Real knowledge
is the result
of paying attention!
Without customers,
goods
are wasted!
Commentary: We (all human beings) are the potential customers for the ongoing bountiful theopanic gifts (tajalliyat), which are offerings at each moment of glimpses of the Beloved’s face, opportunities to know through actualization the formerly hidden treasures of the divine attributes, one attribute and one moment at a time. As we read in Surat al-Rahman the most often repeated verse in the entire Qur’an (other than Bismillah….): Which of the bounties of your Lord- Sustainer are you denying?
Marifet iltifata tâbidir, müşterisiz meta zâyidir
Ottoman calligraphy by Necmeddin Okyay, in 1341/1922.
I’ve gotten permission from Dr. Alan Godlas (Abdul Haqq), who is a professor at the University of Georgia for Islamic and Sufi studies, to repost his Facebook postings on Islam and Sufism. All translations are done by Abdul Haqq Godlas unless otherwise noted.