Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Marziyeh Pezeshgian ¹
• souri souri ²

¹ Kharazmi- Tehran- Iran

² khu

Abstract

In Ibn Arabi’s mystical system, the human soul is a reality with levels that experience degrees of perfection in an intense journey from material attachments to the level of supra-rational abstraction. Ibn Arabi considers true knowledge not to be the result of rational reasoning and the application of the tools of theoretical reason, but rather the result of divine discovery, taste, and intuition, and believes that until the soul is freed from the constraints of theoretical reason, it will not attain divine knowledge and knowledge. This research, using an analytical-interpretive method and a philosophical-mystical approach, has examined and analyzed the possibility of supra-rational abstraction of the soul in Ibn Arabi’s thought. In this framework, the concept of “a stage beyond the stage of reason” refers to an epistemological level in which knowledge is present and intuitive, not acquired. In proportion to such knowledge, supra-rational abstraction is an ontological level that the human soul, in order to receive such knowledge, necessarily requires its experience, and it is a level where the soul reaches annihilation and intuitive unity with the truth and the existence of God. In this horizon, the perfect human being is the comprehensive manifestation of the divine names and attributes and the Muhammadan truth is the comprehensive barzakh between the truth and creation and the highest level of abstraction and knowledge. The findings show that the movement of the soul from reason to supra-rational is an ontological necessity and a condition for the realization of intuitive knowledge and annihilation in the truth; because it is only at this level that man reaches the intuition of the unity of the truth in its multiplicity of manifestations and its ultimate perfection.

Keywords: Ibn Arabi, supra-rational abstraction of the soul, the stage beyond the stage of reason, the perfect human being, intuitive knowledge, unity of existence.

Keywords

• Ibn ʿArabī
• the possibility of the soul’s supra-rational immateriality
• ʿilm ladunnī (divinely bestowed knowledge)
• necessity
• Perfect Human (al-Insān al-Kāmil)