Document Type : ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER
Authors
1 Professor of Philosophy and Member of the Department of Philosophy and Theology, Faculty of Philosophy and Ethics, Baqir al-Olum University, Qom, Iran
2 Lecturer of Modern Theology Department, Faculty of Al-Qaseem, University of Elia, Najaf, Iraq (Corresponding Author)
3 Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Damascus university, Damascus, Syria
4 Student of the Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, The Open University, Walton Hall, England
Abstract
SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: The manifestation of the Essence of God in the point of view of Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart is considered one of the most important and fundamental ideas on which the other mystical questions depend on.
METHOD AND FINDING: Ibn Arabi regards this matter in the way that it represents the Essence of God, namely the manifestation of the Essence of God and other worlds is because of His hiddenness in these worlds which is resulted from the Breath of the Merciful (the complete divine manifestation). Meister Eckhart also regards this matter as the truth of everything and originates from the divine perception of Himself, and this perception flows to all things by which the Essence of God manifested in the whole things including human, soul and the light. The Essence of God is the Love who penetrates the whole attracting things to Him. So the manifestation and hiddenness in the two mystics' views is the proof of the two verses (He is the First, the Last, the Manifest, and the Unseen and He knows all things), and We are closer to him than even his jugular vein. This manifestation and hiddenness don’t just concern the worlds and beings; But includes the visible world, the world of unveiling matters relating to the unseen, the stations, and states.
CONCLUSION: Mystics and holy travellers stated the secret of this manifestation and hiddenness of the Essence of God, namely, the full orientation towards the Essence of God, this approach gives an expansion of readiness to the mystic and holy traveller to enable him to receive and reflect the divine perfection more and more; for that they recommend the importance to protect this hiddenness and continuing its manifestation.
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