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The Righteous Generation

The Righteous Generation What We Expect from the Righteous Generation The first and most important criteria of righteousness is perfect faith. The Holy Book determines the purpose of humanity’s creation as belief in God, which is woven from the threads of the knowledge of God, love, enthusiasm, and spiritual fulfillment....

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Divine Command Theory

Divine Command Theory The Divine command theory (also known as theological voluntarism) is a meta-ethical theory which proposes that an action’s status as morally good is equivalent to whether it is commanded by God. The theory asserts that what is moral is determined by what God commands, and that for a person to...

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Khushu And Hurma (Reverent Awe And Respect)

Khushu And Hurma (Reverent Awe And Respect) This article explains the meaning of Khushu And Hurma (Reverent Awe And Respect) in Sufism. It is a significant attainment and Divine favor that one is able to utterly annihilate themselves in respect of their carnality and egotism and traverses the distance originating...

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Tafrid (Individuality)

Tafrid (Individuality) Tafrid (individuality) means seclusion from society or going into retreat to devote all one’s time to worshipping God. More particularly, it denotes that even when initiates have attained states or stations that others cannot, they never see themselves as such, because of their conviction that whatever attainment they...

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Wasil (One Who Has Reached)

Wasil (One Who Has Reached) Wasil (One Who Has Reached) denotes a hero of spirituality who has reached the final point in the journey made to attain perfect knowledge of God and is meticulously careful to follow His decrees in parallel with the profundity of that knowledge. A wasil has...

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Wasil (The One Who Has Reached)

Wasil (The One Who Has Reached) Wasil (The One Who Has Reached)13; literally meaning one who has reached the final point in a journey or who has met with the one or the thing that one intends to reach, wasil, in Sufi terminology, denotes one who, having been saved from...

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Ma’rifa (Knowledge Of God)

Ma’rifa (Knowledge Of God) Ma’rifa (Knowledge of God) is a special knowledge that is acquired through reflection, sincere endeavor, using one’s conscience and inquiring into one’s inner world. It is different from (scientific) knowledge (‘ilm). (Scientific) knowledge is acquisition reached through study, investigation, analysis, and synthesis, while ma’rifa is the...

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Talwin And Tamkin (Coloring And Self-Possession)

Talwin And Tamkin (Coloring And Self-Possession) This article explains the meaning of Talwin and Tamkin (Coloring and Self-Possession) in Sufism. Meaning coloring, taking on a color, painting, and presenting different views, talwin (coloring) in the Sufi language is an important degree belonging to those who continuously seek to change their...

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Hayah (Life)

Hayah (Life) Hayah (Life), which can be translated as liveliness and being alive, means that a heart which is already dead because of ignorance, misguidance and disbelief, comes to life through belief, and knowledge and love of God. The verse, He who was dead (in spirit), and We raised him...

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Ightirab (Doubled Separation)

Ightirab (Doubled Separation) Ightirab (doubled separation) is a feeling resembling that which arises from falling into error after reform, or night following day, or the darkness of distress that surrounds the heart after exhilaration. Those whom the Messenger praised in His saying, Glad tidings to the outsiders, have always had...

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Firar And I’tisam (Fleeing And Taking Shelter)

Firar And I’tisam (Fleeing And Taking Shelter) This article covers Firar and I’tisam (Fleeing and Taking Shelter). Firar, which literally means to run away from something, is used in Sufism to denote the journey from the created to the Creator, sheltering from the “shadow” in the “original,”[1] and renouncing the...

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As Time Grows Older Holy Book Gets Younger

As Time Grows Older Holy Book Gets Younger What Does It Mean To Say “As Time Grows Older Holy Book Gets Younger”? The Holy Book (The Quran) has come to us from eternity before time began and will go on to eternity beyond time. It has come from the knowledge...