By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
Abdelkader El Djezairi
If the divine Mercy
If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot
The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
O my people, I
O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
Paraphrased: Among the degrees
Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature’s awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an immutable prototype in the divine Knowledge.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
When God wanted to
When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, I want to make a creature of you. Condense. And the Wind condensed.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
But, in conformity to
But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him – and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
Death is a black
Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
Allah is in Himself
Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.
Abdelkader El Djezairi
Some men, like spaniels,
Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
Abdelkader El Djezairi