Note: ‘deprivation’ is the word used for man3 and ‘giving’ for 3ataa’. Somethings are definitely lost in translation but the light shines through nonetheless.
“Deprivation hurts you…
only because of your incomprehension of God in it
When He gives, He shows you His kindness;
when He deprives, He shows you His power,
and in all that, He is making Himself [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 22, 2008
Ibn ‘Ataa’Illaah on ‘deprivation’
October 22, 2008
al-Junayd on Tasawwuf
Junayd al-Baghdadi, one of the most important early masters of Sufism, explains tasawwuf in the following manner:
‘Sufism means that God makes you die to yourself and makes you alive in Him. It is to purify the heart from the recurrence of creaturely temptations, to say farewell to all the natural inclinations, to subdue the qualities [...]
