Anthropology of ABDULLAH BOSNEVI with emphasis on issue of Guardianship

Abdullah Bosnavi is one of the prominent commentators on Ibn Arabi’s thought in Anatolia. As the only commentator on Fusus Al-Hekam in Eastern Europe and the representative of Ottoman Sufism, he has been praised by scholars such as Haji Khalifa and he has been mentioned as a excellent thinker who knows intellectual and narrative Knowledges and one of the best commentators of Fusus, Hence he became known as Shareh Al-Fusus. He left 148 works, the most important of which are two commentaries on Fusus al-Hakam. He believes that the human reality is the sixth determination that corresponds to the comprehensive name of God in Divinity, and contain all others in himself, it means that he is the one who has been found in all of determinations and they are nothing but the revelations of him, and it is he who gives the portion of each one according to his talent. He considered the completeness of jala and istijla as the mystery of human creation, for human as the soul of all these manifestations is the only determination in which all divine names are manifestated, therefore Bosnavi considered human reality as the intermediate stage between creator and creature, that has two aspects (divine and creational), from the divine aspect he is God’s khalifa, and from the creational aspect, he is the most complete revelation of God. Bosnavi believes that perfect man in respect of the world, is like the soul in the body. The world is the formation of human reality, that is the place of man’s manifestation, and human reality is the ultimate cause in respect of the world, and the cause for its remain. Therefore Bosnavi following Ibn Arabi considers human as the great world, and the world as the minor human. In his point of view human reality equals holly Qur’an, and human heart is the aimed for Ka’aba, and the treasury of God’s knowledge and all his lights. Bosnavi like other sufis consideres comprehensiveness as an attribute of man, and believes in this reality, being the Barzakh (barrier) between creator and creature, owning both divine and creational forms, comprehending all determinations and perfect names, and containing all heavenly and earthly realities. Bosnavi has Enumerated three attributes for man, guardianship, prophethood and messenger. In his point view, wilaya (guardianship) is a divine attribute, origins from the name “wali”, which is preـexistent, but two other attributes are manifestations of the name “zahir”, and both are accidents of the attribute “wilaya”, which are nonـeternal and Interruptible. He has considered the perfection of prophecy as the seal of prophecy, and the perfection of wilaya as the seal of wilaya. Bosnavi considers Ibn Arabi as the instance of general seal of wilaya, and Jesus Christ as the instance of specific seal of wilaya. Although somewhere else, he has referred to a third kind, called the seal of absolut wilaya.