Assistant Professor at “the Mysticism Department” in Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought (IICT).
Abstract
Criticism of reason means the possibility of discovering reality by reason, not a new event but a long-standing event in the history of human thought, including the time when mystics' encounter with philosophers; because philsophers with the entry of the reason as the measure of measurement, may become indignant the master of mysticism, the mystics also consider its foot to be wooden and untidy. What is the reason for the indignation? Is all this opposition to reason based on true arguments? According to research, these arguments are generally for two arguments: one is entitled "mysticism is beyond reason" which refers to the critique of reason for its inability to comprehend mystical truths, and the other is entitled "reason is always subject to error" which refers to criticism of reason refers in terms of fallibility in the perception of facts. This article deals with both arguments according to the mystics’s words.
