The secret
idea · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
sirr · the secret · السر · a secret among the secrets of God · secrets whose veil had not been drawn back · the secret of the secret · virgins · أسرار لم تكن مكشوفة القناع · ابكار · سر السر
spoken of as
2 expressionsThe secrets“asrār”1 mention
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi (Arabic)
when I had finished the refining of the epistle entitled al-Zawrāʼ — which comprises select portions of the realities and the cream of the subtleties, and which is among the singular things of the age, since it contains secrets whose veil had not been drawn back until now, indeed virgins 'whom no man nor jinn has touched before them,' and which was summary and knotty, its recalcitrant passages res …
sirr“the secret”1 mention
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq (Arabic)
the soul is the root in the human being, and when it is burnished by discipline (riyāḍah) and by the kinds of remembrance and thought, it becomes spirit, and then rises until it becomes a secret among the secrets of God.
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Sirr, the secret, the highest of the four Sufi degrees: that which reaches God, forgets everything else, sees realities, is pure light and disposes freely, its mark being gladness in every condition.
and the secret is that which arrives at Him, oblivious of all that is other than Him even were it set before him.
and the secret is light through and through.
Then the soul is in the Blaze, the spirit (rūḥ) in bliss, the heart (qalb) among the loftiest heights, and the secret with an Omnipotent Sovereign — that is, the possessor of the heart and the possessor of the secret.
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
Unprecedented esoteric truths, figured as veiled virgins, claimed as the distinctive content of al-Zawrāʼ.
when I had finished the refining of the epistle entitled al-Zawrāʼ — which comprises select portions of the realities and the cream of the subtleties, and which is among the singular things of the age, since it contains secrets whose veil had not been drawn back until now, indeed virgins 'whom no man nor jinn has touched before them,' and which was summary and knotty, its recalcitrant passages res …
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The sirr, both the topmost inner faculty and the hidden principle that sets limits in nature.
the soul is the root in the human being, and when it is burnished by discipline (riyāḍah) and by the kinds of remembrance and thought, it becomes spirit, and then rises until it becomes a secret among the secrets of God.
And it is said that the spirit is a spiritual light, an instrument for the soul, as the secret (sirr) is also an instrument for it;
just as, when you suck the air out of a flask and the air rarefies until it reaches a limit beyond which there is no further rarefying, you can no longer suck, or else the flask gives way — and that is due to nothing but a secret arising from the nature of air.