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

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'alam al-khalq
World of Creation

('Alam al khalq). The Universe of creation which takes its existence in proximity to a secondary cause. It is the visible world or world of witnessing.

al-haqq
Truth

(Haqq). The term Haqq and the Name 'Allah' are synonymous because The Truth is the Reality which the Name 'Allah' denotes. Al Haqq also indicates its opposites, such as khalq (creation or creatures) and batil (falsehood or unreal). The Truth is that ...

jadid
New

(Jadid). New creation (Khalq Jadid) is a term which indicates the constantly changing states and the renewal of each existent thing, in each instant. In each instant a new knowledge is unfolded to the 'aware one'. Only the Essence is changeless.

khalq
Creation

(Khalq). Creation itself or the phenomenal world. Khalq refers to the creation which is the result of the Creator's Command, "Be!" ("Kun!"). The term al Khalq (creation) is often applied as the opposite of al Haqq (the Creative Truth). The first thin...

khalq jadid
New Creation

(Khalq Jadid). This term signifies the state of constant change (new creation) which everything undergoes in each indivisible instant. Nothing remains the same for two successive moments. It is through the observation of the new creation (khalq jadi...

khayr al-khalq
Best of Creation

(Khayr al Khalq). The Holy Prophet Muhammad (May the Salutations of Allah be upon him and Peace) is the best of creation. Allah said, "If not for you, if not for you (Oh Muhammad), I would not have created the creation".

la takrar fi'l-tajalli
Self-disclosure never repeats Itself

(La Takrar fil Tajalli). This expression indicates that there is never any repetition in Allah's Infinite Self-disclosures (Tajalli). This is 'the renewal of creation in each instant' (Tajdid al Khalq fil-Anat). Allah does not unveil Himself in the s...

mahsur
Constrained

(Mahsur). Constrained and limited. Man always constrains and limits Allah in accordance with his own individual limitations. Once the slave-lover-knower has entered that Limitless Ocean which is Allah, seeing only Allah always and everywhere, all con...

makhluq
Creation itself

(Makhluq). Allah, as the Creator (al Khalq), demands the existence of a creation, and the creation demands its Creator. There must be a cosmos because the divine realities demand it.

an-naqs al-khalqi
Imperfect Nature of the Created

(Naqs al khalqi). Of necessity the created must have an imperfect nature, being as it is 'other-than Allah'. Allah Alone is Perfect. The creature can attain to the type of Perfection which its level requires. All of the existent things are perfect i...

tajdid al-khalq fi'l-anat
Renewal of creation at each instant

(Tajdid al khalq fil anat). This is an incessant outpouring of Being into the manifest realm. The one with the preparedness to receive this perpetual irradiation of the Essence, realizing the ceaseless revelation and constant renewal within himself,...

tajdid al-khalq bil'-anfas
Renewal of creation at each breath

(Tajdid al khalq bil anfas). Through the Mercy of the Breath of the All Merciful a super abundance of Being overflows into the cosmos.