طريق تفضيل الصحو على السكر وارتباطه بمراعاة الصوفي لضوابط العقل والشرع: محمد بن خفيف الشيرازي نموذجا

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This research dealt with the definition of awareness and drunkenness at Sufism and the relationship between them in the Sufi path, and he explained that the drunkenness falls between the awareness before it, which is the awareness associated with heedlessness about god, and the awareness after it, which is the awareness associated with the love of god.

and the research showed that Sufism has two ways in giving preference to awareness or drunkenness over the other, the first way is the way of prioritizing awareness over drunkenness, which is the way of al-Junayd and those who followed his path, and this way is linked to the Sufi’s observance of the controls of reason and sharia, and the other way is the way to prefer drunkenness over awareness, and it is the way of Abu Yazid al-Bastami and whoever followed his path, this path has been linked to the ecstasy of its companions, who make claims from which one can understand their opposition to reason and sharia, the research also presented the most important pioneers of the way of preferring awareness over drunkenness and their evidences on this path.

the research concluded with a speech on one of the pioneers of the path of preferring awareness over drunkenness, Sheikh Muhammad bin Khafif al-Shirazi, and he mentioned a brief summary of him, then he addressed the issue of his preference for awareness over drunkenness, and he proved that he is one of the people of this path, and that his preference for being awareness over drunkenness was linked to his observance of the controls of reason and sharia, where he emphasized the necessity of establishing the disciple on the sciences of sharia, as a fortress for him from falling into the ecstasy of those who preferred drunkenness, from whom he may understand false claims such as incarnation and union.