Ishq-i-haqiqi:
The true love or the love of God.
Jamaaat Khana:
A Sufi hospice, a
khanqah
.
Khalwat:
Literally: solitary spiritual retreat.
Khanqah:
Persian name for a meeting place of dervishes or the Sufis,
a Sufi hospice. The terms
zawiyyah
or
ribat
are used as synonyms.
Khirqa:
Literally, “a rag”; a patched cloak worn by some Sufi orders.
The
khirqa
is a sign of poverty and renunciation of the world. The cloaks
were not replaced when torn but repeatedly patched instead until the whole
garment was reduced to patches.
Kufr:
Literally: “covering”, “hiding”; thence, denial of God and disbelief
in face of clear revelation. It is the only sin which God will not forgive as it
rejects Him and His Mercy.
Langar:
Free food distributed in the Sufi hospices to the devotees.
Ma‘arifah:
Literally, ‘knowledge’ or ‘gnosis’. In Sufism it means the
mystical knowledge of God. It is the final stage when a Sufi’s heart is filled
with the wisdom and the realization of the truth.
Mahabbah:
Literally: “love”. It refers to the devotion and love for
God filling the soul of themystic. In Sufism
makhafah
or‘fear of God’ precedes
mahabbah
or ‘love of God’, which in turn culminates in
ma’arifah
or ‘the
realization of God’.
Majlis:
Sing.
majlis
, pl.
majaalis
. An assembly, a meeting; a formal
dhikr
or
sama’
session.
Makhafah:
Literally: “fear”. In Sufism it refers to the state of being in
fear of God. It also implies purification.According to a saying of the Prophet
Solomon, “the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God.”
Malfuzaat:
Literally, ‘discourse’, ‘conversations’, meaning the
conversations of the Sufi mystics recorded by the disciples and compiled in
the form of a book.
