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of the Perfect human being Ibn Arabi said:
according to the existential “The Perfect man was
view stems from the fact that established by God (Al-
He has absolute inclusiveness Haqq) as a barrier
that enables him to deservedly between the Al-Haqq and
occupy the position of the pole the world, So He
of the words; But the fact of manifests by divine
the matter is that the abstract names and becomes
and material words are images God (Haqq), and He
(McGinn, 1994: 50-51) of this appears by the truth of
totalitarianism, from here he the possibility and becomes
received the title of the mirror creation”. (Ibn Arabi,
of the Essence, and according 2002, Vol. 3: 287)
to the witness view, all the
observances of the stations To this manifetations indicate
(maqam-at) or the rays of “Kalabadhi quoting from Sahl:
circumstances are taken from “The manifestation takes
him; That is why He deserved place in three cases: the
the title of the Divine Caliph manifestation of Eessence, which
(Al-Khalifa Al-Elahi), and the is the unvieling, the manifestation
Perfect human being. of the qualities of the Essence,
In addition to being central which is the place of light, and
in the worlds, constitutes the the manifestation of judgment
absolute mediator between of Essence, which is the Hereafter
manifestations and hiddenness and what is in it”. (Kalabadhi,
on the one hand, and what this 2001: 140)
means is that he is the cause of And the manfestaion is:
manifestations and hiddenness. “The illumination of lights in
On the other hand, he is the hearts of those who come
considered the mediator between to Him”. (Tusi, 2003: 310)
the Essence and the rest of the This isthmus is a natural
Loci (Al MA-Zaheer). matter as a result of the truth
that a Perfect man has it in terms
