maarifat

Updated: January 22, 2026

In this high communion alone is it that man arrives at the perfection of which his nature is capable. The state of the hakyat fully attained, man has to take but one step more and he is perfect even as God is perfect. This is the state called the Maarifat.

J. Milton (John Milton) Mackie - Life of Schamyl: And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia