impossible things take place. It is the realm of He/not He (Huwa/la Huwa) in which the one with unveiling may momentarily grasp the mystery of his own existence.

Impossible Thing
mumtani'

(Mumtani'). The impossible thing which may not have existence in the cosmos but may nonetheless exist within the mind of man. The realm of Imagination is where the impossible things become manifest.

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