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without the perfect Human Being is al-Ḥaqq (the journey from the Real to
lifeless. This means that the Perfect the creation through the Real). Qayṣarī,
Human manifests in all the elements alluding to this in the prolegomena of
of the universe (Ibn ʿArabī, 1997, his commentary on Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ
Vol.2, p. 67). al-Ḥikam, says, “That is why it is said
Without the Perfect Human Being, that the Perfect Human Being must
therefore, the universe cannot exist. In flow in all the existents just as God
simple terms, he is al-ʿIllah al-Fāʿilīyyah flows in them, and that happens in the
(the efficient cause) of the cosmos or, to third spiritual journey which is ‘from
employ a subtler and more accurate the Real to the creation through the
articulation, the reality that permeates the Real’, and upon this journey, his
cosmos. Just as the human spirit perfection is complete and he attains
permeates the entire human body, the Ḥaqq al-Yaqīn (the truth of certainty)”
Perfect Human being permeates the (Qayṣarī, 1996, p. 118).
entire universe. In the mystical jargon, 1.2. The Spirit of the Universe
such permeation is called Sarayān al- According to the Holy Quran and
Insān (lit. the flow of the human being). the Sunnah
This subtle phenomenon, however, • The Holy Quran says, “Allah is He
must be understood in light of the principle Who created seven heavens, and of the
of ‘the oneness of being’, and therefore one earth the like of them; the decree
must not conjecture the existence of two continues to descend among them, that
different entities, ‘the subject’ that you may know that Allah has power
permeates and ‘the object’ in which it over all things and that Allah indeed
permeates. Rather the relationship is that of encompasses all things in knowledge.”
Ẓāhir (the manifest) and its Maẓāhir (The Quran, 65: 12).
(manifestations). The object of permeation Tilimsānī in his Sharh al-Mawaqif,
is a sheer manifestation and self-disclosure whilst commenting on one of al-
of the subject of permeation itself. Niffari’s inspirations about how one
Therefore, it is a single reality that unfolds witnesses himself as the heavens and
and discloses itself in the form of the the earth, says, “He means that of the
cosmos and its entities. signs of Your Wilāyah (guardianship)
This naturally transpires after the Perfect is that you see yourself differentiated
Human soars in the Ascending Arc to unite the differentiation of the heavens and
with the Lordly Realm and returns back to the earth. Indeed, God’s word says,
the created realm in the third spiritual “Allah is He Who created seven
journey, which in mystical jargon, is heavens… that you may know that Allah
al-Safar min al-Ḥaqq ila al-Khalqi bi has power over all things and that Allah
