Is Sufi Islam a compromise with Indian Culture?

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Re: Is Sufi Islam a compromise with Indian Culture?

@ajazali

^ arent such things practised by followers of other school of thought including salfis? they do have ulema that performs these duties then why name it like tassuwaf and try to make another “distinction” and blame salfis in every otjer thread.
if this is all islam then we should keep it simple dont make more dintinctions.
do you think think that we need anything else after getting the seerat, uswa e hasna, akhuwat, tahammal, burdbari, bhai-chara practised and preached by the holy prophet(s.a.w).
in the presence of teachings by the holy prophet(s.a.w) i mentioned the need for tassuwaf is either a way to invention or to escape.

I think some aspects of deen are more hilighted in orthodox Islam… Namaz, Roza, Zakat, Haj, etc (broadly categorised as Huqooq ullah) and then there are elements you mentioned above which related to public interaction (Huqooq ul Ibad). Deen got two aspects Jamal o Jalal, as God is Rehman as well as Jabbar. Sufi Islam emphasise Jamal (portrayal of Allah as Rehman) and Orthodox Islam emphasizes on Jalal (portrayal of Allah as Jabbar).

Its probably not escape but emphasis on different aspects, while same qualities exist in the other type of ideology as well, but not hilighted as such.