A Mystical Study of the Aspects of Ashoora on the Basis of Mystical Popularity

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Associate professor at Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute

Abstract

Ashoora as the appearance of absolute perfect man`s knowledge and power in appropriate to his popularity has countless dimensions. Tragedy and pain, jihad and epic, love and knowledge are known as parts of them. Though regarding unity, love and knowledge are antecedent to epic and tragedy and each is an aspect of such a perfect man that includes all orders of creation and conduct, regarding the direction of movement from plurality to unity the is special particularity of Aba Abd Allah al-Hosein`s companions and friends the way to jihad and epic lies in his tragedy. As the jihad and epic themselves may be considered a passage to such a grade of unity that its essential quality lies in love and knowledge to perfect man. Such an epic would be a conductive one different from that of Imam (a) that social appearance forms its absoluteness and plurality. Again, Ashoora may be viewed as a mystic Imam`s manifestation of love to God as well as a case for true supporters and friends to show their love to their Imam.

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