He brings them out of the darkness into the light…” [^9] The...

He brings them out of the darkness into the light…” [^9] The people of knowledge and of past good records know that all the creational individuations [ ta'ayyunāt - i khalqiyyah ] and the essential multiplicities [ kathurāt-i 'ayniyyah ] are darkness [ zulumāt ], and the absolute light cannot happen except by discarding the annexations and breaking the individuations which are the idols in the way of the sālik .

When the darkness of the actual and participial multiplicities is effaced and vanished in “the Essence of Union” [' ayn-i jam' ], all the nakedness will be covered, and the absolute presence and the complete attainment will take place, and the musallī , being concealed by the Haqq (Allah), will be performing the Haqq 's (Allah's) Salat . The ascending Salat of the Seal of the Messengers ( s ) was probably of this type, in its particular states and stages. Allah knows better.

Connection It is stated in Misbāh ash - Sharī'ah that Imām as-Sādiq (' a ) said: “The most…