=> ULTIMATE SYMMETRY - IV.2.3 The
Real-Through-Whom-Things-Are-Created... related to the ancient sexagenarian system attributed to the Babylonians. Borrowing his language from the atomistic physical theories of earlier Muslim theology, Ibn al-Arabi refers to the created world as being made up of monads and forms, where the monads are the substances and the form ...
=> DUALITY OF TIME - 4.2.1 The Re-creation Principle... ouldn’t hold, so it is impossible for the (created) form to remain for two instants of time (or longer). From the theological point of view, neither the forms nor the essences of the created world may remain (constant) for more than one moment, because if they do they would be indep ...
=> DUALITY OF TIME - 4.2.2 The Single Monad... by Mohamed Haj Yousef Search Inside this Book 4.2.2 The Single Monad Borrowing his language from the atomistic physical theories of earlier kalam theology, Ibn al-Arabi refers to the created world as being made up of monads and forms, or in his technical language, of “substanc ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - 7. Relative and Curved Time:... ment. The true master of time witnesses everything in the world (since all that is a kind of reflection of his own spirit, or even part of it) all the time: that is to say, he witnesses the created world throughout space and time. This high state of attention, however, is only attainable b ...
=> ULTIMATE SYMMETRY - I.4.1 The Three Hypothesis of the
Single Monad Model... ed again by the Single Monad in every original creative Week, from Sunday to Friday. Being one of these discrete instances, we don t witness this creation process, since we only observe the created World on Saturday, the last Day of creation. So the seven Days of the divine Week are in all ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - 5. The Oneness of Being:... e, 'there is no god but Allah' and this highest created entity (i.e., 'the Single Monad') is the (all-encompassing) Messenger of Allah. Allah sent this Messenger ' to take us (and the whole created world) from the darkness ' of non-existence ' into the light ' of existence (Qur an 57:9). B ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - 6. The Principle of Ever-renewed Creation:... ble for the (created) form to remain for two instants of time (or longer). ( Al-Tanazzulat Al-Layliyya : 55) So from the theological point of view, neither the forms nor the essences of the created world may remain (constant) for more than one moment because if they do they would be indepe ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - CHAPTER VI
The Single-Monad Model
of the Cosmos... lained in Chapter IV and his unique view of creation in the Week as explained in Chapter III. We shall call this model the 'Single-Monad model'. Under this model, Ibn Arabi views the entire created world, both spiritual and manifest, as imaginal forms perpetually re-created by the Single M ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - 1. The Three Hypotheses:... ppens in the 'six Days' of creation from Sunday to Friday, which accounts for the three dimensions of space. But we do not witness this creation process as such; instead we only witness the created world on the 'last Day' of Saturday. So the seven Days of the divine Week are in all one poi ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - 2. The Single Monad:... ion by Mohamed Haj Yousef Search Inside this Book 2. The Single Monad: Borrowing his language from the atomist physical theories of earlier kalam theology, Ibn Arabi sometimes refers to the created world as being made up of monads and forms , or in his technical language, of 'substances' ( ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - 7. Spreading the Shadows:... e), through Allah's 'spreading the shadow' of the Single Monad in the eternally renewed act of Creation. For if God so wished, He could have left His Shadow unmanifest, which means that the created world would have stayed as it was in Allah's eternal Knowledge, instead of coming out into r ...
=> TIME CHEST - 2.3 Outline of the Single Monad Model of the Cosmos... again by the Single Monad in every original creative Week, from Sunday to Friday. Being one of these discrete instances, we don’t witness this creation process, since we only observe the created World on Saturday, the “last Day” of creation. So the seven Days of the divine Week are ...
=> TIME CHEST - 2.2.5 Relative and Curved Time... ment. The true master of time witnesses everything in the World (since all that is a kind of reflection of his own spirit, or even part of it) all the time: that is to say, he witnesses the created world throughout space and time. This high state of attention, however, is only attainable b ...
=> The Oneness of Being... re, 'there is no god but Allah' and this highest created entity (i.e., 'the Single Monad') is the (all-encompassing) Messenger of Allah. Allah sent this Messenger 'to take us (and the whole created world) from the darkness' of non-existence 'into the light' of existence (Qur’an 57:9). Bu ...
=> DUALITY OF TIME - 4.1.4 Trinity of the Cosmos... œsix Days†of creation from Sunday to Friday, which accounts for the three dimensions of space. But we don’t witness this creation process as such; instead we only witness the created world on the “last Day†of Saturday. So the seven Days of the divine Week are in ...
=> Relative and Curved Time... ment. The true master of time witnesses everything in the world (since all that is a kind of reflection of his own spirit, or even part of it) all the time: that is to say, he witnesses the created world throughout space and time. This high state of attention, however, is only attainable b ...
=> Spreading the Shadows... e), through Allah's 'spreading the shadow' of the Single Monad in the eternally renewed act of Creation. For if God so wished, He could have left His Shadow unmanifest, which means that the created world would have stayed as it was in Allah's eternal Knowledge, instead of coming out into r ...
=> The Principle of Ever-renewed Creation... sible for the (created) form to remain for two instants of time (or longer). (Al-Tanazzulat Al-Layliyya: 55) So from the theological point of view, neither the forms nor the essences of the created world may remain (constant) for more than one moment because if they do they would be indepe ...
=> The Structure of the Monad... ud li-dhatihi), and He is Allah the Exalted; or what necessarily exists through (the determination by) something other than itself, and that is what is contingent (al-mumkin: i.e. the whole created world). And this (category of what is) contingent is either embodied (in-a-place), or not em ...
=> The Three Hypotheses of the Single Monad Model... ppens in the 'six Days' of creation from Sunday to Friday, which accounts for the three dimensions of space. But we do not witness this creation process as such; instead we only witness the created world on the 'last Day' of Saturday. So the seven Days of the divine Week are in all one poi ...
=> Eternity: ab ante - a post... at was happening before the beginning of the world? Ibn al-Arabi clearly shows that such questions are meaningless, because the world is created out of time, and time itself is part of that created world. The existence of the Creator preceded the existence of the world logically, but not c ...
=> TIME CHEST - 2.1.1 The Origin of the World... was happening, before the beginning of the World? Ibn al-Arabi, however, shows that such questions are meaningless, because the World is created out of time, and time itself is part of that created World. Allah did not create the World in time, because nothing existed “before” the Worl ...
The science of Time is a noble science, that reveals the secret of Eternity. Only the Elites of Sages may ever come to know this secret. It is called the First Age, or the Age of ages, from which time is emerging.
