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            exploring  the  meanings  of              back to God. (Corbin, 1998b:
            spiritual     journeys       while        137-138)
            discussing        with       other           Another  issue  is  dealing
            philosophers  on  ideas  about            with  the  Islamic  revolution.

            time, change, and transformation.         The  lexical  definition  of

               Mulla Sadra’s first journey            revolution  comes  from  the
            involves  moving  from  the               Latin  revolution,  to  turn
            created world towards a deep              around  something,  or  to

            awareness  of  the  divine                change  from  the  original
            reality .  The  second  journey           position.
            occurs  within  the  divine                  A  social  revolution,  then,

            reality itself, where the seeker          means  the  transformation  of
            perceives  the  perfections  and          the  social,  political,  moral,
            experiences      a    series     of       and/or  economic  foundations

            transformations.  The  third              of  society,  which  can  be
            journey  leads  the  wayfarer             viewed as an event but also as
            back from the divine reality to           the  conjunction  of  multiple
            the  created  world,  allowing            interrelated  and  simultaneous

            them       to    perceive       the       events  that  take  place  in
            mysteries of divine actions in            society. (Siddiqui, 1996: 57)
            the  phenomenal  realm,  and                 The  Islamic  Revolution  of

            the  fourth  journey  completes           Iran  could  be  defined  as  the
            the  circle,  as  the  awakened           process  of  Islamization  of
            individual,  accompanied  by              society  that  before  it  had

            God       and     deeper      self-       Islamic  roots  affected  by  a
            knowledge  leads  the  path               process of Westernization and
            towards human perfection and              the  imposition  of  external
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