Islamic spiritualism in the modern times (the study of thought of Seyyed Hossein Nasr)

Abstract

This article shows the thought of Seyyed Hossein Nasr concerning islamic spiritualism in the modern times. Modern society is a group of people who organized the intellectual structure through positivistic premises, and the pioneer of hedonistic doctrine mired in humanism. The consequences of modernism is, man as the main controller has distorted the reality of life that the ultimate nature of man. Modernity leaves humanitarian issue, so it is like a rolling disaster that struck the entire life of the community. Seyyed Hossein Nasr offers a traditional approach, with sufism as an alternative that is able to meet the spiritual needs of modern man. To be able to achieve the level of existence, the man must hold a spiritual approach and train the intellectual acuity. Sufism is able breathed his spirit into the whole structure of Islam both in social and intellectual manifestations. Spiritualism through understanding of sufism could be answered to the spiritual crisis of modern man through three attempts, actively practiced sufism, Islam presents a more attractive, and the functioning of sufism as a tool for the revival of spiritualism.