known as zikr, common to most Sufi tariqas - chants, hymns, and ritual movements that date back centuries. While the forms of Sufi meditation Technique have an religious context and expression, no 'belief' is asked for in Sufi meditation Technique practice - only heartfelt, ecstatic practice itself.
Sufi meditation is a mystic tradition of Islam encompassing a diverse range of beliefs and Sufi meditation Technique practices dedicated to the love and service of one's fellow men and Allah/God. Tariqas (Sufi orders) may be associated with Shi'a Islam, Sunni Islam, other currents of Islam, or a combination of multiple traditions.
Sufi meditation is generally reckoned to originate in the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. Sufi meditation Technique has the capacity to contain the direct experiential gnosis of God, and then passed on from teacher to student through the centuries.
Tamarkoz or Muraqaba is the word used by many Sufis when referring to the practice of Sufi meditation Technique meditation. Sufi meditation is a meditation technique in which they try to connect with their inner dimension since as humans and as a part of the Reality we too have an inner and outer dimension. And in the Sufi meditation Technique they try to pull themselves away from the peripheries of ourselves into the inner so that we are able to connect with the Unity of Oneness. In Sufi meditation Technique , meditator do this in Sufism by focusing on the Source of Unity, that is God, and by calling on certain names of God in order to access that inner connection. This is because calling upon the Names of God puts us in a “groove” if you like, of the possibility of transcendence. And the reason the Sufi meditation Technique is called Zikr, meaning remembrance, is because we were in that state of proximity and transcendence before coming into this world. This is why Sufi meditation is generally about remembrance of God through the invocation of his various Names.
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