He was initiated by Schuon into the path of the Shadhiliyya Tariqa (the Sufi fraternity) of which the Algerian Sheikh Ahmad Al-Alawi was a great representative. His attraction was to Sufism, which is the esoteric essence of the religion. Lings became Guénon's assistant and devotee, and through him discovered "Sophia Perennis", the eternal wisdom whose principles are enshrined in the world's great religions and spiritual traditions, from Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Hinduism to Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and in the light of which he would live his whole life.īut the decisive encounter of Martin Lings's life, one which would define his path and work, was with the Swiss-German philosopher and Sufi master Frithjof Schuon, under whose guidance Lings converted to Islam. It was in Cairo that Lings met the French philosopher René Guénon, one of the guiding lights of what became known as the Traditionalist School of philosophy, one aspect of which is the critique of the modern world, with its excessive materialism and loss of the sacred. He stayed 11 years, mastered the Arabic language, and on his return to London in the 1950s took a degree followed by a doctorate in Arabic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies. After Oxford he travelled in Europe, lecturing at various universities including Kaunas in Lithuania, and in 1940 went to Egypt to teach English Literature at the University of Cairo. Young Martin was intensely pious and spent the hours he was not working in prayer, specifically to the Virgin Mary, requesting her guidance in finding his spiritual path. Lewis, who recognised his gifted student's spiritual ardour. After Clifton College in Bristol, he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, and read English under C.S. The verses we have in the Quran were the real verses reveled to the Prophet(SAW) and that is what he recited to the people around him.Lings was born in 1909 in Lancashire. The author by taking a scientific approach to the incident suggests that the Satanic verses were neither revealed by Allah(ST), nor conveyed by angel Gabriel, nor inserted by Satan, nor recited by the Prophet(SAW).
1157), Fakhr ad-Din Razi (1220) as well as al-Qurtubi (1285) have refuted the incident, Ibn Taymiyya was of the view the incident did happen. However, objections to the incident were raised as early as the fourth Islamic century. When he reached the verses "Have you seen al-Lāt and al-'Uzzā and Manāt, the third, the other?' in Surah An-Najm, Satan cast upon his tongue: 'These are the high-flying cranes and their intercession is to be hoped for.' The incident is reported in the literature dating from the first two centuries of Islam. Satanic Verses refers to words of "satanic suggestion" which the Prophet(SAW) is alleged to have mistaken for divine revelation.
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