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tariqahIn Sufism, the spiritual path toward direct knowledge of God. For early Sufi mystics, the term referred to an individual's spiritual path; later it came to mean the path advocated by a particular school or order of Sufis and then of the order itself. Each mystic order claimed a chain of spiritual descent from Muhammad. Today Sufi tariqah number in the hundreds. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The Shadhili tariqah Lings entered dated back to Abul-Hasan ash-Shadhili (1196-1258), but Schuon's immediate Shaykh was none other than the Shaykh Ahmad al-'Alawi (1869-1934) whom Lings had hoped to take as his Master before discovering that the Shaykh had passed away two years previously. He could not be satisfied like most of the followers of tariqah with an impetus coming from the heart because he was already under the spell of the 'intellect of philosophy'. |
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