Tribal Spiritual Journey in Mysticism(An Approach toward Najmuddin Raazis Mersad-al-Ebad)

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Mohammad Hossein Saini ¹ , Heydar Hassanloo ² , Nazeeta Maghazayee ³

1 - ـاستادیار گروه ادیان و عرفان، واحد زنجان ، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی ، زنجان ،ایران
2 - استادیار گروه زبان و ادبیات فارسی، واحد زنجان ، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی ، زنجان ،ایران.
3 - کارشناسی ارشد گروه ادیان و عرفان، واحد زنجان ، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی ، زنجان ،ایران.

Received: 2015-03-01 Accepted : 2018-08-04 Published : 2015-01-21

Keywords:  Mersad al-ebad, mysticism, Zikr, disciple, rules of spiritual journey,

Abstract :

Mysticismmeansunderstanding the Almighty God,His characters and verbs, which is heartfelt and cognitive rather than through thinking and reasoning. It is a positive mood which is primarily manifested through life, instinct, and soul; next, it is manifested in the human behavior and conduct. Such specific conducts and behaviors that lead to the spiritual process are spiritual toward God. Spiritualjourney was long regarded by mystics, who wanted through the practicing mystical ideas, save themselves from the constraints of the material and whimsical desires and achieve mortality for God's survival so that each one of mystics, as per their own views, has stated certain steps and procedures totravel back to God.  For instance, ShaykhNajm al-Din al-Razihasvaluable insights about the rules of spiritual journey for which this paper deal with some parts of the steps pertaining to the various tribal spiritual journey.