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wayfarer (Suluk), they are also the manifestation of God in
in harmony about the Divine things, he gives his analysis of
manifestation in things in the this reason for the manifestation
way we presented earlier from of God, which divides it into
their participation in the origin two parts, the Divine act on
of the issue to which the the one hand, and the
Blessed verse refers, “He is the readiness of the Entities of the
First and the Last, the manifest names on the other side to
and the unseen”. accept this act and the Divine
This meaning does not cease flow, and without this
to be close from the vein that readiness nothing would have
we express it mystically, appeared in the worlds; But
Eckhart shows them as if they rather all of these worlds
were one thing, Meister Eckhart would not have been in their
says: entirety, Ibn Arabi expresses
“God is in all things as this issue, saying:
the intelligence (Akl), “So if the Entities did not
and in fact He is more deserve to be appearances
in these things than they of what Al-Haqq manifested
are in themselves”. in them and He was not
(Eckhart, 2009: 39) wise, then the defect would
not have been necessary in
This dynamic effective and that, and if the Identity was
current appearance extends to not worthy to manifest in
cover all dimensions of the these Entities Loci
thing, Eckhart points to this meaning: (Al Mazaher Al-Ayniah) of
“God Almighty is in the manifestation of the
things, being, activity, lordship of Deism, so it
and ability”. (Eckhart, would not have manifested
2009: 39) in these Entities, because a
thing doesn’t manifest in
As for Ibn Arabi, who itself for itself, there must
shares Eckhart's proposal in
