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Evaluate the role of the human soul (or the heart) in the mystic understanding of the relationship between God and human beings, use the example of Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya and al-Hallaj.
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0255543 TH1060 Dr. Maha El-Kaisy Evaluate the role of the human soul (or the heart) in the mystic understanding of the relationship between God and human beings, use the example of Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya and al-Hallaj. Mysticism, according to Evelyn Underhill is "The great spiritual current that goes through all religions"1. Mysticism seeks to understand the nature and relationship of the human soul and God. The mystical aspect of Islam is known as Sufism (tasawwuf) and in practice is the seeking of an intimate relationship with God through meditative practice or the behaviour of self-denial, the ultimate aim, to achieve union with God. Sufis want to know God in the heart, as a lover and a friend and, as God is an immaterial entity the union can only be achieved emotionally. In the mystical idea, humans gain knowledge of God not through rational thought or religion but with the fusing of the soul to the...
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