The Language of the Future
Sufi Terminology
by Murshid F.A. Ali ElSenossi

athar
Traces

(Athar). Remainders or traces or vestiges or effects. The effects of the Divine Names are the phenomena of the cosmos. That is, the things and the forms and the entities which manifest the Names are the effects. When the inner-eye is opened the 'seer' sees the effects, and he sees the Names and realities of these effects and therefore he sees them as a manifestation of the Essence Itself.

See also: Inner eye Oh, Allah, show me things as they are in their reality

Inner eye ( basirah )

(Basirah). Insight. The basirah is the inner eye which perceives the World of the Unseen. Man's basirah is veiled and covered with a rust which can only be removed through the sincere practising of the Remembrance of Allah. Insight is one of the forms of direct knowledge of Reality.

Oh, Allah, show me things as they are in their reality ( Allahumma arana haqaiq al-ashya kama hiya )

(Allahumma arana haqaiq al ashya kama). This is a personal supplication of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (May the Salutations of Allah be upon him and Peace). It is the prayer uttered by all the advanced ones on the Path of Return to Allah, through which they seek to realize the ultimate meaning of things. And this meaning, this inner reality is the Name 'Allah'.

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