Al-Ghazali on the Training Role of Prophets in Human's Epistemic Development
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Abstract:
According to al-Ghazali, prophets exert a profound effect on bringing other people to the highest degree of knowledge. In addition to teaching people the truths, prophets have a training role that brings knowledge to the level of certainty through changing the emotional-volitional realms. I shall show analytically that the prophet's training role leads to a "journey" to the truth that one takes in his soul, in order to achieve "the ability" of comprehending the truth. Achieving this ability requires a "settlement", "moderation" and "consistency of the self", so that one notices the truth "entirely". People faced with the prophet, receive his revelation in a lingual form. Obeying the Sharia and following the prophet's commands and deeds accompanies people on an epistemic journey which ends with the highest level of knowledge. In this level, the people looking for the truth can achieve the "understanding" of the Bātin (the hidden meaning) of the Sharia, as well as the knowledge of the spiritual realities, including spiritual beings as well as the relationship between them and the meaning of their existence.
Keywords:
Prophets , Role of Training , Settlement of the Self , Bātin , al , Ghazali
Language:
Persian
Published:
Philosophy Of Religion Research, Volume:14 Issue: 1, 2016
Pages:
23 to 45
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