Sufi Classics · July 8, 2026

āsi (Sufism Glossary)

A person without tongue and heart is ignorant, arrogant, and an āsi (rebel against God). Allah does not care for him. There is no good in him. Unless Allah encompasses them with His mercy, guides their qalb (the heart) …

A person without tongue and heart is ignorant, arrogant, and an āsi (rebel against God). Allah does not care for him. There is no good in him. Unless Allah encompasses them with His mercy, guides their qalb (the heart) to iman (faith) and hudā (guidance), and moves their bodies to obedience, he and those like him are like worthless chaff. Beware of becoming like them! Pay them no heed! Do not sit or associate with them! They are people of punishment. (Futūḥ, 74)

asl-fer: The asl (origin, principle) is that to which additions can be made. The origin of all origins is hudā (guidance)... ...Ferʿ (branch) is what remains from the origin. What remains from the branch is also called origin. (Lumāʿ, 433)

The origin makes its branch firm

The branch is not the origin

Know that even the origin's origin does not belong to itself

Consider that the origin is not your own

We can know the branch

The intellect never rejects the origin

Just as we know Allah by our own knowledge

as the transmission (naql) has taught us

so too does the Absolute see my praise

Neither the genus nor the specific difference belongs to the origin

The Real (al-Ḥaqq) addresses me in the language of the Qur'an:

No doer has any deed that truly belongs to himself