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Spiritual journey in the Eastern Philosophy (irfan in hikmetu ishrak)

Summary/Abstract: Shaykh Shehabuddin Suhrawardi is a philosopher and an arif, who subsumes wisdom, speculative knowledge and practical irfan. In his philosphy, the speculative is mixed with the practical to such extent that the person who has not undertaken a spiritual journey cannot be called a wise man. His works include a complete overview of the foundamental substances of the spiritual journey, the spiritual stations, starting from the station of awakening, all the way through the station of fenaa (annihilation in God) and connection with the World of light. Man’s soul made of light is captured in the world of darkness and it needs to return to its primordial homeland. In this journey, a spiritual traveller should be liberated from the links with the dark and strong will and reliance on the Source of all lights, and, under the shadow of guidance by a spiritual guide, needs to surrender to asketism and struggle with the sould, in order to reach the relish of union with the Divine and travel to the Kaf mountain. Suhrawardi expresses his observation about the spiritual journey through examples, metaphors and allegories. Through dialogue, which is sometimes led by Suhrawardi himself and sometimes by a spiritual traveler, Suhrawardi reveals instructions to the followers of his journey in symbolic language. His spiritual journey is not much familiar, while it is his method of describing the spiritual journey that has made the understaning of his system more challenging. However, by taking into account his work in its entirety it is possible to reach the foundamental characteristics of his spiritual journey.

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