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Manifestation of the Essence of God … M.M. Gorjian et al / 85
as for the detail of these facts inward seeing (Alboutoon
from the manifestation and the need the motive of
formation of the worlds, and the seeker (Alsalik).
the distinction between - Despite the great
witnesses, manifestation and convergence between
presence, we find that they are Christian secular ideas
flawed in Eckhart's sermons, and their counterpart in
which Eckhart may not have the Islamic mysticism
seen in his sermons as a field and despite the beginning
for more detail than this, of mystical thought in
especially if we take into Christianity as a historical
account the intense and stage hundreds of years
powerful campaign that the before the Islamic
Church authorities were waging mysticism, we notice
against thinkers and scholars and the witness to our
before the Western Renaissance. words the current state
of Islamic mysticism,
Cognitive Affinity for Eckhart we notice that the
and Mohiuddin Islamic mysticism has
- The manifestation and surpassed Christian one
hiddenness of the Essence by Two sides: the first
are related to the worlds side is the volume of
of existence, as well as the discussed mystical
the worlds of Unveiling issues, and the second
(Al-Kashef) and spiritual side is the depth and
traveling (Al- Suluk), accuracy in presenting
meaning that the these issues, meaning
manifestation and the that we in the Islamic
hiddenness are the shaper mysticism are facing a
of the nature of everything; quantitative and qualitative
But the occurrence of development in relation
the apparition and the to Christian mysticism.
