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reaching the stage of Fana world to guide human beings
and Baqa. Fana is annihilation to perfection.
in God's attributes. It is the The Second role is an
passing away of the self and ontological role, which is a
is thus the essential pre- full realization of existence form.
requisite to the survival of the To make sense of this, it is
self divine qualities placed in relevant that, only through
man by God. (Wilcox, 2011) human perfection does
The wayfarer in his existence reach the fullness of
journey eventually reaches a its outward manifestation. In
stage, where he does not see other words, this world
other than God, loses his depends upon them for its
desires in God's will, and existence. (Chittick, 1997)
annihilates in God's will. She/ Ibn Arabi considers the
he becomes annihilated in perfect human as the soul of
God's attributes and qualities. this world, and because of the
Then finally he is immersed perfections that man has,
in the existence of God. everything is under his
(Schimmel, 2011: 143) control. (Schimmel, 2011: 199)
Those who achieve the
highest level of human 2. How to Reach Perfection?
perfection as the perfect man, After the definition of
play two essential roles in the perfection, it is important to
universe: know the way of perfection
The first one is to play the and to understand how the
role of the prophets in this human being can reach
perfection. The most important
