The article dwells on the ethical viewpoints of the representative of Nakshbandiya Order Yakub Charhi (died in 1447) averaging upon the whole a part of his practical sufism. Special attention is paid to such issues of Sufiy practice of self-cognition and self-perfection as moral purification, attainment of worthy and praised human qualities and deliverance of obscene features and reprehended morals. This Sufiy condems such traits of character as mistrust, avidity, envy, slander, scandal, mockery, calumny bantering, refutation of prophets and saints, lie, contrivances, mockery over people of the truth, blunder, evil designs, adultery, drunkenness and wine trade, bloodshed in reference to the innocent, usage and reception of the prohibited, roguery, disobedience to parents, brakage of relation ties, offense nursing, usury. Among praised qualities he calls stability, pure food, good disposition, engagement in legal professions, discourse, edification and reading of sermons.
practical sufism, self-cognition, self-perfection, purification of heart, purification of soul, phenomenon place, annihilation
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