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Tasawwuf is a branch of Islamic knowledge which focuses on the spiritual
development of the Muslim.
Allah
 sent His final messenger, Prophet
Muhammad
 , as a source of knowledge for the
entire ummah. He
was the fountain of Quran,
Hadith, tafsir, rhetoric, fiqh, and so on. After the Prophet, the scholars of
this ummah carried and propagated each of these branches of knowledge. Because
no one person can attain the perfection of the Prophet
, who single handedly assumed all of these
roles, various branches of the Islamic sciences developed. For example, Imam Abu
Hanifah preserved the science of fiqh and after him thousands of scholars
continued in his footsteps. Hence these scholars preserved the fiqh of the
Prophet
. Similarly Imam Bukhari and the
other famous scholars of Hadith, preserved the words of the Prophet. The
scholars of tajweed preserved the recitation of the Prophet
. And, the scholars of Arabic grammar
preserved the language of the Prophet
.
Along these lines, the Prophet
was the
model of spirituality for the world. His God-consciousness, deep spirituality,
acts of worship, and love for Allah
were
preserved and propagated by an Islamic science called Tasawwuf. The aim of the
scholars of this science was purification of the heart, and development of
consciousness of Allah
through submission to
the Shariah and Sunnah.
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