158 AN INTRODUCTION TO SUFI DOCTRINE

Jalil-ad-din Rami: 1207-1273; a famous Sufi of Konya ; found-

i ed the Mevlevi order of “ whirling dervishes.”” Composed

: the well-known poem, the Mathnawi, in Persian, which
contains his whole doctrine.

al-jam‘: synthesis, union, unitive consciousness ; the opposite is
al farq.

al-Jami, Nir-ad-din ‘Abd ar-Rahman: Persian Sufi, author of the
treatise Lawaih, ‘‘Flashes.”” Died in 898 A.H.

al-jihad al asghar : the lesser holy war, i.e., the external holy
war against infidels.

al-jihad al-akbar : the greater holy war, i.e., the inward holy war
against passions and ignorance. On returning from a cam-
paign against the infidels the Prophet said : ““We have come
back from the lesser holy war to the greater holy war.”

al-jinnah or al-jinn: the genii: subtle beings belonging to the
world of forms.

al-Junayd, Abu-1-Qasim, ob. 910, famous master of Sufism, named
“the leader of the troop.”

karb : tautening, distress; opposed to ranfis (dilation, consola-
tion), a word derived from naffasa, (q. v.). Before they are
““dilated” in a distinctive mode the possibilities of manifes-
tation are in a state of ‘“‘contraction” when considered
from the point of view of their later development, though
not in their immutable reality.

al-kashf: intuition ; literally : “‘the raising of a curtain or veil.

al-kawnu insanun kabirun wa-Il-insanu kawnun saghir : “The universe
(or, the cosmos) is a big man and man is a little universe
(or, cosmos).” Sufi saying.

khalwa : seclusion, spiritual retreat.

khatim or khatam, seal: khatim-al-Wilayah : “The seal of Sanc-
tity”’ ; khatim an-Nubuwwah: “The seal of Prophecy.”
The former expression is often related to Christ at his
second coming, the latter always refers to Muhammad.

al-kimiya as-sa‘dah: ‘‘the alchemy of bliss”, the title of a book