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Introduction Explain the Problem
“Allâh is the Light of the Imam Abu Hamed Mohammad
Heavens and of the Earth. The Ghazali (1058-1111), the Great
similitude of His Light is as it Iranian Master of jurisprudence,
were a Niche wherein is a theology, ethics, philosophy,
Lamp: the Lamp within a logic and gnostic has written a
Glass: the Glass as it were a very concise essay on this
pearly Star. From a Tree right subject, in order to answer the
blessed is it lit, an Olive-tree question of a disciple who asks
neither of the East nor of the him to interpret this quranic verse.
West, the Oil whereof were This book, written in Arabic,
well-nigh luminous though is called “Mishkat-al-Anwar”,
Fire touched it not: which means “The Niche of
Light upon Light. Allah the lights”. The biographers of
guides to His light whom this great Muslim thinker, who
He wills, And Allah was born in Iranian region of
presents examples for the Khorasan at the time of the
people, and Allah is Knowing Seljukide dynasty, consider this
of all things. book as the latest work of
Imam Ghazali, as the professor
Since the revelation of the of Nezamiyeh university of
Holy Quran to the Prophet Baghdad.
Mohammad, Muslim thinkers The Niche of the Lights is
have been interested in the divided into three chapters. In
interpretation of the 35th verse the first chapter, the author
of the Surah “Light”. From speaks about the term “Light”
Fārābi, Avicenna and Sohrawardi (in its physical as well as
to contemporary Islamic scholars, spiritual sense), its definition,
the structure, content and its meanings, its degrees, and
symbolism of this verse, its classifications. The second
reputed by the title of the verse chapter concerns the symbolic
of the Light, have been studied representation of the five key
and commented on several methods.
