Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Sayings and Prayers (reconstructed from Attar and others)
The foundational utterances of Sufi love-mysticism — love God for God alone, not for paradise or against hell
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Sayings and Prayers (reconstructed from Attar and others) (Early) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Relational |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| 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 | not engaged |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| 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 | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Sayings and Prayers (reconstructed from Attar and others)
Infinite: God is eternal; the mystic's love participates in that eternity.
Space
Sayings and Prayers (reconstructed from Attar and others)
Infinite, non-local: "It is the Lord of the house that I seek" — God is not spatially located.
Matter
Sayings and Prayers (reconstructed from Attar and others)
Finite, emergent: the body is real but secondary to the soul's love.
Observer
Sayings and Prayers (reconstructed from Attar and others)
Both embodied and transcendent; immediate mystical apprehension of God.
Energy
Sayings and Prayers (reconstructed from Attar and others)
Infinite divine love (mahabba) as inexhaustible transformative energy.
Information
Sayings and Prayers (reconstructed from Attar and others)
Substantival, conserved: the soul's love-relationship with God persists beyond death.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
No surviving autograph texts — all sayings mediated through later male hagiographers; pure-love doctrine in tension with Qur'anic promise of paradise and threat of hell.