Sukr سكر

Sukr (سكر) — Doctrinally load-bearing. The sukr/ṣaḥw debate (Junayd of Baghdad championing ṣaḥw, Bāyazīd Bisṭāmī championing sukr) is foundational to classical Sufi typology; Khamriyya verse 1 (“sakirnā bihā”) and verse 5 (“aṣbaḥa ahluhu nashāwā”) put the poem squarely in the sukr-affirming tradition that runs through Ḥallāj, Ibn al-Fāriḍ, and the akbarian reception. “Drunkenness” is forbidden because it imports a moral- jurisprudential register the technical term resists. The verbal forms (sakira, yaskaru) render as “be intoxicated” / “become intoxicated”; the adjectival nashwān/nashāwā renders as “intoxicated ones.” Cf. ENGINE- ISSUES #1: substring-matcher may misfire on “intoxicated” if neighbour glossary terms forbid it.

Etymology

[STUB: editor to author etymology, root, and morphological notes.]

Cross-tradition resonance

Related terms across traditions (each relation is a stub the editor expands):

• Ekstasis (christian-mysticism) — [STUB: editor to expand — shared-ecstatic-displacement-proposed]

Primary sources

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Scholarly literature

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Hekhal Editorial. "Sukr." Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition. Last modified May 2, 2026. https://hekhal.org/lexicon/sukr.

Hekhal Editorial. 2026. "Sukr." Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition. https://hekhal.org/lexicon/sukr.

Hekhal Editorial. "Sukr." Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition, May 2, 2026, hekhal.org/lexicon/sukr.

Hekhal Editorial. (2026). Sukr. Hekhal: An Open Reference for Esoteric Tradition. https://hekhal.org/lexicon/sukr

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