Personal Experience with Sufism as Therapy

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The 1st Sentence:

The first experience was when I had to choose what core subject to teach

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as a lecturer.

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The 2nd Sentence:

In 2001, after I had obtained my position as a permanent lecturer in the Faculty

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of Syariah in Medan, I was anxious with regard to my core subject

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specialization.

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The 3rd Sentence:

I had graduated from the Comparative Islamic School of Thoughts study

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program, and I was supposed to teach in the same program, or at least similar

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or related programs.
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The 4th Sentence:

In my anxiety, I experienced a spiritual longing for our beloved Prophet pbuh.

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The 5th Sentence:

I don‟t know why, but every time I was reminded of the name “Muhammad”,

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my heart was awash with a deep urge, a yearning to be close to the Prophet.

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The 6th Sentence:

Fortunately, I had a „recourse‟ in the books of sufism I had collected.

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The 7th Sentence:

Thank God, I became less anxious and more convinced that I should teach sufism,

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as well as deepening my own knowledge in practice.

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The second experience came when I was suffering from an acute stomach ulcer

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in 2008.

Accompanied by my wife, I „visited‟ several doctors in Ciputat and Medan.

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Even though I had consumed several types of medicine recommended by the

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doctors, I had not recovered.

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I still felt ill, weak, and nauseous, with instances of vomiting and diarrhea

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as well as difficulty in breathing.

In this unhappy condition, I was taken to meet a person who provided me with

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spiritual therapy, with no medication, not even in the form of plain water.

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And yet I was cured!

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After the therapy, I became convinced that sufism is some

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kind of divine therapy capable of bringing a person physical and spiritual calm,

peace, happiness, and wellbeing.

Since then, I have considered sufism to be a physical and spiritual „medicine‟.

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