Attaining absorption and ecstasy in the love of God
“He who has access to the divine realities is drawn away in rapture,” said Hazrat Sayyid Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (1196–1258), the founder of the Shadhili Sufi order (tariqa). In our modern times, rapture is understood as a term limited to the experience of the senses. Our thirst for spiritual growth may find rapture in the…