Mystical Experience in Persian Sufism

Abstract

Sufism was a human reaction to an extensive variety of settings and circumstances; the fact that Sufis lived in society and interacted with the community necessitating guidance on how to behave. In this essay we will analyze the improvement of Persian Sufism, demonstrating it to be a philosophy of the everyday rather than just a metaphysical phenomenon and will show that the ethics of Sufism were the Islamic codes of honor which underlined dedication, modesty, liberality and dauntlessness. Albeit definitely a few Sufis spiritualized this code of honor and connected it to their own particular association with God, the ethic kept on saturating Sufi conduct on a more ordinary level, embodied by the solid connections amongst Sufis and certain exchanges