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Mystical Analysis of the Manifestation Verse … K.F. Mustafa et al / (15

               of  Ibn  Sina  and  Farabi,  or  in   realities  descend  and  appear
               the Philosophy of Illumination,       into imaginal forms. (Ibn Arabi,
               and transcendent wisdom, which        1997, Vol. 1: 395)
               both have an intuitive taste.  In        Concerning the epistemological
               Mysticism, Tajalli has a special      aspect, according to the spiritual

               importance  which  has  two           wayfaring and self-mortification
               aspects: One is ontological and       which are resulted from guidance
               the other is epistemological.         and after going through stations,
                  Regarding the ontological aspect,   the  wayfarer  can  increase  his
               it  is  clear  that  the  most        knowledge  of  God  until  he
               important  mystical  theories  is     becomes himself the manifestation

               the  unity  of  existence.  In  this   of truth.
               theory, the only true existence          This research will analyze the
               is  the  Almighty’s  one  and         Manifestation  verse  according
               whatever has been called other        to  the  Islamic  mysticism  and
               than Him, is said to be nothing       find  the  relationship  between
               more  than  the  theophanic           the  Divine  Manifestation  and
               forms. By this way, the matter        the  wayfaring  voyage.  Also,

               of  connecting  the  unity  with      this  study  aims  to  investigate
               multiplicity is mystically solved.    the  relationship  between  the
               Therefore, every creature represents   world  of  unity  and  the  world
               the  beauty  and  perfection  of      of  plurality  based  on  Quranic
               God,  the  Exalt.  Ibn  Arabi         reading  and  tries  to  reject  the
               regards  that  God  has  divided      rival theory and the hypothesis

               the world into three levels: The      of  “establishing  a  relationship
               apparent world, the hidden world,     between unity”.
               and  the  world  of  imagination         The importance of this research
               in  which  the  intellectual          is  that  it  interprets  and  analyzes
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