GLOSSARY 155

al-ghayb : the hidden, the mystery, the unmanifest.

al-ghayrah: zeal, jealousy. It is said that God is * jealous”
in the sense that He does not tolerate any other divinity
being ¢“ associated >’ with Him.

al-Ghazali, Abi Hamid Muhammad: a great Sufi theologian and
a reviver of the religious sciences of Islam. 1058-1111.

al-Haba: lit. * the fine dust suspended in the air’’; Materia
prima, the passive universal Substance.

al-Hadarat : plural of Hadrah: the (divine) Presences, or the
modes of Divine Presence in contemplation.

hadith: saying of the Prophet transmitted outside the Quran
through a chain of known intermediaries. There are two
kinds of ahadith: hadith qudsi (sacred sentence), a direct
revelation, in which God speaks in the first person by the
mouth of the Prophet, and fhadith natawi (prophetic sen-
tence), an indirect revelation in which the Prophet speaks
as himself.

al-hadrah: the (divine) Presence; also designates collective in-
vocation accompanied by dancing. See also al-‘imarah.

al-hafz: memory, in the sense of faculty of retaining an impres-
sion.

al-Hahiit : The Essential Nature of God ; word derived from the
Divine Name Huwa, ‘“He,” and formed by analogy with
the following terms, here given in descending hierarchical
order :(—

al-Lahut : the Divine (creative) Nature,

al-Jabarit: the Divine Power or Immensity, the
world beyond form.
al-Malakiit :  the Kingdom of the angels, the spirit-
ual world.
al-Nasut : human nature, and in particular man’s
bodily form.
al-hal : plural ahwal: state, spiritual state. Sometimes jal
(state) is opposed to magam (spiritual station), and in this