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As a result, the Prophet the Truth from Absar (Eyes),
Moses’ actions, including not and Arbaeen (Forty) refers to
eating and drinking and being the forty waystations of the
completely engaged in worshiping wayfarers, through which Prophet
the Almighty, were all a prelude Moses went and reaching God
to be ready and prepared to the for him was realized at dawn.
divine conversation and accepting (Ibn Arabi, 1988, Vol. 1: 86)
His manifestations and that is
what we call Intuitive manifestation Conversation with God
that is realized on the basis of Because of his spiritual retreat
capacity with which the behavioral and staying alone with God,
manifestation differs from permanent the Almighty Lord talked to
existential one. It should be him which is the theophany of
noted that the appointment and the Attributes; Of course, the
its number have been mentioned Divine Speech is different from
in the night and not in the day, any speech. As the Creator is
the Almighty says: not like others, His Speech is
“We told Moses to stay different too. The Lord speaks
with Us for thirty nights to his messengers through revelation
(in the mountains) but and this is as much as their
added ten nights more endurance.
so his appointment with One of the characteristics of
his Lord came to an end the God’s Speech, which is
after forty nights”. specific to Himself, is that it has
(Quran, 7: 142) no direction, and occupies the
existence of the listener from
According to Ibn Arabi, Layla all sides. So, Moses was perfectly
(Night) indicates the veiling of hearing and understanding for
