Study of Divine Love and Affection in the Creation of the Universe (Based on the Verses of Quran from Imam Khomeini’s Point of View

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Mahnaz Kaeian Hosseini ¹ (دانشجوی دکتری عرفان اسلامی و اندیشه‌های امام خمینی ره، واحد اهواز ،دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اهواز ، ایران.)
Maryam Bakhtyar ² (Department Islamic Mysticism, Islamic Azad University Ahvaz Branch, Iran.)
Ali Yarhosseini ³ (استادیار گروه عرفان اسلامی، واحد مسجد سلیمان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، مسجدسلیمان، ایران)

Received: 2020-07-19 Accepted : 2020-10-03 Published : 2023-05-22

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Abstract :

Discussion of divine love is one of the interesting topics, especially, in Islamic mysticism that has forced many mystics and thinkers to explain and expand them according to the relevant verses of Quran. Also, Imam Khomeini in his works he dealt with this issue, by Paving the way the verses and narrations on the other hand, and also, with the influence of the elders of the valley of mysticism and knowledge, that in this study, We try to discuss and description about it by use of library method and collection of materials and content analysis. What emerges from his works, indicates that both universe and the creation of man are the product of divine love and affection. Such love and affection, can lead him back from this earthly world to the rest of world, if found in the seeker of path of truth, that, of course, it is possible in the shadow of acting on the rules and law that God asked of servant, and The concept “We are from God and turn to God” realized about it. From the perspective of Imam, divine love is similar to a fire that is kindled in lover heart from beginning of creation, and in order to achieve it, one must to get help from purification and cultivation of the soul, which attribute that seeks to purify the self from impurities and obstacles and mundane and material veils that appears inside devotee, and enabling devotee to discover kingdom and meet God based on verses of the Quran.