Re: Steeped in ancient mysticism, passion of Pakistani Sufis infuriates Taliban
Please read very carefully even if you do not agree with anything below.
I never talked about talibans. Only talked about salafis/deobandis/ or those who are called ahle hadith.
I never tried to associate any of the groups or religions with word kharijis.
Do you realize how dangerous it is to misuse the word Kharijis and associate this word with salafis/deobandis etc. and hence justifying somehow that ALL salafis or wahabis are bad people?
By your kind of thought process, every person who wants to follow Islam strictly or on surface could be called Kharjis. Since their hallmark is being rigid…and either do not take part in some actions or call them bida’. And they will recite Quran like no one else etc. etc.
Sure one may call those criminals Kharjis who actually do bad to others and are proven bad. But call only the criminals. Not the whole group of people.
By the way the word Najd is not an absolute indication that it belongs to a strict area.
Some say Najd/East words used in Hadiths are actually pointing out to Iraq.
The Hadith of Najd
[A hadeeth which has some controversy surrounding it due to **obvious sectarian reasons. **
So there, your argument is debunked.
A lot of material is written on Salafis or Ahle Hadiths and most of those negative material is written by Barelvis or Ahle-Sunnat type of groups. OR By those who just want to make strict followers of Islam look bad.
Who knows who are actually kharijis. But we can always find who are committing crimes against innocent people.
My take on it is clear as I mentioned in bold and underlined statement. If we follow this, there will not be a cycle of blame game by using hadiths and hence the violence.
That is why I said earlier and repeat here:
We need to recognize the difference between those who just want to practice religion ‘strictly’ and those who are actually committing crimes.
As far as I am concerned I think Kharijis are those who take the liberty of declaring every one other than them as kafirs/murtads/mushriqs and hence worthy of death. And those who create fitna in the ummah, so it includes all the jehadists amongst our midst. Unfortunately all jehadists belong to salafists, but I wouldn’t take the liberty to put all salafists in this bracket.