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Sufism and Its Concept of the Spirit A Critical Study in the Light of the Creed of the People of Sunnah and the Community الروح عند الصوفية دراسة نقدية في ضوء عقيدة أهل السنة والجماعة. |
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Sufism and Its Concept of the Spirit A Critical Study in the Light of the Creed of the People of Sunnah and the Community |
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Arabic |
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This study reviews sufism’s concept of the Spirit, from its creation
to its destiny and return. If also examines the spirit-related beliefs
according to the Sufis: their belief in its immanence, its communion with
God, and its transmigration, as well as its conjuration and annihilation
making it a source for receiving religion and a tool for acquiring interior
knowledge and science. This is because the Spirit, as they claim, is the
place of manifestations, unveilings and inspirations. Thus, they give it
precedence over the Book (the Quran) and Sunnah. They have even
reached an excess that they consider it like God in the effect on the
universe and its management. Therefore, this study comes to explicate the
errors of the Sufis and their deviations in this regard by presenting
examples from their literatures and ideas in their approved books, in the
past and at present. The study is not restricted to a particular group or
period of time, nor to a special place in order to analyze and criticize them
stating their ideological roots: Greek, Indian and Christian ones. All this
comes under a critical study in the light of the creed of the People of
Sunnah and the Community. The study includes five chapters, under each
one is a number of topics. Hence, Chapter One is a preface to the issue of
the spirit according to the Sufis. It states their definition of, and
disagreement on, it and shows the beliefs of the extremist followers in it,
such as their belief in its infinitely preexistence. Chapter Two introduces
the most important doctrines of Sufism and their relation to the spirit.
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Because of the Sufis’ many doctrines related to this issue, the study here
is restricted to discussing two doctrines; they are: Shariah (the Law), and
the Truth, in addition to their belief in immanentism,union with God, and
pantheism. As for Chapter Three, it deals with the most important function
of the spirit in Sufism, which is its being a source for receiving religion,
or a source of influence on the universe, as they claim. In Chapter Four,
there is a discussion of the Sufis’ beliefs and their differences as regards
the origin of the spirit and its place of return, in addition to the issue of
spiritism (conjuration) and its relation to modern spirituality. Chapter Five
states the most important roots upon which the Sufis based their belief as
regards the spirit’s issues: Greek, Indian, and Christian ones, such as the
two Greek theories of Emanationism and Forms when they talk about the
infinitely preexistence of the spirit, or the doctrine of Gnosticism from
which they derived their belief in making the spirit a source for receiving
interior knowledge, or the Indian beliefs in Vedanta, Nirvana and Karma
as regards the idea of transmigration of souls or their annihilation and their
identification with God. It also discuses the spirit’s various stages of
leading an ascetic life, living in austerity, and accepting affliction with the
aim of purifying it in order to reach the stage of its identification with God,
or God’s identification with it, as found in the false Christian doctrines;
Glorified and Exalted is Allah and High above what they say by Great
Sublimity. |
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محمد عبدالرحمن الميداني |
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Thesis Type |
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Master Thesis |
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Publishing Year |
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1439 AH
2017 AD |
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Number Of Pages |
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377 |
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Added Date |
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Sunday, July 28, 2019 |
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