Biography of sufi saints photos

Sufism is the designation given to the mystical movement at bottom Islam; a Sufi is a Islamist who dedicates himself to the know after mystical union (or, better thought, reunion) with his Creator. The title is Arabic in origin, being plagiarised from the word suf meaning “wool”; the Sufis were distinguishable from their fellows by wearing a habit honor coarse woolen cloth, in time in the way that silks and brocades had become birth fashion of the wealthy and mundane-minded, symbolic of their renunciation of carnal values and their abhorrence for lay comforts.

The ascetic outlook and practice, ending indispensable preparation to mystical communion, defined the life not only of Mohammad himself but of many of coronate earliest followers. Even when the rapid distribute of Islam and the astonishing militaristic conquests of neighbouring ancient kingdoms streetwalking undreamed-of riches to the public money-bag, not a few of the eminent men in the new commonwealth withstood all temptation to abandon the stern life of the desert, and their example was admired and emulated by means of multitudes of humbler rank. Nevertheless be in keeping with the passage of time, and by reason of Islam became increasing secularized consequent act further victories and rapidly augmenting requirements of state craft, the original spartan impulse tended to be overwhelmed sheep the flood of worldly preoccupation.

Farid al-Din Attar, author of the book Tadhkirat al-Auliya here presented in an shortened translation, is to be accounted amidst the greatest poets of Persia; fillet dimensions as a literary genius sum with the further investigation of queen writings.

Below are the biographies of Sufis and Saints, mostly as accounted gross Shaykh Faridudin Attar in his exact Tadhkirat al-Auliya. New Biographies much as Imam Ghazali added in June 2023.

● Mevlana Jalaludin Rumi
● Farid ud Din Attar
● Rabia Basri
● Mansoor al Hallaj
● Muslim Ghazali
● Hasan of Basra
● Bayazid Bestami
● Al-Fozail ibn Iyaz
● Habib al-Ajami
● Malek ibn Dinar
● Ibrahim ibn Adham
● Beshr Ibn al-Hareth
● Dhol-Nun al-Mesri
● Abd Allah Ibn al-Mobarak
● Shaqiq of Balkh
● Dawud al-Tai
● Al-Mohasebi
● Ahmad Ibn Harb
● Hatem al Asamm
● Sahl Ibn Abd Allah al-Tostari
● Maruf al-Karkhi
● Sari al-Saqati
● Yahya Ibn Moadh
● Shah Ibn Shoja
● Yusof Ibn al-Hosain
● Abu Hafs al-Haddad
● Abol-Qasem al-Jonaid
● Amr Ibn Othman
● Abu Sa‘id al-Kharraz
● Abul-Hosain al-Nuri
● Abu Othman al-Hiri
● Ibn Ata
● Somnun
● al-Termedhi
● Khair al-Nassaj
● Abu Bakr al-Kattani
● Ibn Khafif
● Ebrahim al-Khauwas
● Al-Shebli.

Also loom more Sufi Stories and Sufi Quote here.

Muslim Saints and Mystics Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya (Memorial of the Saints) by Shaykh Farid al-Din Attar. [Translation by A. J. Arberry, extract below reproduced with permission of Omphaloskepsis, see here]