They are then regarded as free of all worldly rules and duties, including formal religious obligations, and are often expected to worship internally only.
Often caricatured as kumbaya hippies, Sufis seek divine love and connection, but their practices encompass strict worldly rules and commitments: long services, dawn and night prayers, rigorous meditation and frequent fasting — in addition to the common Islamic practices of five daily prayers, the hajj pilgrimage and abstention from alcohol.
"We do not want to be ruled by worldly laws anymore or by people who think only about their own interests or people who deceive others to fulfill their own purposes," said Mr. Faji, dressed in a handmade black cloak and dusty white turban and speaking from an outdoor podium.
Donna Mebane is author of the award-winning, fact-based novel Tomorrow Comes - a daring coming-of-age book in which an ordinary teenager must come to terms with her own mortality, the loss of all she once knew, and an other-worldly set of rules.
Simply put, Buddhism rules over other-worldly affairs, such as the afterlife or becoming Buddha, while Bonism or Islam rules over their worldly affairs.
These rules forbade the following "worldly activities" in which I participated: going to the cinema or theatre, watching television, writing plays and secular novels with profane or foul language.
Born in what was once the USSR, now Saint Petersburg, Russia, and raised in East London, the work of Vadim Andreev defines worldly eclecticism and sticks firmly to the no-rule book of rules.
Sassy, worldly-wise, promiscuous, a rule-breaker, Lily catches the eye of Thomas as a possible natural candidate for the Black Swan role.
The later Brahmanic orders—such as the order founded by the Hindu reformer Shankara (8th century ce)—contain hardly any "rules" except an implicit renunciation of worldly desires, a detachment from society, and an indifference toward the "opposites," such as pleasure and pain.
A ruffian is a very worldly, sophisticated person who does things against the rules.
