The Junaydi Doctrine of Sahw

The Junaydiyya, the Sufi school taking Abu al-Qasim al-Junayd as its exemplar, is grounded in the principle of sahw (sobriety): the state in which the mystic remains lucid and self-possessed in the presence of God, retaining awareness and the capacity for orderly spiritual conduct (mu'amalat).

This stands in deliberate contrast to the Tayfuri doctrine of sukr (intoxication), in which the seeker is overwhelmed and loses self-control. Because sobriety preserves the seeker's stability and rootedness, Hujwiri reports that his own masters were all Junaydi, and holds this the sounder and most widely followed path, making the Junaydiyya the most renowned of the accepted Sufi schools.