sufism

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Sufism
Riffat Agha
July 2011
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Mowlana Romis Hakayat
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Metaphor
Fan
Water pipe
pillar
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Metaphor

• One day tourist of India brought a strange
  creature for exhibitions. This strange creature
  kept under a tent and many people were gathered
  around this tent. soon one group of people got
  permission to go inside the tent to visited that
  strange creature. When that group entered in the
  tent they were surprised to see that there was
  pitch darkness in tent. every person was enabled
  to see any thing .They felt disappointment
  because they have to observed that creature by
  using their hands.
• Any way an old woman touched that creature, she
  felt a thin, smart and wide but moving thing.
  she said that ,this creature is like a fan.
• One small boy touched that creature and felt some
  thing round and long. He said that, this creature
  is like water pipe.
• Then two small girls bent under and bang with a
  fat and hard thing. They felt that it is a round
  just like tree's stem and then said that this
  creature looks like a pillar.
• After that every group visited that tent and
  given their remarks about their observation.
• One Indian girls brought a candle light in tent.
  when every one seen in light that it was an
  elephant
• Their eyes opened with wonder and they started
  laughing

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Tasawwuf

• Tasawaaf is a branch of Islamic knowledge which
  focus on the spiritual development of the Muslim

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History

• Prophet Muhammad was the source of knowledge for
  the entire Ummah
• He was the fountain of Quran ,Hadith ,Tafseer,
  language ,Fiqah and so on.
• After the prophet.
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After the prophet

• the scholars of this Ummah carried and propagated
  each of these branches of knowledge.

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• Imam Abu Haifa preserved the science of Fiqah
• Imam Bukhari preserved the words of prophet
• The scholars of tajweed preserved the recitation
  of prophet

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• The scholars of Arabic grammar preserved the
  language of prophet
• The Prophet's deep love with GOD ,worship ,
  spirituality, were preserved and propagated by
  Islamic science called TASAWAAF

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How is Tasawaaf related to Sufism?

• Studying the life of prophet they wore wool dress
  because of its simplicity and low cost
• In Arabic the word for wool is SUF
• And thus
• who wore wool became known an the SUFIS

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• "Sufi" is a unique word.
• "Sufi" is a unique Power.
• It does not relate to any particular religion.
• It belongs to all of humanity.
• Sufism is a school of self knowledge

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• Sufism is the science by which one knows the
  methods of traveling towards the King
• of kings. 

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• It is also the means to the purification of the
  inward from defects and its adornment with all
  virtues

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•   Its beginning is knowledge,
• its middle is action
• and
• its finality is the beautiful
• gift from GOD

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characteristics of TASAWWUF and Sufis ,there
are eight qualities of a Sufi

• The courage and magnanimity of Prophet Ibrahim
• The obedience of Prophet Ismail
• The patience and forbearance of Prophet Ayub
• The poverty of Prophet Yahya
• The simplicity of dress of Prophet Mosa
• The traveling nature of Prophet Isa
• The "FUQR" (contentment and renunciation) of
  Prophet Muhammad

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Period of Sufism

• Sufism arose from within Islam in the 8th-9th
  centuries CE as an ascetic movement

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principal periods of Sufism

• The first is that of the Prophet and his
  companions.
• The second is that of the great figures of Sufism
  such as Hassan al Basri, Rabia Al Adawiya, Al
  Hallaj, Al Jjunayd etc.

Thé formative period of Sufism was between 620
to 1100 AD.
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• The third corresponds to the formalization of the
  doctrines and theory of Sufism.
• The fourth period is characterized by the
  propagation of Sufism starting from its centre in
  Baghdad in Iraq from which it spread towards Iran
  and India in the east and the west (Maghrib) and
  Andalusia in the Europe.

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• 1200 - 1500 AD
• The
• "Golden Age" of Sufism

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Goals of Sufism

• Acquire attributes of God
• Die before your death
• To acquire nearness of God
• To achieve contented self (Nafs-ul-Mutmainna)
• To cultivate God awareness (Taqwa)
• To transform self (Tazkiya-e-Nafs)
• (Removing the bad habits and acquiring the good
  manners)

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Basic Sufi theme

• relationship between humanity and Allah

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Practices of Sufis
zikar To remember remembering God all time
fikar To think meditate, -  being in the state of awareness and wondering
Sahar to awaken  -  awakening of soul and body
Jui to hunger  -  having exterior hunger (mind) and interior hunger (heart) to obtain the truth and to persist in the search
Somt to observe silence  -  ceasing to think and talk about worthless things
Saom to fast  -  fasting of body from food, mind from attachments, and soul from desires
Khalvat to observe solitude  -  praying in solitude, externally and internally
Khidmat to serve  -  dissolving in the Truth of the master and dissolving in the Truth of exercise,GOD.
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• Praying
• Whirling
• Music

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Sufi Attitude toward Worldly Activity

• They enjoy social life
• Operate work shops
• Compose music
• Write books
• Delivered lectures

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Branches of Sufism

• Qadriya
• Abdul Qadir al-Jilani (d.561/1166)
• Suhrawardiyya
• Abdul Qadir Abu Najib as-Suhrawardi (d 564/1168)
• Shadhiliya
• Abdul Hasan ash-Shadhli (1196-1258)
• Chishtiya
• Muinuddin Chishti (d.633/1236)
• Naqshbandiya
• Bahauddin Naqshband (1317-1389)

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Some Preeminent Sufis

• Ibn Arabi
• Junayd Baghdadi
• Mansur al-Hallaj
• Bayazid Bastami
• Shah Latif
• Sachal sarmast
• Awas karni
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• Rabia basri
• Ali hijwairi
• Fareed u din atar
• Shah wali ulla
• Pir shams
• Molna Romi
• Sultan baho
• Shah abdul latif bhtai
• E.t.c..

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Some Sufi instruments
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Sufi shrines
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Shrine of Molna Rumi
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Shams Tabriz shrine
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Shah Rukan-e- Alam
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Nizam u din Auliya
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Shah shams sabazwari
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tomb of Hazrat Bahauddin Zakariya
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A shrine in vihari
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Ismailism and Sufism
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SUFISM TODAY

• EDITED BY DR. LEIF STENBERG AND DR. CATHARINA
  RAUDVERE

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• East is emotional and west is objective what
  should we do?
• what is balance approach in recent era?
• Balance is the base of Islam, we have to start it
  from the little things we do and apply it on our
  whole life.

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• Article
• (2004)
• The importance of Sufism in an Era of
  Globalization

Copyright  2003 - 2004  Nothing on any of the
pages of this website may be taken and or
reproduced in any fashion except by written
permission from www.sufiway.net
Sidi Mounir Qadiri Boutchichi
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• Questions
• 1. Are we happy?
• 2.Disadvantages of technologies(like losing our
  identities, ,feeding desires in our minds
  ,making us machines)
• 3.Purpose of Sufism (purification of heart) ,
  ( Hadees) Know that Allah does not look at your
  face, nor does He look at your body, but He looks
  at your hearts.
• 4. How Sufism fits into this new age of internet
  and globalization?
•  (We need to look after our hearts in order to
  attain happiness and spiritual equilibrium. 
  Sufism is all about good character and good
  manners.)

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Summary

• Keep balance in your materialistic and spiritual
  life.
• It is the real Sufism of this era.

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Sources of this presentation

• www.sufiway.net
• www.Tasawwuf.org
•  http//www.sufism.de/lichten.htm
• www.Rafed.net
• www.jerrahimidwest.org

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