TUHAN MENURUT IBNU ‘ARABI DAN BUDDHA THERAVADA

Abstract

Abstract Ibn Arabi is a Sufi as well as a great philosopher who strives for all the results of his spiritual experience to be perfectly described and narrated in a rationalist-analytical language. One of them is the concept of the form of God, he says that God at a certain level cannot be affirmed by any kind of knowledge possessed by every human being in this world. Ibn Arabi describes the existence of God in 3 (three) levels, namely ahadiyah, wahidiyah, and tajalli syuhudi. At the first and second levels, humans can try to know their god through the knowledge they have, while at the first level, namely the ahadiyah level, human reason will not be able to touch it. At this first level, God in Ibn Arabi's mind cannot be mentioned with any attributes, God in Himself is an unknowable God (al ilah al majhu), who is transcendent (al ilah al munazzah), who is not bound by attributes. or any identity. Put another way, he is "the uncertain of all that is uncertain", "the least known of all the unknowns." In line with Ibn Arabi's statement about the existence of a god in this first level, Theravada Buddhism also has the belief that God cannot exist. known through any kind of knowledge, according to Theravada Buddhist theologians man is only capable of knowing that he is ignorant of God. The only answer in describing God is to negate Him. Ibn Arabi and Theravada Buddhism have in common that the substance of God's existence will not be able to be described and narrated affirmatively by any kind of human knowledge, and the correct narrative about God is the narrative of negation.