WHAT THE KNOWERS OF ALLAH HAVE SAID ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF ALLAH Fiqh & Shari'ah leading to a happy and

leading to a happy and purposeful life and the Pleasure of our Lord Allah

refers to transmitted reports from the Companions and others from the righteous predecessors

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and founder of the Hanbali School of Sunni Jurisprudence

The Islamic Foundation UK

WHAT THE KNOWERS OF ALLAH HAVE SAID ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF ALLAH Fiqh & Shari'ah leading to a happy andThe work presented here was originally written for delivery at a Mawlid celebration in Abidjan, Ivory Coa in 2011. It concerns marifat Allh, the experiential knowledge of God, sometimes translated as gnosis or cognizance. Marifa is often considered the essence of the Sufi path, for it meant to aualize the la age of the Islamic religion: after al islm (submission) and al mn (faith) comes al isn (excellence), "to worship God as if you are seeing Him,