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the Reality. This way is based revelation, the second one is
on the experience of the intuition, and the last one is
intellect, which is the faculty reason. (Zwanzig, 2008: 17)
of rational and intuitive Among these, the genuine
cognition. The way of valuable knowledge is only
knowledge is the way of the the knowledge of God that is
saints, who attained the divine obtained through revelation
gnosis and wisdom through and witnessing; That is, it
their intellects. (Morrissey, 2020) cannot be obtained from a
Ibn Arabi believes that book or a teacher. (Chittick,
there are some obstacles in 2012: 126)
the path of perfection and one One way to achieve
of the most important ones is perfection through knowledge
ignorance. In many ways the is that man knows that Allah
most fundamental dimension has predetermined and
of perfection is knowledge controlled his destiny.
and the definitions of The other way to achieve
perfection are concerned with perfection through knowledge
knowledge. It is important to is to know divine
understand how this knowledge manifestation. To know what
helps to transform the individual is divine manifestation and
into the Perfect Individual. what happens in this process?
Based on Ibn Arabi’s In this view, the creation of
mysticism, three types of the world is due to the
knowledge help man to reach manifestation of God. This
perfection: The first and the divine manifestation is
most important one is associated with the
