Re: Is Sufi Islam a compromise with Indian Culture?
Salam bro muqawwee123
Did you know the Sufis themselves say that occultation/isolation or seclusion is not allowed?
So why do they do it? It is because they do not do it on a permanent basis … They do it to focus on the inner light and they do it to open an inner sight …
I know many non-Sufis who were first just seeking answers and looking for a spiritual opening and they found it … Simply by removing themselves from society on a temporary basis. Once it is found then returning to humanity and society is a must … The permanent state of seclusion is not considered as good … It does not mean that a person should be in rags, beg and live like a tramp to be called a gnostic … This again is an example of how leaving Shar’iah for Tariqah it can lead to heresy and oddity.
i’teqaaf is a type of temporary seclusion the Sufis in their way call it khalwa … Even the tableeghis do it … They call it khurooj … But they create a little group who do it together, so in their case total isolation is not ever done … But you see all these things are not innovations in the reprehensible sense … They are tonics/medicines for the soul and when the soul gets better … You get back with life.
Now this explains the point well.
When someone have to convey a message, it is better conveyed when you live in between people and not abstaining worldly things (that were not forbidden by Allah). Temporary seclusion makes sense, but the kind of seclusion Hindu jogi and christian monasticism followed got no place in Islam.