#Suhrawardi

“A thirty-seven-year-old rebuilt all of metaphysics out of light, insisted that philosophy has prerequisites of the soul as well as the mind — and was executed for it, earning the title al-Maqtūl: the Slain.”

“Reality is not made of "stuff" that happens to be knowable; it is made of light in varying degrees of intensity — and the most certain knowledge you will ever have is not a picture in your head but the direct, unmediated presence of the thing itself, starting with you.”