Hany Ibrahim: The Mysticism of Letters: Language and Being in the Teachings of Ibn al-ʿArabī (Part 3)

This week, we will examine

these letters, the waw, the ya, the mim, and the lam alif.

First, the waw is the letter concerned with connection, waslah.

In the Arabic grammar, the waw was known as harf, atf, atf, that connects.

And even the word atf means a person who is tender towards something, like atf, atuf, harf, atf.

So it has this connective power, mediation between two things, the waw, waw, Noon connecting the first noon and the second noon and any hidden identity within the letters.

It joins what appears to be separate while preserving an inner unity.

I and him.

And its numerical value points to balance.

The Sheikh Sidhu Muhyiddin said it has the number six because according to the abjad hawas or the abjadiyya alif ba jim abjad hawas its numerical number is six so he examined and analyzed this number six and he said its numerical value which is six points to balance completion and symbolic perfection Then the ya, which represents embodied reception and the descent into the lower world, the two dots beneath the ya.

It marks the movement by which meaning becomes addressed.

And I explained before the connection and the connective power.

If someone is meditating on, for example, the names of God, like I mentioned, Kareem.

Rahim, Kabir.

When you meditate and contemplate on these names, you will see that the manifestation and the meanings appear in the Ya.

So meaning becomes addressed, received and articulated within the field of manifestation through the letter Ya.

The Noon.

which represents the arc of concealment and appearance.

It's like the vessel that contains the dots.

That's why its shape is like a container, and the dot is the middle, the top.

So it contains dots, and the pen, the aleph, brings out these meanings, these dots from inside the noon.

Its form as an arc suggests a half visible and another half hidden arc.

So there's two arcs that make up the circle and there's a dot that connects both the visible and the unseen or the invisible other half.

Then the meme The Sheikh said, it gathers completion.

So it begins with a meme, then the yak connects the beginning meme to the last meme.