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Indian Ethnicity and Religious Heritage
Suhravadi had given a new orientation to the sayings of Koran and Hadith in light of the philosophy of Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and the Prophet Zarthrustra. It is acknowledged that no history of Islamic philosophy would be complete without reference to his contribution. He, like Jain philosophers, classified the living things as vegitable life and animal life and gave recognition to mataphisical and mental powers of a human being and emphasised that the Supreme power that controls all these powers is power of "Soul", which is imprisoned in the body. However, every soul aspires to be free. It gets free by resorting to penances and death. When it gets freedom it gets light and obtains permanent bliss. This philosophy is called "Ishraki". The word "Ishrak" means light. Those who revelled in darkenss could not tolerate this light and therefore put an end to the life of Suhravardi. Since then he is known as "Maktul" which means one who is murdered.
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