One who, or that which, abases.
- 1887, E. H. Whinfield (translator), Masnavi I Ma’navi: The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-’d-Dín Muhammad i Rúmi, London: Trübner, Book 6, Story 6, p. 300,
God is an Abaser and an Exalter;
Without these two processes nothing comes into being.