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“What I said here is to man as the perfection is
understand the good unequal; But in the end it is
and the Perfect man necessary for a person to
who is seeking and still connect to his own perfection,
seeking the paths of and this point makes the
God, and not that convergence cord more closely
natural, imperfect man related to Eckhart’s thought,
who is far away and is Ibn Arabi says:
absolutely ignorant of “man is the last birth,
this birth”. (Eckhart, so that the powers of all
2009: 29) the world and the
Divine names are
The universality of the gathered in their perfection,
perfect human being is not an and there is no more
entity or a relativity between Haqq and perfect than the Perfect
creation (Khaleq), as we will man, and whoever has
explain His right in the matter not been completed in
of the Divine image; But this world from the
rather it is a real universal in human being, then he is
which all perfection is reflected, a talking animal, part of
and on this Ibn Arabi says: the image only that does
“The Perfect man is not catch up to the
summarized and manifested degree of man”. (Ibn Arabi,
by the realities of the 2002, Vol. 2: 391)
entire universe, modern
and ancient”. (Ibn Arabi, That means this kind of
2002, Vol. 2: 391) human being is always gain
manifetations and illuminations
Ibn Arabi also believes that as Qushayri says:
the Perfect human being is not “The common people
a monopoly, rather it can be are in the permanence
ascend to it; But by relativity of concealment and the
that is subject to the self of elite in the perpetual