Some narrations are assumed to apply Toriya to avoid absolute lies. They also attribute the use of half-truth to the prophets. However, analysis of content and document of mentioned narrations, along with analyzing relevant verses in the Qurān and defining an acceptable criterion to distinguish truths from lies, show that half-truth is false. Regarding religious beliefs, it is considered to be ...

Without paying a proper consideration to the sources of Rumi’s thought and education, examining his works and ideas can not be completed. Among the sources the most important ones are: The Holy Qurān, Persian prose and poetry and teachings of Rumi’s father, Bahā Walad mentioned in Ma‘āref. In the present paper a comparative study between Ma‘āref and Diwān Shams mostly based on those common t...

Mystics inspired from the Holy Qurān have considered the world from one side the Image of God and from the other side the manifestation of Divine Names and Attributes, which the later has been divided into two types: The Names of Majesty and the Name of Beauty. Those Names which relate with grace, mercy, generosity, … have been named the Names of Beauty and those ones deal with vengeance, ang...

Muslim Mystics were always seeking for a new understanding of the Qurān and religious concepts in order to achieve the truth. They are certainly benefiting from the assumptions such as the meaning of the Qurānic verses for discovering significance. One of the proposed Qurānic concepts among the mystics, especially in mystics of the third and fourth centuries, was the mystical term “Tawakkol”. T...

Some gnostics have used knowledge and insight synonymous. Still there are many who give gnosis the upper hand. This is because, in this position, they intend knowledge as rudimentary science, acquired and logical while gnosis is based on exploring and evidence. From Mohammad ibn ‘Abd Allah Neffari’s-4th century (A.H.) gnostic—mystical stand, everything but Allah is considered as creature ther...

The Holly Qurān, according to mystics’ conviction is not only the most important source of gaining knowledge in the Islamic mysticism field but also an authentic criteria for separation between truth from illusion. Infered from mystical texts, there are two groups of wayfarers of the Path who, because of their false understanding of Qurānic meaning and learnings, have fallen into prey of va...