The considerations regarding the Unicity doctrin exposed by Abdurrauf in this text lead to the formulation of two concepts, which he comments on before combining them that is, the concept of emanation ( al-faid) and that of shadow ( al-zill).Īuthor: Oman Fathurahman Publisher: EFEO and Mizan Year: 1999 Abdurrauf Singkel is known as one of the Indonesian ulemas -together with others such as Hamzah Fansuri, Syamsuddin as-Sumatrani, and Nuruddin ar-Raniri- who have been engaged in the political conflicts and religious debates of the early times of Indonesian Islam, more precisely in the second half of the 17th century in Sumatra. The precepts he puts forward, particulaly those regarding the invocations ( zikir), show that as an ulema, he followed and promoted the Syatariyyah brotherhood, the name of which is derived from that of its founder Abdullah asy-Syattar (ob. The first exposes his interpretation of the Unicity doctrine, while the other four reflect his teachings regarding mysticism. This text, preserved in four manuscripts, contains the teachings of Abdurrauf presented as five stages: the dogma ( akidah), the law ( syariat), the path ( tarikat), the truth ( hakikat), and the gnosis ( makrifat). The original text of this tract is edited here, together with an Indonesian translation. This book is the result of such an effort, applied to a tract written by Abdurrauf in Arabic and entitled Tanbih al-Masyi al-Mansub ila Tariq al-Qusyasyiyy (“Directions for the adepts of the brotherhood of al-Qusyasyi”).
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