From Gelassenheit to Dhikr : Heidegger’s critique of subjecthood and the Islamic names of God in Ahmad Fardid

The later Heidegger asks that thinking after metaphysics cease being a self-grounding subject’s act and dwell in language, remember what is granted, and let beings be. This article examines how Aḥmad Fardīd, the Shiʿi philosopher whose reading of Heidegger shaped Iranian thought, interpreted this account through Ibn ʿArabī’s doctrine of the divine Names and Sufi remembrance (dhikr). The critique of the subject becomes “dying to subjecthood,” and language the dwelling where the Names are read; Andenken becomes “thinking joined with recollection,” Gelassenheit release (vārastagī), and reason, Heidegger’s adversary of thinking, “adversary reason.” Heidegger names no agent of this thinking. Fardīd, through the Akbarian “nearness of obligatory works,” where “the Real is the agent and the servant the instrument,” gives remembrance to a giver who wills and speaks, though the servant “does not become God.” The article argues that Fardīd postulates the Real can act without becoming the subject Heidegger removed.