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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

Epistle on Negation and Affirmation in the Gnosis of the Essence - Sulayman Abd Allah Ali Dahr Matar

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From that vantage point, he witnesses the hairline-receding Form (al-Ṣūrah al-Anza‘iyyah) which has never ceased from its Absolute Being, even if it appeared to plain sight.

In the course of his commentary upon these words, Sheikh Husayn al-Ahmad, Allah sanctified his secret, said:

"He means that [the believer] knows at that point that even though He, the Exalted, displayed His Essence through these three attributes, He remains hairline-receding and full (Anza‘ Baṭīn). Meaning: completely stripped (Anza‘) of attributes, filled (Baṭīn) with the Essence across all various manifestations. He has never ceased from the primordial Being that He possessed prior to manifestation, even if He displayed plain sight and existence for the purpose of visual witnessing.

Therefore, let the ignorant, shallow-minded, and intellectually deficient individual not mistakenly delude himself into thinking that the reference within this very expression points exclusively to the human form simply because it was named Anza‘ Baṭīn. Or does he not know that this name is a direct indication that the humanity He manifested possesses no reality? Rather, its true reality is a luminous one, entirely stripped of attributes.

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