imaginal forms. The Real moves them and speaks through them. They are disposed of and the rulings of power run over them. They are effaced in their very fixity and nonexistent in the state of their existence. They are the silent speakers and the living dead, like the life of the martyrs. Intellect witnesses what sight does not witness.
Establishing the divine blessing is His mercy extending universally to His creatures, so that blessing is fully formed. God Most High said, “He gave each thing its creation” [Ta Ha 20:50]. Mercy is a thing, and its proper formation is its universal extension.
Likewise, the angels’ blessing is complete in form. They supplicated for those who repent, as mentioned, and also said, “Protect them from evil deeds,” making it universal. Nothing remains outside the angels’ blessing, whether obedient or disobedient, in all the kinds of obedience and disobedience.
Continuation on the Prayer of Humans and Jinn
As for the prayer of humans and jinn, it is His words, “those who establish prayer” [al-Maʾidah 5:55]. Human beings establish it when it is ascribed to them in the sense of mercy, as it is ascribed to the Real, and in the sense of supplication and mercy, as it is ascribed to the angels. They also establish it in the sense of supplication, mercy, and completing the proclamation of God’s greatness, standing, bowing, prostration, and sitting, as related in the report.
Whoever completes its bowing, prostration, and everything prescribed in it, including what congregational prayer and following the prayer leader require if he prays in congregation, has perfected its form.
If he falls short in any of it, his prayer is according to
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Translator’s note TN2277-1: The “form” or “creation” of mercy is its full reach. The same language is applied to the full performance of the outward acts of prayer and to completing what an incomplete prayer lacks.
