Epistemology

Wisdom is the key to attaining a transcendent, creative mind. Until the celestial intellect awakens, heavenly creativity cannot take flight. Certainty is the force that brings genius to fruition. The proposed remedy is a wise outlook and a path grounded in certainty—one that awakens inner intelligence and allows its effects to emerge in thought and action.

To benefit from the divine treasuries and unseen knowledge, we must sustain purity of body and soul; practise God-centered spiritual disciplines; hold sincerely to the Qur’an and the Prophet’s Household; fully cultivate the intellect and its forces; and make use of more direct paths such as certainty, wisdom, seeking God’s pleasure, and strengthening faith and God-consciousness. Supplications such as the twentieth supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya and the Duʿāʾ al-Simāt can also help guide the way.

The soul’s ascent to higher realms, such as Jabarut and Lahut, depends on the growth of a person’s spiritual and divine wings. The purer one’s devotion and the more faithfully one follows the school of the Two Weighty Things, the higher one’s flight. The structure of the soul is complex, and the health of the inner self enables all its faculties to take flight. The body, too, is capable of ascending to the highest heavenly realm, just as the Prophet (PBUH) journeyed on the Mi‘raj. *Tayy al-arḍ* likewise means traversing hidden dimensions.