The Sufis
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the Sufis · الصوفية · al-ṣūfiyyah · al-ilāhiyyūn · taṣawwuf · the Sufis of the Muslims · the books of the Sufis · the masters of the art and its men · the people of self-disclosure · أئمة الفن ورجاله
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Risālat al-Wāridāt
The mystical metaphysicians, the ilāhiyyūn or people of the self-disclosures, whose technical idiom — wāridah, tajallī, lights dawning in the heart, the contingents as talismans of the divine essence, no existence but His existence — the treatise adopts as its own against the two rival schools it names and attacks.
Since the lights of His existence have dawned in your heart — that He is the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*), that everything other than Him stands in need of Him in order to exist, and that everything is from the manifestation of His essence — it follows necessarily for you thereby to apprehend that He is knowing.
and blessing and peace upon our Prophet, the wisest of the world's sages and the seal of the great masters of divine science (*al-ilāhiyyūn*), our lord Muḥammad, and upon his family and his Companions.
there is no existence but His existence, and no attribute but His attribute;
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The mystical writers whose books the pretenders of the age memorize and misquote without knowing their sources.
You see their most eminent, who have memorized from the books of the Sufis words of whose sources and watering-places they have no knowledge, transmitting them not as they should be but rather perverting the words from their proper places, and heaping up a heap of what they have not caught the scent of from those men’s books — and they suppose that they are doing well.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The Sufi tradition, both faulted for circulating the maxim as prophetic and credited in the characterization of al-Asfār.
[22] (1) Summarized from the book al-Asfār al-Arbaʻah of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, in the art of rational philosophy and of the special affirmation of unity mingled with the Sufism of the masters of the art and its men.
[13] (2) It has become widely current among authors, the masters of glosses, and the Sufis that it is a ḥadīth;