A Modality of the Created

Peace, one and all…

‘For the goodness that is proper to God is not the moral opposite of evil, rather it is situated on a different plane altogether, that of al-Haqq, the absolutely Real, the only ‘opposite’ to which is unreality or nothingness.  Thus, whils goodness is at one with the pure positivity of the Absolute, evil derives solely from a negative capacity to negate the Real, the Good.  In other words, goodness is identified in its essence with the Creator, while evil is a modality of the created’
R. Shah-Kazemi, Justice and Remembrance, p.75-76)

And Not a Funeral Cortege

Peace, one and all…

‘… a Tradition transmits itself as something alive, since it is a ceaselessly renewed inspiration, and not a funeral cortege or a register of conformist opinions.  The life and death of spiritual things are our responsibility; they are not ‘placed in the past’ except through our own omissions, our refusal of the metamorphoses they demand, if these spiritual things are to be maintained ‘in the present’ for us’.
(Henri Corbin, En Islam Iranien, volume 1, p.33)