Zuhd is renunciation, a station of the path and the defining trait of the early ascetics, such as Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, who wept for their sins and shunned the world. Later Sufis taught that true zuhd is detachment of the heart, which can coexist with possessions.
Zuhd
Renunciation: detachment from the world and its pleasures, the early form of Islamic asceticism.
Also: Zuhd, asceticism