God's Action: Mawlānā Jalāl al-Din Rūmi's Point of View
Subject Areas : Mytho
مرتضی
شجاری
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(استادیار دانشکده ادبیات فارسی و زبانهای خارجی دانشگاه تبریز)
Keywords: acquisition, Fate, cause, Oneness of being, Annihilation in God,
Abstract :
According to Muslim mystics all existing things, anything except God, have a virtual and unreal entity in the world. But Mawlānā Jalāl al-Din Rūmi's perspective seems to be altogether different. According to him, the perfection of man lies in the belief in his annihilation (Fanā`) in God. By so doing, one can come to a direct and complete intuition of the annihilation of any kind of entification and plurality. On the other side, Mawlānā seems to believe that although any thing that exists is nothing but Divine names, all changes occur according to the law of causality. The Present article, by taking into account the theological (kalāmi) theories of the Asharite school of thought and other various mystical schools, attempts to re-examine Mawlānā's understanding concerning the way God acts in the world.
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