![]() It is for this reason that Sufis admonish the uninitiated to desist from making both literal and personal allegorical interpretations of the words therein. ![]() Outwardly, some of the ecstatic utterances may appear incoherent or even blasphemous. This occurs when they are over-whelmed by a personal and intimate experience of the Divine Presence to such a degree that they disconnect from wordly reality. shatahât (شطحات), refers to divinely inspired ecstatic utterances of Sufis during rapturous fervour in their mystical state of fanâ’ or “passing away of the self”. It is the penultimate ode in the revered liturgical work of the ‘Arusi-Qadiri way, Ratib Jalaliyyah. “The Theophany Ode” is another poem in the tradition of al-khamriyyah attributed to Sayyidna-sh Shaikh ‘Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, may Allah be well pleased with him. ![]()
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