Nature and components of Knowledge in Islamic Mysticism

Like reason and experience, heart intuition is one of the ways to attain knowledge. Having introduced the idea if intuition, mystics say that to understand truths, there is a way beyond reason; and only in this way, unitary identity of being may be known. Report made by the mystic of his own state when he intuits unity appears usually as paradoxical propositions, and un-demonstrability is among points which are discussed in mystical epistemology. Also, esotericism in the sense of belief in a hidden aspect for things and attempts made to understand it as well as reliance on spiritual leaning as one of the main characteristics mystical methodology and on shariah, together with explanation of the path and rules of practical wayfaring may be known among characteristics of Islamic mysticism.