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Master Ali Saei
What does it mean to say that God has placed His face at the head of the human being?
Question No. 2846
31 August 2022
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What Does It Mean to Say That God Has Placed His Face at the Head of the Human Being?
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The statement “God has placed His face at the head of the human being” is incorrect and cannot be justified or given an allegorical interpretation. One may say only that a person’s purified and exalted head and face can become a page on which God’s Most Beautiful Names are inscribed, and that the beauty of a perfected human being can manifest the patterns of those divine names.
Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)
Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural CenterThis statement is erroneous and cannot be justified or reinterpreted. We can only say that the head and face of a pure, exalted human being can become a page on which the Divine Names of Beauty are inscribed, and that the beautiful names of God may shine forth through the beauty of the perfected human being.
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