Hi Instructors,
I have been reading the Study Quran recently as recommended in the past by Al Mustapha and they talk of the Al-jafr which provides the numerical values of the letters of the Arabic text. I want know it's similarity and/or differences with the Kabbalah. Is it worth a separate study and if you could provide some recommended resources. I know from my studies the Zohar was kept by the Muslim scholars of Al Andalus and wonder if the al-jafr is an improvement of this tradition.
Inverential Peace,
I have been reading the Study Quran recently as recommended in the past by Al Mustapha and they talk of the Al-jafr which provides the numerical values of the letters of the Arabic text. I want know it's similarity and/or differences with the Kabbalah. Is it worth a separate study and if you could provide some recommended resources. I know from my studies the Zohar was kept by the Muslim scholars of Al Andalus and wonder if the al-jafr is an improvement of this tradition.
Inverential Peace,
Accepted Answer
You can study the Abjad system in the works of Ibn Arabi, specifically The Meccan Revelations. It is basically the same teaching: the mystical study of numbers as outlined in Al-Jafr, but in Arabic. See also Idries Shah's explanation of the Abjad system in his seminal book, The Sufis.
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami
Accepted Answer
You can study the Abjad system in the works of Ibn Arabi, specifically The Meccan Revelations. It is basically the same teaching: the mystical study of numbers as outlined in Al-Jafr, but in Arabic. See also Idries Shah's explanation of the Abjad system in his seminal book, The Sufis.
For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought. -Bayazid al-Bastami
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