Hidden Depths

الْبَاطِنُ

Al-Bāṭin — The Hidden

هُوَ الْأَوَّلُ وَالْآخِرُ وَالظَّاهِرُ وَالْبَاطِنُ ۖ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ

He is the First and the Last, and the Outward and the Inward; and He is Knower of all things

Surah Al-Ḥadīd (57:3)

ارادہ

Today, I will be comfortable not understanding everything. Al-Bāṭin teaches that not all truth is visible.

تدبر

Al-Bāṭin is The Hidden — the One who is beyond perception, beyond the reach of the senses. He is real but not material. Present but not visible. If Aẓ-Ẓāhir is the evidence, Al-Bāṭin is the mystery. A faith that has no mystery is not deep enough. Sit with not-knowing. Let the hiddenness be its own kind of intimacy.

آیت پر تدبر

The comprehensive verse on Allah's encompassing nature — First, Last, Manifest, Hidden. Nothing is outside His knowledge.

دعا

He knows what is hidden because He is the Hidden. The unseen is His domain.

حدیث

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Iḥsān is to worship Allah as though you see Him, and if you do not see Him, then know that He sees you.”

— Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 50