A Study of the Relation of Virtue, Love and Art as Viewed by Sheikh Ahmad Ghazzali

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Phd student at University of Religions and Denominations

10.22081/pwq.2019.67177

Abstract

The Sufism of Sheikh Ahmad Ghazali is a love-based mysticism in which virtue and love are considered as the main elements of a mystical journey. Virtue follows manifestation, tajalli, and love follows virtue. A mystic, having seen virtue, attain the love-based passion. Love, therefore, always follows the manifestation of virtue. In this article, first, we have explained love and virtue as viewed by Ghazzali and, then, we have examined some of their main features in relation to one another as: love`s state of being for mankind, inviting glance of virtue and that of being loved, derivation of lover and loved from love and manifestation of virtue respectively and gradual state of virtue and love. Finally, we have discussed art as viewed by Ghazali. He relates art with simile. An artist sees virtue and represents it in his work; an artist, therefore, as sees virtue, is lover and as represents virtue is of simile. In the end, we speak Ghazali's desirable art; the one coming from the selflessness of the artist, and is technically called "artless art".

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Article Title [العربیة]

دراسة علاقة الحسن والعشق والفن من منظور الشخ احمد الغزالی

Abstract [العربیة]

تصوف الشیخ احمد غزالی تصوف حبی یعتبر فیه الحسن و العشق العناصر الرئیسة للسلوک. الحسن، یتبع التجلی و العشق یحدث بعد مشاهدة الحسن.

و بمشاهدة الحسن یحصل الشعور بالحب، فالعشق دائماً یتبع تجلی الحسن. فی هذه المقالة نبدأ بتوضح العشق والحسن من منظور الغزالی و ندرس بعض خصائصها مترابطة مع بعض، و هی: أن العشق للإنسان، دلال الحُسن و دلال المعشوق، اشتقاق العاشق من العشق و اشتقاق المعشوق من تجلی الحسن، و کون الحسن و العشق تشکیکیان. و اخیراً ندرس موضوع الفن عند غزالی. فهو یرى ارتباط الفن بالتشبیه. الفنان یرى الحسن و یُریة ذلک فی عمله الفنی. وحیث أن الفنان یشاهد الحسن، فهو عاشق، و من حیث أنه یُریه فهو من أهل التشبیه.

و فی الختام ندرس الفن المطلوب عند غزالی؛ الفن الذی ینشأ من الفنان فی حالة لاشعوریة و یطلقون علیه مصطلح "فن الخلو عن الفن".

Keywords [العربیة]

  • احمد غزالی
  • الحسن
  • العشق
  • الفن
  • التجلی
  • التشبیه
Theosophia Practica
Volume 11, Issue 40 - Serial Number 40
September 2019
Pages 73-96

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