Sufism

School·Founded 800 CE·uncounted — a current within Islam

Islam → Sufism

Branch

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 2 →
R Rumi — drunk on the Beloved. A sober jurist until a wandering dervish overturned him: the rest is 25,000 verses trying to say what happened. Domain Poet of the path of loveStanding The most widely read Sufi on earth; his order still turns Meet them — context →
A Al-Ghazali — the scholar who crossed over. The greatest mind of his age abandoned his post, tried the mystics' path, and returned to report it was the real thing. Domain The scholar who vouched for the mysticsStanding His Revival of the Religious Sciences married law to interior life — and made Sufism respectable Meet them — context →

Core Tenets

3 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 3 →
The shared center — held across the tradition
The heart can know God directly. Beyond law and theology lies taste — experience no book can carry. Go deeper — context →
The path is purification. Stations and states, under a master — the ego polished down like a mirror. Go deeper — context →
Love is the method. Rumi's wager: longing itself is the road home. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death
After death

Judgment — and union sought before it

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