The Lady of the Resurrection (Khatan-i Qiyamat) who will be the helper of humans

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" Among the Ghulat there is much respect paid to the Divine Feminine.

In the Ghulat group the Ahl-i-Haqq ( " the People of Truth " ),

the Divine Feminine appears as the Khatun-i Qiyamat (Lady of

Resurrection) who also is manifested as the mysterious angel Razbar

(also Ramzbar or Remzebar). The writer, Frederic Macler, claims that

the name Razbar is of Arabic origin and means " secret of the

creator " . The term qiyama literally means, " rising " of

the dead, and allegorically, it implies an idea denoting the rising

to the next spiritual stage, and qiyamat-i qubra (great

resurrection) means an attainment of the highest degree when a man

becomes free from the ties of external laws, whom he shackles and

transfigures into spiritual substance, which rejoins its divine

sources. " The King of the World was sitting on the water with His

four associate angels (chahar malak-i muqarrab) when they suddenly

saw the Pure Substance of Hadrat-i Razbar, the Khatan-i Qiyamat

(Lady of the Resurrection). She brought out from the sea a round

loaf of bread (kulacha), and offered it to the King of the World. By

His order they formed a devotional assembly (jam), distributed the

bread, offered prayers and exclaimed `Ha!' Then the earth and

the skies became fixed, the skies being that kulacha. "

 

Another rendition of the emergence of the Lady of the Resurrection

is as follows: " After this the Holder of the World and Creator of

Man looked upon `Azra'îl with the eye of benefaction, and

`Azra'îl became split into two parts, one exactly like the

other, and from between these parts a drop of light emerged in the

form of a loaf of kulacha bread. The Creator then said, I appoint

that person (sarat) who became separated from `Azra'il to be

the Lady of the Resurrection (Khatan-i Qiyamat), who will on the

Resurrection Day be the helper of human beings. "

 

The followers of Yarsanism, also known as the Yarisan, Aliullahi,

Ali-llahi (i.e., " those who deify `Alî " ), Alihaq, Ahl-i

Haqq ( " the People of Truth " ) or Ahl-i Haq ( " the People of

the Spirit " (Hak or Haqj), are concentrated in southern Kurdistan

in both Iran and Iraq. In each epoch there is a female avatar of the

Universal Spirit, a reflection of the higher status of women in the

Kurdish culture and tradition. "

 

Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the

Ahlul Bayt Sufis