![]() ![]() For example, Junayd is quoted as saying, 'The water takes on the color of the cup.' While this might seem rather confusing at first, ‘Abd al-Hakeem Carney explains it best: 'When the water is understood here to refer to the Light of Divine self-disclosure, we are led to the important concept of 'capacity,' whereby the Divine epiphany is received by the heart of any person according to that person’s particular receptive capacity and will be 'colored' by that person’s nature'. Such returnees from the experience of selflessness are thus reconstituted as renewed selves,' just like an intoxicated person sobering up. ![]() Sober Sufism is characterized by people who 'experience fana and do not subsist in that state of selfless absorption in God but find themselves returned to their senses by God. Works by Junayd Junayd helped establish the 'sober' school of Sufi thought, which meant that he was very logical and scholarly about his definitions of various virtues, tawhid, etc.
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