"Detachment from everything is avbsolutely necessary for the saint's unification with God. The meaning of detachment is that one should be detached outwardly from accidents, and inwardly from compensation."
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Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi
Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi (d. 995) was a Persian Hanafi Maturidi Sufi scholar and the author of the Kitab at-ta'arruf, one of the most important works of Sufism composed during the first three-hundred years of Islam.
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