“Godless words” , “inspired paradox” and as mystics phrase it “Shath” is a language creation of a mystic’s enchanted soul’s excitement and necessity. This mystic is a person whom is confronted with an illogical subject on one hand and on the other hand he has to use logical language which is a deficient tool for describing the illogical subject. Today’s fair audience – Regardless of Controversy...

Misbah al-Ashari‛at is a book with mystical and ethical themes which has been attributed to Imam Ja‛far Sadiq. Although all chapters of the book begin with the phrase “(as) Imam Sadiq said” which primarily indicates that the book has been written by him, the correctness of such an attribution is criticized on various grounds including the content of the book and the available certif...

Some texts, especially mystical and literary, are so intricate and labyrinthine that can be interpreted differently. These various interpretations sometimes result from the interior aspect of the texts, based on semantical understanding, and sometimes arise from their exterior aspect, based on different ways of reading the texts. Accordingly, while in another article along with other interprete...

Abstract      Neo-platonic philosophy is regarded as one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece that plato in the third century made it into a coherent and comprehensive philosophical system, and it was dominated the east and mitially has influenced and west for perpetual years. This system initially influenced philosophy and Christian mysticism and later Sufism. There i...

In spite of their eminent and expected conformity in attitudes and their obvious influence on each other, Shams Tabrizi and Jalal al-Din Rūmi are found to have some differences of opinions on several issues. These disagreements appear to be either overt or covert. Yet, the covert disagreements are assumed to be discoverable. Employing comparative method, the current study sought to extract...

One of the characteristics of the language of mysticism, like that of poetry and art, is its imagery and analogy. Evidently there is also al close relationship between mysticism and myth. It is on the basis of these two facts that the writer of this article following a brief report on the allegorical language of mysticism examines the relationship between mysticism and myth by investigating the...