Arabic-L:LING:Etymology of sufi response

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Date: 11 Apr 2003
From: Benjamin Troutman <bentroutman at yahoo.com>
Subject:Etymology of sufi response

It may even be from an acronym!  It is believed (mainly among the "West  
Coast new agers") that Ali said that the word, tasawwuf is an acronym  
with each letter (tswf) representing the twelve stages or qualities of  
a Sufi. The first letter (t) stands for abandonment (tark), repentance  
(tawba), and piety (taqwa); the second letter (s) of the word stands  
for patience (sabr), truthfulness (sidq), and purity (safaí); the third  
letter stands for love (wud), remembrance (wird), and faithfulness  
(wafaí); the final letter (f), represents solitude (fard), poverty  
(fikr) and annihilation (fanaí).

http://ias.org/articles/Origin_of_Word_Sufism.html

--Benjamin D. Troutman

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