Tarîqa (RTL rear طَرِيقة, pl.: turuq: rear RTL طرق, proceeded; sees; method ) is a term generally applies to the designation of the mystical orders in Islam or Confréries soufies.

The various treaties soufis symbolize the tarîqa by the ray of a disc whose external contour would be the exoteric religious law or Shari' has and whose center would be divine Reality or Haqiqa. The " voie" would thus express this unutterable ideal to prolong and appronfondir the Moslem tradition, as a vectrice of a transformation of oneself.

A brotherhood soufie always places itself (ideally) under the direction of a Master (chaykh) who, by the means of an initiatory pact establishes with its disciples, commits itself guiding them in their spiritual advance. The turuq truly structured towards the XI {{E}} 12th century. Their extension towards the various layers of the Moslem companies was done gradually according to the sociocultural conditions of the surfaces of Moslem space (Black Africa, world Arab, Persan, Indian, indonésien, Chinese etc).

It is possible that the turuq could facilitate a certain internal mixing of the companies as an attempt to release itself from any conditioning, tending to also release the man, without calling this one into question. This step is a purely personal step independent of all social structures. The man must be either exclusively defined in a horizontal way (Territory, ethnos group, family of membership) but of advantage in a vertical way, Ontologique, in his indefectible bond with the divinity at the same time as under his human condition most radical which, in fact, makes it similar to no matter whom of other.

To put the question of the term of the spiritual way is difficult since it has by definition neither beginning, nor end. Nevertheless, the soufis speak about progressive examination, destitution to arrive, in their ultimate expressions, with speaking about extinction of ego (Fana).

Simple: Tarika