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power, and proclaim Your without which the lower loci of
majesty…There is no difference Divine Manifestation can never
between You and them, save that they receive any grace of existence. In the
are Your servants and Your creation, words of Jāmī in his Naqd al-Nuṣuṣ,
their doings and undoings are in Your “…was it not for him [Perfect Human
hand, their origin is from You and being] in terms of his intermediate
their return is to You…with them, station that is not different from the
You filled Your heaven and Your two dimensions [the Lordly and other-
earth until it became manifest that Lordly], nothing from the cosmos
other than You there is no god” would be able to accept the Single
(Majlisī, 1982, Vol. 95, p. 393). Divine Aid due to the lack of affinity
As is clear, this supplication narrates and connection” (Jāmī, 1991, p. 97).
the most profound truths about the 2.1. The Necessity of Mediation
Perfect Human Being. The expression Scholars of mysticism e.g., Qūnawī
‘and with them you filled your Heaven and Jāmī, endorse the well-known
and Earth’ is a clear allusion to their principle that says, “al-Wāḥid la
permeation in the heavens and the earth. Yaṣduru ʿanhu illa al-Wāḥid (Nothing
Wāsiṭat al-Fayḍ al-Ilahi (The but one emanates from the One)”, the
Intermediary of Divine Grace) crux of which is the principle of
Another ontological relation between Sinkhiyyah (affinity) between Ẓāhir
the Perfect Human Being and the (the manifest) and the locus of
universe is his station of Tawassuṭ Maẓhar (manifestation) (Qūnawī,
(mediation), the crux of which is self- 1992; Jāmī, 1991).
disclosure for facilitating the flow of Hence the Kathrah (plurality) that is
grace to all the succeeding entities seen in the creation cannot emanate
(Gorjian et al, 2020, p. 65). Without directly from the Essence of God.
the Perfect Human par excellence, Rather it originates from al-Ṣādir al-
who is the All-Merciful Breath, the Awwal (the First Emanation) or al-
universe cannot receive any grace Wujūd al-ʿAm (the Universal Existence)
whatsoever. In religious terms, he is which discloses and manifests itself
the Wāsiṭah (the intermediary) of al- throughout the hierarchy of existence
Fayḍ al-Ilahi Divine Grace. Due to and is directly and immediately in
his presence in both the Lordly and contact with every entity of the entire
hierarchy (Fanārī, 1995, p. 196). For the
created Realms and his Sinkhiyyah
(affinity) with them, he can receive process of creation to transpire,
Grace directly from God and bestow it therefore, there must be an intermediary
to the lower levels of entification and which emanates from God and can
manifest itself in the form of the realm
existence. This is a natural process
