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Work #1796 · Early

Kitab al-Tawasin (Book of the Ta-Sin)

Al-Hallaj (Husayn ibn Mansur)
c. 900 · Arabic
Mystical treatise (short prose meditations with verse) · Sufi mystical theology

Mystical meditations on Muhammad's light, Moses's encounter with the burning bush, and Iblis's tragic refusal — the cost of absolute love

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Attribute Kitab al-Tawasin (Book of the Ta-Sin) (Early)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Relational
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Both
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Relational
Space · Curvature not engaged
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Non-Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Emergent
Matter · Conservation not engaged
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Non-Local
Observer · Time Instance Multiple
Observer · Space Instance Multiple
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Both
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Reversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Non-conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Kitab al-Tawasin (Book of the Ta-Sin)

Infinite: the pre-eternal light of Muhammad and God's timelessness; time dissolves in mystical union.

Space

Kitab al-Tawasin (Book of the Ta-Sin)

Infinite, non-local: the mystic transcends spatial boundaries in fana.

Matter

Kitab al-Tawasin (Book of the Ta-Sin)

Finite, emergent: the body is the locus of sacrifice but is transcended.

Observer

Kitab al-Tawasin (Book of the Ta-Sin)

Both embodied and disembodied; immediate mystical knowledge; self annihilated in God.

Energy

Kitab al-Tawasin (Book of the Ta-Sin)

Infinite divine love (ishq) as the ultimate energy.

Information

Kitab al-Tawasin (Book of the Ta-Sin)

Divine knowledge total and conserved; personal information annihilated in fana.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Kitab al-Tawasin (Book of the Ta-Sin)

Tension between Islamic obedience and mystical transgression; sympathetic reading of Iblis challenges orthodox theodicy; fana as self-destruction or ultimate realisation.