THE DANCE OF THE PEN, THE PLAY OF THE SIGN A STUDY IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MODERNITY, IMMANENCE, AND DECONSTRUCTION

Abstract

According to the Islamic tawhidi paradigm, God, after creating the
world- both humanity and nature- ex nihilo, did not dwell in either of
them or abandon them completely. God cares for the world but maintains
a distance, a gap that separates Creator from created. This has resulted in
a fundamental humanity-nature duality, which is echoed in many other
dualities (e.g., body-soul, male-female). Humanity’s existence is
restricted by this gap’s parameters, but it is also a human space in which
the individual has the freedom to fulfill a human space and either to fulfill
or abort hisher essence and potential. Through the limits imposed by
this space, the individual passes from the state of nature to the state of
culture, from a simple innocence that does not know good or evil to a
complex experience that recognizes their existence. In short, humanity
passes from the embryonic stage, in which the individual is both limitless
and completely determined, with no space separating him/her from
nature, to the divine (rabbani) stage, where he/she is limited but, through
these very limits, where freedom, dignity, identity, sepamte consciousness,
and the abilities to loose and to transcend are gained. Humanity is
part of nature, but not an organic part ...