(mürekkebât-ı samʿiyya – composite auditory entities; mürekkebât-ı cismâniyye – composite corporeal entities; mürekkebât-ı ʿilmiyye – composite intellectual entities; mürekkebât-ı rūḥāniyye – composite spiritual entities; mürekkebât-ı nūrāniyye – composite luminous entities)
One of the levels (marātib) of wujūd (existence) is also the composite entities (mürekkebât). Composite beings are divided into six categories: combinations pertaining to knowledge, sight, hearing, body, spirit (rūḥ), and light (nūr).
Mürekkebât-ı ʿilmiyye (composite intellectual entities) consist of the forms that exist in knowledge. For every combination in knowledge, its form is obtained from the union of shapes and parts. The substances (jawāhir) of these combinations exist as bodies in the external dunyā (world). By extension, everything found in the realm of khayāl (imagination) is also of this kind.
For this reason, khayāl is a barzakh (intermediate isthmus) between the spirit (rūḥ) and the body. This is because all the parts of the form of imagination are taken from the material realm. Since the composition and depiction of this realm is the realm of the spirit (rūḥ), the ḥikma (wisdom) of the composition is thus established. An example of this is as follows: a green emerald tree whose fruit is red ruby and is sweeter than honey.