Mystical Analysis of the Distinction of the Effects of Obligation and Recommendation in Closeness to God

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Ghaffari Qarebagh Seyed Ahmad

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Journal: JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH Year:2018 | Volume:20 | Issue:3 (77) Page(s): 159-176

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Mystical Analysis of the Distinction of the Effects of Obligation and Recommendation in Closeness to God

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Ghaffari Qarebagh Seyed Ahmad | Issue Writer Certificate

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closenessQ2

closeness through obligatory actsQ1

closeness through recommended actsQ1

servitudeQ2

closenessQ1

compulsionQ2

free-willQ2

Abstract

Spiritual way-farers according to the distinction between the closeness through obligatory acts and recommended acts are either recommendation way-farers or obligation way-farers or are inclusive of both or have attained the station of gradation and intense purification. Regarding the difference between closeness through obligation and recommendation, it is enough to say that in closeness through recommended acts, God has attributively descended and has become the hearing and sight of the servant; but in closeness through obligatory acts, the servant becomes the attribute of God and he becomes the hearing, sight and hands of God. It is this very mediation that arises from the Divine representative’ s closeness through obligation which is the secret of the non-annihilation of the possible world. The distinction between obligation and recommendation in the words of Islamic mystics has progressed to the extent that performance of obligatory acts is considered the manifestation of servitude and in performance of recommended acts the servant gains closeness to God. Some mystics in searching for the source of superiority of closeness through obligation over recommended acts, have indicated the determining and keywords of free-will and compulsion; in closeness through recommended acts, the servant has chosen Divine servitude instead of servitude to his own inclinations; but in obligation, the servant has no right of choice and inescapably and compellingly acts on obligation. In this article, we will delve in detail into the views of the Islamic mystics regarding the distinction between these two ways of closeness and their effects through a research-analytic approach.

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Ghaffari Qarebagh, Seyed Ahmad. (2018). Mystical Analysis of the Distinction of the Effects of Obligation and Recommendation in Closeness to God. JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 20(3 (77) ), 159-176. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/397196/en

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Ghaffari Qarebagh Seyed Ahmad. Mystical Analysis of the Distinction of the Effects of Obligation and Recommendation in Closeness to God. JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH[Internet]. 2018;20(3 (77) ):159-176. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/397196/en

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Seyed Ahmad Ghaffari Qarebagh, “Mystical Analysis of the Distinction of the Effects of Obligation and Recommendation in Closeness to God,” JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, vol. 20, no. 3 (77) , pp. 159–176, 2018, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/397196/en

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