REL 137g 1st Edition Lecture 17 Current Lecture Junayd 298 910 Fana annihilation Baqa continuation perdurance Giving up of the ego to grow closer to God Pre eternal covenant Forgetfulness When man is led into temptation by Satan they so forget about God that he is not even apart of their psyche It is the peril for human beings Junayd says that if we can achieve annihilation we can overcome that tendency to forget and have an intimate direct experiential relationship with God This is all psychological One s identity is so lost that it s no longer me and God it is one Mysticism The line between creator and created is not compromised But the interests of worshiping and enjoying God are combined Human beings must not rely solely on the mind Ideas and concepts can only go so far Experience and therefore true understanding knowledge is from the heart Breach with orthodoxy Beginning with al Bistami and al Hallaj Then with Ibn Arabi Three things intervened Ghazali Restores a certain amount of trust to Sufism A rep of orthodoxy defended it against the philosophers But he went through a spiritual crisis wrote Ihya al Din Revivication of the Truly Religious Sciences Law and theology govern external world not inner reality The true sciences are those that deal with the soul Found redemption in sober Sufism a return to Junayd His avocation of Sufism as the only way to form a real relationship with God went a long way It begins to institutionalize Sufism begins to arrange itself into schools Different modes of realizing spiritual success Tariqah Orders From these schools governed by shaykhs Sufi master Monism Not only is God the only creator and source of things he is the only reality Two tendencies Pantheism If God is all then all is God Antinomianism If all is God then ultimately all is good nothing is evil
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