The purpose of creation is worship and servitude to God. God’s signs, in their relation to one another, reveal the highest vision of divine worship and devotion. Woman is one of God’s signs, created in a particular way from the human soul by the peerless Creator. In his sacred bond with woman, man brings the living spirit of worship and devotion to God to a fervent awakening. The bond between every particle of the souls of these two divine signs raises the edifice of the self—set on the path to knowing the Lord—to the highest levels of grandeur and glory.
From this distinctive perspective, marriage should bring the poles of creation’s magnetism to their fullest expression. If it does not, the highest form of marriage has not been realised, and the spouses have not brought one another to life. A woman and a man should bring one another’s hidden dimensions to light. Successful and sacred marriages fulfil this highest purpose.
Ali and Fatima, peace be upon them, completed the supreme magnetism of creation, and this highest reality came to pass, without the mediation of time, through the purity and sanctity of their bond.
The pure Fatimid pole supported and strengthened the pure Alid pole in completing creation’s pure magnetism: the unadulterated devotion to God. Their transformation took place instantly, as soon as they were joined; their wondrous, immediate experiences arose solely from this exalted and transcendent bond.