Tariqa

Sheikh al Azayam, who boasts that his was the only Sufi tariqa that publicly opposed Mr. Mubarak's rule, said he has instructed his hundreds of thousands of adherents to join the Egyptian Tahrir Party. ❋ Matt Bradley (2011)

"This is proof that Islamists are enemies to humanity," said Sheikh Alaa Abu al Azayem, the leader of the Azmeya tariqa, which he says is the largest of the Sufi groupings in Egypt. ❋ Matt Bradley (2011)

Sufi parties have been active in Turkey, and it was the Senussi tariqa in Libya that led resistance to Italian occupation before Moammar Gadhafi overthrew its leader, King Idris I, in 1969. ❋ Matt Bradley (2011)

Many Africans are Sufis, a broad and sometimes syncretic form of the faith patterned by relationships between brotherhoods, or tariqa. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Bahjat al-‘Arifeen not only served as a lamp for expounding the Shari’a (the Islamic laws), but also as a master for guiding towards the tariqa (the path) which leads to the haqiqa (the Ultimate Reality). ❋ [email protected] (2009)

The site was/is? also sacred to the Sufis - a "heretic" sect of Islam who worshipped the goddess principle in all creation: The term tekke convent applies to a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood, or tariqa, and may have referred to an earlier feature of the location. ❋ Jan (2008)

They call it tariqa, "the path," a system of esoteric "spiritual experience" that has, at various times, enraged more orthodox Muslims even as it has enticed non-Muslim outsiders attracted to its rarefied mystical techniques. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Simon Broughton, who also edits a world music magazine, told me there are some fifteen main Sufi brotherhoods in Morocco, each with its own tariqa, or “way.” ❋ SUZANNA CLARKE (2007)

I mean, look, Hassan El-Banna founded the Brotherhood in 1926 in Ismailia and it was close to being a Sufi tariqa at the time.

Islam, the Sufi path (tariqa) is rather a mode of religious observance and a method of self-training and purification, the goal of which is to orient the believer to a religiously-informed spirituality of experience. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But once the path is illuminated by the law, the wayfarer must begin the quest, and his action of walking along the way is the Sufi mode (tariqa). ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is in walking the Sufi tariqa that we gain the experience of applying the chemical reagents to the metal, or following the proper diet and medical regimen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

- Refer also to Imam Burhanuddin Zarnuji's book for students: "Risalah: Ta-'lim muta-'allim tariqa-tut-ta'lim" 7 ©2005ZhulkefleeHjIsmail ❋ Unknown (2009)

Shaykh Shadhili of North Africa founded what came to be known as the Shadhiliyyah Sufi Order, which is the only great tariqa to originate outside of Central and Southwest Asia and is ancestral to many of the modern Sufi paths in Europe and America.