Abul-Futuh Razi’s Theoretical Mysticism Thoughts

Mysticism has had a serious and undeniable presence throughout history as an Islamic movement. In the relation of the Shiite religion with the current of Islamic mysticism and Sufism, from the beginning of the history of Sufism, different opinions and views have been raised. Historically the relationship between Shiism and Sufism dates back to the seventh and eighth centuries AH. The present study seeks to speak with a descriptive approach and based on library studies on this relationship in the thoughts of one of the famous Shiite commentators of the Holy Quran, Abul-Futuh Razi, who died in the sixth century AH. In the present study, we have focused on Abul-Futuh Razi’s views on theoretical mysticism, especially theology, cosmology, and anthropology, and with a kind of comparative study of common mystical views in these areas.

From Abul-Futuh Razi’s point of view, it is impossible to surround oneself with the essence of God, and the encounter of God with God is in fact the encounter with the God imagined in the human mind and suspicion. Although Allah is a special name of God and different from other names, but the divine essence is unique and without participation in the attributes of essence. He also considers the name to be other than the What has a name (yclept), and also, by defining and dividing it from the divine attributes, considers them to be part of the essence and, while denying the sensory vision of God, considers the real vision to be the heart’s image. In the field of cosmology Abul-Futuh Razi introduces the world as the mortal house from which to be saved, and by proposing the objectivity of the known extinct, he has somehow approached the theory of Immutable Essences as a view to justify the discussion of the previous divine science. And in the discussion of divine creation, we have examined and applied his view and the discussion of manifestation in Ibn-Arabi. And in the discussion of divine creation, we have examined and applied his view and the discussion of Epiphany in Ibn-Arabi.In the anthropological dimension, by examining his view on the knowledge of man and how man was created, the caliphate and the knowledge of human nature from his point of view, we approach the theories of theoretical mysticism in Ibn-Arabi’s school. In the anthropological dimension, by examining his view on the knowledge of man and how man was created, the caliphate and the knowledge of human nature from his point of view, we approach the theories of theoretical mysticism in Ibn-Arabi’s school. In the above-mentioned discussions, even in the appearance of some of the phrases and contents of Abul-Futuh’s sentences, it is possible to cite the closeness of his thoughts and common mystical views in the school of Ibn Arabi.