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Master Ali Saei
What is the nourishment of the “I”?
Question No. 3244
31 August 2022
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What Is the Nourishment of the “I”?
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The nourishment of the “I” refers to how it relates to the Most Beautiful Names, the Most Exalted Attributes, and the like. In other words, it means adorning the “I” with God’s beginningless knowledge, divine will, and sovereign decree.
Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)
Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural CenterThe nourishment of the “I” is its mode of relationship with the horizons of the Most Beautiful Names, the Exalted Attributes, and their likenesses. In other words, it is how the “I” is ordered in relation to eternal knowledge, divine will, and the will of the All-Glorious.
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