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A tariqa (or tariqah; Arabic: طريقةṭarīqah) is a school or order of Sufism, or specifically a concept for the mystical teaching and spiritual practices of such an order with the aim of seeking haqiqa, which translates as "ultimate truth".[1]
A tariqa has a murshid (guide) who plays the role of leader or spiritual director. The members or followers of a tariqa are known as muridin (singular murid), meaning "desirous", viz. "desiring the knowledge of God and loving God" (also called a faqir).
Tariqa is also believed to be the same as Tzadik of Judaism meaning the "rightly guided one".
The metaphor of "way, path" is to be understood in connection of the term sharia which also has the meaning of "path", more specifically "well-trodden path; path to the waterhole". The "path" metaphor of tariqa is that of a further path, taken by the mystic, which continues from the "well-trodden path" or exoteric of sharia towards the esoteric haqiqa. A fourth "station" following the succession of shariah, tariqa and haqiqa is called marifa. This is the "unseen center" of haqiqa, and the ultimate aim of the mystic, corresponding to the unio mystica in Western mysticism. Tasawwuf, an Arabic word that refers to mysticism and Islamic esotericism, is known in the West as Sufism.
A tariqa (or tariqah; Arabic: طريقة ṭarīqah) is a school or order of Sufism, or specifically a concept for the mystical teaching and spiritual practices...
Qadiriyya (Arabic: القادرية) are members of the Sunni Qadiri tariqa (Sufi order). The tariqa got its name from Abdul Qadir Gilani (1077–1166, also transliterated...
lecturers of al-Azhar University in Cairo have also been followers of this tariqa. Of the various branches of the Shadhili are the Fassiyatush of Imam Fassi...
The Tariqa Burhāniyya (Arabic: الطريقة البرهانية الدسوقية الشاذلية Ṭarīqa al burhāniyya al disūqiyyah al shādhliyyah; also written al-Burhāniyya or Burhāniyyah)...
Tariqa Waters (born 1980) is a multifaceted contemporary artist known for her whimsical larger-than-life fabrications, paintings, self-portraitures and...
founder of the Qadiriyya tariqa, Abdul-Qadir Gilani, while his great grandmother is of the lineage of the founder of the Mawlawi tariqa, Mawlana Jalaluddin...
silsila means saga. Every Sufi order, or tariqa, has a silsila. Silsila originated with the initiation of tariqa which dates back to the Islamic prophet...
murshid usually has authorisation to be a teacher for one tariqā (spiritual paths). Any tariqa or silsila has one murshid at a time who is the head of the...
Qasmi's works include Mirzaiyat ka radd - Usūl awr Tarīqa-e-Behs and Islam awr AIDS se tahaffuz ka tarīqa. His religious edicts appear regularly in the Friday...
was a Tijani muqaddam (Imam), who was granted authorization (ijāzah) for tariqa. Dahiru Bauchi is deputy chair of the Fatwa Committee of the Supreme Council...
صُوفِيّ, ṣūfīy), and historically typically belonged to "orders" known as tariqa (pl. ṭuruq) – congregations formed around a grand wali who would be the...
leader of the Naqshbandi tariqa. 14 Rajab: Akhundzada Saif-ur-Rahman Mubarak, the founder of the Naqshbandi Mujaddidi Saifia Tariqa. 15 Rajab: Zainab bint...
from the name of the founder, and respectively designate the brotherhood (tariqa, literally: "way") and its disciples (fuqara, sing. to fakir, literally:...
practice of each tariqa is unique to its individual order, specific traditions and customs may differ across countries. The same tariqa in one country will...
"truth") is one of "the four stages" in Sufism, shari’a (exoteric path), tariqa (esoteric path), haqiqa (mystical truth) and marifa (final mystical knowledge...
He told his brothers to take care of his property, whilst he founded the Tariqa-e-Maizbhandaria, or the Maizbhandari Sufi order. The order was influenced...
inner serenity. In Berbera, the established Qadiriyya tariqa would soon be challenged by a new tariqa. The most prominent Sheikh of the Salihiyya order were...
Idris al-Fasi (1760–1837). It was originally called the Tariqa Muhammadiyya. This was not a Tariqa in the sense of an organized Sufi order, but rather a...
Sachal Sarmast or Sacho Sarmast (Sindhi: سچو سرمست; c. 1739 – 1827), was an 18th and 19th century Sindhi Sufi poet, mystic and philosopher from Daraza...
viewed as a devotion or liturgy specific to a particular Sufi order or Tariqa in which the substance is defined and based on dhikr and wird. Sufis designated...
devotional way (sing. tariqa; pl. turuq) is the basis for the formation of particular orders, each of which is also called a tariqa. The specialists in...
The Naqshbandi (Persian: نقشبندیه) is a major Tariqa of Sunni Islam. Its name is derived from the Sayyid Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari. Naqshbandi masters...
an Ustad with permission or Ijazah in the 40 Tariqa Shaykh Khalid Ismael – Ameer of the Naqshbandi Tariqa in the Philippines. Student of the Muhaddith...