The Mystics and the Virtue of Eating Halal Food

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

Maryam Haghi ¹ , Zahra Salehi Sadati ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature Payam-e-Nour University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature Payam-e-Nour University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-09-17 Accepted : 2021-09-17 Published : 2021-09-23

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Abstract :

The miracles of mystics and their related anecdotes constitute a large volume of mystical stories and is one of the key topics in Persian mystical texts. In a general classification, different types of miracles are divided into three main types: Notification of the unseen, aristocracy of insides, and possession of the universe, each of which includes several sub-types. One of the sub-types of the miracles of notification of the unseen is the recognition of the forbidden or suspicious nature of the morsel and the food through food and divine instruction. This dignity is based on the Sufi belief that if absolute blood covers the whole world, the believer will eat nothing except halal. In this dignity, the mystic without any signs and sometimes with signs such as moving a finger vein, not reaching for the forbidden, feeling full and not going down the forbidden morsel from the throat, calling to the heart, speaking of forbidden food, seeing blackness, Impurity and blood in food and ... is associated. Opponents of mystics sometimes used this method to test their legitimacy, and often, after being recognized as a mystic, they sought forgiveness and became mystics' followers. In this article, while collecting, classifying and analyzing such miracles in earlier mystical books, it has been tried to point out recent examples of this virtue.