Unveiling
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al-awḥiyah · al-mukāshafah · al-mukāshafāt · futūḥ · unveiling · unveilings · الاوحية · الفتوح · الكشف · المكاشفات
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Futūḥ, mystical disclosure or unveiling, named by the author as a source of knowledge about soul and spirit distinct from the reported sayings of men.
this weak servant says that for a long while I had a strong desire to write a book on the soul (nafs) and the spirit, gathering into it what people have said and what has been disclosed by way of unveilings (futūḥ).
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Mukāshafah, the waking unveiling of hidden matters, distinguished from dreaming and divided into false, true and prophetic kinds.
As for unveiling in the perfect souls, such as the prophets and the apostles and the divinely supported saints, it falls under three aims.
among them are the false, and their causes are the four that were mentioned in the case of false dreams.
As for true unveiling and its like, we say:
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
Kashf, mystical disclosure, the cognitive source credited with the principles the gloss treats as settled.
And it is among the principles established with the imāms of unveiling and verification that, just as the attributes have determinations in the essences — as with knowledge, for by it the essence becomes knowing, and power, by which it becomes powerful, and so forth — so too the essences have determinations in the attributes:
And one of the imāms of unveiling (kashf) and verification went to the utmost when he said: