ABSTRACT

This chapter explains bezel of the wisdom of transcendence. God inspire one through his spirit, that according to the people of truth, transcendence concerning the Divine amounts to limitation and restriction. Whoever believes in God's transcendence is either foolish or ill mannered. If he, as a believer in religion, holds unreservedly and believes in it and does not take into consideration something else, he misbehaves, denies the truth and the messengers, without being aware of this. According to author, the truth lies in accepting both God's transcendence and immanence. Ibn al- Arabi distinguishes between two kinds of transcendence. The first is hikma subuiyya, which denotes purifying God from partners and imperfections, while the second is hikma qudusiyya, which signifies removing from God all traits of the possible things. When one can say nothing about God, we limit our knowledge of Him. The author says that the measure of perplexity concerning God depends on the measure of our knowledge of Him.