This is the name given to a divine station. The question regarding the location of the Lord also strengthens this view. Undoubtedly, the divine station is the source of rubūbiyya (divine lordship). (Kāshānī, 131; Jāmiʿ, 90)
The absolute imagination (ḥayāl-i muṭlaq) referred to here is the amā (the cloud of unknowing). This station renders the Absolute, who is subtle (imperceptible), into a manifest (perceptible) form as the Necessary Being (Wājib Subḥānahū). For there, He appears in the form of the possible. Likewise, it renders what is absolutely manifest—that is, the non-existent and the possible—subtle. For here, He does not appear in the form of the Necessary Being. He...