Cultural Influence on conecpt of God, etc

[Ali_Syed]

Re: Cultural Influence on conecpt of God, etc

@muqawwee123

To be very honest, being A Sindhi, I can accept that Sindhi society losing its Sufi values. The Sufi values were alive till partition, which were depicted by the population in the form of avoiding violence that prevailed all over. Sufis talk about enlightenment and self improvement, but dargahs like Sehwan are the place and safe refuge of Junkies. Drugs, illicit relationships (bhoot nikala by Gaddi nasheen), idleness… You name it, all the negativity is there. Not saying that 100% people visiting these dargahs are involved it, but the sense of feeling bad things bad disappearing.

The dilemma that we have now is that we have two extremes:

Some Shrine goers cross limits (especially the uneducated lot) and on the other side we have others who consider those going to shrines as Mushriqs.

There is no doubt that some reform is needed to curb some activities that happen on the shrines, and this needs to happen on the state level as well as individually. The crimes in and around shrines are increasing due to the apathy of the state as well. Having said that the polarization and hatred we have got at the moment it wouldn’t hurt to delve on what message these sufis had propagated in the subcontinent and the impact it had on the local population.