Sufism By Junaid bAGHDADI

Imam Junayd as-Salik {May Allah have mercy upon him} said: ‘Sufism means that God makes you die to yourself and makes you alive in Him. It is to purify the heart from the recurrence of creaturely temptations, to say farewell to all the natural inclinations, to subdue the qualities which belong to human nature,to keep far from the claims of the senses, to adhere to spiritual qualities, to ascend by means of Divine knowledge, to be occupied with that is eternally thebest, to give wise counsel to all people, faithfully to observe the truth, and to follow the Prophet( şάĻάĻĻάħù'άĻάч'ħέ'ώά'şάĻĻάм ) in respect of the religious law. {Ihya Ulum ad-Din ~ The Revival of the Islamic Sciences}