Asceza în „monahismul” musulman
Asceticism in the Muslim ”monasticism”

Summary/Abstract: The study aims at approaching asceticism in Mohammed’s religion. After a short analysis of the motivations and ascetic practices in the theist and nontheist religions, we analysed the emergence and development of asceticism in islam. This is followed by a succint presentation of sufism as the ”monastic” movement which assimilated asceticism and played an important part in Mohammedanism. In Christianity, asceticism has a different quality, that of love and freedom. The goal of asceticism is not the annihilation of the human nature or the struggle against the flesh and the matter, considered as evil, but as an eliberation of human nature, as a way to reach perfection. Asceticism enables the Christians to reach thinking and feeling Christ, that state of seeing everything in and through Christ, to reach theosis. Christianity has an ascetic character and insists on the inner war, on man’s metanoic transformation, on his becoming christomorphic. It appears that when the inner war is absent, there is an outer war.

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