The Language of the Future

Sufi Terminology by Murshid F.A. Ali ElSenossi

Arabic words starting with M

Mutarjim
Spokesman

Mutarjim - see 'Interpreter'.

mutasawwif
One who aspires to spiritual knowledge

(Mutasawwif). He is the one who aspires to reach high spiritual knowledge. The one who aspires is not the one who has attained. The one who aspires is not the purified knower (Sufi). The one who aspires must put himself under the direction of a Spiri...

muti
Obedient One

(Muti'). The obedient one. He is the one who fulfills the Qur'anic injunction, "He who obeys the Messenger obeys Allah".

mutlaq
Nondelimited

(Mutlaq) . Nondelimited or Infinite.

Muttaka
Rest

(Muttaka). A support, cushion - something that you rest upon. At a certain stage, the Sacred Law becomes a muttaka.

Muttala'
Lookout tower

(Muttala'). Observation of the created world, when the observer has the eye of the Real, the veil of glory. It is blindness and bewilderment.

muttaqi
One with fear of Allah

(Mutaqqi). 'The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Allah' (Hadith). There are many levels of fear, the lower being closely related to the fear of punishment and Hellfire. The higher degrees of fear include the fear of 'losing' Allah after having 'fou...

muwahhid
One who declares Oneness

(Muwahhid). The slave-lover-knower who declares Oneness through his witnessing of the One (al Wahid). The one in annihilation cannot be a Muwahhid due to his total and utter submersion in the One. He no longer has the eyes with which to witness It or...

muzahama
Compete

(Muzahama). To compete or engage in competition (with Allah). Such a situation never occurs for the true slave because he always remains Allah's slave and does not make claims to Lordship.

Muzdalifah
Muzdalifah

The plain between Mina and Arafat where, during the rites of Hajj, the pilgrim collects 49 pebbles with which to symbolically stone the Satan. On the higher plane, this represents the collective state of nearness.

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