Abstract:
Wilayat is a term that has been discussed in many works of Sufis; nevertheless, research into the works of Sultan Mohammad Ganabadi, titled Sultan Alishah, an Imami mystic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, shows that in his works he has addressed new meanings of Wilayat in the realm of mysticism and Sufism. According to him, the term Wilayat, which is frequently used in the hadiths narrated from the Prophet of Islam and the Shia Imams (peace be upon them), refers to one of the following three meanings: 1. The allegiance (Bay'ah) customary among Sufis and the 'hand-shaking' (Dast dadan) that is common among them; 2. The celestial form of the Imams (peace be upon them) in the heart of the seeker, which in verses and narrations has been interpreted as faith, tranquility (Sakina), and gnosis (Ma'rifat) of luminosity; 3. The state resulting from the appearance of the aforementioned form, which consists of submission and obedience towards the aforementioned Imams (Ulu al-Amr) and servitude towards God.
Machine summary:
The appropriate state of the emergence of the aforementioned form, which consists of submission and obedience towards the aforementioned Imams (those in authority) and servitude towards God. Abstract: Keywords: Sultan Alishah, meaning of Wilayah, handshake, general allegiance (bay'at amma), special allegiance (bay'at khassa) Member of the scientific faculty of the Islamic Encyclopedia Foundation (Encyclopedia of the Islamic World) e-mail:porujnia@gmail.
Special bay'ah is a pledge through which an individual, by means of repentance and the transmission of dhikr and thought by the poles or masters of the path, becomes obligated to perform heart-based actions and observe the etiquettes of the path (in addition to the rulings of Sharia), and as a result - and with the effort of the Sheikh - a path is opened from the heart of the traveler to the celestial realm, and they succeed in exiting the natural world, entering that realm, traversing the stations of the spiritual journey, and reaching the station of the Perfect Human (Sultan Alishah, 1384a: 345).
Sultan Alishah regarding the second meaning of the word Wilayah [the celestial form of the Imams عليهم السلام] says thus: Know that whoever performed bay'ah with Ali [عليه السلام] through the special bay'ah of Wilayah, by placing his hand in the hand of His Eminence in the manner prescribed according to them, through this bay'ah and this physical connection, a spiritual form of Him enters the heart of the bay'ah-maker...
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