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Tags: Islam, Lang:en
Summary
Sufism without the knowledge of Shariah is misguided. Sufism
anchored in the knowledge of Shariah fuses experiences of
spirituality with the knowledge of law. Islamic divine texts
recognize the difference between knowledge and experience, a
fundamental pair necessary to understand Sufism. While
knowledge without experience is plausible, experience without
knowledge is perilous. Albert Einstein’s pronouncement
that “the only source of knowledge is experience”
is a mystical utterance, which justifiably emphasizes the value
of experience to the enterprise of knowledge. **