Ibn Arebijevo dinamično i multidimenzionalno tumačenje upute u Musaovom logosu Fusus al-hikema
Ibn Arabi’s dynamic and multidimensional interpretation
of the instruction in Moses’ logos of Fusus al-Hikem
Author(s): Mahmoud SheikhContributor(s): Mubina Moker (Translator)
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Islam studies, Middle-East Philosophy
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: theology; tasawwuf; gnosis; instruction; belief; confusion;
Summary/Abstract: In the chapter of the book Fusus al-Hikem, Ibn Arabi gives a new and innovative interpretation of the instruction, the analysis of which is completely different compared to the ash’ari understanding of the instruction as finding the path to faith and the foundation of faith. He views instructionas finding the way to confusion and upheaval, not to faith, and upheaval requires movement. Accordingly, he views instruction as a movement, and since life is an expression for movement, and, as opposed to life, death is an expression for the absence of movement (i. e. rest), Ibn Arabi uses the term life for instruction. Based on this, what a theologian through the concept of belief systems considers to be the content of instruction – and the result is the suppression of confusion in relation to God, the world and the connection between the two – leads to rest, and resting is death. According to Ibn Arabi’s interpretation, instruction causes upheaval, but in addition to upheaval, it is also related to all contexts of a person’s being. This is because he does not consider instruction to take on some form of belief system outside of human consciousness, emotions and behavior. He insists on the movement of man himself (without taking into account previously established forms) and becoming a man. Thus, since the instruction, i. e. confusion and upheaval, transforms the concepts of religiousness and non-religiousness in relation to previously established teachings (which is the scene of religious disputes), and since there is no immutable point in human behavior regarding the point of view that has been defined, practically the circle of those who are instructed expands and opens the way to religious tolerance.
Journal: Znakovi vremena - Časopis za filozofiju, religiju, znanost i društvenu praksu
- Issue Year: XXVII/2024
- Issue No: 98/99
- Page Range: 31-43
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Bosnian