نقد مستندات قرآنی و روایی «چله نشینی»

Forty days period of meditation is a compound verbal that the first part of which is forty-day seclusion and is indicative number forty. This number in most cultures is a holy number and significant and it can be said that this number has specific secrets and mysteries. But Forty days period of meditation is an action that Sufi devotee in forty days forces himself to specific godliness and Austerities in order to purify himself from vices that in dealing with society and people reached him. This action has ceremonials like sleeping too little and eating less. This tradition has proponents like the Egyptian “Zu Al-Noon” and opponents like “Shams Tabrizi”. The believers’ documentations for Forty days period of meditation is Moses’s forty nights appointment, Muhammad’s (God bless him and his family) reclusion and a hadith from him about forty days sincerity, but none of these cases support Sofia’s traditional Forty days period of meditation.

کلیدواژه ها:

چله نشینی ، خلوت ، چهل ، سالک ، اخلاص ، میقات