Self-disclosure
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al-tajallī · self-disclosure · التجلي · al-burūz · al-tajalliyāt · disclosure · manifestation · tajallī · the degrees of its self-disclosures · البروز
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Risālat al-Wāridāt
Tajallī, self-disclosure: the treatise's substitute for creation, perception and volition alike — the world is the disclosure of what lay latent in God's essential knowledge, perception is the soul's disclosure of itself through forms, and the act is the disclosure of the will, so that in no case does one thing produce a second thing.
and that everything honoured with emergence is but the self-disclosure (*tajallī*) of what is in that knowledge — save that, because the vessel of the external world is too narrow to hold the ranks without end which that knowledge requires according to what belongs to each thing in its own essence, the ordering in the self-disclosures came about.
So apprehension is nothing but the self-disclosure (*tajallī*) of your soul through the forms, according to its preparedness (*istiʻdād*);
So the self-disclosure (*tajallī*) fell upon the degrees of descent — the subtler, then the subtle, and so on to the last of the degrees of descent, which is the hylic, natural world.
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The utmost of perfection, God disclosing Himself through all His attributes and names, and the mode under which an effect passing away is the cause manifesting otherwise.
The utmost of perfection is self-disclosure (*tajallī*) through all the attributes and names of God, exalted be He.
So the passing away of the effect is, in reality, the manifestation of the cause in another mode, and its self-disclosure under a relational aspect.
The upshot of this instruction is that the reality is other than all the forms in which it discloses itself upon the outward and inward senses, the bodily and the spiritual, other with an essential otherness — that is, otherness in respect of its own essence, save in respect of existence;