Day: April 20, 2025

■ What Is the Relationship Between Noor and Darkness?

First, remember this: There are two realities — Noor (Divine Light) and Zulmat (Darkness). These aren’t just poetic words; they are actual forces in the universe, and they affect both our physical and spiritual journeys.

Now imagine space — yes, the actual universe around us. It’s vast beyond our imagination. Just to reach Mars from Earth, even with our most advanced technology, it takes around seven to eight months of non-stop travel. And there are other places in space that would take twelve years to reach from here — again, by constantly moving at high speeds. This gives us a clue about something.

What does this show us?

It shows that darkness is deeply connected with distance, with vastness, with delay. It represents Zulmat — not just physical darkness, but spiritual heaviness, distance from Allah ﷻ, and lack of nearness.

Now think about Noor.

Noor is not just light that shines. Noor is speed — it’s movement, nearness, closeness. It is what connects you to something immediately. It reduces distance, it overcomes delay. In the spiritual world, Noor is the reality of being close to Allah ﷻ — of traveling without moving, of seeing without sight, of knowing without words.

In simple words:
Noor = Speed.
Zulmat = Distance.

When you are spiritually close to Allah ﷻ, you are traveling in Noor — things open quickly, understanding comes fast, and love reaches your heart effortlessly.

But when a person is wrapped in Zulmat, they feel far, slow, lost — they may wander for years and still not arrive.

Now here’s a deep reflection shared by Imam Hasan al-Basri (ر) — a great scholar of the soul. He once said:

❝Knowledge was once just a single point. But the ignorant came and expanded it.❞

Many people hear this and get confused. But this statement has a hidden spiritual formula.

Think of it this way:

Knowledge in its purest form is Noor — quick, sharp, concentrated. It’s a point — something powerful and small that carries deep meaning. But when people who don’t understand its depth try to explain it, they stretch it, complicate it, and spread it over unnecessary details — turning one drop into a wide pool of confusion. That “expansion” is Zulmat.

So what Hasan al-Basri (ر) meant was:

True knowledge is like a single point of Noor — powerful and immediate. But when people lacking spiritual depth get involved, they turn it into distance — they take it away from its source.

That’s why you’ll find that some people read hundreds of books, attend endless lectures, but still feel empty — because they are drowning in Zulmat, in expansion, in information that lacks Noor.

And then you’ll meet someone who might not speak much, but their one sentence pierces your soul — because it’s filled with Noor, with speed, with closeness to Allah ﷻ.

So, what should we do?

We must move from Zulmat to Noor. From being far, to being near.

From being slow in understanding, to being quick in realizing.

From confusion and over-explaining, to clarity and light.

And the only way to do this — is to connect our hearts to the ones who already travel in Noor. The friends of Allah ﷻ, the lovers of the Prophet ﷺ, the people of Zikr and Fikr.

Only they can make us feel what speed of Noor really is — and only then will we escape the long, dark, cold journey of Zulmat.