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I I 2
SIGURD LINDQUIST
did you renounce all sensual desires? . . . When you reached the
slaughter-place and offered sacrifice, did you sacrifice the objects
of wordly désiré? . . . When you threw the pebbles, did you throw
away whatever sensual thoughts were accompanying you?»1
—Huj-wlRi: »’Süfism is: to see the imperfection of the phenomenal world
(and this shows that human attributes are still existent), nay, to shut
the eye to the phenomenal world’ (and this shows that human
attributes are annihilated; because the objects of sight are phenomena,
and when phenomena disappear, sight also disappears). Shutting
the eve to the phenomenal world leaves the spiritual vision
sub-sistent . . ,»2 — ’He is absent from himself and present with God’.
It is not so: he is present with himself and present with God.»3
»The Siifi’s State of mortality should entirely lapse . . . his
bodily feelings (shawdhid) should disappear and his connexion with
everything be cut off, in order that the mystery of his mortality
may be revealed and his various parts united in his essentiel self,
and that he may subsist through and in himself.»4
Betydelsen av askes som ett understundom direkt medel att
avskära förbindelserna med den vanliga tillvaron framhålles också:
»While all mystics have affirmed the need of mortification,
and have declared it to be an indirect means (asbdb) of attaining
contemplation (mushdhadat), Sahl asserted that mortification is the
direct cause gillat) of the latter . . .».’ Vid behandlingen av
baqà och fana yttrar HujwiRi: »The elect among the Süfi’s . . .
do not refer these expression« to knowledge’ (eilm) or to ’state’
(hal), but apply them solely to the degree of perfection attained by
the saints who have become free from the pains of mortification
and have escaped from the prison of stations’ and the vicissitude
of ’states’, and whose search has ended in discovery, so that they
have seen all things visible, and have heard all things audible, and
have discovered all the secrets of heart; and who, recognizing the
imperfection of their own discovery, have turned away from all
things and have purposely become annihilated in the object of désiré,
and in the very essence of désiré have lost all desires of their own,
tor when a man becomes annihilated from his attributes he attains
to perfect subsistence, he is neither near nor far, neither stranger
nor intimate, neither sober nor intoxicated, neither separated nor
united; he has no name, or sign, or brand, or mark."
1 Nicholson a. a. s. 91 f.
3 Hujwiri a. a. s. 38.
3 a. a. s. 39.
4 a. a. s. 40.
5 a. a. s. 201.
6 a. a. s. 243.
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