The word · The heart
المَقَام
Maqam
A station on the spiritual path, in the vocabulary used mainly by Sufi writers.
Also written · Maqamat · Maqaam · Makam · Station · Stations · Hal · Ahwal · Haal · Spiritual station · States and stations · Suluk · Salik
The meaning
What Maqam means in Islam
In that literature a maqam is a stage the traveller reaches and holds by effort, such as repentance, patience or reliance, while a hal is a state that comes over the heart and passes, such as a moment of intense longing. The lists and their order differ from author to author. Outside Sufi writing the same qualities are discussed without this ranking.
Evidence · Editorial · Our own summary, drawn from the sources named
Read beside it
Rooms that name it
Words that sit beside it
- TasawwufThe Islamic tradition of inner purification, called Sufism in English, and read very differently by different scholars.التَّصَوُّف
- TariqahA Sufi order: a lineage with a shaykh, a set litany, and a method for training students.الطَّرِيقَة
- TazkiyahThe purification of the self: the work of clearing the heart of what spoils it.التَّزْكِيَة
- MujahadahThe struggle against your own self: making yourself do the right thing when you do not want to.المُجَاهَدَة
More from The heart
- 'AfwPardon: dropping a wrong you are owed, without the other person having to earn it.العَفْو
- Ghadd al-BasarLowering the gaze: turning your eyes away from what you are not permitted to look at.غَضُّ البَصَر
- IstighfarAsking Allah for forgiveness, usually in the words astaghfirullah.الاسْتِغْفَار
- MuraqabahLiving with the awareness that Allah sees you, at the moment you are acting.المُرَاقَبَة
- RuqyaReciting Qur'an and prophetic supplications over a sick or afflicted person as treatment.الرُّقْيَة
- SuhbahCompanionship: the people you sit with, treated in the sources as a cause of what you become.الصُّحْبَة