![]() ![]() In its ecstatic variations, however, adepts perform a type of “crazy wisdom” that openly flouts the law as a demonstration of the individual’s transcendent holy status. Sufism, in this sense, does not cancel the law so much as perfect and transcend it. a total, reorienting vision-which otherwise, it is held, eludes the common believer content merely to fulfill the plain mandates of the law ( sharī`a). Obliteration, in the eyes of those who seek it, bestows a perfection of practice and knowledge-“mystical knowledge,” in Weber’s terms, i.e. “obliteration” of the ego so that there is only one divine reality. ![]() ![]() Practices falling under this category focus on the attainment of union with God, or in Sufi parlance, fanā’, i.e. Sufism ( al-taṣawwuf) refers broadly to Islamic mysticism and asceticism. ![]()
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