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Islamic Monotheism 1 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Islamic Monotheism 1 2021-06-14 598 Views Monotheism , Tawheed , Oneness of God What is the viewpoint of Islam concerning human perfection? When a school of thought wishes to build up a following, it must provide guidance and strengthen the resolution of its following, it presents its goal to them, and asks them to follow it.

The goal of Islam is the same as the true objective of a Muslim, The conceptualization of a perfect human being is in fact a discussion of the fundamental Islamic ideal and its ideology. Various views concerning human perfection and a perfect being have already been discussed, and here a summary of them will be given. According to the Gnostics, truth is the basis of everything. By truth, they mean the Essence of God, and His manifestation is the shape of created things and beings.

Man, too, as a more wholesome creature gains perfection through his return to Him, Thus everything but the truth which is God, is His shadow, while in itself it is a reality. God means absolute God, and nothing is equal to and comparable with Him, They believe also that man can attain unity with God, or, as they say, can be annihilated in His essence. Man is a being, separated from his Originator, Man’s perfection and happiness consist of his return to his origin in God’s Essence.

They also offer ways and means to attain this goal, and this lies through the whole of man’s essence, that is, his heart and its changes and transformations which remove the obstacles to perfect unity. Their means consist of love, worship and self-purification. Divine philosophers, however, think differently, they consider man’s essence to be his intellect, and other things are secondary matters, the perfection of intellectual power has two aspects: speculative and practical.

The speculative or theoretical aspect is wisdom which means the recognition of things as they are, and its practical aspect is justice, which means that man’s whole essence must be ruled over by intellect and not by instinct or other forces. According to Plato, his Theory of Republic points to a Utopia in which philosophers become rulers and rulers philosophers.