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4 NEGLECTED ARABIA

(I) The Mystic duel rim*, (2) The mystic riles, and i.l) T lie
Ascetic practices, Bach of these differ aiming the various orders.
In regard to the doctrine of Sufism, two schools are distin­
guished—both of which have the same aim and yet follow a
different interpretation. The goal of their teaching consists in a
search for annihilation of the passions and self (Najs). This
process is called "Finut." and corresponds somewhat to what Puritan
theology calls “the death of the old Adam’*.
The second is called “Ruya" or “Vision,’* that is absorption into
God—coalescence of the soul with the Creator.
Both terms are pantheistic in tendency.
'file two schools of thought among the Dervishes are called the
“Butiniya'* and “Zuhcriyu” that is the Interiorists and the Gxterior-

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i sis. 'The former take as their point of departure man’s cun.
sciousness of God. They believe that by inward couieinplau,l0
the two-fold goal can be reached.
Their religious practices are contemplative.
On the other hand, the Zuhcriyu believe that vocal exercise anj
gymnastic practice are the only methods to launch out upon ^
ocean of divinity. Dancing, whirling, shouting, singing and uuuk
are among their prescribed devotions. Some of the orders belonp
to both schools of thought. •