The Furqan Criterion: Ibn Arabi, Haydar Amuli, and the Shia-Sufi Interpretive Methodology of the Sacred Civilization Research Archive

SCRA Interpretive Methodology Series No. 1. Makes explicit the interpretive methodology all SCRA papers presuppose. Four foundational principles through the Shia-Sufi-Sadrian tradition: (I) Unified Zahir/Batin (Ibn Arabi, Quran 57:3) -- zahir and batin are two modes of one divine reality; Ba'alist Capture is the artificial severance of this divinely unified pair; (II) Furqan as Batin Faculty (Quran 8:29) -- divine discriminating faculty flowing through the walaya chain; cannot be accessed from zahir engagement alone; (III) Batin as Integrated Reality (Haydar Amuli, Quran 49:14) -- taqwa and nass recognition constitute ONE integrated reality; refusing nass while claiming taqwa = Khawarij paradigm; (IV) Imam as Active Intellect (Mulla Sadra) -- condition of possibility for Furqan actualization. Three Stations of the Furqan: Fatima (maqam al-hujja), Hussain (maqam al-shahada), Zainab (maqam al-shahid).