Majdhub
The enraptured one: he whom God draws to Himself without a journey, sometimes at the price of an apparent madness in men's eyes.
Majdhub is the passive participle of jadhaba, ‘to draw’: the majdhub is one whom God has seized and drawn to Himself without a journey, without the stages the salik travels. The favour is a gift, not a conquest: one does not become majdhub by technique.
The classical manuals qualify the case. Al-Qushayri distinguishes the majdhub who remains thereafter an accomplished man from the one whose rapture dissolves his apparent balance: the ‘fools of God’ whom popular tradition knows in the streets of Eastern cities. The Law does not judge these states: it wraps them in gentleness, for their responsibility is lightened.
For the path the lesson is plain: the majdhub is not a model to imitate. The salik’s journey, with its regularity and its ethics, is the way of the mass of believers, and the only one a guide can transmit. On how received states and acquired stations fit together, see hal and maqam.