Glossary

Glossary of Terms

In this edition some technical terms are deliberately kept in their original English or Arabic form — because a single English word cannot fully capture their meaning. Brief explanations of those preserved terms are given below, so that nothing in the reading stands in your way.

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Theological & Qur'anic

22 terms

Rabb

Sustainer — the One who creates, nurtures, and gradually brings toward completion. The single word "Lord" does not capture this sense of nurturing and growth.

Alamin

All worlds / the universes — not only the human world but the whole of creation (Samawaat, Jannaat, and more).

Ruh

The primary / elemental soul — in the author's reading, an unknown force field. God's command-signal is also sometimes described as "Ruh".

Nafs

The core / composite soul — an assembly of several force fields; the source of emotion and the template from which the body is rebuilt at the resurrection.

Nafsin-Wahidatin

"A single soul" — in the author's reading, a portion drawn from the Nafs of God (GUT Force+) that was transformed and from which creation arose.

Istawa

Establishing oneself upon the Throne / settling — in the author's reading, the process of transmitting a gravity-like force into creation.

Samawaat

The heavens / this universe — the layered structure of seven heavens; the original abode of jinn and the antimatter creatures.

Jannaat

Paradise — in the author's reading, a greater world distinct from this universe; the true original home of humankind.

Arsh

The highest realm — vaster than the universes; the seat of the CCU and the Lawh-Mahfuz.

Kursi

A realm beneath the Arsh; the seat that descends onto the plain of judgment.

Barzakh

The intermediate world — the interval between death and resurrection; Sijjin lies in its depths, Illiyin above.

Araf

A'raf

The highest level of Barzakh; the East and West A'raf are the initial stations of the angels.

Sidratul-Muntaha

The central server of the universe-wide cybernetic system; the principal branch of the CCU.

Muttaqin

The God-conscious / self-restrained — those who live in awe of God.

Furqan

The criterion that distinguishes truth from falsehood; in the author's reading, also used in places in the sense of "the Book of War".

Taghut

Anything taken as an object of worship or ultimate authority besides God — a false lord or power.

Wakil

The disposer of affairs / guardian — the One to whom every matter is entrusted.

Lawh-Mahfuz

The Preserved Tablet / disk — on which the design of everything is written by the Pen; the data store of the CCU.

Illiyin

The virtual world of the righteous — where, after death, the Paradise-bound Nafs is purified and developed.

Sijjin

The virtual world of the sinful — deep within Barzakh; here the Hell-bound Nafs is made hard and endurant.

Darussalam

Darus-Salam

The Abode of Peace — one of the names of Paradise.

Thaqal

"Heavy mass" — the initial dense state of the universe revived after the Big Crunch, where the dead are resurrected.

Cosmic & Scientific

13 terms

Big Bang

The great explosion — the expanding origin of the universe. In the author's cyclic model it is the start of one cycle.

Big Bounce

The turn of a contracting universe back into re-expansion — a re-ordering from one heaven into seven heavens.

Big Crunch

The great contraction — the universe collapsing into a point of infinite gravity; matter dissolves, only information and force endure.

CCU

CCU — Central Computer of the Universes

"Central Computer of the Universes" — made up of the Pen, the disk (Lawh-Mahfuz), and a motherboard; it runs the grand design of creation.

GUT Force

The unified force of Grand Unified Theory — in the author's reading, the primordial single force related to Nafsin-Wahidatin.

DNA / Double Helix

The double-spiral molecule of genetic information — which the author relates to the Qur'an's descriptions of "pairs" (azwaj) and "a clot".

force field

In the author's framework, the elemental component of the soul (nafs/ruh) — gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces, and so on.

Command Station

A special celestial body located in each heaven — through which God's command descends; the Qur'an's "lofty place".

Fortress

A star or star-like body adjacent to the Command Station, where descending angels station themselves for a time.

Sakinah

A "cloud" of angels and command (ruh) — brought down near the workplace to oversee a matter within a set time.

Soor

Soor (the Trumpet)

The trumpet of Israfil (AS) — whose blast sets in motion the events of the Day of Resurrection.

Mohr-e-Nubuwat

A raised mass below the neck on the back of the Prophet (SAW) — in the author's reading, the entry point through which the verse-information enters the brain.

qalb

The mind / heart — a virtual brain located in the chest, driven by a special ruh; possessed by humans alone.

Author-Coined Terms

6 terms

Mother of Cities

Mecca — the center of the Muslim Ummah; the city of the Ka'bah.

Home of Ummah

The spiritual center of the Muslim nation — grown up around the Ka'bah and Mecca.

composite soul

A synonym of nafs — the principal soul formed from the union of many force fields.

devil-human body

The form of a human resurrected with a jinn-possessed, distorted nafs — multidimensional and vast in size.

face of nafs / face in form

face of nafs

God's "face in form" — the energy issuing from its force field holds the contracted universe in place.

Crusher / Accretion Disk

Crusher

The whirling disk of matter around a black hole — where friction grinds matter and releases energy; the Qur'an's "crusher".