Dread (رهبة) is one of 5 maqamât that correspond to different qualities of (sacred) fear, a range of emotions integral to any path that seriously deals with an Unknown that is tremendously beyond human comprehension. To quote Rumi: “A self-sacrificing way, but also a warrior’s way, and not for brittle, easily-broken, glass-bottle people. The soul is tested here by sheer terror, as a sieve sifts and separates genuine from fake.”
