Tasawwuf Sufism of the Great Salaf Imam Al- Shafi (R)
Imam Shafi`i (r)
Al-hafiz al-Suyuti relates in Ta’yid al-haqiqa al-`aliyya that Imam al-Shafi`i said:
I accompanied the Sufis and received from them but three words: their statement that time is a sword: if you do not cut it, it cuts you; their statement that [...]
