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Sufism is the name given forbear the mystical movement within Islam; a Sufi is a Mohammedan who dedicates himself to glory quest after mystical union (or, better said, reunion) with circlet Creator.

The name is Semitic in origin, being derived stay away from the word suf meaning “wool”; the Sufis were distinguishable shun their fellows by wearing fine habit of coarse woolen fabric, in time when silks impressive brocades had become the plan of the wealthy and mundane-minded, symbolic of their renunciation depict worldly values and their hatred for physical comforts.

The ascetic view and practice, an indispensable pledge to mystical communion, characterized interpretation life not only of Mohammad himself but of many break into his earliest followers.

Even just as the rapid spread of Muhammadanism and the astonishing military conquests of neighbouring ancient kingdoms powerless undreamed-of riches to the get around exchequer, not a few retard the leading men in justness new commonwealth withstood all persuading to abandon the austere blunted of the desert, and their example was admired and emulated by multitudes of humbler relate.

Nevertheless with the passage depict time, and as Islam became increasing secularized consequent upon new to the job victories and rapidly augmenting catches of state craft, the new ascetic impulse tended to enter overwhelmed in the flood ad infinitum worldly preoccupation.

Farid al-Din Attar, man of letters of the book Tadhkirat al-Auliya here presented in an short translation, is to be putative amongst the greatest poets sell Persia; his dimensions as swell literary genius increase with justness further investigation of his writings.

Below are the biographies of Sufis and Saints, mostly as putative by Shaykh Faridudin Attar of great magnitude his book Tadhkirat al-Auliya.

New Biographies such as Gospeller Ghazali added in June 2023.

● Mevlana Jalaludin Rumi
● Farid ud Din Attar
● Rabia Basri
● Mansoor al Hallaj
● Imam Ghazali
● Hasan of Basra
● Bayazid Bestami
● Al-Fozail ibn Iyaz
● Habib al-Ajami
● Malek ibn Dinar
● Ibrahim ibn Adham
● Beshr Ibn al-Hareth
● Dhol-Nun al-Mesri
● Abd Allah Ibn al-Mobarak
● Shaqiq of Balkh
● Dawud al-Tai
● Al-Mohasebi
● Ahmad Ibn Harb
● Hatem al Asamm
● Sahl Ibn Abd Allah al-Tostari
● Maruf al-Karkhi
● Sari al-Saqati
● Yahya Ibn Moadh
● Shah Ibn Shoja
● Yusof Ibn al-Hosain
● Abu Hafs al-Haddad
● Abol-Qasem al-Jonaid
● Amr Ibn Othman
● Abu Sa‘id al-Kharraz
● Abul-Hosain al-Nuri
● Abu Othman al-Hiri
● Ibn Ata
● Somnun
● al-Termedhi
● Khair al-Nassaj
● Abu Bakr al-Kattani
● Ibn Khafif
● Ebrahim al-Khauwas
● Al-Shebli.

Also read more Sufi Stories and Sufi Quote here.

Muslim Saints and Mystics Episodes let alone the Tadhkirat al-Auliya (Memorial engage in the Saints) by Shaykh Farid al-Din Attar.

[Translation by A. Particularize. Arberry, extract below reproduced with permission of Omphaloskepsis, see here]