The Relation Between God and Humans From the View of Avicenna and Al-Ghazali

Abstract

The relationship between God and humans has been one of the important philosophical, theological, and mystical concerns in the Islamic world. Muslim philosophers, theologians, and mystics according to the guidelines of the Qur'an in this field as well as their rational approaches and their influence from Some of the ideas of Greek philosophy have tried to explain this relationship in a different and at the same time conflict-free way. The present study examines the views of two prominent thinkers of the above currents. Avicenna on behalf of the Muslim philosophers explains this relationship with the pattern of love and rational perceptions and believes that man with his intuition, love, and attraction to God reaches a position where he can enjoy the same pleasure as the angels. Ghazali as a Sufi and a mystic explains the relationship between God and humans in the pattern of mystical annihilation and destruction and the context of unity with God. These are dual approaches Philosophical and mystical have ontological, anthropological, epistemological, and theological presuppositions

Keywords

• love
• fana
• avicenna
• qazali
• god essence
• human essence