Investigating and Analyzing the Semantic Layers of the Term “Eltebas” and Its Relation with the Trinity of “Love, Beauty and Epiphany” in the Mystical Attitude of Sheikh Rozbahan

Sheikh Rozbahan Baghli Shirazi is one of the most influential people in the development of Sufism, which is less known due to the complexities of his intellectual and linguistic system. One of these complications that is at the center of his mystical attitude is the term "Eltebas". This term has an inseparable connection with the fundamental trinity of his intellectual structure, i.e. love, beauty and epiphany. In spite of the complexity of the concept of "Eltebas" and its importance in the field of understanding the mystical worldview of Rozbahan, no research has been done that will clarify all aspects of this term. In this research, by investigating and pondering the opinions of the sheikh, it became clear that the term "Eltebas" refers to one of the types of epiphany, which is like a curtain or a covering to cover the light of God or the eternal beauty. A Sufi observes God's light from behind a curtain ("Eltebas"), which is of course the medium of epiphany perception, and prepares to observe and meet this light directly. If we assume that Sufism accepted by Roozbahan has three main steps (human love, divine love, knowledge and monotheism) "Eltebas", with three different layers of meaning, has an active presence in all stages.