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Today I m going to have a say on a very a divine topic "Sufism".By the term Sufism we mean to say that it is a type of devotion to god and leaving the all desire of this world.In other word we can say substance of Sufism is the truth and the meaning of Sufism is the selfless experiencing and actualization of the truth.The practice of Sufism is the intention to go toward the truth ,by means of love and devotion.This is called the tariqat,the spiritual path or way towards god.The sufi is one who is lover of truth,who by means of love and devotion moves towards the truth,towards the perfection which all are truly seeking .As necessitated by Love's jealousy,the Sufi is taken away from all except the truth.
Sufism is a school for the actualisation of divine ethics.It involves an enlightened inner being ,not intellectual proof;revelation and witnessing ,not logic .By divine ethics we are referring to ethics that transcend mere social convention ,a way of being that is the actualization of the attributes of god.To explain the truth is indeed a difficult task.Words being limited ,can never really express the perfection of the absolute,the unbound.Thus for those who are imperfect,words create doubt and misunderstanding.Yet philosophers have written volumes and spoken endlessly of the truth,but somehow their effort have always fallen short.For the Sufi, philosophers are those who are those who view the perfection of the Absolute from a limited perspective ;so all they see is a part of the Absolute,not the infinite in its entirety.It is indeed true what philosophers see is incorrect;nevertheless it is only a part of whole .
One is reminded of rumi's well-known story of a group of men in India who had never seen an elephant.One day they came to a place where an elephant was.In complete darkness they approached the animal,each man feeling it.Afterwards, they describe what they thought they had perceived .Of course their description were different.The one who felt a leg imagined the elephant to be a pillar.The one who felt the animal's ear,described the elephant as a fan and so on.Each one of their description with respect to the various parts they had experienced was true.However as far as accurately describing the whole ,their conception had all fallen short.If they had a candle,the difference of opinion would not have come about.The candle's light would have revealed the elephant as a whole.
Only by the light of the spiritual path and the mystic way can the truth be discovered.In order for the one to truly witness the perfection of the Absolute ,one must see with one's inner being ,which perceives the whole reality.This witnessing happens when one becomes perfect,losing one's(partial) existence in the whole.
If the whole is likened to the ocean and the part to drop ,the Sufi says that witnessing the ocean with the eye of a drop is impossible.However ,when the drop becomes one with the oceans ,it sees the ocean with the eyes of the ocean