The great Shakti in Islam is the rahmah.

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" According to the Qur'ân, the names Allâh and Rahmân

are quasi-equivalent: " Call Him Allâh or call Him Rahmân, to

Him belong the most beautiful names " ; which indicates the as it were

Shaktic character of the name Rahmân. The name Rahîm,

'Merciful', in a way prolongs the name Rahmân, 'Gracious'; it

prolongs it in view of the creatures, and in this sense it is taught

that Allah, who is Rahmân in His Substance, is Rahîm in

relation to creation. The great Shakti in Islam is the rahmah: it is

the Goodness, Beauty, and Beatitude of Allah. (Note that in Arabic

the word rahmah is derived from the root rahim, a word

signifying 'womb', and this corroborates the interpretation of the

rahmah as Divine Femininity, thus as mahâshakti.) "

 

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shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

>

>

> " According to the Qur'ân, the names Allâh and Rahmân

> are quasi-equivalent: " Call Him Allâh or call Him Rahmân, to

> Him belong the most beautiful names " ; which indicates the as it

> were Shaktic character of the name Rahmân. The name Rahîm,

> 'Merciful', in a way prolongs the name Rahmân, 'Gracious'; it

> prolongs it in view of the creatures, and in this sense it is

> taught that Allah, who is Rahmân in His Substance, is Rahîm in

> relation to creation. The great Shakti in Islam is the rahmah: it

> is the Goodness, Beauty, and Beatitude of Allah. (Note that in

> Arabic the word rahmah is derived from the root rahim, a word

> signifying 'womb', and this corroborates the interpretation of the

> rahmah as Divine Femininity, thus as mahâshakti.) "

>

> www.penkatali.org

>

 

 

" It is true that there is plenty of material in the Koran that is

more egalitarian than the western Christian tradition, which was

heavily influenced by the misogyny of Greek thought. Perhaps the most

fundamental is that the Islamic God does not have a gender. Arabic

may refer to him by use of the male pronoun, but he is never

described as " father " or " lord " as he is in the Judaeo-Christian

tradition. Indeed, the Islamic God has characteristics that are

expressly feminine; one of his most important " names " is al-Rahman

(the All-Compassionate) from the Arabic rahma , which comes from the

word rahim , meaning womb. In Islamic mysticism, the divinely beloved

is female, unlike in Christian mysticism - for example, Bernini's

famous statue in Rome of St Teresa of Avila is in love with the male

Christ. As one Muslim women, Sartaz Aziz, writes, " I am deeply

grateful that my first ideas of God were formed by Islam, because I

was able to think of the Highest Power as one without sex or race and

thus completely unpatriarchal. "

 

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