جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « annihilation in god » در نشریات گروه « ادبیات و زبان ها »

Ibn-Faridh was one of the greatest poets of Sufi poetry in Arabic literature. Rumi، on the other hand، has always been the leading lord of love and mysticism in Persian literature. Rumi and Ibn-Faridh both believe that annihilation would culminate in unity، and they both seek divine union through annihilation. Both assert that، in order to obtain union، the spiritual seeker must first separate themselves from their physical beings، and must then be immersed in the Beloved so that there is nothing left of their own egos. Passing through such a stage، the mystic seeker will find his Eternal Beloved in a union of love. The great importance of this subject and the similarities between the beliefs of Rumi and Ibn-Faridh demands a thorough investigationofthe notions of annihilation in God (Fana)، and total integration in God (baqa).

The spiritual tranquility, freedom from greediness, and independence are old sweet dreams, which are interpreted eagerly and enthusiastically by Muslim mystics in their sayings and writings. They have shown us many ways to actualize these colorful dreams. One of these ways is resort to ‘dying before death’ or ‘willful death’ or in other words ‘annihilation in God’. In this way, before the wayfaring mystic dies naturally or compulsorily, he choose to die to his bodily and spiritually vile life, and will be reborn by the divine and spiritually praiseworthy moral attributes, that is, he is annihilated from himself, and subsists on God. This article tries to investigate and answer these questions: What is the final and actual purpose of mystics’ from ‘willful death’? What are the prosperous effects of this kind of death? What is the source of Muslim mystics? Inspirations in founding and suggesting such a way? Finding a relation between ‘dying before death’ in Islamic mysticism and the concept of Nirvana in Buddhism, and explaining the question of rebirth, which is the other side of‘dying, before death are the other issues to be discussed in this paper.