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Noor on the face? What does that mean?
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12-15-2008, 04:19 PM
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God becomes an intimate Abdullah's eye with which the latter sees, his hand with which he holds and so on according to a hadith in Kitabu Riqaq of Bukhari. This is the unity of will and activity with God that is implied by the Islamic ideal of Abdullah (it is not a unity of substance Naudhu-Billah).
What is that activity? The activity of reflecting and spreading God's Light -- such activity is nothing but Noor and fills the heart, the face and the whole being of an Abdullah with Noor.
Even a Wahabi scholar like Dr Zakir Naek has observed that Noor means reflected light and that the word when used for Allah means that Allah is reflecting His own Light.
I add that the word Noor when used in the context of an Abdullah means that Abdullah is reflecting God's Light. The heart, if cleansed, can form the mirror for reflecting God's Light. This is the meaning of the hadith that God cannot be contained in the whole universe but dwells in a Momin's heart.
God's transcendence is not simple--He is totally transcendent of everything else, still more immanent in everything than anything else could ever be, as revealed in such ayahs as "Allahu Nooru samawate wal ard" and "Fa-ainama tuwalu fathama Wajh-Allah".
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