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islamic-tasawwufWe're still mapping where this idea was first discussed. Key passages and related ideas below.

Iḥsān (Spiritual Excellence)

'To worship God as though you see Him' — the highest of the three dimensions of religion in the Ḥadīth of Gabriel, taken by Sufis as the charter of the inner science.

'To worship God as though you see Him' — the highest of the three dimensions of religion in the Ḥadīth of Gabriel, taken by Sufis as the charter of the inner science.

Key passages(20)

Tacrifat · Al-Sharif al-Jurjani

Very high

al-ʿUhud al-Muhammadiyya · al-Sha'rani

Very high

Futuhat Makkiyya · Ibn Arabi

Very high

Ghunya · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

Very high

Ihyaʾ ʿUlum al-Din · al-Ghazali

Very high

Jamiʿ al-Masaʾil · Ibn Taymiyya

Very high

Lataif Isharat · al-Qushayri

Very high

Madarij Salikin · Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Very high

Mafatih Ghayb · Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

Very high

Majmuʿ al-Fatawa · Ibn Taymiyya

Very high

Masail Li Idah · Ibn Arabi

Very high

Musnad · Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Very high

Rasail Wa Fatawa · Ibn Taymiyya

Very high

al-Saʿada wa-l-Isʿad · al-Amiri

Very high
Zuhd 348↗explains

Zuhd · Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Very high

Badaʾiʿ al-Fawaʾid · Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Very high

Sahih Muslim · Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

Very high

Fawaid · Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Very high

Ikhtisas · al-Mufid

Very high

Lawaqih Anwar · al-Sha'rani

Very high