Discover the meaning of the term Tajalli (تجلِّي) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readWhat unveils to the hearts of the lights of the unseens; the unseens pluralized in consideration of the manifestation’s manifold sites: each divine name, by its breadth and faces, has varied unveilings; and the mothers of the unseens, whence the unveilings emerge from their inwards, are seven: the Truth’s unseen and its realities; the unseen of severance’s concealment apart from the absolute unseen by the subtlest distinction in a presence or lower; the unseen of the secret severed from the divine unseen by the hidden distinction in a presence of two bows’ length; the unseen of the spirit, the presence of existential secret…
What unveils to the hearts of the lights of the unseens; the unseens pluralized in consideration of the manifestation’s manifold sites, as set out in the books of the way.
It may be by essence, as « and the day when it unveils »; or by command and act, as « then when his Lord unveiled to the mount ».
The raising of the veils of humanness.
Its origin is unveiling; it may be by essence, as « and the day when it unveils » (al-Layl 2), or by command and act, as « then when his Lord unveiled to the mount » (al-A’raf 143). Among sufis: what unveils to hearts of the lights of the unseens; the unseens plural for the manifold sites of unveiling, each divine name having, by its breadth and faces, varied unveilings; and the mothers of the unseens whence unveilings issue from their inwards are seven.