The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 242
242. Essence of Islam-1 chord, the holy grace of which has been bestowed upon the whole chord. The first and highest manifestation of the world which the Șufis describe as the names of Allāh, is this central point which in the idiom of men of God is called the personal point of Aḥmad Mujtabā and Muḥammad Mustafa and in the idiom of the philosophers, it is named primary reason. This point has the same relationship to the other points of the chord which the Grand. Name of God has to the other names of God. . In short, the mirror that reflects the perfect man, and the fountainhead of all hidden verities, and the key to all certainties is this very point which is the ultimate cause of all the mysteries of the beginning and the end and the reason for the creation of the low and the high. To visualise it is beyond the power of all reason and understanding. As all life receives grace from the life of God. Almighty, and all beings have come into existence through His Being, and all determination is the result of. His determination, in the same way, the point of Muḥammad, by the command of God, affects all ranks and degrees according to their various capacities and temperaments. . As this point combines, and indeed sums up all Divine ranks (by way of reflection) and all dimensions of the universe (as source and reality), it epitomizes, therefore, all stages of the universe, namely, souls and intellects in whole or in part - and all physical stages to the end of their limits. In the same way, being the reflection of Divinity, it resembles Divine ranks as a reflection in the mirror resembles the original; and the basic Divine attributes, that is to say, life, knowledge, will, power, hearing, sight and speech with all their branches, are re-