In the Hikmat al-ishraqi, Suhrawardi mentions several cities of the imaginal world, all which belong to the eighth domain. They are Jabilqa (Jabulqa), Jabirsa (Jabursa) and Hurqalya, the cities which are “nowhere”. According to Suhrawardi ,in the last one, wonders exist. As he states: “And there are eight domains therein, Jabilqa, Jabirsa and Hurqalya, the substance of wonder. For Suhrawardi, Hurqalya represents the archetypes of the heavenly bodies whose harmonious functioning produces a sublime music that only those who are discoverers and seekers of truth can hear. In fact, the beauty of the wonder of Hurqalya which those who have purified themselves can only experience through the inner senses, represents the sacred world of the Sufis whose journey has reached its climax. Suhrawardi analogizes statue of this perfect man with God since both the Sufis master and God can create archetypes, a state of being Suhrawardi calls “Be (kun), referring to the Quranic verse in which God creates the world by saying, “Be” and it was (Kathleen, 1972).
And the brothers in purity have a special status in that they are able to create archetypes that are self dependent, and that state is named “Be”. Suhrawardi concludes by saying that the outward beauties, shapes and forms of this world their ontological roots in the mundus imaginalis, a world which is real but accessible only to few. Nowhere land, therefore, is the place which transcends the world of forms,, time and apace. It is a land only reached by the seeker of truth who has suffered on the path and whose psyche has been opened to be unseen.
Yaser Salari, Critical Viewpoint toward Shaykhiyya - Concerning the Coincidence of Hurqalya and the Imaginal World.
http://www.jofamericanscience.org/journals/am-sci/am0705/120_5519am0705_864_870.pdf
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