Islamic Azad University of Zanjan
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Most Sufis consider "love" (maḥabbat) as a mystical state, but Ibn Arabi categorizes it among spiritual stations. This descriptive-analytical research, based on library documentation, aims to answer important questions regarding the concept of love in Ibn Arabi and Izz al-Din Kashani's perspectives, and to explore the innovations each of these Sufi thinkers brought to the concept of love. According to the research findings, both Ibn Arabi and Kashani consider "jealousy" (ghayrat) an essential component of love, its most important characteristic being the requirement for concealment and veiling from others. In their conception of the two-way love between humans and God, they believe that understanding divine love depends on the perspective of Lordship and is contingent upon the existential capacity of the lovers. Both thinkers pay special attention to mystical union through the annihilation of the lover in the beloved; however, Kashani believes that to reach this stage, the lover must remove all attachments. Ibn Arabi rejects this view, considering attention to anything other than the true beloved as love in various forms of divine attributes, which is necessary in mystical wayfaring; if the lover confronts the level of divinity with their complete human essence, union is achieved. The concept of "yearning and longing" and its direct relationship with love, as well as how each thinker interprets it, also contains points of commonality, distinction, and innovation.
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