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Murāqabah (Arabic: مراقبة, lit.: "to observe") is an Islamic methodology of achieving a transcendent union with God. [1] It is a tradition commonly found in ṭarīqa s ( Sufi orders). It is said to have been the practice of Muhammad during his stay in the Cave of Hira before he met Jibreel .
Historians have given different descriptions about the incident of killing Marhab. According to Sahih Muslim, Ali went to meet Marhab in a single combat.Marhab advanced brandishing his sword and chanting: "Khaybar knows certainly that I am Marhab, a fully armed and well-tried valorous warrior (hero) when war comes spreading its flames".
This is a list of spiritual entities in Islam. Islamic traditions and mythologies branching of from the Quran state more precisely, ...
But the real meaning of Jihad is to defend Islam in any way; thus, it could be in an economic way or could refer to fighting for the rights of the oppressed or the believers; most often it refers to mastering one's own inclination for evil and shirk. Shaykh (شيخ) a spiritual master, Muslim clergy Sharīʿah (الشريعة)
A visual rendition of the Islamic model of the soul showing the position of "'ruh" relative to other concepts based on a consensus of 18 surveyed academic and religious experts. [1] Rūḥ or The Spirit (Arabic: الروح, al-rūḥ) is mentioned twenty one times in the Quran, where it is described as issuing from command of God. The spirit ...
Ḥāl (pl. aḥwāl), translated "spiritual state", appears many times within Sufi texts as the opposite and complement to maqam. [2] As an early authority on Sufism, Ali al-Hujwiri in his book Kashf al-Mahjub , defines Hal as "something that descends from God into a man’s heart, without his being able to repel it when it comes, or to ...
The word laṭāʾif is the plural of the transliterated Arabic word laṭīfa, from the tripartite verb la-ṭa-fa, which means “to be subtle”. [31] It assumed a spiritual meaning in the Qur’an where Al-Laṭīf is one of the 99 names of God in Islam, reflecting His subtle nature. [31] [32]
The term 'arif, meaning "gnostic," has been employed to describe accomplished mystics who have reached the elevated spiritual stage of maʿrifa. [5] According to al-Qushayri , a mystic attains the state of ma‘rifa when the inner temptations of his soul subside, and his heart is no longer drawn towards thoughts that deviate from God.