Erken Dönemin Ahlâk Tasavvuru Doğrultusunda Tasavvufun Din Bilimleri Arasına Girmesi

The issue of morality is a universal phenomenon that is spoken and discussed above religions. There are moral
values that every society accepts depending on their sociological and psychological conditions. From the first
moment Islam came to the Arab society, it began to organize and renew the moral values of the society. As a
model of the regulated and renewed moral values, The Prophet is shown. In this context, the moral consequences
of the confusion in the Islamic society after the death of the Prophet and the criticisms of the sufis who emerged
as a reaction to the corruption in the society occur. Although the fields of fiqh and kalam discuss different issues
in their formation processes, a particular section on morality does not appear to exist in the fields of fiqh and
kalam. The sufis criticize the neglection of the field of morality in Islamic disciplines, and highlight the need of
elimination of this deficiency. Sufis who lived in the early period claim that the solution that would fill this gap
and help Islamic thought reach perfection is sufism. In order to justify this claim, they produce works attempting
to prove that sufism is an independent discipline like kalam and fiqh. In this process, sufism transforms from a
practical and ascetic understanding into a discipline that produces knowledge like other religious disciplines.