Najmuddin Kubra
Najm ad-Din Kubra was a 13th-century Khwarezmian Sufi from Khwarezm and the founder of the Kubrawiya, influential in the Ilkhanate and Timurid dynasty. His method, exemplary of a "golden age" of Sufi metaphysics, was related to the Illuminationism of Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi as well as to Rumi's Shams Tabrizi. Kubra was born in 540/1145 and died in 618/1221.
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Trending topics shown first"The traveller must also give up resistance to God's decree and refrain from prayers for reward in the hereafter."
"Permanent concentration upon the Divine Names in the retreat leads to mystical awareness."
"Prayer according to Shariah is service, according to Tariqa proximity, and according to Haqiqa union with God."
"The lower soul, the Devil, and the Angels are not realities external to you. You are them. So too Heaven, Earth, and the Divine Throne are not outside you, nor are Paradise, Hell, Life, or Death. All …"
"The heart possesses subtle organs of perception, which are progressively purifies by the performance of dhikr, together with other spiritual discipline and exercises."
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1145
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