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Sufi and teacher
Dougan says that while Omar is a minor Sufi teacher compared to the giants – Rumi, Attar and Sana ’ i, for us he is a marvelous man because we can feel for him and understand his approach.
However, perhaps Khomeini's biggest influences were yet another teacher, Mirza Muhammad ' Ali Shahabadi, and a variety of historic Sufi mystics, including Mulla Sadra and Ibn Arabi.
Alternatively, in the words of the Darqawi Sufi teacher Ahmad ibn Ajiba, " a science through which one can know how to travel into the presence of the Divine, purify one's inner self from filth, and beautify it with a variety of praiseworthy traits ".
This lineal succession of Sufi guides is the nearest approach within Islam to the concept of Christian ordination and apostolic succession, but the similarity is superficial and a murshid is not a priest but merely a teacher of Sufi philosophy ; they do not have any special or higher position than any other Muslim.
Inayat Khan () ( July 5, 1882 – February 5, 1927 ) was the founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914 ( London ) and teacher of Universal Sufism.
Dougan says that while Omar is a minor Sufi teacher compared to the giants – Rumi, Attar and Sana ’ i – one aspect that makes Omar ’ s work so relevant and accessible is its very human scale as we can feel for him and understand his approach.
Famous local Sheikhs include Abdirahman bin Isma ' il al-Jabarti, an early Muslim leader in northern Somalia ; Abadir Umar Ar-Rida, the patron saint of Harar ; Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Sheikh of the riwaq in Cairo who recorded the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt ; Abd Al-Rahman bin Ahmad al-Zayla ' i, scholar who played a crucial role in the spread of the Qadiriyyah movement in Somalia and East Africa ; Shaykh Sufi, 19th century scholar, poet, reformist and astrologist ; Abdallah al-Qutbi, polemicist, theologian and philosopher best known for his five-part Al-Majmu ' at al-mubaraka (" The Blessed Collection "); and Muhammad Al-Sumaalee, teacher in the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca who influenced many of the prominent Islamic scholars of today.
Idries Shah ( 16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996 ) (, ), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi ( Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي ), was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen critically acclaimed books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.
** Ahmed ibn Nasir, Moroccan Sufi writer and teacher ( born 1647 )
# The Authorial Voice – Each passage reflects the authority of the majestic Sufi teacher narrating the story.
In the Mawlawiyyah order of Sufi Islam, a novice must complete 1001 days of prayer before becoming a dada, or junior teacher of the faith.
In 1919 Lewis entered a Sufi community in Fairfax, California where he met and was influenced by the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan an Indian Sufi teacher and musician.
His father became his first teacher and mentor, who was also a Sufi.
He returned to Jableh in 1909 as a alim and served as a teacher at a Qadari madrasa (" Islamic school ") where he taught both the mystical practices of the Sufi and the jurisprudence and commentary of the Qur ' an.
* Idries Shah or Idris Shah ( 1926 – 1996 ), author and teacher in the Sufi tradition
The Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah, eventually learned the skills of statesmanship after removing of his three incompetent Viziers, namely Koki Jee ( his foster sister ), Roshan-ud-Daula ( his mercantile friend ) and Sufi Abdul Ghafur of Thatta ( his spiritual teacher ).
When he asks his teacher, a Sufi, why a land whose people obeys the tenets of Islam suffers so, Ibn Fattouma is told the answer he seeks lies far away from the city.
His spiritual teacher was the Qadiri Sufi Shah Inayat Qadiri, who was a member of the Arain tribe of Lahore.
Although less known in the West today, Qunawi was perhaps the pre-eminent Sufi teacher in Konya at the time, even better known than his neighbor Rumi.
The Chishti Sufi tariqa utilizes their jamatkhanas as a meeting space for conversation and counsel with the pir or teacher.
Among his students at this time were Robert Aitken, who would become one of the most significant of modern Western Zen teachers, and Samuel L. Lewis who would later be known as a prominent Sufi teacher in the line of Hazrat Inayat Khan, and Zen teacher in the lineage of Korean Zen Master Dr. Kyung-Bo Seo.

Sufi and Ibn
Ibn Taymiyya argued against the shirking of Sharia law, and against practices such as the celebration of Muhammad's birthday or the construction of mosques around the tombs of Sufi sheikhs, believing that these were unacceptable borrowings from Christianity: Many Muslims ' do not even know of the Christian origins of these practices.
Several Sufi saints and thinkers, primarily Ibn Arabi, held beliefs that were somewhat panentheistic.
* Ibn Arabi, Syrian Sufi philosopher ( d. 1240 )
* Muhyī al-Dīn Ibn al -‘ Arabī ( 1165 – 1240 ), Sufi master and author
Ibn Arabi suggested: " The Sufi should shut his door against the world for forty days and occupy himself with remembrance of Allah, that is to keep repeating, " Allah, Allah ..." Then, " Almighty God will spread before him the degrees of the kingdom as a test.
Sufi philosopher Ibn Arabi described Jesus as " the seal of universal holiness " due to the quality of his faith and " because he holds in his hands the keys of living breath and because he is at present in a state of deprivation and journeying.
This idea resembles the viewpoint of the much later Sufi Ibn Arabi, but no connection between the two is known.
Ibn ʿArabī () ( July 28, 1165 – November 10, 1240 ) was an Arab Andalusian Sufi mystic and philosopher.
According to Osman Yahia in Baghdad Ibn ‘ Arabī met with the famous Sufi Shihābuddīn Suharwardī ( d. 632 ), author of the ‘ Awārif al-ma ’ ārif who was personal advisor to Caliph al-Nāṣir.
Bennett at Beshara ( talks given to students of Reshad Feild and of the great Sufi Mystic Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi )
According to Ibn Jubayr, under Saladin, Damascus had 20 schools, 100 baths, and a large number of Sufi dervish monasteries.
Ibn Taymiyyah's attacks on Ibn Arabi drew the ire of many Sufis and even led the famous Sufi and Islamic scholar Ibn ' Ata Allah al-Iskandari to devote a significant portion of the last years of his life writing refutations of Ibn Taymiyyah's attacks on Ibn Arabi.
Abd Al-Qādir died in Damascus on 26 May 1883 and was buried near the great Sufi Ibn Arabi in Damascus.
In Israel, Abulafia ’ s ideas were combined with Sufi elements, apparently stemming from the school of Ibn Arabi ; thus Sufi views were introduced into European Qabbalah.
Converted to Islam by Ibn Abdul Hamid, a Sufi Bukharan sayyid and sheikh of the Yasavi order, Öz Beg assumed the throne upon the death of his uncle Tokhta in January 1313 with the help of the former Khans ' vizier Temur Qutlugh and of Bulaghan ( or Bayalun ) khatun.
‘ Iraqi was both a member of the school of Persian Sufi poetry but also has been identified with the Ibn ‘ Arabian school of Sufism.
Qunawi was the son-in-law of the recently deceased Sufi philosopher Ibn ' Arabi.

Sufi and book
In his book, Journey to the Lord of Power, Muhiyid-Did ibn Arabi ( 1165-1240 A. D .) discussed the stages through which the Sufi passes in his khalwa.
According to the book " God Speaks " by Meher Baba, the Sufi words fana-fillah and baqa-billah are analogous to nirvikalpa samādhi and sahajā samādhi respectively.
Grandshaykh Abdullah Dagestani's Predictions-Quoted in his book about the Biographies of the Forty Grandsheikhs of the Naqshbandi Tariqa ( " The Naqshbandi Sufi Way History and Guidebook of the Saints of the Golden Chain ") by Sheikh Hisham Kabbani :-
He writes in the beginning of the Lammat that he has written this book in the manner of ‘ Swaneh ’ of Ahmad Ghazali .’ Baljit Singh further refers to Dr Nasrullah Pourjavadi, a scholar on Ahmad Ghazali and writes, " It was Ahmad Ghazali who first of all saw the Divine as love and founded the Sufi Metaphysics of Love.
The very first chapter traces the evolution and ethos of Sufi Islam in South Asia ... For readers like you and me, it is a revealing experience to be reminded of the liberal roots of Islam in South Asia ... The book rightly points out that the future course of this jihad will be decided inside Pakistan.
It has been named after the great Sufi Saint Baba Sheik Fariduddin Ganjshakar, whose verses are mentioned in Guru Granth Sahib the holy book of Sikh religion. In 13th century, this town was founded by Raja Mokalsi, the grandson of Rai Munj, a Bhatti Chief of Bhatnair now renamed as Hanumangarh, Rajasthan and named Mokalhar after his name.
His interest in the Bábí movement was piqued by a book he stumbled upon in a library in Cambridge by the French diplomat Comte de Gobineau whilst looking for materials on the Sufi movement.
" A significant book about him, written by Martin Lings, is A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century.
Sufi ( Saintly person ) Shaikh Abdul Wahab Muttaqui Shazli Qadiri, describes, in his book, a strange event concerning Hazrat Makhdum Ali
His doctoral thesis became a well-received book on Algerian Sufi Ahmad al-Alawi ( see Sufi studies ).
The United States ' occupation of Haiti, attempts by whites to suppress jazz music, and the widespread belief that president Warren Harding had black ancestry are mingled with a plot in which the novel's hero, an elderly Harlem houngan named PaPa LaBas, searches for a mysterious book that has disappeared with black militant Abdul Sufi Hamid ( whose name reflects that of the Harlem streetcorner radical preacher Sufi Abdul Hamid, a. k. a. Eugene Brown, an early black convert to Islam ), as a group of radicals plans to return museum treasures looted from ancient Egypt to Africa, and the Atonists within the Wallflower Order are trying to locate and train the perfect " Talking Android ," a black man who will renounce African American culture in favor of European American culture.
The book follows the path of the soul on a spiritual journey passing through different stages, from this world to other realms which are closer to God, as first described by the 12th Century Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar in his Conference of the Birds.
Indeed it became the book, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master.
Later the unabridged book, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, was published.

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