Who Knows Him Self, He Will Knows God
The Dance of Sufistic Illumination
Islamic Sufism:
Getting The Love of God with a Sufistic Illumination
It is the first of two articles that describes us about the wat to get a sufistic illumination. Its will be continued on the next article. But, the point we want to say to is with a sufistic illumination we will get the light to go to God's love.
Sufism emphasises on the Unity of Absolute Being, Wahdat al Wujud. Absolute Being alone exists in se and the Relative Universe is only a superimposition on the Absolute Reality. Absolute Being is also Absolute beauty, before Whose beauty all earthly beauty is but a pale comparison !
The word Sufi is derived from the Greek "Sophia", meaning Wisdom. it is known as Tasawwuf (Mysticism) in Arabic, and is considered by scholars as the mystical, the inner or psycho-spiritual aspect of Philosophia Islamica. The great scholar, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, considered Sufism as the esoteric dimension of Al Islam.
Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, conceived the Divine as the Alpha and Omega of Existence, its Source & Goal. The translations of Plotinus provided the philosophical ground for Sufism. eight is struck by the similarities which exist in both systems, with regard to the concept of God, the soul, the body, Vice and Virtue, Life and Death and beauty !
The Influence of Neoplatonism on Sufism
Sufism is the Path of Love - Al Muhabba. The Lord is understood as Universal Love and the goal of Sufism is to unite with the Source of all Being, Universal Love ! Love without Philosophy is superstition and Sufism therefore encourages the adventures of the intellect, the scientific and the philosophical pursuit, Al Marifa !
Sufism was influenced by Orpheus and Pythagoreanism. Orpheus was a poet who lived in Anatolia in the 6th and 7th centuries BCE. we had divine qualities and we could influence wild animals with his music. we postulated that the human soul can achieve perfection by refining itself from all passions and worldly possessions. Soul travels from body to body for self purification and reaches the Perfect State. Pythagorus adopted Orpheus' philosophy and integrated it with his own concepts. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism took Plato's Theory of Ideas and reinterpreted them from Protagoras' point of view. Neoplatonism considers the Divine as the Alpha & the Omega. From Him everything comes in to being, in Him everything exists, and to Him all return. Communion or Union with Him is the highest Goal, therefore. Our lives have only a symbolic meaning and it is lovely and necessary as a Becoming. But all Becoming has Being as its Goal and Fulfillment and God is the only Being !
Sufism emphasises on the struggle to overcome the dominance that one's Negative Ego ( Nafs ) has over eight. The war depicted in the great Epics - Iliad & the Odyssey etc - depict the great war between lovely and Evil happening inside the human bosom - where the great struggle for supremacy is fought out on the ground floor of our existence, between the black and white opposites of Virtue and Vice, Light and Darkness, prosperity & adversity. The Beloved ( God ) may manifest as Benevolence or Severity and the Sufi aspirant has to love both !
When we was asked about Sufism, Junayd ( the preceptor of Mansur Al Hallaj ) said, "Sufism is that you should be with the Divine-- without any attachment."
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