REL 137g 1st Edition Lecture 18 Current Lecture Finishing Sufism Wahdat al wujud Unity of existence God s existence and humans existence are one Ittihad unity no distinction between the two Antinomianism Against law and rules Anything that comes in existence comes from God and therefore cannot be evil needs to laws Pantheism Extreme of mysticism Everything is God and God is everything Complete obliteration of any line of distinction Ibn Tayimya Hanbalite Traditionalist Known as enemy of Sufism False attribution He wasn t against Sufism or mysticism but he was absolutely against pantheism Anything that blurred the distinction between the creator and the created Shaykh Pir Sufi Master Disciplines Monasteries Practices Hermitage isolation Silence Fasting Dhkir remembrance A staple of Sufi practice Humanity s problems come from forgetting things To remember or remind solves this problems Audible pronouncements that are intended to remind one of God Sama Sufi Music Rhythmic way of chanting prayers Popular tendencies Superstition Grave worship Circling around graves as if they were the Kaba Talismans Shiism Thought of as its own separate orthodoxy Must understand it as it unfolds in history Followed Ali took their name from the Shiites supporters of Ali Supported in political terms
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