Najme Dorri; Masood Doostparvar
Volume 10, Issue 2 , March 2021, , Pages 59-79
Abstract
Love has always been one of the most fundamental principles of Sufism. Since the spiritual preceptors of the Chishti Sufism know it as arising from the mystical thought of Khorasan, ...
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Love has always been one of the most fundamental principles of Sufism. Since the spiritual preceptors of the Chishti Sufism know it as arising from the mystical thought of Khorasan, this path regards love as an eternal gift and the very foundation of the universe that flows in all particles of the Possibility World, and to succeed to the loved is considered as the last degree of the seeker’s behavior. Moein El-din Chishti, Bafareid Ganj Shar, and Mo-hammad Gisooderaz are among some spiritual preceptors of this path, who have left some written works and sensational odes, and they can be found in the works of Chishti poets such as Amir Khosroo and Amir Hasan Dehlavi. In this article, we review the prose and poetry of the Chishti order in order to find out about the position of love in the foundation of Chishti thinking, and about the effect of sorrow or grief on the seeker’s behavior. Is wisdom always at odds with love? And what is the perspective of Chishti order about the virtual love?
