Can you give me a little info on Kabbalah of Islam? I thought it was purely Jewish? By Kabbalah I was particularly referring to its information like how the universe was created, the supernatural beings, etc.
Ohofffff ., this Kabbalah thing has so many varieties in Judaism and In Islam, in the end it is very little to do with original scriptures and more to do with individuals., In Islam it goes in to so-called Sufi mode/Sufism. there too much out there on this subject.. but let me start with
uncle wiki Rubaya ..lol ., I know you pay for your connections and I don't want you to spend your money reading the zillion silly links i put out in to the posts .. So wiki says
Kabbalah (Hebrew: קַבָּלָה, literally means "receiving/tradition" and different transliterations tend to denote different traditions., Kabbalah is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism and it is often called a Mekubal
Kabbalah's definition varies according to the tradition and aims of those following it, from its religious origin as an integral part of Judaism, to its later Christian, New Age, and goes in to Islam in the form of Sufi teachings It also turns in to Occultist syncretic adaptations. . one must realize here behind all these Kabbalah traditions., there is some guru/preacher/school thought.
Kabbalah is a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain the relationship between an unchanging, eternal, and mysterious Ein Sof (no end) and the mortal and finite universe (God's creation). While it is heavily used by some denominations, it is not a religious denomination in itself. It forms the foundations of mystical religious interpretation.
in short., useless fit for nothing, get nothing from society, give nothing to society and who go in to caves, pray nothing, eat what his/her followers give are the perfect examples of Kabbalah teachers...
Yes to me it is indeed Mambo-jumbo ., for many others it has some value., I am one of those RASCALS who questions everything. So Kabbalah and its preachers are not exception to that rule. What all i can give them is.,
"Kabbalah as an hypothesis" and people must have freedom to explore and inquire about it.. BUT THEY CAN NOT FORCE EVERYONE TO FOLLOW THEIR KABBALAH.
And in every step they(kabbalah guys) must use and follow
"simple golden rule " in inquiring about this monotheistic mysticism/mysteries of Kabbalah.
and please read this from uncle wiki
Kabbalah is considered by its followers as a necessary part of the study of Torah – the study of Torah (the Tanakh and Rabbinic literature) being an inherent duty of observant Jews.
Kabbalah teaches doctrines that are accepted by some Jews as the true meaning of Judaism while other Jews have rejected these doctrines as heretical and antithetical to Judaism.
After the Medieval Kabbalah, and especially after its 16th-century development and synthesis, Kabbalah replaced Jewish philosophy (hakira) as the mainstream traditional Jewish theology,[citation needed] both in scholarly circles and in the popular imagination. With the arrival of modernity, through the influence of haskalah, this has changed among non-Orthodox Jewish denominations, although its 20th-century academic study and cross-denominational spiritual applications (especially through Neo-Hasidism) has reawakened a following beyond Orthodoxy.
Scholars dispute whether the term "kabbalah" originated with the Jewish philosopher
Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021–1058) or with the 13th-century Spanish kabbalist Bahya ben Asher. While other terms have been used in many religious documents from the 2nd century up to the present day, the term "kabbalah" has become the main descriptive of Jewish esoteric knowledge and practices.[citation needed] Jewish mystical literature, which served as the basis for the development of kabbalistic thought, developed through a theological tradition inherent in Judaism from Antiquity, as part of wider Rabbinic literature.
Its theoretical development can be characterised in alternative schools and successive stages.
After the Hebrew Bible experience of prophecy, the first documented schools of specifically mystical theory and method in Judaism are found in the 1st and 2nd centuries, described in the heichalot (supernal "palaces") texts and the earliest existent book on Jewish esotericism, Sefer Yetzirah. Their method, known as Merkabah (contemplation of the Divine "Chariot") mysticism lasted until the 10th century, where it was subsumed by the Medieval doctrinal emergence of the Kabbalah in southwestern Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries. Its teachings, embodied in the Zohar, became the foundation of later Jewish mysticism, becoming re-interpreted in the early-modern developments of 16th-century Safed in the Galilee, through the new system of Isaac Luria. Lurianic Kabbalah became popularised as a social mysticism for the whole Jewish community through 18th-century Hasidism in eastern Europe, and its new notions of mystical leadership.
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As you can see from wiki writer., that original Kabbalah that is there in Torah /the Tanakh and Rabbinic literature has been modified/ reinterpreted by these modern Jewish Kabbalah gurus... And same thing goes to
different Sufi schools of Islam Anyway Rubaya My question to you is.,
WHY ARE YOU INTERESTED IN THIS NONSENSE?