TWO QUR'ANIC-BASED EXAMPLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUFI CANON: I’TISÂM AND FIRÂR

The Sufi concepts firâr and i'tisam (fleeing and the search for refuge), like a great many others, which follow directly on from the notion of sayr u suluk (spiritual journeying and initiation), have entered the Sufi lexicon from the Qur'an itself. Signifying holding fast to God and the ro...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:67ec06b2eb0f4ccd85140aaa851378f32021-11-24T09:20:51ZTWO QUR'ANIC-BASED EXAMPLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUFI CANON: I’TISÂM AND FIRÂR2148-416310.9761/JASSS3388https://doaj.org/article/67ec06b2eb0f4ccd85140aaa851378f32019-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jasstudies.com/index.jsp?mod=tammetin&makaleadi=1114272773_14.Dr.%20Mehmet%20Yavuz%20SEKER.pdf&key=27836https://doaj.org/toc/2148-4163The Sufi concepts firâr and i'tisam (fleeing and the search for refuge), like a great many others, which follow directly on from the notion of sayr u suluk (spiritual journeying and initiation), have entered the Sufi lexicon from the Qur'an itself. Signifying holding fast to God and the rope of God (habl Allah), i’tisâm constitutes the starting point of firâr, which denotes fleeing directly to God, while firâr is, to all intents and purposes, the result of i’tisâm. The servant who believes and holds fast to the religion of God and adheres firmly to the Qur'an and the Sunna actualises an increasingly deepening escape going from fana' (annihilation) to baqa' subsistence as they continue upon this path. This is, at the same time, an escape from everything that is doomed to nonexistence, to God, Whose existence is permanent and everlasting.Mehmet Yavuz ŞEKERFırat Universityarticlei’tisâmfirârsulukhabl allahiltija'Social SciencesHSocial sciences (General)H1-99DEENFRTRJournal of Academic Social Science Studies , Vol 9, Iss 45, Pp 189-200 (2019)
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Mehmet Yavuz ŞEKER
TWO QUR'ANIC-BASED EXAMPLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUFI CANON: I’TISÂM AND FIRÂR
description The Sufi concepts firâr and i'tisam (fleeing and the search for refuge), like a great many others, which follow directly on from the notion of sayr u suluk (spiritual journeying and initiation), have entered the Sufi lexicon from the Qur'an itself. Signifying holding fast to God and the rope of God (habl Allah), i’tisâm constitutes the starting point of firâr, which denotes fleeing directly to God, while firâr is, to all intents and purposes, the result of i’tisâm. The servant who believes and holds fast to the religion of God and adheres firmly to the Qur'an and the Sunna actualises an increasingly deepening escape going from fana' (annihilation) to baqa' subsistence as they continue upon this path. This is, at the same time, an escape from everything that is doomed to nonexistence, to God, Whose existence is permanent and everlasting.
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author Mehmet Yavuz ŞEKER
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title TWO QUR'ANIC-BASED EXAMPLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUFI CANON: I’TISÂM AND FIRÂR
title_short TWO QUR'ANIC-BASED EXAMPLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUFI CANON: I’TISÂM AND FIRÂR
title_full TWO QUR'ANIC-BASED EXAMPLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUFI CANON: I’TISÂM AND FIRÂR
title_fullStr TWO QUR'ANIC-BASED EXAMPLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUFI CANON: I’TISÂM AND FIRÂR
title_full_unstemmed TWO QUR'ANIC-BASED EXAMPLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUFI CANON: I’TISÂM AND FIRÂR
title_sort two qur'anic-based examples in the development of the sufi canon: i’tisâm and firâr
publisher Fırat University
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