GLOSSARY OF SUFISM
Friday, August 12, 2005 By Maryam
الانبة
2. innaaba
(two consonants mean a strong consonant
two vowels mean a long vowel)
The "conversion" (innaaba) corresponds to a more distinguished degree than repentance, because, within the conversion the return is accompanied by a break [of self-pride] (inkisaar) and by an impulse of spiritual progression.
The Conversion comprises three degrees: conversion of sin into repentance, conversion of unawareness (ghafla) into wakefulness (yaqaza) and conversion from the dissociable conscience (farq) into spontaneous conscience, bringing back all things to God (jam' 'ala Allaah)
(Translated from
Glossaire du Soufisme. Ibn 'Agiba. A. Saleh Hamdan)
Sufi impact on evolution of Muslim politics and culture
Friday, August 12, 2005 By Maryam
Written by BY MATEIN KHALID
10 August 2005
THE Sufi tradition in Islam goes back to the mystical, ascetic movements that existed in the desert monasteries of Byzantine Syria and Coptic Egypt centuries before the Arab conquest. Derived from the Greek word for knowledge (sophos) and the Arabic word tassawuf a metaphor for worldly renunciation Sufi ideals have had a seminal impact on Islamic ideals of poetry, compassion, politics, social justice and relations with other faiths everywhere from the Maghreb to Central Asia.
The Sufis helped spread Islam in medieval India and the Malay archipelago, mirrored the Florentine Renaissances quest for
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