Document Type : Paper Derived from Thesis
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1 Department of Mysticism and Spirituality, Faculty of Religions and Mysticism, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran.
2 Department of Mysticism, University of Religions and Denominations: Qom ,Iran.
Abstract
SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: This study examines Imam Khomeini’s interpretation of Adam’s error in relation to graded divine manifestation and the arcs of descent and ascent. It asks how the levels associated with Adam’s error may be compared with stages of unveiling and witnessing in spiritual wayfaring.
METHOD & FINDING: Using a descriptive-analytical approach, the study examines passages in Imam Khomeini’s works concerning Adam’s error, the Divine Names, the Garden, and spiritual ascent. These passages are organized thematically, and the article reconstructs a sequence extending from attention to the multiplicity of the Divine Names to the corporeal manifestations associated with the forbidden tree. It then proposes a structural comparison between this sequence and the wayfarer’s progressive purification from corporeal, imaginal, intellectual, and name-related attachments. The comparison is presented as an interpretive synthesis, rather than as a one-to-one scheme explicitly set out in a single passage by Imam Khomeini.
CONCLUSION: In Imam Khomeini’s mystical framework, Adam’s error can be interpreted not only in ethical or narrative terms but also in relation to the graded structure of existence and the possibility of spiritual return. The article’s principal contribution is to make explicit a possible correspondence between Adam’s descending trajectory and the wayfarer’s ascending process. The strength of this interpretation depends on the textual support for each proposed correspondence and on maintaining a consistent order of the stages discussed.
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