hikmah

plural hikmahs

1. countableuncountableIslamWisdom and understanding about the divine.

   Therefore to study hikmah (theosophy) is to undertake a journey towards God; towards divinity; in other words, to al-Haklm

   1996, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Oliver Leaman, History of Islamic Philosophy, →ISBN, page 947

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   Furthermore, the Qur'anic concept of hikmah, or wisdom, together with the concept of kitab, constitute the content of the Divine curriculum (kitab wa hikmah) that different historical societies were initiated into.

   2013, Abdullah Sahin, New Directions in Islamic Education: Pedagogy and Identity Formation, →ISBN

   As such, hikmah is the knowing of the idea and reality of the Universal Truth of Divine Creation; that is to say, hikmah is the knowing of the Truth of God -- as Ibn Sina wrote, it encompasses Divine Science.

   2015, Shahab Ahmed, What Is Islam?: The Importance of Being Islamic, →ISBN, page 16