Real Alchemy and The Real Alchemist-Part II

Faith Mysticism

oi-Staff

By Staff

Thursday, April 9, 2009, 12:39

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even King Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

- 'Isa Messiah (Jesus Christ), upon him be peace

Spring and all its flowers
now joyously break
their vow of silence.
It is time for celebration,
not for lying low;

You too - weed out
those roots of sadness from your heart.

The Sabaa wind arrives;
and in deep resonance, the flower
passionately rips open its garments,
thrusting itself from itself.

- Hafiz, English version by Homayun Taba & Marguerite Theophil
via Poetry Chaikhana

Meaning of the Divine Quality: Al Musawwir
Fashioner / The Maker of Harmony / The Perfect Artist

He it is who has created for you all that is on earth, and has applied His design to the heavens and fashioned them into seven heavens; and He alone has full knowledge of everything.
- The Quran 2:29

The perfect artist who gives everything the most unique and beautiful form is al-Musawwir.

Allah simply says "Kun" "Be!" and a whole universe becomes.

Allah's treasure is between two letters, "Kaf" and "Nun"

Allah shapes without using a model.

Everything is an expression of His infinite beneficence and wisdom

The Creator (Al-Khaliq), Maker of Perfect Harmony (Al-Bari'), and The Shaper of Unique Beauty (Al-Musawwir) form the creative attributes.

An artists says he "creates" beauty. An engineer "invents" a flying machine. They think they do it themselves. They forget someone else created the brush or the tools for their creation. They ultimately ignore the 'source' and indeed every source has its 'Singular Source'.

'abd al-Musawwir (Instrument or Servant of the Real Fashioner) is the maker of things in accordance with the beauty manifest in all that God has created, because no beauty is possible in opposition to the beauty created by Allah or outside of it.