# The Mystics of Islam

Author: Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne, 1868-1945

Genre: Category: Religion/Spirituality

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67388

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Mystics+of+Islam+Nicholson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Mystics of every race and creed have described the progress of the spiritual life as a journey or a pilgrimage. Other symbols have been used for the same purpose, but this one appears to be almost universal in its range. The Sūfī who sets out to seek God calls himself a ‘traveller’ (_sālik_); he advances by slow ‘stages’ (_maqāmāt_) along a ‘path’ (_tarīqat_) to the goal of union with Reality (_fanā fi ’l-Haqq_). Should he venture to make a map of this interior ascent, it will not correspond exactly with any of those made by previous explorers. Such maps or scales of perfection were elaborated by Sūfī teachers at an early period, and the unlucky Moslem habit of systematising has produced...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mystics-of-islam-67388/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mystics-of-islam-67388/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mystics-of-islam-67388/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mystics-of-islam-67388/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mystics-of-islam-67388/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-mystics-of-islam-67388/chapters/2/index.md)