The main reason for his reputation originates from his monumental work Sirāj al-Ṭālibīn a voluminous commentary of al-Ghazālī work, Minhāj al-’Ābidīn, which had successfully reaffirmed orthodox. He is known as a muslim jurist as well as a practical Sunnī Sufi of Nusantara (Indonesia), with a worldwide reputation. This article discusses the mystical view of Shaykh Iḥsān Jampes Kediri, East Java. While spiritual wellbeing is about the search and contemplation of human life. Mankind, in Kemala's poems, is depicted as the Salik or traveller in search of an end to his journey, which is the Divine Himself.
The Divine in this case is personified as light or 'Nur'. The Divine is, in Kemala's poems, an aim in mankind's life journey. The conclusion that can be drawn from this study is that the poems of Kemala are inseparable from sufism.
This study of sufi elements is the poems of Kemala employs the theory of Seyyed Hossein Nasr and concerns three major elements of tasawwuf (sufi mysticism), that is, the Divine, Mankind and spiritual wellbeing.
The poems are taken from three collections of Kemala's poems, namely Ziarah Tanah Kudup (2006), Syurga ke Sembilan (2009), and Dhikr Serenades Titir Zikir (2010). In this study, the writer uses sufi literary theory to analyse poems by Kemala. This study aims to find sufi values in the poems of Ahmad Kamal Abdullah (Kemala), a modern Malaysian poet.
