المِيتَافِيزِيقَا

Metaphysics

The doctrinal horizon

Where what one lives takes its reasons. Not an abstract speculation —
a cartography of the Invisible that illumines the visible.

Sufi metaphysics is not a closed system. It is a gaze — the one that sees, behind things, the unity from which they proceed; behind the attributes of God, the Essence that sustains them; behind time, the eternity that bears it. Without it, the practices become gymnastics. With it, each gesture takes on a cosmic meaning.

This section presents ten great chapters — so many doors for approaching little by little what the Sufis have thought of the Real, of the world, of the human being, of time. Each chapter will be enriched over time, and will refer to the authors who have spoken of it, to the dictionary entries that illumine its terms.

A progressive approach None of these chapters is read like a manual. Each is a threshold. You may enter by the one that calls to you. The most accessible sections are “The Perfect Human” and “Mirror and knowledge.” The most demanding: “The Real and its degrees” and “Metaphysical time.” But the passageways between them are many.