Sufis and Islamic transcendental literature

[Javad]

Hey how's it going?

I am making this topic because I have had quite a discovery for a month now, and I am very inclined to share it with the only online community I know that has any idea what I'll be talking about!

So you guys might've heard of Sufism in the Islamic culture (the guy in Leo's bio, Rumi, is a Sufi for example). I just wanted to remind you that this school of enlightenment has been lost in all the information overload of the 21st century. Also, since the majority of you guys are not familiar with the Islamic and Persian literature (and also might have all sorts of pre-assumptions that shield you from going even near them) I assume that most of you have no idea about the amazing sources that you're missing.

Sufism is a very highly developed spiritual/non-dual practice in its depth, and it also has had a lot of fakers and surface level users. But there are trustable sources one can study and follow up on.

What makes Sufism very special though, in my eyes, is not their way of pursuing enlightenment, but their wholesome worldview. It does have flaws I must say, but the way they have been able to make sense of this crazy senseless infinity of existence amazes me.

Another HUGE thing that makes them special is their poetry and literature. If only you had the context one needs to understand someone like Hafez, you would've been blown away by what I have called for myself "transcendental art". The poetry works in a way that in whatever level of awakening you are at, you get a different meaning from the poetry. Most people (who are only seeing life as a person in the world) only get the surface level meaning which is mesmerizing as a form of art, but have no idea what is happening. Now the magic with Hafez is that he uses irony in a transcendental level, by making the surface meaning of his poetry mean things that relate to sexual attraction, alcoholism, nihilism, living for the moment, determinism, confusion, beggary, and so on. And when the transcendental gets revealed to those who can see it, the meaning is in paradox or irony with the surface level meaning.

I really wish it was possible to bring it to English without it losing a lot of its artistic value. Goethe was in love with Hafez as well. He wrote western-eastern Divan as a conversation between himself and Hafez I think.

But yeah anyways, for those who are interested, Sufism and specially its literature (Rumi, Hafez, Mahmoud Shabestari, Sheikh Bahai, Attar Neishabouri, Maghrebi, Hatef Isfahani, etc.) are highly recommended sources for spiritual companionship.

[cetus]

On 2/27/2020 at 5:38 AM, Javad said:

But yeah anyways, for those who are interested, Sufism and specially its literature (Rumi, Hafez, Mahmoud Shabestari, Sheikh Bahai, Attar Neishabouri, Maghrebi, Hatef Isfahani, etc.) are highly recommended sources for spiritual companionship.

Ibn 'Arabi / Balyani's  "Know Yourself"

"The knowledge of God does not require the passing away of existence or the passing away of that passing away because things have no existence and what does not exist cannot pass away. Passing away implies the prior existence of the thing that passes away. If you know yourself without existing and passing away, then you know God, and if not then not."