What is taṣawwuf (Sufism)? Is it Islamic?
Al-Ghazali, Ibn al-Qayyim, al-Nawawi — none of the great scholars separated taṣawwuf from Islam. They treated it as the inner science of the religion, distinct from the outer sciences of fiqh and ʿaqīdah.
3 passages from 2 books in the library
The classical approach.
These passages are drawn from 2 books by Imam al-Ghazali — part of the classical Sunni tradition that carries over a thousand years of reflection on the Qurʾān, the authentic Sunnah, and the consensus of the early community. Nothing below is a paraphrase. The words are the scholars' own, translated from the original Arabic manuscripts.
11th–12th century · Ṭūs, Khurāsān
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"The second is that she is not in a waiting period for someone else, whether due to widowhood, divorce, questionable intercourse, or purification from intercourse through ownership of a slave."
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"He should not approach her during menstruation or after its end and before purification as it is forbidden by explicit textual evidence"
11th–12th century · Ṭūs, Khurāsān
Reviving the inner life of Islam through the Iḥyāʾ ʿUlūm al-Dīn — one of the most influential works ever written in any religious tradition.
More on Imam al-Ghazali →
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"Abu Sulayman the Sufi mentioned that wearing wool as a mark of renunciation is inappropriate if one's heart desires five dirhams."
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