The Study of Mystical Theory of Province from Some Mystic's Viewpoints

The issue of province is one of the significant discussions of theoretical mysticism that has firm philosophical basis. In fact, it is the last stage of mystic's spiritual journey that they themselves have mentioned in their works and writings, such as self mortality, or position of effacing fame, or heresy of sights, or self monotheism and mortality of monotheism. Of course, the discussion of province in the noble religious jurisprudence and rhetoric has an extensive scope, and religious jurisprudents and rhetoricians have dealt with it from jurisprudence and rhetoric points of view. But province in mysticism is something different from the scope of the above mentioned disciplines. A lot of noblemen have strived to write theses on province for which the deceased great Mohaddeth sheikh Agha Bozorg Tehrani had pointed out to them in the 25th volume of his book titled Al-Zorriyah fi Tasanif al- Sheiah. What makes the most important discussion of the present paper is proving the fact that a lot of mystics have been impressed by Sheikh Mohyeddin Arabi as for a lot of mystical beliefs and theories so that even some of whom have restated the relevant theory in a different tone.The mystics referred to in this paper include Sheikh Mahmoud Shabestari, Attar Neishabouri, and Allameh Tabatabayee. In addition to the being stated, they are compared to one another two by two in terms of the above mentioned theory.