Anwar-e Ma`rifat

Using descriptive-analytical method, this paper studies the God's Former and Congenital Knowledge of the objects from the viewpoint of Islamic mysticism. Presenting the correct image of the presence of objects in the stage of Divine Essence before their creation prevents considering the God's former knowledge of objects among the category of the knowledge without datum. The mysteries consider Allah Almighty as the simple and infinite being, which encompass the whole universe in such a way that, not only it is incompatible with the assumption of the real latitudinal beings, but also with the real longitudinal beings. This claim does not mean the negation of any plurality in the universe, but it means, truly and congenitally, existence can't be attributed to anyone except the Divine Essence. Hence, the witnessing multiplicities are the states and self-manifestations and epiphanic forms of that unit existence that has the real and actual fact. This paper shows that, the absolute being due to the non-conditional at the stage of division generality of the Exalted Reality requires the non-distinct existence of all facts and things in the status of Divine Essene. Thus, the intuitive knowledge of God to His Essence is the same as His acquired knowledge to the things in the status of Divine Essene.