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same that is a cover the fact that Al-Haqq was still
(ridaa) and a cover (ridaa) of manifest to Himself and was
the same of a robe (Izarr) that not characterised by His lack
is never characterised by two of anything, just as the
different proportions as it creation was characterized by
decides, and the mind its lack of manifestation for its
(Aql) understand it in terms of entity (Ayn) in its entity
what is a thought; that is why (Ayn) to Al-Haqq”. (Ibn Arabi,
‘Abu Saeed al Kharrazi said, 2002, Vol. 3: 287)
and he was told how he knew As for the evolution and
God, so he replied “By emergence of worlds, it is
combining it between the two from the Merciful Divine
opposites, then he recited “He Breath, as Ibn Arabi expresses:
is the First, the Last, the “The formation of the
Manifest and the Hidden”. world from the Merciful
(Ibn Arabi, 2002, Vol. 2: 40-41) Breath (al nafas al-rahmani)
And the manifestation of which is manifest from
the Essence to Himself is what the Loving affection (mahabba) of
is causing the manifestation of God”. (Ibn Arabi, 2002,
Loci (Mathaher) and God’s Vol. 2: 402)
attachment to Loci (Mathaher) is
the act of love and all of it is Also Qaysari indicate to the
because of the Breath of the same matter:
All-Merciful (al nafas al- “The world appeared in
rahmani). the Merciful Breath”.
“Creation is caught in the (Qaysari, 1996: 887)
epithets of God (Al-Haqq) and
is not otherwise. Therefore, the For Eckhart, the manifestation
manifestation of creation (Al- of the Essence to Himself is
Khaleq) was by Al-Haqq and basically the manifestation of
the manifestation of Al-Haqq everything, (Shah-Kazemi, 2006:
was not through creation, for 175) as it is the introduction.
