Mishkāt (niche, lamp) is the perceiving (intuitive) ruh (the spirit). When you consider its characteristics, you realize that its lights are other than the countless apertures such as the two eyes, two ears, nostrils, and others. In this physical dunyā (the world), its example is the mishkāt (lamp niche). (Mishkāt, 84)
mishkāt (Sufism Glossary)
Mishkāt (niche, lamp) is the perceiving (intuitive) ruh (the spirit). When you consider its characteristics, you realize that its lights are other than the countless apertures such as the two eyes, two ears, nostrils, …