The Moroccan website Al-Masse24 published, at the end of December 2025, a reflection by Dr Tariq Al-Alami on the nature of the Secret (Sirr) in Sufism. Below we set out its doctrinal essentials, as part of our press review. The original source is available at the end of the article.
What makes a spiritual path authentic? For the author, the answer lies in a distinction that is simple and demanding: the Sirr (the spiritual Secret) proceeds only from the permission of God, not from affected effort or from staging.
The principle is recalled as an echo of a saying of Sidi Hamza (may Allah sanctify his Secret): the affair of the Way is accomplished only by the permission of God and of His Prophet (peace be upon him), not by artifice or by ostentation.
From this follows a measure of what is true: the true Secret has no need of promotion. It acts by itself and bears witness to itself. Where there is real presence, there is no need for spectacle. Sobriety is not an absence, it is the sign of a fullness that is sufficient unto itself.
It is this quiet presence (certainty in God, recollection, self-effacement) that the Way cultivates, rather than outward brilliance. The heart that has anchored itself in its Lord has nothing to prove.
Source: Al-Masse24 (Arabic), Dr Tariq Al-Alami, December 2025. Doctrinal reading: boutchichiya.fr
