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مَكْتَبَةُ كَتِيبَةِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ نُصَيْرٍ

The Honey in the Gnosis of the Eternal - Salman Tahir Abd al-Rahman

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And the identity (al-Huwwiyyah) also: the Absolute Reality containing the realities in the manner that the seed contains the tree in the Absolute Unseen; and in the phrasing of the Sufis from the people of Tawhid, the Master, the Mim, is the intellect in his identity—the intellect in its essence is one, and at his hand is benefit and harm, like the ray of the sun in its full moon, coldness, and from it in the soil is heat.

My soul stripped itself from my soul, stripped itself: denuded itself, and the meaning is transcendence (al-Tanzihi), and his saying: "my soul from my soul" in their nomenclature, its stripping itself expresses its total engrossment of the state (al-Hal) in the pleasure of witnessing and beholding, so he does not see in existence except the Existent.

And this is the rank of the people of empowerment and witnessing who see the Truth in everything, the very essence of everything, aside from the restriction of the thing and its designation; and there, the soul of the Unitarian is stripped, at the station of union (Makam al-Jam'), from his own self due to his total engrossment in the seas of the spiritual state, and his taking pleasure in witnessing the attributes of Beauty as has passed before.

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