Exploring the Illuminated Wisdom in Yusuf Chapter in Respect to the World of Imagination as Viewed by Ibn Arabi

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Somayeh Saffari Ahmadabad ¹ , Ismail BaniArdalan ² , Iraj Dadashi ³ , Mohammad Reza Sharifzadeh ⁴

1 - PhD, Philosophy of Art, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Central Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2 - PhD, Art Research, Associate Professor, Art Research Department, Faculty of Theoretical Science and Higher Studies in Art, University of Art, Tehran, Corresponding author.
3 - PhD, Art Research, Assistant Professor, Art Research Dept., Faculty of Theoretical Science and Higher Studies of Art, University of Art, Tehran, Iran.
4 - PhD, Philosophy of Art, Associate Professor, Philosophy of Art Dept., Faculty of Art, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Central Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2021-04-07 Accepted : 2021-04-07 Published : 2021-03-21

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Abstract :

In Ibn Arabi’s mind, light, as one of the many names of the God, contributes to the manifestation of the objects and creatures in the domain of the various presence statuses of the world through emitting and beaming its radiations into the levels of existence. And, in line with this, every creature experiences a quality of existence according to the principle of the God’s existential manifestation in names and attributes based on its existential rank in the position of a shadow of this light in respect to the owner of the shadow and it can be perceived by means of the illuminated wisdom and gaining knowledge over the forms of the imagination.The final result was that the same way that the human imagination needs interpretation as isthmus between the worlds of soul and body, the disconnected imagination is also in need of interpretation in its isthmus rank between the divine and corporeal worlds as the place wherein the ethereal spirits and the soft bodies of the world of matter gather around; in parallel, the domain of the existence in the rank of absolute imagination and multiplicity of the shadows of the God need interpretation towards the unity of the essence. The knowledge over this method of approach towards the existence can be only acquired through illuminated wisdom that, as believed by Ibn Arabi, its perfect form has been entrusted in His Highness the Great Apostle of Islam (may Allah bestow him and his scared progeny the best of His regards) in His Highness’s rank of Yusuf. The present study’s method in this study is descriptive-analytical. The data collection instrument includes library research.