The Imaginatively Constituted I-Center and Fana (Annulment of Egoic-I) for a Sustainable Future in the Islamic Philosophy of Bulleh Shah

The religious experience of a human being is rooted in the early conscious experience of oneself beginning from the origination experiences in which the I-center is still not constituted but is only a terrain of the flow of living experiences (Erlebnisse) with five senses in the body, instincts and impulses in the psychic dimension, intellectual acts and free will in the spirit. These living experiences are already present in a very early form in a child in almost a passive mode. The deeply rooted experiences in a human being, such as one’s religion, culture, and family, develop only with the passage of time and education. The three-dimensional flow of the living experiences of the human being occurs in the human consciousness of a living body in which the individual originary consciousness is located spatiotemporally and constitutes the subjective imagination, based on one’s experiences with and in the surroundings, starting from one’s fantasies motivated by his or her curiosity. Phenomenological analysis of I-centers, founded philosophically, reveals the common anthropological roots of Fana (annulment) of egoic-I, built imaginatively in the Islamic philosophy of Bulleh Shah, who is considered a Pakistani philosopher, poet, and mystic. His philosophical thoughts are expressed in an original poetical paradigm that introduces the ideally imaginative constitution of the realizable world/cosmos through Islamic comprehension of values. Therefore, there are images but not an imagination, in the Western philosophical sense, as the creation of a different world. His perspective is coherent with human nature and is philosophically open toward an analysis of the human inner world to imagine an ecology of creation.