=> Analogies in the Macrocosms... h each round of the seven circumambulations around the Kaaba, and he relates that metaphysical teaching to the seven main Attributes of Allah which are responsible for the seven Days of the divine creative Week [I.49.32]. Figure VI.3: Photograph of the Kaaba, with people on the Hajj circum ...
=> The Structure of the Monad... ctual entity of the substance (Monad) of the world, were it not for its receptivity to this 'creative formation' (takwin) in itself. So the world is always continually in need (faqr: of the divine creative force). As for the forms, they are in need (of Allah's creation) in order to come ou ...
=> The Metaphysical Triplicity (Trinity) of the Cosmos... y then) He brings (the contingent thing) into existence. …Therefore this (metaphysical principle of) triplicity runs inwardly through the totality of all things, because it exists in the (divine creative) Source. [III.126.5] Now the Universal Intellect is the intermediary reality (also c ...
=> Unicity versus Multiplicity... he 'Impossible'. This figure is taken from chapter 360 of the Futuhat [III 275]. With regard to this image, Ibn al-Arabi explained in chapter 47 of the Futuhat [I.260.1], that the (divine creative Source-) point in the centre of a circle meets any point in its circumference with i ...
=> TIME CHEST - 1.3 Time and Cosmology in Islamic Philosophy... extends to the spheres, the stars, the elements, their products and to human. In Quran, the Universe, or the Cosmos, is also identified as the creation that comes into existence through the divine creative command: “Be!” (kun), from which the Arabic name for the cosmos is derived: (kaw ...
=> TIME CHEST - 2.2.2 Space-Time Duality... y to Friday, but we human beings witness only Saturday because in the other six days of the week we (along with the rest of creation) are still being created. Ibn al-Arabi insists that this divine creative process is repeated every single moment as we shall explain in the following chapter ...
=> TIME CHEST - 2.2.6 The Discrete Nature of Time... place within the entire world at that particular instant, but as divided up (in actual perception) by the total number of perceiving entities and their perceptions in the World. During this divine creative “glance” , we perceive a still picture of our limited perception of the World, a ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - 6.1. The Black Stone and the Kaaba:... h each round of the seven circumambulations around the Kaaba, and he relates that metaphysical teaching to the seven main Attributes of Allah which are responsible for the seven Days of the divine creative Week [I.49.32]. Read Other Books: The Single Monad Model of the Cosmos ...
=> DUALITY OF TIME - 2.5.7 Potential Infinity... extends to the spheres, the stars, the elements, their products and to human. In Quran, the universe, or the cosmos, is also identified as the creation that comes into existence through the divine creative command: “Be!†(kun), from which the Arabic name for the cosmos is deriv ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - 5. Space-Time and the Speed of Light:... nday to Friday, but we human beings witness only Saturday because in the other six days of the week we (along with the rest of creation) are still being created. Ibn Arabi insists that this divine creative process is repeated every single moment as we shall explain in the following chapter ...
=> Space-Time and the Speed of Light... y to Friday, but we human beings witness only Saturday because in the other six days of the week we (along with the rest of creation) are still being created. Ibn al-Arabi insists that this divine creative process is repeated every single moment as we shall explain in the following chapter ...
=> The Single Day... gives a measure of this day through the Breath: 'and the day is the magnitude of the breath of the Breather in the single time' [II.171.23]. This is because in this instantaneous 'Day' the divine creative 'Breath' emerges and returns to its Source, with its manifestation being the realm o ...
=> The Kinds of Events... ndividual creatures: those which are ready to burn will burn, and those which accept heat will be heated, and so on [Ayyam Al-Sha’n: 6], and he explains further in the Futuhat that: 'the (divine creative) "Event", in relation to the Real (i.e., God/al-haqq), is one from Him; but with rel ...
=> Hours, Minutes and Seconds... e day as we normally experience or observe is the minimum period of time defined by the apparent full revolution of the Heavens around the earth (see sections II.12 and III.2). The original divine creative Days are single indivisible divine 'Acts', but in the observed time that we experien ...
=> The Metaphysical Triplicity (Trinity) of the Cosmos... n) He brings (the contingent thing) into existence. …Therefore this (metaphysical principle of) triplicity runs inwardly through the totality of all things, because it exists in the (divine creative) Source. [III.126.5] Now the Universal Intellect is the intermediary reality (also c ...
=> The Motion of the Seven Days in the Zodiac... rst degree of Gemini. Thus the orb of the zodiac (fixed starts) executes only seven distinctive cycles, which are then repeated that over and over again. Each Day of these seven Days of the divine creative Week is called a 'Day of event', in which only one single event happens, because it ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - 15. The 'Single Day':... gives a measure of this day through the Breath: 'and the day is the magnitude of the breath of the Breather in the single time' [II.171.23]. This is because in this instantaneous 'Day' the divine creative 'Breath' emerges and returns to its Source, with its manifestation being the realm o ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - CHAPTER III
The Significance of the Divine Week
and its Seven Days... bn Arabi's view of the actual flow of time, which we shall explain in the following chapter; but in this chapter we shall first explain the origin and the meaning of these seven Days of the divine creative Week, why they have to be seven and not more or less, and what is the significance o ...
=> The Significance of the Week in Theology and Astronomy... of that (i.e., the divine creation of the seven Days of the Week) in the wider cosmos. Finally, although there are many similarities between Ibn al-Arabi's doctrine about the origin of the divine creative Week and its Days, and the cosmological perspectives and understandings of earlier a ...
=> SINGLE MONAD MODEL - 1. The Significance of the Week in Theology and Astronomy:... cts of that (i.e., the divine creation of the seven Days of the Week) in the wider cosmos. Finally, although there are many similarities between Ibn Arabi's doctrine about the origin of the divine creative Week and its Days, and the cosmological perspectives and understandings of earlier a ...
=> The Circulated Days (ayyam al-takwir)... earth, there is a Day of event happening that encompasses the whole world or cosmos (all of creation). Yet each Day of event is also composed of the seven distinctive Days of creation, the divine creative 'Week' described in detail in the previous chapter. =========== [1] For the Arabs, w ...
=> The Discrete Nature of Time... place within the entire world at that particular instant, but as divided up (in actual perception) by the total number of perceiving entities and their perceptions in the world. During this divine creative 'glance' (lamha), we perceive a still picture of our limited perception of the world ...
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.
