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The term means complete and perfect "'Complete' is a horizontal progress to maximum development, and 'perfect' is a vertical climb to the highest degree possible." as according to a plan." <ref>Mutahhari, Murtadha. Perfect Man. Translated by Dr. Alaedin Pazargadi. Iran: Bethat Islamic Research Center, Unknown. https://www.al-islam.org/perfect-man-murtadha-mutahhari.p. 43.</ref>  
The term means complete and perfect "'Complete' is a horizontal progress to maximum development, and 'perfect' is a vertical climb to the highest degree possible." as according to a plan." <ref>Mutahhari, Murtadha. Perfect Man. Translated by Dr. Alaedin Pazargadi. Iran: Bethat Islamic Research Center, Unknown. https://www.al-islam.org/perfect-man-murtadha-mutahhari.p. 43.</ref>  


"This Man is the perfect microcosm, the culminative realization of divine creation..."
Al-Insan al-Kamil was the first Sufi to use the term. "This Man is the perfect microcosm, the culminative realization of divine creation..."
<ref>Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 43–54.</ref>
<ref>Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 43–54.</ref>


"According to Ibn al-'Arab it is the perfected mystic alone who knows the true nature of the reflected image." <ref>Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 47.</ref>
"According to Ibn al-'Arab it is the perfected mystic alone who knows the true nature of the reflected image." <ref>Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 47.</ref>


"According to Ibn al-'Arabi it is the Perfect Man who is the Isthmus (barzakh) between the two poles of Reality. Linking Heaven and Earth he is the perfect theophany of the Divine Names and Attributes; he is at once "the eye by which the divine subject sees Himself and the perfectly polished mirror that perfectly reflects the divine light."<ref>Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 48.</ref>





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The term Al-Insān al-Kāmil is an Islamic term syncretic with LP term Perfection.The term means "the complete person" or "the person who has reached perfection." [1] [2]

Syncretic Terms

Perfection > Al-Insan al-Kamil, Arhat, Cosmic Man, Final Fulfilment, Perfect Contemplation, Perfected One, Redemption, Ritambharapragya, Siddhi, The Unity, Tikkun, Triumph of Spirit, Triumph of Spirit Archetypes, Triumph of Spirit Narrative

Notes

The term means complete and perfect "'Complete' is a horizontal progress to maximum development, and 'perfect' is a vertical climb to the highest degree possible." as according to a plan." [3]

Al-Insan al-Kamil was the first Sufi to use the term. "This Man is the perfect microcosm, the culminative realization of divine creation..." [4]

"According to Ibn al-'Arab it is the perfected mystic alone who knows the true nature of the reflected image." [5]

"According to Ibn al-'Arabi it is the Perfect Man who is the Isthmus (barzakh) between the two poles of Reality. Linking Heaven and Earth he is the perfect theophany of the Divine Names and Attributes; he is at once "the eye by which the divine subject sees Himself and the perfectly polished mirror that perfectly reflects the divine light."[6]


Footnotes

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ins%C4%81n_al-K%C4%81mil
  2. Mutahhari, Murtadha. Perfect Man. Translated by Dr. Alaedin Pazargadi. Iran: Bethat Islamic Research Center, Unknown. https://www.al-islam.org/perfect-man-murtadha-mutahhari.
  3. Mutahhari, Murtadha. Perfect Man. Translated by Dr. Alaedin Pazargadi. Iran: Bethat Islamic Research Center, Unknown. https://www.al-islam.org/perfect-man-murtadha-mutahhari.p. 43.
  4. Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 43–54.
  5. Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 47.
  6. Little, John T. “Al- Insān al-Kāmil: The Perfect Man According to Ibn al-ʻArabī.” The Muslim World 77, no. 1 (January 1987): 48.