Anwar-e Ma`rifat

This article elucidates the nature and modality of the resurrection (maʿād) in Islamic mysticism, with particular emphasis on the concept of "the existential becoming (ṣayrūrat) of the human being." Whereas in Islamic theology (kalām) and philosophy the resurrection has predominantly been interpreted as an event occurring after death, situated in relation to the problem of death and the soul-body nexus, the mystical approach conceives of it as an existential and continuous process that has been actualized from the very inception of human presence within the cosmic order. Within this framework, the notion of the "particular Lord" (rabb-i khāṣṣ) plays a pivotal role in explicating the differentiation of degrees of human return, signifying that each individual traverses the path of becoming and return in accordance with a specific divine name. Adopting an analytical-descriptive method and providing an ontological exposition of this approach, the article demonstrates that death, the intermediate realm (barzakh), the resurrection, and its stations constitute successive phases of a unified process of existential becoming, within which the human reality becomes fully disclosed. Furthermore, the article contends that from a mystical perspective, the resurrection is neither exclusively spiritual nor purely corporeal; rather, its reality is realized in the synthesis of the spiritual and corporeal dimensions of the human being. This synthesis is entailed by the actualization of the "synthetic station" (martaba-yi jamʿī) of the human being and the complete manifestation of his reality across all modes of existence.