Fusus al-Hikam The Seals of Wisdom by Shaykh al ... - ImagoMundi

Notes to Chapter 7:
1. Rububiyyah: Lordship, the quality of being a lord. A term derived from the Qur'anic
descriptions of Allah's lordship over creation. One might say the ecology of natural
existence. It is an essential element in Sufic cosmology and is a most sophisticated
concept which surpasses the crude specificity and mechanistic views of evolutionist
biology. It is an energy system of relationships in constant change and altering
dynamics. It functions through the different realms, the atomic, the mineral, the plant,
and so on. It relates the levels ofliving organisms from the uni-cellular up to man, and
the interpenetrations of organism and environment. It re-defines "event" from crude
historicity to a picture of organism/event in a unified field. It is the underlying concept
which allows us to abandon the dead mind/body split of the dying culture. It permits us
to utilise and develop the energy concepts of Islamic/Chinese medicine - which hold a
common energy concept at base. Rububiyya permits us to observe ONE PROCESS at
work throughout every level of the creational realities.
2. "Law" (if, but probably not) expresses an unlikely condition, while "in" (if, but
probably yes) expresses a probable condition.
3. Garden, Janna, also carries the connotation of veiling, concealing.
4.Qur'an 54:53-55, "The fearfully aware will be amid Gardens and Rivers on seats of
honour in the presence of an All-Powerful King."
8: The Seal of the Wisdom of the Spirit (Rûh)
in the Word of Ya'qub (Jacob)
The Din (1) is two Dins: the Din with Allah and with the one whom the Real knows,
and who has recognition of the fact that the Real knows him; and the Din with creation;
and Allah takes account of it since its goal is conformity with what Allah has willed of
the Shari'a set down with Him. Allah said, "Ibrahim directed his sons to this, as did also
Ya'qub, 'My sons! Allah has chosen this Din for you, so do not die except as Muslims'"
(2:132) that is obeying Him. The Din brought the alif and the lam (2) of definition and
acquaintance. It is the recognised Din. It is His words, "The Din with Allah is Islam,"
(3:19) and it is submission. So the Din is an expression of your obedience. That which
is from Allah is the road which leads you to Him. Din is submission and the law
(namus) is the road which Allah has set down.
Anyone who is described by submission to what Allah has prescribed for him is the one
who has based himself on the Din, and it raises him up and establishes him as does the
prayer. The slave is the product of the Din. Allah sets down judgements, and thus
submission is the source of your action, and so Din is from your action. You will only
achieve happiness by what comes from you. As happiness is established for you by your
actions, so the Divine Names are only established by His actions, which are you and
which are in-time. As He is called god by His effects, so you are called happy by your
effects.
Allah bestowed His rank upon you since you established the Din and obeyed what He
prescribed for you. I will enlarge on that, if Allah wills, in a useful manner, after we