Abu Fauzi
Junior Member
As-Salaam alaikum,
According to the Qur'an, the divine power to create by language manifests through the command KUN (Be!). God says : "Our Command to a thing when We will it, is to say to it KUN and it is". Several verses attest to this mode of creation (2:117, 3:47, 3:59, 6:73, 16:40).
A Prophet may also be endowed, with God's permission, with the miraculous power to bestow life as seen in Qur'anic reports concerning Ibrahim and Isa, alaihim us-Salaat. Wasallam: both were able, the one calling out (2:260) and the other through breathing (3:49, 5:110), to bring dead and inanimate birds into life.
Abd al-Wahab Sha'arani, a 16th century Egyptian Sufi master, in his hagiographical 'Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kubra (The Book of Great Generations)' ascribes to al-Rufa'i a citation of a divine tradition (hadith - qudsi) in which God says: 'O son of Adam, obey Me and I shall observe you, and I shall make you say to a thing' Be'! and it will be "... even with this privilege God gives to some of His servants, it is still approached with the reservation demanded of good manners towards God.
The courteous among God's men, who may have the power to dispose, or some other supernatural ability to operate upon something, do so by means of their religious deed, not by means of KUN. They do this largely by means of BISMILLAHI RAHMANI RAHEEM) In the Name of ALLAH, the Merciful, the Compassionate).
For such men full of adaab, full of courtesy and respect to the Divine Court, with regard to bringing something into existence, the formula of BASMALA is like KUN for God, by its means certain men bring forth what they will into existence, says Ibn Arabi in his Futuhat Makkiyyah.
Wassalaam,
According to the Qur'an, the divine power to create by language manifests through the command KUN (Be!). God says : "Our Command to a thing when We will it, is to say to it KUN and it is". Several verses attest to this mode of creation (2:117, 3:47, 3:59, 6:73, 16:40).
A Prophet may also be endowed, with God's permission, with the miraculous power to bestow life as seen in Qur'anic reports concerning Ibrahim and Isa, alaihim us-Salaat. Wasallam: both were able, the one calling out (2:260) and the other through breathing (3:49, 5:110), to bring dead and inanimate birds into life.
Abd al-Wahab Sha'arani, a 16th century Egyptian Sufi master, in his hagiographical 'Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kubra (The Book of Great Generations)' ascribes to al-Rufa'i a citation of a divine tradition (hadith - qudsi) in which God says: 'O son of Adam, obey Me and I shall observe you, and I shall make you say to a thing' Be'! and it will be "... even with this privilege God gives to some of His servants, it is still approached with the reservation demanded of good manners towards God.
The courteous among God's men, who may have the power to dispose, or some other supernatural ability to operate upon something, do so by means of their religious deed, not by means of KUN. They do this largely by means of BISMILLAHI RAHMANI RAHEEM) In the Name of ALLAH, the Merciful, the Compassionate).
For such men full of adaab, full of courtesy and respect to the Divine Court, with regard to bringing something into existence, the formula of BASMALA is like KUN for God, by its means certain men bring forth what they will into existence, says Ibn Arabi in his Futuhat Makkiyyah.
Wassalaam,