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MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA M.M.NINAN world the Sufi might expect to arrive at the stage of Illumination and thence proceed to the unitive life in God”. (Jurji, "Illumination - A Sufi Doctrine", The Muslim World, Vol.27, p.129). The whole of Sufism rests on the belief that when the individual self is lost, the Universal Self is found, or, in religious language, that ecstasy affords the only means by which the soul can directly communicate and become united with God. (Nicholson, The Mystics of Islam, p.59). “In the Sufism of the orders this ecstasy or trance-like 'state' is called a hal, though in Sufism proper a hal more strictly refers to the succession of illuminations, through experiencing which the Sufi progresses a further 'stage' (maqtam) towards the goal of spiritual perfection.” (Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam, p.200). “Such experiences are, to the Sufis, not to be regarded as hypnotic phenomena to which the human spirit is susceptible in appropriate circumstances but rather gifts from God confirming the Sufi's striving for his presence. Each stage reached by the disciple is the result of his own effort, each experience is a token of the divine favour upon the endeavour - "the hal is a spiritual mood depending not upon the mystic but upon God" (Arberry, Sufism: An Account of the Mystics of Islam, p.75). Sufi whirling (or Sufi spinning) is a form of Sama or physically active meditation which originated among Sufis, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of 202
MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA M.M.NINAN the Mevlevi order. It is a customary dance performed within the Sema, or worship ceremony, through which dervishes (also called semazens) aim to reach the source of all perfection, or kemal. The spread of sama among Sufi orders began some time around the mid 3rd/9th century C.E. in Baghdad, eventually finding acceptance and favor in Persian, Turkish and Indian Islam. Abu Abdullah Harith bin Asad al-Basri. (781–857) was the founder of the Baghdad School of Islamic philosophy, and a teacher of the Sufi masters Junayd al- Baghdadi and Sari al-Saqti. Sufism or Islamic Mysticism came to India with Sufi Saints with the spread of Islam from the Middle Eastern countries during the 11th and 12th Centuries A.D. It was by the overpowering spell and charm of their magnetic personality, spiritual powers and exemplary conduct that they won the hearts of millions of people of India and influenced the great Bhakthi Movements of India and its theologies. 203
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