مقايسه ساختاري تجربه ديني و شهود عرفاني

Religious Experience and Mystical Intuition Structurally Compared

This paper has intended to compare religious experience with mystical intuition. Conceptual analysis of religious experience and mystical intuition are logically considered as a necessary ground for analyzing their nature. Experience may be considered both in usage and in essence; its usage is a change but its essence is Of real orders, the deepest one being religious. Apocalypse, intuition and inspection are known of different meanings for mystics. Observation is mystically described as the falling of cover and Divine appearance in heart occurred when the curtains have been put away by leaving habits and modifications and performing hard efforts continuously. When analyzing different views on religious experience and mystical intuition, one knows them to be common in interiority, containing nothingness, unity, awareness, lack of negligence and presence. However they happen in different situations. Though Muslim mystics have viewed mystical observation in a nearly like manner, western scholars have taken different manners when explaining religious experience.