Al-Ṭarīqa Al-Shāthuliya Al-Yashruṭiah

Abstract

“Mohamad asked a slave woman: Where is God? She replied: He is up in the sky. He then asked her: Who am I? She said: You are the Messenger of God. He said: Let her go, she is a believer, mu’minah.” In this tradition, ḥadīth, the Prophet of Islām lays down the rule of tolerance and acceptance to the other. The question about God is one the main questions that occupy the   human mind, and is often tackled from different approaches, and separate paths: “walau shāa’ rabbuka laj‘ala al-nāsa ummatan wāḥidah.^[1]”It is His will that He wanted them to be that way, and He accepts them as such. ‘The Truth’ lies wherever an individual or a community believes, and the paths followed in search of ‘The Truth’ are in number equal to the number of human souls. But God states: “We (God) are nearer to him (man) than his jugular vein.”[2] In this verse, āyah, we find our guidance properly defined, as to where the search begins and where it ends. It defines that: “The Truth and the Path are within you.”

 The Sufi ṭarīqa, Al-Ṭariqa al-Shāthuliyah al-Yashruṭiyah is the institute where a dedicated path-minded^[3] follower of knowledge finds his objective through the cultivation of the Soul by love and brotherhood, to become liable to realize ‘The Eternal Truth’. It is a philosophical discipline that encourages critical and independent thought and is capable of working towards a better understanding of the world and promoting tolerance and peace.