Main goal of cognition approach is restoration and discovery of “semantics” in
Humanism and interpretation of surrounding phenomenon regarding to its center.
Cognition of ascetic and amorous mysticism in Islam dates back to cognition of
Islam’s monotheistic religion. In Islam’s monotheistic structure, God is sublimate of
universe naturally, and regarding to quality his manifestation is apparent in universe.
Because of God’s nature sublimation, human’s unity with God’s nature is
impossible. Therefore, the only way of human relation to God is God’s smart
qualities. But God’s smart qualities are not established in the nature of “I” and not in
the nature of “the other” but manifests among I and “the other” in “Third zone of
human qualities”. This zone is interpreted as “structure of monotheistic socialism”
which has stages and approaches, as it initiates from law stage and then, it achieves
to maturity stage and ultimately to mysticism. In Islamic mysticism, ascetic approach
in addition to leaving world affairs seeks for unity with God’s nature, but amorous
approach interprets world as the arena of God’s qualities manifestations and a bed
for human and God’s courtship. This present paper attempts to examine and
criticize reaction of these two mystical approaches versus monotheistic structure of
Islam.
Source: Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture
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