Safinah | The Innate Gnosis of God |
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Abstract: The unity and uniqueness of God, and the fact that there is no resemblance between the creator and his creation, is the foundation of religious divine perception. On the other hand, mankind does not have the capacity to mentally encapsulate the identity and attributes of a being with whom it has no compatibility or resemblance. Therefore it is not possible to describe God in person, and divine names cannot perform the role of attribution. On the basis of heart, felt perception of God, the divine names and attributes have an interpretary role in such a way that by recalling the cordial perception, they guide the man towards God; and the words and meanings of these names do not have any place : In this way, theoretical, cordial and interpretary divinities are considered complementary to the negative divinities. Key words: Description, Interpretation, Confirmatory divinities, Negative divinities, Theoretical divinities
Preface
In the two previous articles, a cordial (heart – felt)
perception of God and its most important and special characteristics were
discussed and it was stated that such perception is the foundation of the
religion's insight of divinity.
The most vital question that the readers of those
articles will face is: What is the connection between the discussions of names
and attributes, with the cordial perception of divinity? In other words, on the
base of cordial perception, what will be the status of divine names and
attributes, and what will be the mode of using divine attributes? |
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