Sufi spiritual discipline aims to align human will with sharia commands.

Evidence

According to Ibn Taymiyya the only point of spiritual discipline (the point that makes sufism essential) is to promote a convergence between human willing and the commands of God as expressed in the shari¯‘a. Thus for Ibn Taymiyya (and for Abduh) “at every stage the servant must desire to do that which has been commanded him in the shari¯‘a and avoid what has been forbidden him in the shari¯‘a. When [the mystic Abd al-Qadir] commands the servant to leave off his desiring, that pertains to those things which have been neither commanded nor forbidden.” — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1205

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the Islamic conception of ‘ibadat/mu’amalat as unified bodily-moral space that Safwat’s secular-liberal scheme would split apart.
• XREF: The claim that worshipful bodily practice and social conduct are inseparable undermines the Cooper-coded clean division between genuine interior religion and merely social form.