Alam al Jabarut

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Alam al-Jabarut (Arabic: عالم الجبروت, meaning the world of power[1]) is the highest realm in Islamic cosmology. The realm Al-Malakut is below Alam al Jabarut, but still higher than Alam al Mulk. The higher realms influence the realms below and are not separated worlds.[2] Although some scholars were not able to see any difference between Alam al Jabarut and Al-Malakut,[3] others thought this to be the realm of angels and spirits and the other a realm below. Thus this realm is also considered to be the created aspect of Rasul and the created reality of Adam, here representing the perfect human (Al-Insān al-Kāmil).

Angelic realm[]

While angels also dwell in Al-Malakut to encounter humans and perform tasks on earth, the most elected angels inhabit Al-Jabarut.[3] Therefore, this is the domain of angelic manifestations and therefore the realm of archetypes, thrones and powers and also the paradise of the afterlife, with the exception of the supreme paradise.[1] This realm is thus eternal existence, while the others are created and limited.[3]

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  1. ^ a b Cyril Glassé, Huston Smith The New Encyclopedia of Islam Rowman Altamira 2003 ISBN 978-0-759-10190-6 pp. 144–45
  2. ^ Amira El-Zein Islam, Arabs, and Intelligent World of the Jinn Syracuse University Press 2009 ISBN 978-0-815-65070-6 p. 6
  3. ^ a b c N. Hanif Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis: Central Asia and Middle East Sarup & Sons 2002 ISBN 978-8-176-25266-9 pp. 306–07
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