The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 3 (of 3): translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Religion
The Dabistán, or School of manners, Volume 3 (of 3): translated from the original Persian, with notes and illustrations
Iran -- Religion; Religions
These sectaries, like other philosophers, always were, and are,
scattered among all nations of the world, and are called in Persian
_vèzhahderún_, “internally pure,” or _róuchen-dil_, “enlightened
minds,” or _Yékána-bín_, “seers of unity;” in the Hindu language,
_Rakhísher_ (Rakshasas) and _Tapísher_ (Tapasis), _Gyanisher_ and
_Gyáni_ (Jnánis), or _Atma-jnánis_. The lord _Maulavi Jámi_, in his
work entitled _Resálah-i-vajudíah_, “treatise upon existence,”[163]
states, that the universal Being is distinct from any intellectual and
exterior existence, inasmuch as every individual from among the
intellectual and exterior beings belongs to some class of beings; but
the universal Being is not subordinate to the condition of any thing;
he is absolute and sovereign, and not general, not partial, not
special, not common, and not one by (the number of) unity; for, it is
neither a substance nor an accident, but by itself one, and not a
multiple. These things however are necessary in the sovereign being,
according to their degrees and stations,[164] but the real Being,
under the condition of no substance whatever, is distinguished by the
name _martibah-ahadiyat_,[165] “degree of unity,” and all names and
attributes are (as it were) consumed by this degree, which the Yogis
express by the title _hakiket al hakáyek_,[166] “reality of
realities.” But the real Being, under the condition of all things
which are necessarily himself, according to generalities and
specialities, is called by names and attributes of the divine degree,
and this degree is entitled _Vahedet-i-mokam_,[167] “solitariness of
station,” and _jamah_,[168] “union.” The real Being, under no
condition of “a thing” (_shí_),[169] and under no condition of
“nothing” (_láshi_),[170] is called _húvíyat_,[171] “essence, absolute
being, objectivity,” and it is manifesting itself[172] in all
existences, and under the condition of “a thing and nothing,” is the
form of the universe.[173]
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