This glorious name Al-Waasi means the One whose expansive essence encompasses the whole creation. His capacities and the meanings of His attributes are without limit and in abundance. The power, mercy, generoristy and knowledge of Al-Wassi are boundless. His authority never ends and His domain is endless. The spiritual seeker has to search after God not in Paradise, not in the world, and not in the Hereafter. He has to stop seeking God in everything that he has seen and everything that he has known: the path of the seeker is inside his own self. He has to find the path in herself, as the Qur’an says: “[We shall show them our signs…] and inside their own selves, do they not reflect [on this]?”….There is no path to God better than the path of the heart. This is the meaning of “the heart is the house of God. A well-known poem attributed from Rumi : I was, even before the Names came to be. no hint was there that anything with a name existed. I was. The named and names came to be through me on the day when there was no me. A hint came in the revelation of the tip of the Beloved’s tress when the tip of the Beloved’s Tress was not. I searched the Cross and Christians from end to end He was not in the Cross. To the idol-house I went, the ancient monastery. No trace of him. went to the mountain of Herat and Kandahar; I looked. He was not in the depths or the heights there. On a mission, I ascended to the summit of Mount Qaf; in that place was naught but the ‘Anqa. I turned towards the Ka’ba; searching seeking He was not in that place to which old and young aspire. I questioned Avicenna about him; He was beyond even the sage’s grasp. I journeyed to the scene of “the two bow-lengths’ distance”; Where Muhammad went on the night journey. He was not in that sublime Court. I looked into my own heart. There I saw him; He was nowhere else. Ultimately, this is perhaps the greatest legacy of the mystics of “path of love”: a hermeneutics not just of the sacred text, but of the sacred heart of humanity — one that through the “glance of love” reveals the Divine in power and intimacy, linking together the human and the Divine from pre-eternity ( azal ) to post-eternity ( abad ). Somewhere in the stretch of infinities we stand in this present moment ( waqt ), bewildered by the effusion of Divine Love that makes breath possible, intellect a tool, Scripture a Love-letter, and love the greatest of God’s mysteries.
