Sufism in Malaysia and its impact on the revival of the Islamic Dawah
Amr Mohamed Sayed Imam, Mohamed Ebrahim El-Sherbiny Sakr
Al Hikmah International Journal of Islamic Studies and Human Sciences February 28, 2022 DOI: 10.46722/hkmh.5.1.22f (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Observational study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Malaysian society |
| Topics | Mysticism |
| Keywords | Sufism Islam Soul Piety Religious studies Period music Ancient history Environmental ethics Traditional medicine Aesthetics Law Epistemology Theology Qur’anic interpretation studies |
| Key findings | Sufi practices like wirds and remembrances have positively sustained Islamic faith in Malaysian society across generations and influenced non-Muslims, and the study aims to legally root and defend these manifestations. |
Abstract
There is no doubt that the science of Sufism became an essential part of our Islamic heritage, although it was not popularized as a term and concept until the third century AH.The science of Sufism focused on the spiritual aspect of the heart. The purification of the soul and the soul is the basis of the science of Sufism. Therefore, this aspect had a great impact on Islamic societies, especially Malaysian society. Who was affected by some mystical manifestations, such as wirds and remembrances, and other Islamic rituals, and passed on from generation to generation, and the persistence of it had an effect on the survival of Islam on the souls of the youth and the young, men and women, and it also had an evident effect on non-Muslims, who are many. They are destined to live among Muslims.Therefore, the primary objective of this study was: An observation of some Sufi manifestations that had a good effect in Malaysian society, and the preservation of these aspects that are the piety of hearts, as well as the rooting of these manifestations from the legal point of view and responding to the suspicions that were raised about them.
Comparable studies
Other observational and cohort studies on mysticism, most cited first.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Neural correlates of mystical experience Vietnam veterans with penetrating traumatic brain injury and matched healthy controls | 2015 | Observational cohort | n = 148 |
| Intensity of Mystical Experiences Occasioned by 5-MeO-DMT and Comparison With a Prior Psilocybin Study Individuals at a psychospiritual retreat in Mexico | 2018 | Observational cohort | n = 20 |
| The language of ineffability: Linguistic analysis of mystical experiences. Participants who recounted their most significant spiritual or religious experience in... | 2015 | Observational cohort | n = 777 |
| The Associations of Naturalistic Classic Psychedelic Use, Mystical Experience, and Creative Problem Solving Adults who completed a survey battery | 2016 | Observational study | n = 68 |
| Lasting increases in trait mindfulness after psilocybin correlate positively with the mystical-type experience in healthy individuals Healthy individuals | 2022 | Observational cohort | n = 39 |