Asiri Lahiji’s Outlook on the Unity Of Existence

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Ali Akbar Afrasiyabpour ¹ (استادیار دانشگاه تربیت دبیر شهید رجایی)
Jalil Mohammadi ² (کارشناس ارشد ادیان و عرفان)

Received: 2015-03-11 Accepted : 2018-08-04 Published : 2015-01-21

Keywords: Unity of Vision, monotheism, Shi’ite Gnosticism, Ibn Arabi, Ego-Extinction, Absolute Unity,

Abstract :

Shams-Aldin Mohammad Asiri Lahiji, in whose poetry and verses, he tried to depict Gnostic notions in theoretical and practical terms is one of the Teymurian’s Shi’ite Gnostics (840- 912A.H.). The most fundamental premises, in his discussion, are the presentation of the “Unity of Existence” theory. Being impressed by Ibn Arabi and Sheikh Mahmood Shabestary, he proposes his ideas aesthetically. The “Unity of Existence” theory is considered as a kind of interpretation of Monotheism whose roots are in Islamic Gnosticism in the 2nd century that is analyzed by Ibn Arabi methodologically with a kind of philosophical interpretation. Asiri Lahiji is also considered as one of the proponents of the“Unity of Existence” theory while contemplating and implying Hafez and Molavi Gnostic concepts as well as Earlier Gnostics. He elaborates on the “Unity of Existence” proceeding to the “Perfect Universal Man.” The unique “God” is the genuine and gracious Absolute Unity, the sole eternal “light”, from whose essence all the other creatures are mere reflections.