The role of faith in giving meaning to life from the point of view Kirer Kegaard and Ibn Arabi

10.22080/jre.2024.27494.1208

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The world moving away from spiritual values and removing the concept of God from life leads modern man to emptiness and meaninglessness; Therefore, the role of "faith" as one of the components that give meaning to life is a topic that we intend to address in this article with a document-library method. Therefore, we have examined and compared the issue of faith and its role in giving meaning to life from the perspective of two Christian and Muslim God-believing thinkers - Kierkegaard and Ibn Arabi. In order to introduce a meaningful life, Kierkegaard explains the three stages of human life and introduces a meaningful life as synonymous with a life of faith. For faith, he lists characteristics such as love, passion, danger, anti-reason and paradox. Even though like Kierkegaard, Ibn Arabi assigns a colorful role to "faith" in giving meaning to life and deals with the issue of meaning indirectly in the form of happiness and misery; Ibn Arabi's mystical attitude, which shows his deep benefits from the teachings of Islam, is more moderate than Kierkegaard's anti-rationalism.

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