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            being  and  His  creatures,  and          beings, including man himself,
            analyzing  and  understanding             are      related     to     God's
            this relationship in a way that           independent existence, and on
            is  proportional  to  the  infinite       the  other  hand,  the  amazing
            nature  of  the  supreme  being           observation      of    his    own

            which  becomes  possible  in              creation, that such creation is
            the  shade  and  reception  of            neither  made  by  himself  nor
            relational  existence  of  an             by  other  contingent  being,

            effect.                                   leads  to  the  understanding  of
               Of      course,     perceptual         the  greatness  of  true  and
            proximity  is  not  the  ultimate         independent  creator,  which,

            goal of ethics in transcendent            as  a  result,  causes  constant
            wisdom,  rather,  its  ultimate           submission  and  humility  in
            goal  is  the  annihilation  of           His  domain.  This  is  because

            conscious person from human               submissiveness  is  realised  as
            attributes  and  egocentrism,             a  result  of  awareness  and
            and  manifestation  of  the  will         knowledge of the greatness of
            to  become  like  God  through            independent                being.

            the  proximity  of  obligatory            (Misbah Yazdi, 2001)
            and supererogatory acts.
                                                          2.  Drowning in True Love

            Implications of Divine Ethics             Sadra  also  mentions  love  as
            of Copulative Existence                   one  of  the  factors  of  human
                1.  Perseverance  in  the             spiritual  perfection;  because

                    State of Submissiveness           every  worship  and  voluntary
            On one hand, man's attention              movement  that  has  a  cause
            to the fact that all  contingent          other  than  love  and  affection
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