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of upbringing and formation, This is what Eckhart
He is the Divine image and He emphasises that the essence of
is the manifestation of Al-Haqq, and the Perfect human being is
all manifestations emanating from made by the manifestation of
Him need this connection for God in Him, and not merely the
their perfection, closeness, and natural man who is untied from
completeness of their witnesses, the disciplines, where a saying
and what has occupied him of is given to the Saint who
a Right-Level (Martabah huqqah), questions about this birth and
God Almighty is the manifest in the eternal and everlasting
it, and He is the manifest manifestation of God Almighty
of God, The Almighty. about the nature of the benefit
Ibn Arabi says: in it if it does not happen to
“The Perfect Man, not Him, it is His purpose, which
the animal man, is the most is to appear in the Perfect Soul
complete genesis of the that makes the perfect man, so
realities upon which the he says:
facts of the Divine “What would benefit
names and the realities me, if this birth always
of the world are happened, if it did not
established, and He is happen in me?”
the one whom God (Eckhart, 2009: 29)
created on the image.
He, in his association, The occurrence of the
is a whole Haqq, so Al- Divine word, which is the birth
Haq is His full protection as of God in this context,
if He has perfection, so constitutes the criterion that
He sees Him in every distinguishes between the
eye and witnesses Him Perfect man and the natural
in every form”. (Ibn Arabi, person, thus making the birth
2002, Vol. 1: 640) and manifestation to be achieved
in the Perfect man without any
other kind, Eckhart expresses:
