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

hadrat al-insan
Presence of Man

(Hadrat al Insan).


See also: Perfect Man Small world World of the Breaths
(Al Insan al Kamil). He is the viceregent of Allah, through whom Allah contemplates His Own Name-derived Perfection. The Perfect Man has actualized the divine form and in carrying the Trust has fulfilled his reason for being. It is through the Perfect Man that Allah enters the world. Al Insan al Kamil is also one of the names given to the Supreme Isthmus. Man consists of a body and a spirit which governs it. The cosmos also consists of a body and a spirit which governs it. Its spirit is the Perfect Man. Without him the cosmos is likened to a discarded body.
('Alam saghir) contains all the worlds in latent form. This world is Man himself.
('Alam al anfas). The world of the breaths. Life itself. The breaths are counted. Man's final breath terminates his stay in 'alam al anfas.

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