Sufism in the light of the Koran and the Sunna, by Suhrawardî

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Selected excerpts from 'Awârif al Ma'ârif

The interior approach of the sacred sciences

Translation : Idris Devos

Preface: Abdelhafid Benchouk

This excellent work makes it possible to show and demonstrate if it were necessary that Sufism is not foreign or superimposed on Islam but on the contrary, it takes full body at the source of the Koran and the prophetic translation or Sunna .

As the reading progresses we discover how the Sufis are by their attachment to the book of Allah and to the internal as well as external behavior of the messenger of God, not as they are so often unjustly accused of people of innovation or bid'a , but those who most scrupulously follow the teachings of Islam.

The inner approach to science ('Awârif al Ma'ârif) is a work intended to teach the foundations of the Sufi path as much as the daily practices to which aspirants must adhere. Defending a Sufism respectful of the legal way, or " sunnî " , it is based above all on the Koran and the hadith.

About the Author: Suhrawardi

Sihâb ad-Dîn 'Umar as-Suhrawardî was born in 1145 in Suhraward in the north-west of Persia and died in Baghdâd in 1234. He did not, it is said, even have a shroud...