Journal of Visionary Philosophers

Between Form and Flame: Hegel, Bulleh Shah, and the Mystical Dialectic of Existence

Journal of Visionary Philosophers December 30, 2025 Imran Atif Khan, Zainab Imran, Awais Qadir Malik

This article develops a cross-civilizational account of existence by placing G.W.F. Hegel's dialectical philosophy in dialogue with Sufi metaphysics of Bulleh Shah, read through his kalam Behad Ramza Dasda. Reconstructing two genealogies of thought - from Plato to Hegel and from Ibn Arabi and Rumi to Bulleh Shah - the paper argues that both traditions conceive the self not as a static substance...