Sufism

By R. M. Chopra - Historian

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Description: Islamic mysticism , Or **Tasawwuf** , also known as Sufism , is a belief and practice in which Muslims seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God. It consists of various mystical paths that are designed to ascertain the nature of humanity and God and to facilitate the experience of divine love and wisdom in the world. Sufism grew out of the early Islamic asceticism , the scholastic and metaphysical researched of early thinkers , theorists and philosophers of Islam. It developed as a counterweight to the increasing worldliness of expanding Muslim community. Sufism emphasizes raising awareness of the REAL through genuine knowledge of the self and the VEILS which divide it from any experience of the Truth. It emphasizes compassion from one human being to another , regardless of all other distinctions and considerations. Like any movement of this kind , Sufism has had its origin , growth and development which resulted in the spread of this movement along with Islam far off lands and thereafter set in decay and eclipse. However , the most significant and remarkable part of this movement is its resurgence all over in the present global context. **All these matters have been comprehensively discussed in this book.**