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The Notion of “Light” Interpreted … S. Khanabadi and M. Dehghani Firouzabadi/ 63
3. The intellectual faculty, the material supplying
which is reserved for the “lamps” and the
human beings and is olive oil is characterized
responsible for analyzing by the fact that the light
the data received and it gives is more radiant
developing them to draw and smells less smoke,
intelligible meanings from and if a fruit-rich tree is
them: The intellectual faculty, called “blessed”, how
through which the seizure much more fruit that
of noble and divine indefinitely called “Blessed
knowledge takes place, Tree”! And since the
is symbolized by the ramifications of intellectual
“Lamp”. (Ghazali, 1924: 81) reflections escape relations
4. The cogitative faculty, of direction, proximity
which receives the raw or distance, it is quite
knowledge of the intellectual appropriate to say that it
faculty to draw the final is “neither east nor west”.
conclusions: The cogitative (Ghazali, 1924: 81)
faculty, its property consists 5. The prophetic holy
of starting from a single faculty, which is reserved
trunk, which will then only for high-level prophets
give branches. and saints: The prophetic
The number of branches holy faculty is attributable
multiplies according to to the saints.
the intellectual divisions, A part of the cogitative
to reach conclusions, faculty needs to be
which are the fruits educated, awakened and
carried by these branches. assisted from the outside,
Symbol that suits him is to pursue the acquisition
“the tree”... The pulp of of various kinds of
the fruit of the olive tree knowledge; But another
gives “the oil”, which is
