خلاقيت / خلافت انسان در فلسفه و عرفان اسلامي

Manʹs Creativity/Vicegerency in Islamic Philisophy and Mysticism

Following the holy Qurʹan, Islamic mysticism introduces Godʹs creation of the world in two forms of command and making. Unlike making, the divine command means the creation of things from non-existence. Man, who, according to the decree of the holy Qurʹan, has been appointed the divine vicegerent, possesses both types of creation, too, and his creativity is the same as the divine command and creation. One of the manifestations of this type of manʹs creativity is his power of imagination. The free man could even grant exteranl embodiment and existence to his imaginary creatures through his strong will power and move them from the conjunctive to the disjunctive imagination or the world of images and the senses. Man himself is a world called the microcosmic world, and the whole world is the great man, and there is a kind of harmony between them. The origin of aesthetics and human art, morals and love is the conjunction of these two men. The purpose of the present article is to reveal some of the unknown secrets of manʹs existence.