The Mystics of Islam

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This is the state of the gnostic, even when he is awake ; God hath said, ' Thou wouldst deem them awake while they slept.'* He is asleep, day and night, to the affairs of the world.
Like a pen in the controlling hand of the Lord." f%The Sufis have always declared and be- lieved themselves to be God's chosen people.
The Koran refers in several places to His elect.\. According to the author of the Kitdb dl-LiMna',- this title belongs, firstly, to the prophets, elect in virtue of their sinlessness
..., their inspiration, and their apostolic mission ; and secondly, to certain Moslems, elect in virtue of their sincere devotion and self- mortification and firm attachment to the 1 By erasing all the sensuous impressions which form a veil between the soul and the world of reality.
' Kor. i8. 17.
122 THE MYSTICS OF ISLAM eternal realities : in a word, the saints.
While the Stifis are the elect of the Moslem community, the saints are the elect of the Sufisw^ The Mohammedan saint is commonly known as a wall (plural, awliyd).


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