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The supreme God's radical concealment beyond ordinary knowledge or perception; the Hidden Father.

The passage emphasizes that God keeps certain truths secret until the last day to preserve human hope and faith.

Ecstatic, non-rational receptivity to the divine figured as drunkenness — Plato's symposium wine, Rumi's sukr, Eckhart's 'sober drunkenness'; the passive/receptive metaphor for divine encounter, distinct from divine_madness's active possessing rapture.

The 'burning pangs of love' and the loss of reason depict an ecstatic receptivity to the divine akin to spiritual intoxication.

Ecstatic irrational rapture — Plato's mania, Bruno's furore — by which the soul transcends ordinary reason and attains direct contact with divine reality; madness reframed as higher knowledge.

Zaid's state is described as one where 'Reason finds no entrance when mind is thus lost,' framing ecstatic irrationality as higher knowledge.

Sufi self-effacement in God — the via by which the lover is unmade as a separate ego and recovered as God's act; specifies the practice/event rather than mystical_union's resulting state.

The text describes the mind being lost and reason finding no entrance, characteristic of Sufi self-effacement in God.

Salvation through direct experiential knowledge of the divine nature, not through faith, ritual, or moral works alone.

Zaid claims direct experiential knowledge of the heavens, hells, and destinies of men through his spiritual vision.

Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.

The Prophet explicitly instructs Zaid to hold his peace regarding the secrets seen in ecstatic vision, reserving them for the last day.

The divine spark or luminous quality residing within the human person, potentially recognisable through introspection.

The Prophet explains that his light is a reflection of the Sun's revelation, indicating an inner luminous quality derived from the divine.

The practice of stilling the mind and speech to open receptivity to divine knowledge or presence.

The Prophet commands Zaid to 'hold his peace' and remain self-contained regarding his visions.

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

God is depicted as actively determining secrets and speaking truth through the Prophet, showing a dynamic divine presence.

The merging of the individual soul or self with the divine, transcending personal identity.

Zaid describes a state where 'all faith is one' and time collapses, indicating a merging of the self with divine reality.

The dissolution of binary oppositions (male/female, inner/outer, above/below) as a mark of spiritual completion.

In the vision, binary oppositions like beginning/end and long/short time are dissolved into oneness.

Guided passage of the soul through afterlife realms.

Zaid's vision includes seeing the eight heavens and seven hells, mapping the realms of the afterlife.

A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.

Zaid details a vision where he ascends in the spirit to see the eight heavens and the destinies of souls.

The doctrine that all existence is ultimately one substance or one divine reality; non-duality as a theological claim.

In the ecstatic state, Zaid perceives that 'World without beginning and world without end are one' and all faith is unified.

The uncreated luminous quality of the divine, sometimes experienced directly in mystical states; illumination as revelation.

[auto] The passage concludes with an extended metaphor of the Sun of Truth, the Prophet as the Moon, and companions as stars, illustrating divine illumination.

Final, collective cosmic judgment as an event in which the wicked are sentenced and the cosmos restored; distinct from psychopomp_journey (individual passage at death) and emphasising verdict where Zoroastrian frashokereti emphasises restoration.

[auto] Zaid describes a vision of the last judgment where the destinies of all men and their classification as saved or lost are made manifest.