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The Single Monad Model of the Cosmos

Ibn al-Arabi’s Concept of Time and Creation

Mohamed Haj Yousef

10.4. Humans:

Humans of course are beings of three dimensions (3-D) and they are made of earth or clay. As we said above, humans can decompose into 2-D and 1-D so that they may interact with jinn and angels, and they may also decompose into 0-D so that they may witness the Real, but they may not of course become like the Real as God though they may become like the 'real through whom creation takes place' who is the perfect Image of God, or the Perfect Human Being. And as we've said that this is the aim of the Sufi; to decompose into 0-D, which means to purify one's self and get rid of all the earthly (3-D) attachments.

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