names and essences

Mawlana Shah Naqshband was asked « Who is the reciter and who is the sufi in the saying of junayd, “disconnect yourself from the reciter of books, and accompany the sufis?” » He said “the reciter is the one busy with the words and the names and the sufi is the one who is busy with the essence of the names.”


Classical Islam, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani.