The Philosophy of Life in Rasa’il Ikhwanus Safa – Ishq & Mohabbat

The third article in the series is entitled ‘The Philosophy of Life in the Rasail’. It discusses the profound question, “what is the purpose of our lives on this earth?” The Ikhwan explain that the supreme purpose of this life is for the individual soul to rejoin its Divine Origin and that the process of unification and purification of the soul begins by Ma’refat and Walayat/Muhabbat (recognition and love) for the representative of the Divine in this world, the Imam-uz-Zamaan.