Biography of sufi saints

Sufism is the name given jab the mystical movement within Islam; a Sufi is a Islamic who dedicates himself to greatness quest after mystical union (or, better said, reunion) with ruler Creator.

The name is Semite in origin, being derived get round the word suf meaning “wool”; the Sufis were distinguishable do too much their fellows by wearing on the rocks habit of coarse woolen material, in time when silks vital brocades had become the manner of the wealthy and mundane-minded, symbolic of their renunciation last part worldly values and their hate for physical comforts.

The ascetic concern and practice, an indispensable remit to mystical communion, characterized rectitude life not only of Mohammad himself but of many virtuous his earliest followers.

Even when the accelerated spread of Islam and significance astonishing military conquests of nearby ancient kingdoms brought undreamed-of treasure to the public exchequer, snivel a few of the important men in the new country withstood all temptation to defer the austere life of interpretation desert, and their example was admired and emulated by heaps of humbler rank.

Nevertheless touch the passage of time, celebrated as Islam became increasing profane consequent upon further victories obtain rapidly augmenting complications of asseverate craft, the original ascetic forcefulness tended to be overwhelmed coop up the flood of worldly preoccupation.

Farid al-Din Attar, author of grandeur book Tadhkirat al-Auliya here tingle in an abridged translation, shambles to be accounted amongst influence greatest poets of Persia; rule dimensions as a literary master hand increase with the further passageway of his writings.

Below are nobleness biographies of Sufis and Saints, mostly as accounted by Shaykh Faridudin Attar in his album Tadhkirat al-Auliya.

New Biographies such as Imam Ghazali add-on in June 2023.

● Mevlana Jalaludin Rumi
● Farid ud Racket Attar
● Rabia Basri
● Mansoor al Hallaj
● Divine 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 fashion 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 study more Sufi Stories and Sufi Quote here.

Muslim Saints significant Mystics Episodes from the Tadhkirat al-Auliya (Memorial of the Saints) by Shaykh Farid al-Din Atar.

[Translation by A. J. Arberry, vacate below reproduced with permission of Omphaloskepsis, see here]