AS-SÂNI’ -  الصانع

 

Literally: Sâni’ is a worker, a maker, or an artisan. The one who makes everything in an artistic manner.

As-Sâni’ is one of the names of Allah that means The Creator, Who creates everything with art and in an artistic manner.

 

 

As-Sâni’ Zuljalâl has made all artful beings in such a fashion that most of them, especially living beings, cause many names of Allah to be read and recited. As if He dressed each of His artful beings in twenty different shirts, one on top of each other, and wrapped them in twenty veils. On each shirt and veil, He wrote His different Names. 

For example, as demonstrated in the comparison, there are many pages in the outward creation alone of a single beautiful flower and a beautiful member of mankind's second half. Compare other large and universal artful beings with these two partial examples. 

The First Page: It is the entirety of the form that shows the general shape and proportion. It recalls the names “O Musawwir! O Muqaddir! O Munazzim!” 

The Second Page: It is the simple form of the human being and flower that is the result of the disclosure of different members on their body. Many names, such as ‘Alîm and Hakîm, are written on this page. 

The Third Page: Through bestowing a different beauty and a different adornment on all the various members of those two creatures, many names, such as Sâni’ and Bâri’, are written on this page. 

The Fourth Page: Such beauty and such adornment are given to those two artful beings, as if favour and munificence were embodied and became them. This page recalls and recites many names, such as “O Latîf! O Karîm!” 

The Fifth Page: By attaching delicious fruits to the flower and lovable children and a good moral to the beautiful woman, this page makes names, such as “O Wadûd! O Rahîm! O Mun’im!” recited. 

The Sixth Page: On the page of giving ni’mah and bestowal, names such as “O Rahmân! O Hannân!” are read. 

The Seventh Page: Flashes of such beauty are visible in these ni’mahs and results that they are worthy of a sincere shukr and pure love that have been kneaded with true yearning and compassion. On this page, the names “O Jamîl Zulkamâl! O Kâmil Zuljamâl!” are written and read.  

Thus, if a single beautiful flower and a single beautiful woman display this number of Names only on their physical and external forms, consider how much more exalted and universal Names do all flowers and living beings, along with vast and universal beings, cause to be recited. You can compare!  

You can also compare how many luminous, sacred Names, such as Hayy, Qayyûm and Muhyî, man recites and causes other beings to recite those names on the pages of his life and subtle feelings and in regard to his rûh, heart and mind. 

Thus, Jannah is a flower. The houri species is also a flower. The face of the earth is also a flower. The spring is also a flower. The samâ is also a flower, and the stars are its gilded embroideries. And the sun is also a flower, and the seven colours in its light are the embroidered colours of that flower. The universe is a beautiful and large man, just as a man is a small ‘âlam. The species of houris, the jamâ’ah of rûh beings, the species of malâikah, the jinn nation and the human race all have been formed, arranged and created as beautiful individuals. Just as each of them, in its entirety, and each individual, on its own, displays the names of As-Sâni’ Zuljamâl, they also serve as different mirrors to His beauty (Jamâl), perfection (Kamâl), rahmah and love. And each of it is a truthful witness to His infinite beauty (Jamâl), perfection (Kamâl), rahmah and love and is an âyah and proof of that beauty (Jamâl), perfection (Kamâl), rahmah and love. Thus, these countless varieties of perfections occur within the sphere of wâhidiyyah and ahadiyyah. So, the imagined perfections outside that sphere are not perfections. 

Therefore, understand that the haqiqah of things is based and relies on the names of Allah, in fact, their true haqiqah is the manifestations of those Names, and that everything offers dhikr and tasbih to its Sâni' with numerous tongues in numerous ways. 

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