A study of the connection between religion, mysticism and Sufism in the third century AH

One of the topics that has always been debated among theologians is the connection between religion and mysticism. A look at the background of these discussions shows that opinions and sayings in this field are very different and sometimes contradictory: some believe that mysticism is anti-religion; Another group considers mysticism to be alien to religion; Some interpret mysticism as religion and some interpret mysticism as the heart and essence of religion. In another analysis, mysticism is introduced as a part of religion and in another analysis, the essence of religion. An in-depth examination of these views shows that the main reason for all these differences and contradictions lies in the fact that most of these great men have used only a part of mysticism and mystics' views as the basis for their discussion and analysis. However, mysticism and Sufism have their own characteristics in each period, and only a careful study of each century and sometimes each decade can explain the specific relationship between religion and mysticism in that particular period. In this article, the authors have tried to address this basic point and based on this to explain the relationship between the two in the third century AH - one of the most important periods of Iranian, Islamic mysticism –