The Abandonment of All That Pleases the Soul
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Shaykh Ahmad ibn Abu al-Husayn an-Nuri (q.s.), one of the great early Sufis in Baghdad, and a companion of Imam Abu al-Qasim al-Junayd ibn Muhammad al-Baghdadi (q.s.), was known as Amir al-Qulub, “Prince of Hearts.” He defined Sufism as “the abandonment of everything that pleases the soul”. He was quoted in Imam Abu al-Qasim ‘Abd al-Karim ibn Huzan al-Qushayri’s (q.s.) Risalah as saying, “When dawn breaks, one no longer needs a lamp.”
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