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In Sufism, a rabbani ( Arabic: رَبَّانِيّ; 'Godly person'), or ribbi, is a wasil who is attached to Allah. [1] [2]
The term rabbani or ribbi is cited in the Quran into several Āyates, as:
English: It does not behoove any human that
Allah should give him the
Book,
judgement and
prophethood, and then he should say to the people, ‘Be my servants instead of Allah.’ Rather [he would say], ‘Be a godly people, because of your teaching the Book and because of your studying it.
(
Quran:
3:79)
English: How many a
prophet there has been with whom a multitude of godly men fought. They did not falter for what befell them in the way of Allah, neither did they weaken, nor did they abase themselves; and Allah loves the
steadfast.
(
Quran:
3:146)
English: We sent down the
Torah containing guidance and light. The prophets, who had submitted, judged by it for the
Jews, and so did the godly people and the
scribes, as they were charged to preserve the Book of Allah and were witnesses to it.
(
Quran:
5:44)
English: Why do not the godly people and the scribes forbid them from
sinful speech and consuming illicit gains? Surely, evil is what they have been working.
(
Quran:
5:63)
The rabbani has several characteristics mentioned by the Quran, as: [7]