The Throne
object · 4 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the Throne · al-ʻarsh · العرش · from its throne to its floor · the encompassing Throne · the great Throne · the seat whereon the All-Merciful is established · throne · ʻarsh · العرش العظيم
in the texts
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The cosmic seat of the All-Merciful, identified here with the soul as requiring the manifestation of all contingents.
It is therefore the comprehensive Book, and the Greatest Name, and the encompassing Throne which is the seat whereon the All-Merciful is established, requiring by the existentiating mercy the manifestation of all the contingents in their particulars.
'If the Throne and all it contains, a thousand times over, were in a corner of the gnostic's heart, it would not fill it' — or however he put it.
' It is admissible that by 'the peaks' he intends the heavens, their highest being the Throne, and the summit of the Throne being the all-merciful quality established upon it, as the Real mentioned in His noble Book with His words, 'the All-Merciful is seated upon the Throne' — for the cognitive presence which it contains is matched by the Breath of the All-Merciful coursing through all the realit …
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The divine Throne, invoked in the dedication verse as the seat of the Lord who grants the vizier bounty.
A vizier who of all men has the first claim upon exaltation — so the Lord of the Throne has granted him of bounty all that best became him.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The divine Throne, invoked in the opening prayer's epithet for God and the subject of a note on the manuscript's vocative construction.
Set us aright by Your light, O Possessor of the great Throne (4);
[5] 4 ) In an original: *yā dhū al-ʻarsh*.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The divine Throne, named as the cosmos's upper bound in the formula for the whole world.
Rather, that you should know that the world, from its throne to its floor, is made subservient to your body: