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volume Number 15، number In Volume 11، February 2023 ، issue Number 81

A study of mystical authorities in Nahj al-Balaghah and Tazkereh al-Awliya Attar

Tahereh Moradzadeh Moghaddam , Seyyed Mahmoud Reza Gheibi (Author in Charge), Ayyub Kooshan , Jila Serati

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: "Officials" is one of the basic and fundamental terms of Sufism and Islamic mysticism, which has a great depth and breadth and has a fundamental role. Many authoritative sources and books on mysticism and Sufism have devoted a wide range of subjects to mentioning and describing the "authorities", and many mystics and Sufis have given concise and sometimes extensive statements about the term, which are recorded in most mystical books. Has been. This study intends to study the authorities in these two works while contemplating and researching Tazkereh al-Awliya and Nahj al-Balaghah. The purpose of this study is to express the differences and commonalities of the officials in Tazkereh al-Awliya and Nahj al-Balaghah.

METHODOLOGY: This article is based on library studies and has been done in a descriptive-analytical manner.

FINDINGS: In Islamic culture, what are called mystical states and authorities were first introduced as concepts of faith and morality in the Holy Qur"an and the Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH) and among Muslims, and then in Islamic mysticism, these concepts of faith and morality. It became a factor in behavior and took on the title of "states and authorities". This discussion is one of the topics that mystics have dealt with a lot. Also in Nahj al-Balaghah, which is the most important religious book of Muslims after the Holy Quran, the highest and richest mystical themes of the leader of the believers are remembered.

Keyword
Sufism , authorities , Nahj al-Balaghah , Tazkereh al-Awliya

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