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Question:
The Holy Quran states:
"And all things We have recorded in a clear
Book."
Contemplating this verse reveals that Allah Almighty
inscribed and preserved every dynamic pulsation of the cosmos beforehand—past,
present, and future abide in eternal preservation. My inquiry is: can an
illuminated human consciousness, through spiritual perception, directly study
this primordial Divine Record?
Answer:
All revealed scriptures and celestial texts—whether
the Scrolls of Abraham, the Psalms of David, the Gospel, the Torah, or the
ultimate Book, the Holy Quran—transmit the realization that the operational
imperatives of existence, every somatic action, all living manifestations, and
the entirety of history's vicissitudes were inscribed upon a single
metaphysical plane with the divine creative decree Kun ("Be").
The cosmos and its living drama endure as an archetypal, all-encompassing
record. The transcendent matrix, screen, or dimensional plane upon which the
cosmos is delineated in its full architecture is termed by divine revelation as
the "Preserved Tablet" (Lawḥ al-Maḥfūẓ).
What manifests visibly across the surface of the earth
is the outward projection (Display) of the celestial film recorded upon
the Preserved Tablet. In scientific terms, this can be analogized to a
cinematic projector loaded with an intricate film: when the projector operates,
the imagery displays across every receptive screen within its field. From this
universal law, it becomes evident that alongside our planet, countless earths
exist across the cosmos; just as human civilizations populate our world, innumerable
planets throughout the celestial expanse harbor intelligent human life equipped
with complete environments sustaining existence.
Yet, a film wound upon a projector does not cast its
display upon the screen unless energized by an illumination feed (Feed).
The radiant light that activates the archetypal film upon the Preserved Tablet
is the unmediated Divine Emanation (Tajallī) of Allah. The direct
reflection of this Divine Emanation strikes the human Cosmic Unconscious (Taḥt al-Lāshu‘ūr).
Consequently, when an illuminated seeker perceives the
Cosmic Unconscious within themselves—attaining experiential realization of the
innermost subtle latency (Laṭīfah Akhfā)—they behold the
direct manifestation of Divine Emanation. The seeker perceives with absolute
lucidity what existence was prior to the pronouncement of Kun, and what
cosmic reality constitutes following that creative command.