Sufi Love: Submission to the Beautiful
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Summary The practical and esoteric dimensions of Islam intertwine in the Sufi tradition to forge a non-dual relationship between the worshipper and God. Sufis augment their adherence to the Q’uranic doctrine of submission to God (Islam) with a passionate love for “doing the beautiful” (ihsan), exemplified by the practices of dhikr and sama’. By remembering (dhikr) and reciting and hearing (sama’) the various attributes of God, Sufis seek to understand their Beloved and remove the veils that stand between Creator and created. As written by the Sufi poet Rumi, “Worship is to offer love. The goal is to be restless in that Beauty and to seek It, nothing more (Chittick, 107).
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- The practical and esoteric dimensions of Islam intertwine in the Sufi tradition to forge a non-dual relationship between the worshipper and God.
- The annihilation of ego (fana') is the greatest evidence of a Sufi's submission to God, as Rumi reported on Hallaj's famous account of his fana' experience.
- Everything is perishing but His face- since you are not in His face, do not seek to be.
- That is, the false perception that there even exists anything other than God occurs only to those minds lacking love for God.
- The Sufi metaphor for God describes both a Lover of the beautiful and a beautiful Beloved.
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