Islam & Spiritual Awakening
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is adapted from a swuhbah by Shaykh Ahmad Hendricks, “Islam & Spiritual Awakening.” Taswawwuf is a crucial aspect of our Diyn and I am privileged to have this opportunity to share my insights and understandings of it, small as it may be, with you the reader. It is common in our time to hear people complaining about a lack of meaning in their lives. Everywhere, people are looking for ‘something’ to overcome this inner vacuum. A powerful need is felt to restore the imbalances which usually accompanies and is in fact evident in our lives as we relentlessly work to satisfy our material needs. Now what has all of this to do with taswawwuf you might well ask? The truth is taswawwuf or the lack of it, has everything to do with this crisis. Taswawwuf is the life blood of this Diyn . It runs through this Diyn like the blood that flows through our bodies. Loss of blo...