Universal Dimensions of Islam

Renew：Part 15
Author：Patrick Laude
Update：08-15-2023
Tags：Religion Spirituality
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Chapter List

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 1, Liu Zhi outlines the overall scheme of Origin and Return. He concludes by saying, The great transformation follows a circle;
Chapter 2 of the introduction to Sage Learning.
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter II is focused on answering the question that may be raised from a defective comprehension of wahdat al-wujud, i.e. "if nothing but G.o.d is real, and there is no "otherness", in reality, what is the meaning of dialogue with the Other?" (p. 75). The fundamental answer to this question lies in an understanding of existence as a kind of "dialogue" between archetypical possibilities. The key is to grasp that divine unity and existential multiplicity are not exclusive of one another but that they are in fact the two "faces" of the same Reality. Relying primarily on Kashani"s commentary on the Surat al-Ikhlas, Shah-Kazemi highlights the "resolution of the outward multiplicity of phenomena within the single reality of G.o.d by means of the relationships const.i.tuted by the divine Names" (p. 86). These Names const.i.tute as it were the "multiplicity within unity". Multiplicity, then, is viewed from the standpoint of essential unity, as expressing this unity through particularity-which is a manifestation of unity on the plane of relativity-so that the divine unity of tawhid is understood as perfectly compatible with metaphysical "polytheism"-but not of course with theological polytheism as commonly understood-since metaphysically "plurality is viewed in its principial aspect, as expressing the unique principle, and (is therefore) re-endowed with the reality that was veiled by the appearance of crude, empirical multiplicity, or of ontological plurality" (p. 91). Thus understood the One is both the principle of the manifestation of multiplicity and, in addition, its principle of integration. This perspective is to be applied to the question of religious diversity in order to reach a full grasp of the nature and function of differences and dialogue in that realm. It is a key to the integration of universality-by virtue of the transcendent principiality of the One-and ident.i.ty-by virtue of the integration of diversity within unity. Bringing in Haydar muli"s theosophy-and its stress on the constant renewal of reality in each manifestation without any room for mere repet.i.tion (a kind of Sufi commentary on Herac.l.i.tus" panta rhei)-the author a.s.serts the paradox of a "uniqueness which manifests infinite diversity, and a diversity which reproduces uniqueness" (p. 106). The Qur"anic expression of this double relationship appears in a series of verses that highlight the spiritual significance of differences and "otherness" in creation. On the basis of such verses as 30:22, 5:48, 2:62, 4:124, 2:136, and 29:46 Shah-Kazemi shows how the Qur"an invites "the sensitive reader to contemplate divine "signs" in the other, thus to learn more about the divine reality-and about themselves-through the other. . ." (p. 115).