Anwar-e Ma`rifat

The spiritual evolution of man, of which the moral virtues is one of most important and prominent manifestations, is a significant and comprehensive process during which all existential developments, from physical movements, including physical actions and behavior to spiritual changes and advancements, are evidently realized and. Based on their ontological foundations and principles, different epistemological schools have explained the nature and the reason for the developments of existence, and especially the important issue of acquiring perfections and virtues in the comprehensive version of man. These explanations face serious challenges and cause thinkers to struggle finding solutions and offering different explanations. Meanwhile, Islamic mysticism claims to have opened a different perspective without getting trapped in those dilemmas by proposing teachings and principles such as the absolute unity of existence and its intrinsic richness, the pursuit of perfection of explicitness and manifestation, and the essential circular movement in the form of two arcs of ascent and descent, as well as by explaining the collective truth of man in the levels of existence and his journey through the stages of annihilation and everlastingness. Using the analytical-descriptive method, this article has compared and explained the claims of mystics on this subject by referring to the foundations and theories of other schools and stating some of their problems.