High figure of the Moslem spirituality of the traditional period 7th century at the 10th century, unanimously celebrated as a very large Master Soufi (the lord of the soufis is one of its nicknames), Abû Qasim Al-Junayd Al-Baghdadi (death in 911) represents with Al-Muhasibi a spiritual orientation where clearness overrides intoxication. In that, he preaches a certain prudence as regards mystical testimonys of experiments which could mislay the believers of the revealed law.

Nevertheless, it draws from the Coran and the Sunna the explanations of the declarations of some soufis like Bistami or Al Hallaj which it had besides a time for disciple. According to him the spiritual rapture its source in the pact Ontologique (Mithaq) that God concluded with Its creatures in their asking - “amn't I take Your Lord? ”.

This paramount engagement of humanity flashed back at the soufis in the form of intoxication, of the rapture, even of the extinction as a God or the creature merges with its Creator like the water drop with the ocean.

Thus the remarks extatic of some soufis are they enlightened: “That which is damaged in the manifestations of Glory expresses according to what destroys; when God withdraws it from the perception of sound me and that it notes nothing any more in him but God, it describes It. ” This is not without recalling the Al-Hallaj words on Truth (Al-Haqq). As Junayd considers you it as the state of extinction (Fana) must be imperatively exceeded to arrive to external sobriety and thus to a socially possible Sufism. A proverb soufi expresses this reality as follows: “It is necessary to have the body in the shop and the heart in the divine Presence. ”

The teaching of Junayd, compiled in epistle S where it treats metaphysics Être as well as rules of the Way, made it possible Islam to be based on strong foundations before deploying the great systems of its mystical theology. Its enormous influence been worth to him the nickname of “Prince of the Order” and the large majority of future the Confréries soufies will go from fact t0 the “Way of Junayd. ”