Temeljni sufijski nauk Feriduddina ‘Attāra
The Foundamental Sufi Doctrine of Farid al-Din Attar

Summary/Abstract: In the Sufi doctrine of Farīd al-Dīn ‘Attār and the thematic design of his spiritual universe, God is the highest topos of knowledge. However, if a spiritual wayfarer (homo viator, sālik), who treads “the milky path of knowledge”, which is a synonym for a Gnostic path in Islam, treads the path without the genuine Love (hubb haqīqī), not only does he not know the true faces of things and phenomena, ‘Attār would say, but he also does not know even the first letter of the alphabet in the kingdom of macrocosm, let alone in the kingdom of the spirit of the microcosm itself. Hence, how can he read and understand the “letter of Love” with which God has written the macrocosmic and holly-historic “Book of Qur’an”, to which ‘Attār directly or indirectly points out in his Ilāhi-nāma? ‘Attār holds that Ahmedian spirit of the first-created nature of the seal Prophet of Islam (peace be upon him), as an expression of the most perfect character in the vision of God, represents the very essence of all secrets, including the secret of the overall Being. That spirit is the invaluable treasury which “the Friend from the Oberland” has hidden in each individual human microcosm.

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