The perfect human being according to Abdul Karim Al-Jili

Abstract

The idea of the perfect human being is one of the most important theories produced by philosophical Sufism, and in close periods of time, it was linked from the beginning to the view of the perfection of humans, so it moved from describing guardianship in its legal form, stipulated in the Quran and Sunnah, and then it quickly developed its meaning with theses. Advanced Sufism reached a stage of maturity with Al-Qunawi, Ibn Arabi, and Al-Jili, which was reformulated based on the newly developed Sufi theory - of the prophetic self in its luminous spiritual aspect, or what is known to them as the Muhammadan truth, and the perfectionist ranks that emerged from its cloak, which the Sufis used to call each according to his identity. Spirituality, positions of empowerment, its susceptibility to divine and divine manifestations, and its functions in existence.