The Essence of SUFISM by John Baldock

Author:John Baldock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

Junayd was asked about the nature of love. He answered: ‘Some say it is a state of harmony, and some say that it is altruism, and some say that it is something else.’ (Nicholson, The Mystics of Islam, 114) He also defined love as the qualities of the Beloved replacing the qualities of the lover. In other words: real love is the passing-away of the self.

Junayd was once asked: ‘Who is a gnostic?’ He replied: ‘The one who is not bound by time.’ (Shaykh Fadhlalla Haeri, The Elements of Sufism, 98) His meaning is clarified by another saying of his: ‘Unification is the separation of the eternal from that which was originated in time.’ ( Hujwiri, Kashf al-Mahjub, 281)

‘The saint (Sufi) hath no fear, because fear is the expectation of some future calamity or of the eventual loss of some object of desire, whereas the saint is the son of his time: he has no future that he should fear anything; and as he hath no fear so he hath no hope, since hope is the expectation either of gaining an object of desire or of being relieved from a misfortune, and this belongs to the future; nor does he grieve, because grief arises from the rigour of time, and how should he feel grief who is in the radiance of satisfaction ( rida ) and the garden of concord ( muwafaqat )?’

(Kashf al-Mahjub, 216)

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