The Metaphor of the Book of Creation in Golshan-e Raz
In Section 10 of Mahmud Shabestari's Golshan-e Raz, the poet elaborates on the Sufi doctrine that compares the physical and metaphysical universe to a divine text, known as the Book of Creation. In this extensive metaphor, the cosmos strictly mirrors the Book of Revelation (the Quran). Shabestari maps cosmological entities to textual elements: the Universal Intellect corresponds to the first verse, the Universal Soul to the Verse of Light, the Divine Throne to the Throne Verse (Ayat al-Kursi), and the celestial spheres to specific chapters. This conceptual framework posits that the entire universe is composed of divine signs (ayat) meant to be deciphered by the spiritually awakened.
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