Bearing means walking the way, it means watching the effects and characteristics of homes and steps in between way. Mystical bearing is a spiritual travel which at that mystic ans willing right way for himself, step is taken to the excellence and goes houses and officials, let’s go to the imam right. Luggage spiritual travel is (endeavor) mujahid and sensual austerity. Each of the mystics about...

As one of the spiritual stations “Contentment” stands out. In view of its importance in the mystical journey, this study seeks to descriptively and analytically examine the spiritual station of contentment in al-Lumaʻ by Sarrāj Tūsī as the oldest work on mystical teachings, to criticize it on the basis of Imam Ali’s speech, and to understand how this work may be influenced by the Imam’s teachin...

Self-training and purification is a preliminary step for the exaltation of the soul and human salvation. Self scourges and moral knaveries are considered as the most important obstacles to mystical paths. The Desert Fathers consider fighting against the self scourges as a necessary prelude to the beginning of spiritual transition and covering mystical stages. Muslim mystics too, highly emp...

Ethics and mysticism are two transcendental desires of human. Therefore, deliberation on the proportion of mysticism and ethics is important for scholars of the both fields. Some scholars, however, have considered mysticism as incompatible with ethics and some others as something beyond it. Mystics` hermit and their state of being in full meditation and introspection have caused some scholars t...