The Ego and the Other According to Sheikh Ma?-Al-Eyenein Perspective

Abstract This study highlights the mindset of the late Sheikh Ma?-Al-Eyenein to examine his vision, attitude and approach on the Other i.e. the non-followers, where his conscious character represents a state of awareness that emerged in Morocco at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. This personality combined the qualities of a scholar, a leader, and a model educator, leading the community to rally around him and subsequently adopt his religious and intellectual movement?one that had a wide-ranging impact on that region. The study has relied on historical, analytical-descriptive and inductive approach. The study concluded that the ?Other? in the thought of Sheikh Ma?-Al-Eyenein is not viewed as an adversary or opponent; rather, Islam acknowledged the Other at a time when others denied them, maintaining that disagreement can be overcome through the unity of Sufi orders, by rejecting sectarianism and embracing tolerance?this being the significance of ?brotherhood,? understood as a path leading solely to Allah, and that differences in approach should not create conflict. Therefore, the study emphasized the need to curb the phenomenon of takf?r when used as a means of inciting hostility toward the Other.