Kashf
Definition
Kashf — literally 'unveiling' or 'disclosure' — refers to the direct, immediate perception of spiritual realities that is given to the heart cleansed by sustained practice and divine grace. Al-Ghazali uses the term carefully: he is not describing mystical visions or supernatural experiences in a dramatic sense, but the kind of direct, luminous understanding of divine realities that no amount of rational argument alone can produce. The person of kashf knows, with a certainty deeper than intellectual conviction, that God is present, that divine love is real, that the path leads somewhere. This knowing cannot be fully transmitted in words — it can only be pointed toward and invited.
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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