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Works: Rahmah

quinta-feira 1º de fevereiro de 2024

  

Rahmah / Ananda: “Benevolence” (Rahmah) . . . The term Rahmah also contains the ideas of Mercy and Beauty, and then that of Love, and coincides in the final analysis with the Ananda of Brahmanism, radiant “Beatitude.” [GTUFS: HaveCenter, Degrees and Scope of Theism]

Rahmah – a term that is most often translated as “Clemency” – implies more profoundly, as does the Sanskrit term Ananda, all the aspects of Harmony:* Goodness, Beauty and Beatitude; and Rahmah is integrated into the Divine Essence itself, inasmuch as it is fundamentally none other than the radiating Infinitude of the Principle; an identity that the Koran   expresses by saying: “Call upon Allah or call upon Ar-Rahman, to Him belong the most beautiful Names” . . . For one cannot appeal to the One without Mercy responding. (* Sat referring to the Absolute, and Chit to the Consciousness that Atma has of its inexhaustible Perfection, hence its Qualities.) [GTUFS: SufismVQ, Hypostatic Dimensions of Unity]