Definitions of Tasawwuf

Al-Qushayri relates from al-Junayd the following definitions of tasawwuf:

• "Not the profusion of prayer and fasting, but wholeness of the breast and selflessness."
• "Tasawwuf means that Allah causes you to die to your self and gives you life in Him."
• "It means that you be solely with Allah with no attachments."
• "It is a war in which there is no peace."
• "It is supplication together with inward concentration, ecstasy together with attentive hearing, and action combined with compliance [with the Sunna]."
• "It is the upholding of every high manner and the repudiation of every low one."