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| Ṣúfí |
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| Pronunciation: soo-fee |
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| A member of a Muslim mystical order. |
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| This word, probably derived from the Arabic for wool, denotes the mystics in Islám. Divided into innumerable sects, differing in customs, dress, observances, their common goal is to rejoin the Godhead from which all things emanate, through ecstasy (vajd) and contemplation. Life to them is a journey (safar) having various stages (manázil); the soul is an exile, a traveller going homeward, seeking reunion (vaṣl with God, and thus achieving nothingness—(faná)—"total absorption into the Deity, extinction." Bahá'u'lláh teaches: "By self-surrender and perpetual union with God is meant that men should merge their will wholly in the Will of God, and regard their desires as utter nothingness beside His purpose." (Gl. 337). 'Ishq, love (of God) has been termed "the one distinguishing feature of Ṣúfí mysticism." Cf. Hughes, Dict. of Is. |
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