Millions of birds could fly in the sky without tourching each other as the sky is vast enough to hold many routes. As for Irfan ( mysterious gnosticism), two routes are venerably leading to its excellence. According to Sidi Ibn Arabi RTA, the first of the routes leading to ma'ariful ilahiyah is the route of knowing Him as knowing yourself while the second is the route of knowing Him through you as Him not as you.
According to this classification by Sidi Ibn Arabi RTA, i consider the excellence of the first route leading to that of the second, hence haqqiqat-l irfaniyyah and Ainu haqqiqat-l Irfaniyyah sufficed. Only God knows God and could only be known through Him. Knowing Him through you is the first great task where the Abd must have gotten rid of all forms of setbacks from the Nafs, he trains his Nafs to transcend from seeing his Soul to seeing the Supreme being through the eye of the heart ( Fuhad) which later disseminate the light of gnosticism to all other part of the body. This is very important to the 'state' of the ma'arifa. The prevalent and relative nature of the ma'arifa is diversified, in the quest of gnosticism,the state is not constant, it controls the seeker but after the seeker has fully attained the station of gnosticism, he immediately becomes the ruler of the state, this is corroborating to the hint of Abu Madyan RA "State are masters for the beginners because they determine behaviour while they are slaves later because they are under control' The aarif is constant with his Lord in all states and he's been communicated to through this constancy. "He's with you wherever you are" Q57:4
It was stated in Hadith Qudsi, Allah said " I was a hidden treasure and i love to be known, then i created the creation so that i may be known", "Whosoever knoweth himself knows his lord" The second hadith is vehemently elucidating on the first route, as the beauty of gnosticism is to attain Communion with Him. The first hadith seems to have a greater elaborate as as two elements in it are of great concern. The first is 'the creation' What does Allah mean? The second ( in another collection it is reported; "....fabi ya'rifuni" meaning ' with it they'll know me'). The two elements are corroborators which am not permitted to expantiate more on and am tasking you reader to seek their indepth meaning.
Furthermore, the state of the ma'arifa can not be communicated but only felt symbolically with Kashf (Mysterious unveilling). The state of Unionism with Allah only awakes the consciousness of upholding His Supreme Nature in its sacred cladestine form. Its a Notion of the sight. The sight of the Aarif always glows with tremble due to the Fear of Allah (Taqwa), his body vibrates mysteriously due to emanation of His Holliness (refer to the state of Prophet Moses when the Nur of Illahiyah appeared) The aarif has much of concealments in his dictionary as Ma'arifa of concealmeants is the greatest and presides over all other ma'arifat (The only one conferred with this station was Sidi Ahmad Tijani bn M. Saalim bn Seyyid l Wujud RTA)
Finally on this part, Sidi Dhul Nun RTA stated " Never pretend to posses Ma'arifat and again even more strongly, my greatest SIN is my knowledge of Him"
May Allah confer His Ma'arifat on us. Amin
I leave you with take home questions, do the prophets and messengers walked through the path of ma'arifat? If yes, how? If No, what was their concept of Unionism.
Watch out for part Four
As-salam Alaekum warahmotullah wabarakatullah
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