REMOTENESS

 “Bud” is being remote and perishing. Sufis consider and understand it as the cease of enlightenment in respect of source and being a far away from Allah; consequently as an abandonment and deprivation unless there is a special help.

 As there are degrees of nearness according to common believers, saints, friends of Allah ,the righteous people and the ones who comes near to Him; bu’d -remoteness- has also degrees and stages inside of it one on another ; Satan occupies the point of absolute perishing of these stages.

 It’s a different matter the existence of nearness and remoteness as an endowment or a deprivation, being them felt and known is a different thing. Sometimes the greatest endowment is not to have felt the endowment and, someone who is near at the highest degree doesn’t know his nearness. Sometimes deceit becomes full and the darkness of remoteness can not be felt. Sometimes the state of unconsciousness-intoxication- becomes dominant and nearness and remoteness can not be distinguished. So in such people the longing of nearness and anxiety of remoteness are not seen.

 The words of “ Jami do not fall into anxiety because essentially there is no remoteness and nearness, no meeting and no separation” express the thoughts of those independent and intoxicated-with joy- souls.

 The real shiver and deprivation of remoteness is admitted; there are some souls that they tremble against the breezes of awe of the nearness and they suppose themselves in the violence of distress and destroy, “ Kurb-i sultan atesh-i sûzan buved” might have been said because of this and in this meaning. In spite of all , if nearness is to be compared to the hills of the paradise which are open to the breezes of divine blast and familiarity then about remoteness-buud- it is suitable to say deprivation and Gayya pit of abandonment.