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The Spiritual Journey and The Unitive Experience: A Semantic Analysis on the Concept of Wuṣūl in Six Kitāb of Ṭarīqah Qādiriyyah wa Naqshabandiyyah Aris Widodo
Ulumuna Vol 20 No 2 (2016): December
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v20i2.811

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One of the striking issues that beset human beings is how to have the encounter with God, to whom they worship. Therefore, some of them design a roadmap of spiritual journey to have the encounter. An Islamic Sufi order, Ṭarīqah Qādiriyyah wa Naqshabandiyyah (TQN) have done so. This article tries to deal with the three ways of spiritual journey that will enhance human beings to arrive (wuṣūl) at God as explained in six books of the TQN. Besides, using semantic approach, this study also endeavors to unearth the concept of wuṣūl encapsulated in the three ways of the spiritual journey. Apart from that, this article takes into account as well whether the concept of wuṣūl in the TQN as a unitive experience refers to waḥdah al-wujūd or wahdah al-shuhūd. By comparing the indicators, this article comes to the conclusion that the concept of wuṣūl in the TQN refers to the waḥdah al-shuhūd. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v20i2.811
From Ritual Theory To a Spiritual Biology: Prayer and the Activation of Chakras-Hormones in Human Metabolism Aris Widodo; Dwi Purbowati
Ulumuna Vol 26 No 1 (2022): June
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Mataram

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v26i1.481

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Prayer as one of the essentials of human beings as "homo Deus", has become the object of studies from diverse perspectives: theosophical, sociological, psychological, phenomenological, and even political. This study will, however, shed light on this issue from another angle, namely a bio-spiritual standpoint, since the human being is made up of psycho-somatic features, or body, mind, and soul, with particular reference precisely to the human metabolism: endocrine system. This article will argue that human hormones, which have a pivotal role in human metabolism, are related to seven glands. These glands are actively managed to be stipulated by the activation of seven subtle energy centers, chakras, which can be done, among other things, by prayer (ṣalāh). To say the other way round, prayer (ṣalāh) will activate the seven chakras that will, in turn, stimulate the seven glands of the human endocrine system and will eventually boost the hormones that are significant for human life. In this way, this study will provide more illustration where "Scientia Sacra" (sacred science), concerning prayer (ṣalāh), meets "profane" science in a sort of "spiritual biology."