ZUHD (MUSLIM ASCETICISM)

- defined not as practice but outlook, not as simple renunciation of the world but as indifference to its temptations
- is for the heart to be empty of what the hand is empty of
- when God created the world, He set sin and ignorance in satiety and knowledge and wisdom in hunger
- sleep hardens and deadens the heart

HUSN Al TADBIR - Discretion
AWDAT AL DHIHN - Excellence of discernment
THAQABAT AL RAY - Penetration of thought
ISABAT AL ZANN - Correctness of conjecture
FANA - Doctrine of anhilation
BAQA - Subsistence
ISHQ - Passionate love
AHWAL - State
MAQAMAT - Stations on spiritual path
RIYADHA - Self discipline
NAFS - Soul abode of Hawa
HAWA - Shahwa - Desire, desire of wealth, fame, power, physical gratification
RUH - Imperishible spirit
NAFS MUTMAINNA - Soul of peace
UZLA - Solitude
DHIKR - Rememberence of God
FIKR - Meditation
SIYAM - Fasting
SAMT - Silence
SABR - Patient endurance
JU - Hunger
SAHR - Sleeplessness

4 FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE A MAN'S SOUL
1. Inborn disposition (Good/Evil)
2. Upbringing
3. Self-discipline
4. God's Grace