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Work #1797 · Early

Sayings and Prayers (reconstructed from Attar and others)

Rabia al-Adawiyya (of Basra)
c. 8th century (preserved in later sources, esp. Attar, 13th century) · Arabic (original); Persian (Attar's transmission)
Sayings, prayers, and anecdotes (hagiographic compilation) · Sufi devotional tradition (mahabba)

The foundational utterances of Sufi love-mysticism — love God for God alone, not for paradise or against hell

Attribute Fingerprint

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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.

Sayings and Prayers (reconstructed from Attar and others)

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.