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The Impact of Mysticism… V. Solano-Urrutia et al (149
supported. Thus, politics is The center of this creative
nothing but the social action is Divine Love, which
regulation of the better ways enables the existence and
of behaving under God’s origin of all creatures. This
commands and the moral Divine Love is an
conduction of humanity from epistemological matter: the
oblivion back to God. (Ref: desire to be known or as
Imam Khomeini, 2008: 7) Corbin describes it, the
willingness to become the
3. Mysticism and Politics object of God’s knowledge.
One highly esteemed leitmotif (Corbin, 1998a: 114)
of the mystical tradition is the Ibn Arabi (2002) believed
hadith Qudsi (hadith that without this movement of
attributed to God) quoted by love and knowledge,
Imam Khomeini in his book existence would not meet its
“The Disciplines of Prayer”: condition of possibility.
“I was a Hidden Treasure, Imam Khomeini constantly
then I liked to be known, so refers to this hadith in many
I created the creatures to of his esoteric writings,
become known”. (Ibid, 2002: 205)
emphasizing the central role
According to various that Divine Love plays in the
scholars who have interpreted ethical and spiritual
this tradition, including Ibn reformation of human beings.
Arabi, the hadith explains the Love is the action that
purpose of God’s creation: to takes the true believer back to
be known by His creatures. its origin, which is nothing
(Addas, 2002) else but God. When the
