Zuhd

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 243 words | Copyright

Zuhd (Arab., zahada, ‘abstain’). Abstinence in Muslim life, at first from sin and from all that separates from God; then (for those pursuing a Sūfī path) from all that is created in order to cling only to the Creator.

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