Movement of God’s love in Creation and its Relation to the Breath of the All-merciful

Subject Areas : Christianity

فاطمه عباسی ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2011-11-23 Accepted : 2011-12-28 Published : 2011-03-21

Keywords: Movement of God’s love, Divine names and attributes, Love, immutable&#x0D, &#x0D, entities, the Breath of the All-merciful, creation,

Abstract :

Love is a divine stage. God attributed love to himself and calledhimself the Loving (wadud). He loved himself at first then loved toobserve himself in others, so created the universe in His own form. Hesaw the universe and loved it. Since God created the universe in Hisown form, universe is beautiful and God loves beauty. If there was nolove, the Loving and the All-merciful God were not recognized. Lovein its absoluteness exists in all seen and unseen creatures. The Loving’sfirst manifestation is the theophany of the Divine Essence for Itself, inthe images of all the fixed entities (al-a‘yān al-thābita) in the DivineKnowledge. By the second manifestation the immutable entitiesappeared in the outward world. So every thing were emanated by love.Since the universe was manifested by the Breath of the All-merciful,the essence of this Breath is love. God created the universe by Hisbreath. He created it and made Himself recognized because if He wasnot recognized His names and attributes were not manifested and theuniverse remained in nonexistence (‘adam). Therefore, God’s love ofthe recognition of his names and attributes is the cause of creation.