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The Most Important Application of Self-knowledge… T.S. Amini et al (131
obvious and clear knowledge. human soul, is an absolute
Then he will truly know his matter, the intuition of this
soul and self through him, innermost truth of the soul is
because his self is related and the intuition of the reality of
dependent on God, The realities proportional to the
Almighty, and then he will dignity and limit of each soul;
recognize everything through therefore, paying attention to
God, The Exalted; God leads to the correct
(Tabatabai, 2003: 31) knowledge of the self, and the
Therefore, man must turn his correct and true knowledge of
face towards The Almighty the self leads to the
God; and this important knowledge of God, The
matter cannot be achieved Almighty, or it means the
without self-knowledge. Although knowledge of God. (Kermani,
worship itself is the prelude 2015: 96)
of knowledge, in order to Allameh believes that when
truly worship, we must gain a person makes a journey in
knowledge; That is, worship his self and is alone with
is not worship until himself and is cut off from all
knowledge comes. the surrounding environment,
Man in the inward journey he joins the Almighty God
passes the limitations and and this in itself causes the
intuits the essence of his self knowledge of his Lord, of
in its truest truth and since the course, a knowledge that is
interior and the reality of not mediated by anything and
realities (Haqiqatul-haqaa’iq) a knowledge that no means
of every matter, including the has intervened in it, because