HUMA 1845 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Abdelkader El Djezairi, Baqaa, Dhikr
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Samma ceremony: samma mean listening. also known as spiritual ceremony. Samma is one type of way for remembering the god. Marifa is the type of knowledge that sufi try to cultivate/ it is type of knowledge is is not acquired by learning but it is god given. Feelings that what god essence is acquired through the god"s grace awareness of the divine. intuitive knowledge. Ilm, fiqh and kalam: knowledge can be earned, it is not god given as marifa. Tariqa: manner way/ sufi order/who want to attain marifa they attain this path/tariqa is about the controlling the nafs. Sufi: names come from soof which mean wool . Both seek knowledge sufi focus more on marifa. Situation in which focusing on divine sufi forget himself. He is so focussed that that he feels god quality in him. momentary hype. literally it means destruction, some that disappear except the god face.
