چکیده:
The Active Intellect is the central character of Suhrawardi's symbolic treatises, which has become embodied in the world of images (Alam al-Mithal) in the form of a mysterious teaching master. The present research aims to examine the pivotal role of the Active Intellect in Suhrawardi's symbolic treatises within the two domains of cosmology and epistemology, and to decode the mysterious oscillation of this metaphysical truth across the levels of existence and the stages of the soul's journey. The result of this investigation is that the Active Intellect is the tenth intellect of the Peripatetics and the 'Nearest Light' (the first intellect) in Illuminationist wisdom; at the same time, it is the Holy Spirit or Gabriel of the religions, who appears in Suhrawardi's symbolic treatises as the master, mentor, and guide of the seeker. In another level, within the hierarchy of accidental dominant lights, the truth of the Holy Spirit or 'Active Intellect,' when establishing an individual relationship with a specific human being, manifests in the form of their 'Perfect Nature' (Tiba' al-Tamm). The mysterious oscillation of this metaphysical truth in the hierarchy of Illuminationist dominant lights (longitudinal and transverse) is based on the theory of the gradation (tashkik) of the single reality of light in Illuminationist wisdom.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This research aims to investigate the pivotal role of the Active Intellect in Suhrawardi's symbolic treatises within the two domains of cosmology and epistemology, and to decode the mysterious oscillation of this metaphysical reality across the levels of existence and the stages of the soul's journey.
The result of this investigation is that the Active Intellect is the tenth intellect of the Peripatetics and the Nearest Light (First Intellect) in the Wisdom of Illumination (Hikmat al-Ishraq); at the same time, it is the Holy Spirit or Gabriel of the religions, which in Suhrawardi's symbolic treatises appears as the Pir, mentor, and guide of the seeker.
The last of the elders is placed at the edge of the row, meaning the end of the row of elders, who introduces himself and the other elders as "the whole of the disembodied ones" (jumlata al-mujarradan); this is the same Peripatetic Active Intellect which, in expressing its cosmological role in symbolic language, says: "As for my Asia, it consists of four classes, and my children are so numerous that no calculator, no matter how skilled, can enumerate them" (Suhrawardi, Collected Works, Vol. 3, The Song of Gabriel's Wings, 213).
In this initiation as well, the Angel / Elder, in introducing himself, provides the cosmology of the realm of intellects, spheres, and souls, and at the same time teaches the path of the seeker's practical conduct⁷: "He said: From behind Mount Qaf, where my station is and your abode was also, but you forgot" (Suhrawardi, Collected Works, Vol. 3, Red Intellect, 228-229).
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