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The Mechanism of mystical Knowledge
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🖋Ayatollah Mutahhari States:
💠Some have asked: ‘you have not mentioned anything about the mechanism of Knowledge whose source and tool, according to mystics, are the heart and refinement of the self. Does Knowledge really have a mechanism, or a process of removing impediments along the way?’
💠Since the question is correct and reasonable to our topic, let me address it. One of its functions is that if a person engages in refining his self, his intellect becomes more clear sighted. In a dark hall, for example, we cannot see beyond a few meters. In order to see further, we are in need of light and space. One effect of refinement of the self is that it makes the space clearer for the intellect. But this is not the only function of refinement of the self as the heart also gives inspiration to man.
💠Meanwhile, they have asked about its mechanism. It is a good question. Let me highlight a mere reminder.
💠One of the very subtle issues and a very high and subtle psychological field is a sort of morality known today as ‘dynamic morality’. The mystics (Arifs) have labeled this ‘spiritual wayfaring’ (Sayr Wa sulook), and this is the very mechanism our colleagues want to know, and it is very significant.
💠In their study of the Orient, one of the issues to which the Europeans have given exceptional importance is exactly this one in which the mystics, through what Allamah Iqbal of Lahore called ‘inner experience’, have described the mechanism of the hearts functions as ‘stations and stages’ (manāzil wa marāhil).”
♦️Note: what Ayatollah Mutahhari just explained above relates to the stages and degrees of Knowledge. He highlights a few theories about knowledge having one stage or multiple stages. In explaining the mystic (Irfan) approach, he emphasizes that attaining Knowledge has many stages and stations, through which refinement of the self (tazkiye nafs) is the prescribed method to achieve and pass those stages in order to arrive at the destined station (i.e. insane kamil [perfect man])
📚Theory of Knowledge by ostad Shaheed Ayatollah Mutahhari pg. 80
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The Mechanism of mystical Knowledge
🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸
🖋Ayatollah Mutahhari States:
💠Some have asked: ‘you have not mentioned anything about the mechanism of Knowledge whose source and tool, according to mystics, are the heart and refinement of the self. Does Knowledge really have a mechanism, or a process of removing impediments along the way?’
💠Since the question is correct and reasonable to our topic, let me address it. One of its functions is that if a person engages in refining his self, his intellect becomes more clear sighted. In a dark hall, for example, we cannot see beyond a few meters. In order to see further, we are in need of light and space. One effect of refinement of the self is that it makes the space clearer for the intellect. But this is not the only function of refinement of the self as the heart also gives inspiration to man.
💠Meanwhile, they have asked about its mechanism. It is a good question. Let me highlight a mere reminder.
💠One of the very subtle issues and a very high and subtle psychological field is a sort of morality known today as ‘dynamic morality’. The mystics (Arifs) have labeled this ‘spiritual wayfaring’ (Sayr Wa sulook), and this is the very mechanism our colleagues want to know, and it is very significant.
💠In their study of the Orient, one of the issues to which the Europeans have given exceptional importance is exactly this one in which the mystics, through what Allamah Iqbal of Lahore called ‘inner experience’, have described the mechanism of the hearts functions as ‘stations and stages’ (manāzil wa marāhil).”
♦️Note: what Ayatollah Mutahhari just explained above relates to the stages and degrees of Knowledge. He highlights a few theories about knowledge having one stage or multiple stages. In explaining the mystic (Irfan) approach, he emphasizes that attaining Knowledge has many stages and stations, through which refinement of the self (tazkiye nafs) is the prescribed method to achieve and pass those stages in order to arrive at the destined station (i.e. insane kamil [perfect man])
📚Theory of Knowledge by ostad Shaheed Ayatollah Mutahhari pg. 80
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