(Al Khabir). One of the Beautiful Names of Allah.
(Athar). Remainders or traces or vestiges or effects. The effects of the Divine Names are the phenomena of the cosmos. That is, the things and the forms and the entities which manifest the Names are the effects. When the inner-eye is opened the 'seer...
(Sakinah). This is the Perfect Peace which is to found at the Centre of the Heart where man dwells in the Divine Presence.
Tanzih -see 'Incomparability'.
'Uluww - see 'Sublimity'.
(Intiqaal). Transferral or passage. On the Journey of Return the friends of Allah pass from station to station. In moving to a higher station they do not depart from the lower one, rather their passage is with the lower one. It is the same with knowl...
(Intiqaali nisbaat). This is the transferral of lofty spiritual qualities from the Shaykh to his successor, at the moment of the Shaykh's death.
(Shaffaf). The spirits are translucent but they possess subtlety and when they are manifested in the form of corporeal bodies they appear to be dense because of the density of all corporeal bodies. (The water takes on the colour of the glass).
(Naql). Sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (May the Salutations of Allah be upon him and Peace) are considered 'sound' if the chain of transmission (naql) is strong. Whereas the scholars only rely upon those sayings which are 'sound' by way of t...
(Idbar). 'Transmit' or 'turn away'. When Allah created the Intellect He said to it 'Receive' (iqbal) (or 'turn towards [Me]'). When it had received He said to it 'Transmit' (idbar) (or 'turn away [from Me]') and it transmitted. The First Intellect is...
(Musaffir) is the traveller (salik) who understands invisible things through the analogy of visible ones, thereby swimming from the shore of this world to the further shore.
(Salik). The traveller or wayfarer. The murid in a tariqa who has the necessary qualifications for spiritual travel from his lower self, through the various spiritual stations, to his Higher Self and Unity, is a salik. Not all members of a tariqa are...
(Suluk) is travelling or Wayfaring. Suluk is journeying along the Spiritual Path of Return to the Source. It is the methodical travelling, through the states and stations, under the direction of a Spiritual Master (Shaykh, Murshid). The one who trave...
(Khizana). Allah is All-Possibility. Allah is Infinite and Eternal. Possibility is an inexhaustible treasury (Khizana) from which Allah continues to create forever.
(Khizana al khayal). Treasury of Imagination.
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