Relinquishment, Adornment, Shining, and Annulment, as The Degrees of Spiritual Wayfaring In Islamic Mysticism

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Mohamad  Miri ¹ (عضو هیأت علمی دانشکده معارف دانشگاه تهران، ایران. [e-mail])

Received: 2020-10-05 Accepted : 2020-10-05 Published : 2020-09-22

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In accordance with gnostic and people of spiritual wayfaring, in a wide and comprehensive view, we can divide degrees of wayfaring in four steps: relinquishment that is the emptying of moral vices, adornment that is to adorn the moral virtues, shining that is the glittering divine power on the heart, and annulment that is the transition from all of us to the right of Almighty. The principle and content of this view that is the sequence of conduct on these stages go back to the works of early mystics and it seems that Siraj Tusi is the first mystic who has provided a definition of all four stages. The privileges of this quadruple division have led to this mystical topic continue to contemporaries. Also we can fine these four mystical terms in religious thoughts. Among these four steps, Mystics mainly assert on degrees of relinquishment and adornment and sometimes they count these tow just as the degrees of spiritual wayfaring, but, in according to the master of wayfaring, relinquishment comes before of adornment.