Both the manifest and the hidden are, together, al-Bāriʾ (the Creator), Glorious and Exalted is He. There is nothing apart from this. This is the muṭlaq (the Absolute) and the ḥaqīqa (inner reality); through the multiplication of the all-encompassing innateness, which is the origin of all individual innatenesses, and the identity which is the same as all identities, it occurs only in the imagination, in terms of time, place, opposition, absence, manifestation, pain, pleasure, existence, and non-existence. (Ravza, 602)
bāri (Sufism Glossary)
Both the manifest and the hidden are, together, al-Bāriʾ (the Creator), Glorious and Exalted is He. There is nothing apart from this. This is the muṭlaq (the Absolute) and the ḥaqīqa (inner reality); through the …
