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It is also to be admitted that the divine attributes, inas-
much as they are emanations, posit time and a beginning;
consequently when Allah said: "Be, and it was" - or He uttered,
His word in time and in the beginning of the creation. This is what the
Sufis term "aql-kull", or universal intelligence, as the emana-
tion of the "aql awwal", namely, the "first intelligence." Then
the "nafs-kull", or the "universal soul" that was the first to hear
and obey this divine order, emanated from the "first soul"
and transformed the universe.
This reasoning would lead us to conclude that each act
of God displays a divine emanation as His manifestation and
particular attribute, but it is not His Essence or Being. God
much as they are emanations, posit time and a beginning;
consequently when Allah said: "Be, and it was" - or He uttered,
His word in time and in the beginning of the creation. This is what the
Sufis term "aql-kull", or universal intelligence, as the emana-
tion of the "aql awwal", namely, the "first intelligence." Then
the "nafs-kull", or the "universal soul" that was the first to hear
and obey this divine order, emanated from the "first soul"
and transformed the universe.
This reasoning would lead us to conclude that each act
of God displays a divine emanation as His manifestation and
particular attribute, but it is not His Essence or Being. God