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Sufism
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By : Pierre Lory - Friday, 25 March 2011 00:00 |
 The Koran is the sacred book of Islam. He is considered by Muslims as the speech of God literally transmitted to the prophet Muhammad as a divine dictation. He is the source of the faith and the religious practice of nearly a billion followers in the world. As most of religious texts, the Koran was subject to many interpretations. Pierre Lory distinguishes three important movements of Koranic exegese, it means three different ways to try to understand the sacred text:
-a speculative and rationalist movement which considers that the suras of the Koran must be understandable by the Reason. That vision presupposes the existence of a free will.
-a literalistic movement, opposed to the first, which professes the impossibility for the human reason to access to the knowledge of God. Only the Koran can lighten man's reason, this one mustn't question the text which is "perfect" by essence.
-the third form of approach is « mystic ». Conforming to the practice of the Law, this movement adds to the reading of the text an operative dimension: "the sacred text becomes divine presence transforming". It's the way of the Sufis. The Koran becomes a way of meditation and mediation between sky and earth to transform, and "to give birth from the above" (Greek Maieutics).
 
Through the reading of some suras, or the episode of Moses facing the burning bush, Pierre Lory tries to lighten the essence of the mystic experience... It also shows the place of Sufism in Islam and evokes the historical origins of the schism between the Sunnites and the Shiites which virulence has never been that significant.
Do you want to get familiarized with an inner vision of Islam ? Elements of answer with Pierre Lory in this 43-minutes presentation filmed at the Forum 104 .
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