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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
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