My Consciousness Explores the Worlds Beyond the Ceiling of My Senses

The verse “And He creates what you do not know” (Q 16:8) held me for a long time. At it the ceiling of the senses shattered over my head, and I found that everything I had taken for material certainty was only a thin shell wrapping oceans of endless truths. In searching for the First Source I saw clearly that tradition had reduced this great text to narrow material concretions: its interpreters supposed that God was pointing only to future human inventions — vehicles, machines, means of transport. This, in my view, belittles the purpose of the Real, whom no time or place can bound. The truth, in the authentic edifice of knowledge I seek, reaches far beyond that. The verse appeared to me as a great existential gateway, pointing to levels and strata of creation and to worlds of disclosure lying wholly beyond the range of the material vision in which humanity has been imprisoned for long centuries under the weight of its limited senses. I began to discover these endless worlds once I became certain that our five senses are not windows thrown open on the whole of reality. They are, in essence, reverse-engineered filters, precisely created to reduce the density of divine light and lower its high rhythm so that it suits the clay of human Concretion and the limits of earthly interaction. His words “what you do not know” are an explicit declaration of a deep, structural unseen. They mean not only what has slipped from our memory or what lies in our future, but living, active worlds that lie now, behind every moment, beyond the barrier of the speed of light — dimensional layers swimming in God’s outpouring, never registered by our slow biological sensors. With the consciousness of Abstraction I saw that existence is not flat, as the visual conversion presents it to us, but a set of nested volumes of truth. We live in the outer cover of this cosmic book, while its depths extend into vast horizons that no human memory can bound and no imagination, however high it soars, can encompass. This exploration made me realise that what we call “nothingness” or “void” is in fact a world full of information and lights beyond our capacity to take in. God, glorified is He, does not create in a void, as we imagine; He creates in “the All-Embracing”, which is His attribute. So everything we do not know “exists by His act” and is sown in His being; we simply have not yet been given the instruments of observation that would let us touch those subtle vibrations. This understanding gives a person a disciplined humility and a constant longing to rise. Knowledge here does not end at the walls of the laboratory or the covers of the book. It begins with the acknowledgement that what lies behind the veil is greater and more beautiful than what has appeared before it. Independence of knowledge, in this Inquiry, means freedom from the dictatorship of concrete things, and faith that existence is a cosmic symphony of which we hear only a few low notes, while the Absolute plays the melodies of creation in modes we have not yet come to know. My consciousness was born anew when I began to look at heaven and earth as display surfaces fashioned for divine formations, behind which lies hidden the World of Command, which no sight can reach. The task of the rabbānī Vicegerent is to understand his place in this great system, and to know that his true belonging is to the essence of light, not only to the clay of the earth. We are training in this simple world to prepare ourselves to witness “what you do not know”, and to become fit to enter the more transparent and subtle layers of existence. Death and life are simply passages between these existential writings. The more a person sheds his material burdens, the closer he comes to understanding those hidden worlds that shine behind the barrier of light, holding fast to the covenant that joins the relative to the Absolute in perfect stillness and in awed reverence for the Lord of the Worlds. In saying this I am not calling for pure fantasy. I am calling for us to recover our consciousness of the laws of creation that go beyond matter. The Spirit is a word from the World of Command — a world beyond even the world of “what you do not know” — joined to the world of “what you know”, so that it may be the bridge by which we cross towards the truth. True independence is to refuse to be a prisoner of what your eye sees, and to seek what your heart sees, joined as it is to the Source; to be certain that the Dominion of God is wider than any conception, and that the horizons of vicegerency begin where the limits of the senses end, tracing for us a path towards the perfection in which the Real is disclosed in all its splendour and beauty, far from the conflicts of Concretion and the darkness of ignorance of the All-Embracing, the All-Knowing. Hashem Nassar All rights reserved