Preparedness
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
preparedness · a hidden preparedness · al-istiʻdād · istiʻdād · the preparednesses · الاستعداد
in the texts
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The receptive disposition that rises at the end of time, whose tongue makes a supplication that is assuredly answered, and by which the soul numbers the descending reality.
an indication of what obtains between the two words ‘number’ (*ʻadad*) and ‘preparedness’ (*istiʻdād*) by way of a shared derivation, which is founded upon a sharing between their two meanings.
he marked it so because it is mentioned potentially — …descending, and appears in the soul, the soul numbers it by the essential preparedness it has for receiving the rulings of the descents, so that it becomes a number.
and at the end of time the preparednesses (*istiʻdādāt*) rise so far that those very forms become the means for the disclosure of the realities.
Risālat al-Wāridāt
Istiʻdād, preparedness or receptive capacity: the technical term that regulates self-disclosure, explaining why a soul discloses itself in these forms rather than others without anything entering it from outside.
So apprehension is nothing but the self-disclosure (*tajallī*) of your soul through the forms, according to its preparedness (*istiʻdād*);