Murshid
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Murshid (
.The path of Sufism starts when a student (
The murshid's role is to spiritually guide and verbally instruct the disciple on the Sufi path, but "only one who has himself reached the End of the path is a spiritual guide in the full sense of the Arabic term murshid".
A murshid usually has authorisation to be a teacher for one
Importance
In Sufism, it is the transmission of the divine light from the murshid's heart to the disciple's which surpasses any other source of knowledge and is the only way to progress directly towards the divine. The concept of Murshid Kamil Akmal (also known as Insan-e-Kamil) is significant in most tariqas. The concept states that from pre-existence till pre-eternity, there shall always remain a Qutb or a Universal Man upon the earth who would be the perfect manifestation of God's will and thus following in the very footsteps of the preeminent Islamic prophet Muhammad.
See also
External links
- Glossary of Muslim Terms
- Sufi Live
- Murshid [1]
Notes
- ^ See Hans Wehr's Arabic Dictionary, 4th ed., s.v. rašada.
- ^ Cf. Martin Lings, What is Sufism, Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, p. 125.
