Maʼārif: majmūʼah-ʼi mavāʼiz va kalimāt-i Sayyid Burhān al-Din Muhaqqiq Tirmidi. Kimiya –e- Sa’adat (The Alchemy of Happiness). An investigation and critique on mystic's reasons for the creation of the Journal of Religiousĭorosti Motlaq, M., & Afzali, M. Rumi and a view towards the types of worship mentioned by Imam Ali in Nahj al-Balagha. The relationship between God Almighty and the human being according to (Inīahrani, S., Haghighat, L., & Zamani, Z. Tehran: Publications of the Ministry of Culture. Keywords: mysticism, anthropology, the perfect human being, love, writing of Shams Tabrizi.Īflaaki, Sh. On one hand, Shams portrays the world as a jail, cage, and a burden on the back of the person, while on the other, he refers to it as a garden and argues against the hadith “the world is the jail of the pious”. Confronted by the world and death, the human being portrayed in the school of Shams is faced with a paradox.
Shams emphasizes the importance of nature and aptitude in the upbringing of human beings and believes that prophets have 615īeen sent by God in order to make people conscious of their aptitude and goodness and provide the grounds for the actualization of such features. The mystic person in his view has not been isolated from the society and sees his own salvation related to the salvation of all the others. Thus, in his writings he attempts to make human beings familiar with the value of the existence. In the school of Shams, knowing the self is a prerequisite to know God. According to Shams, the goal of creation is for the human beings to be informed of their beginning and end.
In the relationship of human beings with their God, Shams puts emphasis on the mutual love. Status can be achieved through having a pure self or training. Human being, and more importantly the perfect human being, is the mirror of all names and features of God. According to Shams, merely being a human being is of high value and privilege and because of his heart, the human being is the supreme universe whose perfection and salvation is in hands of truthfulness. He regards the human being as the goal of creation and more important that the whole existence. Such emphasis is in a way we can refer to Shams’s school of mysticism as an anthropological one. One of the significant topics in the school of Shams Tabrizi is the attention paid to the high status and importance of human beings in the creation.