#al-Niffari

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al-Niffari On the Station of Works

Peace, one and all… The Mawaqif of al-Niffari is a ground yet dense and difficult early Sufi text. Not much is known about it’s author, al-Niffari. The small selection offered below was introduced to this one during a recent sohbet. Its beauty and profundity struck me immediately and deeply. I was left with a sense of joyful bewilderment. May the hearts of the lovers be opened. The Station of…

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Une connaissance dans laquelle il y a de l'ignorance est une connaissance dans laquelle il y a de la connaissance.

Al Niffari

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"The letter is a veil and the veil is a letter."

-al-Niffari

"الحرف حجاب والحجاب حرف"

-محمد بن عبد الجبار النفري

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The wider the vision, the narrower the phrase -Al-Niffari

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the divine names and attributes can be expressed only by means of these letters – and yet, the letters constitute something different from God; they are a veil of otherness that the mystic must penetrate. As long as he remains bound to the letters – as Niffari put it – the mystic is in some sense fettered by idols;

FRAGE: What is »the letter«, »the letter as what it is« here? Its conrete form? Its function as a sign for sound?

This hadith suggests the acitvity of the writer with his reed pen, who produces intelligible or confused lines; the pen has no will of its own, but goes wherever the writer turns it. Rumi told a story of some ants walking on a manuscript looking at the writing, which resembled hyacinths and narcissus, until they slowly discovered that this writing was not done by the pen itself but by the hand, in fact, by the mind that set the pen in motion – an argument for the divine activity, which is made manifest through secondary causes and then seems to become man's own activity.

FRAGE: Wir der Calligraph hier selbst zum Stift Gottes? Ich frage mich, was das für Indexikalität bedeutet und auch für die Rolle von Handschrift?

Immer wieder Vergleich der Form einzelner Buchstaben mit Körper oder Körperteilen; Was für eine Materialität und auch Wesenhaftigkeit spricht das den Buchstaben zu? Oder lässt sich das auch andersherum interpretieren: Der Mensch als Buchstabe, die Menschheit als Schrift?

Haydaar Amuli: »Letters written with ink do not really exist qua letters. For the letters are but various forms to which meanings have been assigned through convention. What really and concretely exists is nothing but the ink. The existence of the letters is in truth no other than the existence of the ink which is the sole, unique realtiy that unfolds itself in many forms of self-modification. One has to cultivate, first of all, the eye to see the selfsame realtiy of ink in all letters, and then to see the letters as so many intrinsic modifications of the ink.«

→ Finde es total erstaunlich, weil das ja eigentlich ein Umgang mit Schrift ist, der in der europäischen Moderne dann zum Tragen kommt, wenn es darum geht, zur Abstraktion zu gelangen und das eigene, formale malerische Vokabular zu thematisieren

Symbolische Praxis von Buchstaben auch stark an Dichtung und Dichtungstraditon geknüpft?

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The more that vision expands, the narrower becomes the expression.

Opinions and Correspondences by al-Niffari

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So Stand Before Me

Peace, one and all… I want to lift the veil between Me and you, so stand before Me because I am your Sustainer, do not stand before Me because you are My servant! al-Niffari, The Standing of Works