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Light (Al-Nur)
– is the visible one by whom everything is made visible,
for what is visible in itself and makes other things visible is called “light”.
In the measure that existence is opposed to non-existence, what is visible cannot but be linked to existence, for no darkness is darker than non-existence.
What is free from the darkness of non-existence, and even from the possibility of non-existence, who draws everything from the darkness of non-existence to the manifestation of existence, is worthy of being named light.
Existence is Light….
(Al-Ghazali: al-Maqsad al-asnâ fî sharh asma’Állah al-husnâ, c. 1107 CE, translation David B. Burrell and Nazih Daher) |
