Jihat approach in sufism (The example of Sheikh Muhammed Dîyâuddîn)

The people of Sûfîsm, in order to reach the level of the perfect human being, have cut off their interests and ties to the outside world and turned to their inner worlds in order to train their bad morals and attitudes. They saw their nafs, which led them to evil, as the biggest obstacle to their success in this cause. They claimed that the struggle against the ego, which is the greatest enemy in man, is the "great jihad". They interpreted many jihad verses in the Qur'an from this point of view and developed their own methods and methods. The people of Sûfîsm named the jihad against the nafs as the "great jihad", and the jihad against the enemies on the battlefield as the "small jihad". However, the purpose of classifying jihad as "major jihad" and "small jihad" is not because they see one as more valuable or worthless than the other. Because, in the research, we see that the people of mysticism practice both dimensions of jihad in their lives. The purpose of this classification is the struggle against the soul; This is due to the fact that man is a type of jihad that lasts from the day he is wise to his death, and that this jihad is difficult.