The Degrees Of Divine Unity And The Passage To The 2nd Stopping Place

Then that restless traveller addressed his heart and said: "The fact that the people of faith, and particularly those affiliated with a sufi order, are constantly repeating the words, 'no god but He,' and recalling and proclaiming Allah's unity, is an indication that the affirmation of Allah's unity comprises many degrees. Such affirmation is moreover a most enjoyable, most valuable, and most exalted sacred duty, instinctive function, and act of worship. Let us then in order to attain a further degree, open the door of another stopping-place in this abode of instruction. For the true affirmation of Allah's unity we seek is not some imaginary species of knowledge. It is rather an affirmation that in terms of logic is deemed the opposite of imagination, that is far more valuable than cognition based on imagination, that is the result of proof, that is designated a knowledge." The true affirmation of Allah's unity is a judgement, a confirmation, an assent and acceptance that can find its Sustainer present with all things, that sees in all things a path leading to its Creator, and does not regard anything as an obstacle to His presence. For otherwise it would always be necessary to tear and cast aside the veil of the cosmos in order to find its Sustainer. "Onward, then," said the traveller to himself, as he knocked at the door of Allah's Sublimity and Grandeur. He entered the Stopping-Place of Allah's deeds and workings, the world of creation and origination, and there he saw that five comprehensive truths were prevailing over the entire cosmos, and offering self-evident proof of the Divine unity.

لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللّٰهُ الْوَاحِدُ الْاَحَدُ الَّذ۪ى دَلَّ عَلٰى وَحْدَانِيَّتِهِ وَ وُجُوبِ وُجُودِهِ مُشَاهَدَةُ عَظَمَةِ حَق۪يقَةِ تَبَارُزِ الْاُلُوهِيَّةِ الْمُطْلَقَةِ وَ كَذَا مُشَاهَدَةُ عَظَمَةِ اِحَاطَةِ حَق۪يقَةِ تَظَاهُرِ الرُّبُوبِيَّةِ الْمُطْلَقَةِ الْمُقْتَضِيَّةِ لِلْوَحْدَةِ وَ كَذَا مُشَاهَدَةُ عَظَمَةِ اِحَاطَةِ حَق۪يقَةِ الْكَمَالَاتِ النَّاشِيَةِ مِنَ الْوَحْدَةِ وَ كَذَا مُشَاهَدَةُ عَظَمَةِ اِحَاطَةِ حَق۪يقَةِ الْحَاكِمِيَّةِ الْمُطْلَقَةِ الْمَانِعَةِ وَ الْمُنَافِيَةِ للِشِّرْكَةِ