نشریه عرفان اسلامی
پیاپی 9 (پاییز 1385)

Sufis dynasties recognize themselves as the disciples of religious leaders, as for which they have registered their kinship dynasty. The relevant documents and narrations are considered to be a significant part of the written inheritance of Sufism ans so far little has there been any ananlysis on them. The current paper endeavors to deal with one of the narrations related to Naghshbandineh, having a fundamental role in identifying personages of the dynasty such as Abdur Rahman Jami and others as well as being regarded as the keys to explore mysticism ans Sufism. Studyng the available primary resources can lead us to the date of extablishment of Khanghah-Sufis temple- and Sufis establishments as well, depiciting an important part of social and political Sufism.

Zaroastrianism is one of the most ancient religions that contain the principle and pure mystical beliefs having an enormaous impact on eastern and western religions. This article endeavors to both present fundamentals of mystical beliefs and recommend some titles for more extensive studies respectively. The theory on Light and Darkness is from an existential and anthropological perspective assumed to be derived out of the commonalities of the above mentioned mysticism. Intellectual persons such as Ibn Yazdaniar Ormavy were conveyers of Zoroastrian mystical beliefs to Islamic mysticism. Zoroastrian light and fire known as love, beauty, and wisdom conlinue their lives. Mystical myths are also other sommonalities exising between Zoroastrian mysticism and that of Islam, especially Simorgh myth that is a perfect example. Khergheh and Sedreh are other evidences in this regard.

Comparative studies to identify minds and thinking bases are of prime position. Sohrevardi s beliefs emerges in the comparison. One of the achievements of Illumination philosophy is that it depicts lost identities and refrains from self-arousal. Out of those scholars devoted to Illumination Sheikh are Qotboddin Shirazi, Jalaleddin Davani, Mirdamad Asterabadi, followers of Azar Kyevan, Haj Molla Hadi Sabzevari, and others whose works if studied make the reader get closer to Sohrevardis beliefs. The same is true with comparing Sohrevardi with Hege. Niche, and other Western philosophers, showing the existing the existing similarities available. Just like the book titled Journey to East by Herman Hesse that is of great simillarity with Secret Treatises of Illumination Sheikh.

Research on global Mysticism requires understanding sublime manifests of mysticism within divine religions, non-divine religions, profound study and reflections on divine mystical theories, divine lovers, faithful followers, Propher s disciples, and mystical followers that one can trace their origin in theorical roles and higher directions of cognition. As the management, direction and organization of a social institution depends on interest and capability of its manager in terms of knowledge and administration, profound survey of global mysticism requires intellectual mystics and striving discipless who heve gone through evident means of approach to Almighty and in the field of self-recognition towards recognizing God, they have achieved measured and right track.Further to studyng the theoretical roots of real mysticism such as utopian positioning and Godly learning, the researcher has investigated the divine mystical schools, and has separated them from atheism ans pure materialism, has combined the concepts, philosophy and principless relating the creation signs with the creator, with practical mysticism, and has differentiated logical mysticism from superstitious and unreal ones. In the end, the writer has dealt with scrutinizing mystical beliefs and signs of two of the great Christian mystics in 15 and 19 centuries.

Divine will and its relation with guidance and deviation of mankind are the most important issues that have occupied the mind of religious intellectuals. The present study seeks into the mystical mind of Mohyeddin Ibn Arabi, the well-known mystic of seventi century A.H. to find out the answer of the above mentioned issues according to his ideologcal principles. In the stydy, after defining the fixed substances, the importance and the role of it will be discussed in the divine will, and the matter of dependency of God s will out of His knowledge and in the end proved dignitaries and oneness dependency of divune will has been explained. Then, it is included that what is obtained in the universe is possible due to the fixed substances, and every substance owns a property instictively and invariably. All the possibilities follow the existence rules and the divine will. The will of God also belongs to the will and instinctive property of possibilities.

This paper seeks to present a novel perspective about the relativity between Personal Unity of Existence in mysticism and Dubious Unity of Existence in philosophy. To this end, relying on literature, principles and relevant different approaches, these two unity-oriented perspectives are considered not across one another but within two various insightful overlapping fields. Accordingly, these two subject matters are traces in the book written by the oriental well-known philosopher Mr. Sadrolmoteahhelin, and by presenting the beginning and the final works of him the writer underscores the equal acceptance of the above mentioned cosmological approach in his works.

Love, affection, and beauty have been some of the everlasting concerns of mankind who have been engaged with it globally and mentally. These essential matters have special reflection in mysticism insofar as they have been proposed as one of the mystical debates in its various branches. Loving the beloved, drowing in the infinite beauty of the eternal image of God, and having a sip of His affectionate wine make lover a sensation that take him her away from consciousness and reasoning to the bowndless desert of craziness and bewilderement, and as Sufis claim, drive anyone from sobriety to intoxication, and in his inebriation and craziness, he will alienate himself by having a pure wine of unity, behaving in a queer and strange way different from human reasoning and wordly intelligence quite close to insane people, thus it causes a sort of behavior that will be explored later in the paper. These insane and divinely intoxicated people in their impersonal intoxication achieve one of the most beautiful and uncontaminated spiritual and internal relation with their eternally mere beloved, getting so much ripened that nothing remains from their egos except Him and nothing else.

In the past centuries, human communities utilized religious laws to purify persons and people out of deviation and to remove delinquencies and to fight against crimes. But with the latest development in technology and sciences, since laws were not renovated and didn’t get along with everyday needs, the human orented materialistic and benefit-seeking viewpoints based on gaining more and further enjoyment overcome various majors of law. In today society, the one who is prone to mysticism and people are inclined toward the core and heart of religion should use the energy for different fields of law, especially preventin crime and other social vulnerabilities and offering necessary solution.