| Book Title | Essays On Islam |
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Essays on Islam
Essays on Islam
The mystics of Islam
The religious Orders of Islam are not organized with the same regularity, nor are they under a discipline so strict, as the monastic Orders of Christianity have been; but they surpass them in number and in influence.
They are all based on the same general ideas, though each has its own mysteries, and its special and peculiar methods for arriving at the ecstatic state. The basis of all is Sufiism.
Writers with mystical tendencies appeared in the first century after the Hijra. Among the earhest mystics were Eabi’a, a woman who lived in Palestine and was buried in Jerusalem, and Abu Hashim, who died 150 A.H., soon after which a monastery was erected at Kamla in Palestine.
Eabi’a taught the excellence of divine love, but did not enter into all the subtleties of later Sufi teaching.
The real founder of Sufiism is said to have been Abii Said bin Abu’l Khair, who lived at the end of the second century A.H.
His disciples wore a woollen garment, and from the word siif, which means wool, they obtained the name of Siifis. The phrase, labasa-s-siifai — he donned wool — is used of a person who enters upon a monastic or contemplative life. In the next century two branches were founded, one under Bustani, who died 261 A.H., and one under Junaid, who died 297 A.H
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