ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE
DOI: 10.62125/2303-6826.2024.27.98-99.63
UDK 28:165
Author
Rešid Hafizović
Summary
Love and Knowledge are permanent categories of Sufi literature, and especially of the Akbarian Sufi tradition, both in the opinion of the founder of this tradition, the Andalusian Ibn ‘Arabi, as well as in the opinion of one of his later students and interpreters, the Bosnian and Bosniak Abdullahefendija Bošnjak (Abdullah Bosnevi). These two essential concepts of Sufi literature represent, first of all, the essential attributes of God’s Being with whose character traits God decorates the ontological, epistemological and ethical-moral primordial nature of the Macrocosm and Microcosm. The enduring ontological, epistemological and ethical-moral paradigm and the essential embodiment of the character traits of these attributes of God in the human race is the seal of the Messenger of Islam, whose exemplary, first-created nature, which God praises and promotes in an unparalleled way in the content organon of the primary sources of the Islamic faith, is the unconditional reason and condition of God’s Love for all creation. The love of God pulls all of God’s creation towards the invisible and omnipresent transcendent Center of God, while the Knowledge of God, which encompasses, breathes and designs the primordial nature of all creation, illuminates the way for all creation to return to God.
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URL: https://www.ibn-sina.net/en/love-and-knowledge-in-the-thought-of-ibn-arabi-and-abdulah-bosnjak/