期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：11
页码：1001-1006
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i11/4977
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Knowledge and practice are the most important thing in Sufism. Knowledge refers to spiritual stations and levels of the heart, which increases the confidence of the heart from one level to the other, until the position of faith and the dignity of a Muslim becomes inward. Practice is the behavior and deeds that affect the change in the heart of a person. This article aims at clarifying the importance of knowledge and practice in sufism, discussing the change in the mind of a sufi and identifying the relation between knowledge and practice. All which makes a person muhsin, the peak of the spiritual journey of a servant to the pleasure of Allah. This qualitative study is based on content analysis using various sources of sufism discipline. The study finds that knowledge and practice are important elements in sufism; they are the fundamental basis that one cannot ignore in attaining closeness to Allah s.w.t. This is because all knowledge and practices in sufism is aimed at constant concentration on the unity to Allah s.w.t., the main milestone in the creed of Sunnah wa al-Jama‘ah. Without unity and closeness to Allah, the aqidah is believed to be only blank and not strong enough to guide towards the perfection of self-sacrifice to Allah s.w.t. Therefore, it is worth explaining that knowledge and practice are not merely knowledge that refers to mere deeds and actions of the limbs that are unconnected to the change in the nature of the heart.
