انوار معرفت

One of the most important things in the explanation of mystical subjects has been its combination with Persian literature. Abolhasan Hajviri's book, "Kashf al-Mahjoob", is among the first mystical books in Persian admired and supported by later mystics. It deals with the mystical behavior and includes "behavioural requirements" which reveal Hajviri's behavioral method to some extent. Since one of the most widespread criticisms of mysticism and Sufism is distancing from the methods of conduct, Sharia, religious sources and the school of Ahl al-Bayt, this article has attempted to select three examples of the requirements of conduct from the perspective of Hajviri (poverty, the congruence of knowledge and action, and the sustainability of struggle) that have been widely criticized. After explaining each of these requirements that the wayfarer must pay constant attention to, through rereading and explaining the narrations, it has established a narrative discussion on the subject in order to assess the words of Hajviri in his book on practical mysticism. Among the characteristics of the narrations discussed in this article is their reliability in terms of chain of transmission and not straying from their apparent implication in explanation. The results of this descriptive-analytical research show the inconsistency of some of these teachings, or at least some interpretations of these teachings, with the mysticism of the Ahl al-Bayt and the consistency of some others.