REL 137g 1st Edition Lecture 17 Current LectureJunayd (298/910)Fana: ‘annihilation’Baqa: ‘continuation’‘perdurance’Giving up of the ego to grow closer to God Pre-eternal covenantForgetfulnessWhen man is led into temptation by Satan they so forget about God that he is not even apart of their psycheIt is the peril for human beingsJunayd says that if we can achieve annihilation we can overcome that tendency to forget and have an intimate, direct, experiential relationship with GodThis is all psychological One’s identity is so lost that it’s no longer “me and God”, it is one MysticismThe line between creator and created is not compromisedBut the interests of worshiping and enjoying God are combined Human beings must not rely solely on the mindIdeas and concepts can only go so farExperience, and therefore true understanding/knowledge, is from the heart Breach with orthodoxyBeginning with al-Bistami and al-HallajThen with Ibn ‘ArabiThree things intervenedGhazaliRestores 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-DinRevivication of the Truly Religious Sciences Law and theology govern external world, not inner realityThe 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 institutionalizeSufism begins to arrange itself into schools Different modes of realizing spiritual success TariqahOrders From these schools, governed by shaykhs: ‘ Sufi master’Monism Not only is God the only creator and source of things, he is the only realityTwo tendenciesPantheismIf God is all, then all is God AntinomianismIf all is God then ultimately all is good, nothing is
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