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A 5 page paper on the concept of mysticism in Islam. The writer describes how mysticism was begun by the Sufis and how the concept of Fana was articulated by three of its saints: al-bistami, al-junayd, and al-hallaj. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and tolerance, and taught according to concepts adhering to basic principles of humanity and brotherhood of mankind. Also like Christianity, the Islam faith splintered into different and distinct sects
across the centuries, sects that still maintained the basic doctrines of the religion but shared slightly altered views in their interpretation and execution of these doctrines. One such splinter
occurring within the Islamic religion in the eighth century placed added emphasis on the "mystic union" between individual existence and God, an altered view of traditional Islamic beliefs that came
to be known as Sufism (Handloff PG). Sufism has been defined as "the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God
in the heart of humanity" (Khan http://www.occultlife.com/archives/sufism/ whatis.htm). The name translates roughly into "one who wears wool" and derives from the Muslim practice of the eighth and ninth century
of clothing the body in coarse, woolen fabric in demonstration of ones pious, virtuous sacrifices in ones attempt to become closer to God (Sachedina 26). Sufism combined traditional Islamic
beliefs with religious ideals and concepts that predated the Islam religion and differed from fundamental Muslim doctrine in the fact that it focused on the internalization of ritual rather than
external worship. The practice of the Sufis, therefore, came into direct contradiction with traditional Muslim beliefs, teaching that a oneness with God was the highest religious state one could
aspire to attain, a belief that conflicted with the absolute obedience to God which was the heart of the Muslim belief (26). The
teachings of Sufism stress that the Divine Presence lives within the heart of each individual, and to reach the realm of that Presence one must purify oneself by denying the
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