Suhravardi's Metaphysics on Light

Suhravardi thinks that God and a whole range of other immaterial things are lights, hence his decision to call his own philosophy illumination-est. His metaphysics describes the emanation of all things from God, who is the light of lights. This highest, divine light produces a large number of further lights, which include angelic beings or platonic forms. Bodies themselves are described as dark or shadowy things which form a barrier or obstruction to the light shed by these higher, luminous beings. They are present to his all-seeing eye.