Sufism Exposed.

[Guy1]

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I have only basic knowledge of islam but i seriously believe tht barelvis people have played important role in giving bad names to sufies and also the professional peer fakeers and sufies have done the rest...

people now r educated.....when they see people go to mazaars of sufies and do all the idiotic things like chaadar charhana,kissing the grave,directly asking from sufies and the like,educated people start to hate such version of islam and unfortunately such version is very common in pakistan...

if we eliminte all those things and try to remain with in the teachings of isla,no problem will raise...i hate the atitude of both barelvis and alhe hadiths...
barelvis will go to such extent tht they will start doing kuffar and alhe hadiths will totaly refute sufism...

FRAUDIA WROTE:
^ it is a school of thought that is basically against all the things that have been added on to religion and get paraded as religion. Of course there is no one deobandi school of thought now, ppl have taken that initial thought and tried to grow it in ways that suits their interests and motives. You will find deobandi scholars who differ quite significantly on some issues, esecially the more outlandish and minutia type of things.

well u r quite right...the main problem is everyone who belongs to any madrasa starts giving fatwas and his own bayans without any degree from any well known madrasa and tht creates problems...

Mufti Rafi Usmani,the head of Darul Uloom Karachi,exactly said the same thing u mentioned...Mufti Shaheb said tht fatwa giving right should be given only to certain scholars who have complete knowledge of Islam...as if every one starts giving his fatwas,then problems will raise amazingly...as some will try to give fatwas suiting their own interests

All the well known madrasas of karachi as darul uloom,binoria,hamadia,ashraf ul madaras will co-operate to each other..and these are the most important people in pakistan representing islam...scholars of these madrasas dont have any such difference of opinion....most importantly,their believes r same...but yes,differences r there on matters like insurance and some other minor issues....

[Mr_Fraudia]

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guy1

great post, its sad to see ppl look at the mazaar worshipping and jaali snake oil salesman pirs of today and think that is what sufi way is.

Thats equivalent to someone looking at the psychos blowing up shia mosques or not allowing girls to escape from a burning bldg and say that is what sunni way is.

[SyedAbduallah]

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Let me now turn to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s questions.

Let me now turn to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s questions. I fear the Pandit’s articles reveal practically no acquaintance with Islam or its religious history during the 19th century. Nor does he seem to have read what I have already written on the subject of his questions. It is not possible for me to reproduce here all that I have written before. Nor is it possible to write here a religious history of Islam in the 19th century without which a thorough understanding of the present situation in the world of Islam is impossible. Hundreds of books and articles have been written on Turkey and modern Islam. I have read most of this literature and probably the Pandit has also read it. I assume him, however, that not one of these writers understands the nature of the effect or of the cause that has brought about that effect. It is, therefore, necessary to briefly indicate the main currents of Muslim though in Asia during the 19th century.

I have said above in the year 1799 the political decay of Islam reached its climax. There can, however, be no greater testimony to the inner vitality of Islam than the fact that it practically took no time to realized its position in the world. During the 19th century were born Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in India, Syed Jamal-ud-Din Afghani in Afghanistan and Mufti Alam Jan in Russia. These men were probably inspired by Mohammad Ibn-i-Abdul Wahab who was born in Naid in 1700, the founder of the so-called Wahabi movement which may fitly be described as the first throb of life in modern Islam. The influence of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan remained on the whole confined to India. It is probable, however, that he was the first modern Muslim to catch a glimpse of the positive character of the age which was coming. The remedy for the ills of Islam proposed by him, as by Mufti Alam Jan in Russia, was modern education. But the real greatness of the man consists in the fact that he was the first Indian Muslim who felt the need of a fresh orientation of Islam and worked for it. We may differ from his religious views, but there can be no denying the fact that his sensitive soul was the first to react to the modern age.

The extreme conservation of Indian Muslims which had lost its hold on the realities of life failed to see the real meaning of the religious attitude of Syed Ahmad Khan. In the North-West of India, a country more primitive and more saint-ridden that the rest of India, the Syed’s movement was soon followed by the reaction of Ahmadism – a strange mixture of Semetic and Aryan mysticism with whom spiritual revival consists not in the purification of the individual’s inner life according tot he principles of the old Islamic Sufiism, but in satisfying the expectant attitude of the masses by providing a ‘Promised’ Messiah. The function of this ‘Promised Messiah’ is not to extricate the individual from an enervating present but to make him slavishly surrender his ego to its dictates. This reaction carries within itself a very subtle contradiction. It retains the discipline of Islam, but destroy the will which that discipline was intended to fortify.

Maulana Syed Jamal-ud-Din Afghanl was a man of a different stamp. Strange are the ways of Providence! One of the most advanced Muslims of our time, both in religious thought and action, was born in Afghanistan! A perfect master of nearly all the Muslim languages of the world and endowed with the most winning eloquence, his restless soul migrated from one Muslim country to another influencing some of the most prominent men in Persia, Egypt and Turkey. Some of the greatest theologians of our times such as Mufti Muhammad Abduhu, and some of the men of the younger generation who later became political leaders, such as Zaghlul Pasha of Egypt, were his disciples. He wrote little, spoke much and thereby transformed into miniature Jamal-ud-Dins all those who came into contact with him. He never claimed to be a prophet or a renewer; yet no man in our time has stirred the soul of Islam more deeply than he. His spirit is still working in the world of Islam and nobody knows where it will end.

It may, however, be asked, what exactly was the objective of these great Muslims? The answer is that they found the world of Islam ruled by three main forces and they concentrated their whole energy on creating a revolt against these forces:

1. Mullaism. – The Ulema have always been a source of great strength to Islam. But during the course of centuries, especially since the destruction of Baghdad, they became extremely conservative and would not allow any freedom of Ijtihad, i.e., the forming of independent judgment in matters of law. The Wahabi movement which was a source of inspiration to the 19th century Muslim reformers was really a revolt against this rigidity of the Ulema. Thus the first objective of the 19th century Muslim reformers was a fresh orientation of the faith and a freedom to reinterpret the law in the light of advancing experience.

2. Mysticism. – The masses of Islam were swayed by the kind of mysticism which blinked actualities, enervated the people and kept them steeped in all kinds of superstition. From its high estate as a force of spiritual education, mysticism had fallen down to a mere means of exploiting the ignorance and the credulity of the people. it gradually and invisibly unnerved the will of Islam and softened it to the extent of seeking relief from the rigorous discipline of the law of Islam. The 19th century reformers rose in revolt against this mysticism and called Muslims to the broad daylight of the modern world. Not that they were materialists. Their mission was to open the eyes of the Muslims to the spirit of Islam which aimed at the conquest of matter and not flight from it.

3. Muslim Kings whose gaze was solely fixed on their own dynastic interests and who, so long as these were protected, did not hesitate to sell their countries to the highest bidder. To prepare the masses of Muslims for a revolt against such a state of things in the world of Islam was the special mission of Syed Jamal-ud-Din Afghani.

It is not possible here to give a detailed account of the transformation which these reformers brought about in the world of Muslim thought and feeling. One thing, however, is clear. They prepared to a great extent the ground for another set of men, i.e., Zaghlul Pasha, Mustafa Kamal and Raza Shah. The reformers interpreted, argued and explained; but the set of men who came after them, although inferior in academic learning are men who, relying on their healthy instincts, had the courage to rush into sun-lit space and do, even by force, what the new conditions of lfie demanded. Such men are liable to make mistakes; but the history of nations shows that even their mistakes have sometimes borne good fruit. In them it is not logic but life that struggles restless to solve its own problems. It may be pointed out here that Syed Ahmad Khan, Syed Jamal-ud-Din Afghani and hundreds of the latter’s disciples in Muslim countries were not westernized Muslims. They were men who had sat on their knees before the Mullahs of the old school and had breathed the very intellectual and spiritual atmosphere which they later sought to reconstruct. Pressure of modern ideas may be admitted; but the history thus briefly indicated above clearly shows that the upheaval which has come to Turkey and which is likely, sooner or later, to come to other Muslim countries, is almost wholly determined by the forces within. It is only the superficial observed of the modern world of Islam who thinks that the present crisis in the world of Islam is wholly due to the working of alien forces
http://www.islam4all.com/new_page_204.htm

Now will you go on your tirade against wahabi folk now that you learn that 'The Wahabi movement which was a source of inspiration to the 19th century Muslim reformers was really a revolt against this rigidity of the Ulema’

[Das_Reich]

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http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/names.htm
http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/2.htm
http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/3.htm
http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/4.htm

[omair_mal1k]

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@ramyssysIX

Sufis have always spread love and tolerance among the masses. They were also one of the reasons why Islam has spread in the sub-continent.

If one wants to deny Sufism, one has to deny:

1- Imam Abu Hanifah and his contemporaries 2- Imam Ghazali 3- Moulana Rumi 4- Sheikh Saadi 5- Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi 6- The great Sufi Saints of Ind-o-Pak subcontinent - Hazrat Mueen-ud-din Chisti, Hazrat Ali Hajweiri, Hazrat Laal Shahbaaz Qalandar.

You forgot to add Neo-Sufi - Salman Ahmed to the list.

[quas]

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@Guy1

I have only basic knowledge of islam but i seriously believe tht barelvis people have played important role in giving bad names to sufies and also the professional peer fakeers and sufies have done the rest...

people now r educated.....when they see people go to mazaars of sufies and do all the idiotic things like chaadar charhana,kissing the grave,directly asking from sufies and the like,educated people start to hate such version of islam and unfortunately such version is very common in pakistan...

if we eliminte all those things and try to remain with in the teachings of isla,no problem will raise...i hate the atitude of both barelvis and alhe hadiths... barelvis will go to such extent tht they will start doing kuffar and alhe hadiths will totaly refute sufism...

FRAUDIA WROTE: ^ it is a school of thought that is basically against all the things that have been added on to religion and get paraded as religion. Of course there is no one deobandi school of thought now, ppl have taken that initial thought and tried to grow it in ways that suits their interests and motives. You will find deobandi scholars who differ quite significantly on some issues, esecially the more outlandish and minutia type of things.

well u r quite right...the main problem is everyone who belongs to any madrasa starts giving fatwas and his own bayans without any degree from any well known madrasa and tht creates problems...

Mufti Rafi Usmani,the head of Darul Uloom Karachi,exactly said the same thing u mentioned...Mufti Shaheb said tht fatwa giving right should be given only to certain scholars who have complete knowledge of Islam...as if every one starts giving his fatwas,then problems will raise amazingly...as some will try to give fatwas suiting their own interests

All the well known madrasas of karachi as darul uloom,binoria,hamadia,ashraf ul madaras will co-operate to each other..and these are the most important people in pakistan representing islam...scholars of these madrasas dont have any such difference of opinion....most importantly,their believes r same...but yes,differences r there on matters like insurance and some other minor issues....

You are one the of the reasons why incidents like Nishtar Park happens from time to time.. The fact that people put chadar on mazars and stuff is cuz they want to pay homage to great sufi saints of the subcontinent.. I would advise you non-sunnis not to test Barelvi patience any more.. If Barelvis start responding back to Deobandi attacks, Deobandis will be "band" forever..

[Sheraz_CT]

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oh great ab sufis kay peechay par gayee...apnay kaam say kaam rakho beta..pehlay sharab peena band karo

[SyedAbduallah]

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Syed Abduallah asks himself how much shall the sufi pandits cringe when I quote excerpts from Iqbal's 'The Development of Metaphysics In Persia' chapter on sufism!

Verily, the answer is yet unknown!

[ramyssysIX]

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@omair_mal1k

You forgot to add Neo-Sufi - Salman Ahmed to the list.

:). Aisey sufion sei tau sufi soap behtur hei!

That reminds me of Junaid Jamshed sarcastically saying: “Pehlei Islam pheilanei kei liey wo tareeqei tau istemaal kar lo jo anbia :as: nei kiey thei!” (Why don’t you use those methods first for spreading Islam that the Prophets :as: used!) He said this in reply to Salman Ahmed saying that he uses music to spread the name of Allah.

[ramyssysIX]

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I haven’t read the thesis so I don’t know it says. However, the official Iqbal Academy of Pakistan says this about the thesis:

(http://www.allamaiqbal.com/poet/prose/english/poet_introdev.html)

THE DEVELOPMENT OF METAPHYSICS
IN PERSIA (1908)

Introduction
This was a thesis submitted to the University of Munich for his PhD. It was published in London in the same year. The book traces the development of metaphysics in Persia from the time of Zoroaster to Bahaullah. No similar monograph had been written in the English language before or since. Iqbal explains in his introduction that he is attempting to:

1. Trace the logical continuity of Persian thought and interpret it in the language of modern philosophy; and
2. Discuss Sufism in a scientific manner and explain the intellectual conditions encouraging the phenomenon. He argues that Sufism is the necessary product of the play of various intellectual and moral forces and could take the slumbering soul to a higher ideal.

@SyedAbduallah

Syed Abduallah asks himself how much shall the sufi pandits cringe when I quote excerpts from Iqbal’s ‘The Development of Metaphysics In Persia’ chapter on sufism!

Verily, the answer is yet unknown!

[Sharaabi]

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@Das Reich

what about the naqshbandi order of sufis ....are they not different from others

Contrary to what the sufis claim, the Sufi Tareekas have no connection to the Prophet (sas) or his companions. None of this is proven from Sunnah. Hence, it is a serious heresy. To those who insist on claiming that the tareekas are from the first generation of Islam, show us the proof from Hadith.

@Fraudz

I have previously posted links to the site of Naqshbandi order in Chicago. You can reach Imam sanad and ask any questions you wish.

oh btw it is very easy to be both a deobandi and a sufi. if one looked at the gentlemen who were behind the development of maaher al aloom and dat al aloom. two institutions which later became the birthplace of deobandi school of thought you would notice that they were inclined towards both.

and yes, the family of the people who were behind these two instutuions are known as Piradgan-e-ambetta, i.e. the Pirzadas of Ambetta. The family of Shah Abu'l Mu'Ali and Qasim Nantwi etc..

It is proven by the statements of the Early Imams and Scholars, that sufism is a heresy, and the tareekas are a serious from of biddah..and something that the Prophet and the companions didnt practice.

If you still insist on spreading that which is wrong and heretical, than may God help you...and may he rid you of the blindness of the heart.

@ramyssysIX

If one wants to deny Sufism, one has to deny:

1- Imam Abu Hanifah and his contemporaries

Are you trying to sa..Abu Hanifa was a sufi? If so, where's your proof.

As for the rest of the folks you mentioned...yes we ignore their works.

Imam Ghazali is probably the only person who work has enough weight to be respected, but if you'd read his life history and the number of fields of studies he adopted and then rejected. He was into Speculative theology, philosophy..and he rejected all that and finally settled on sufism. Had he lived longer he might have rejected sufism too.

@Sheraz CT

oh great ab sufis kay peechay par gayee...apnay kaam say kaam rakho beta..pehlay sharab peena band karo

If thats the best that you can come up with, then i guess you should stick to Cafe.

[SyedAbduallah]

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I haven’t read the thesis so I don’t know it says. However, the official Iqbal Academy of Pakistan says this about the thesis:

No problem. You seem like a young man willing to learn. Heres a link to the book in e-book form. Read the chapters on sufism and its heretic syncretism of semetic and aryan(persian and indian) ideas although Iqbal believes it to lean more towards aryan influences.
http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/F-J/I/Iqbal/metaphys/iqbfn.htm

[AQ]

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@Fraudz

Thats equivalent to someone looking at the psychos blowing up shia mosques or not allowing girls to escape from a burning bldg and say that is what sunni way is.

Being inclined towards Sufi teachings and following (& being bai’t in four different tareeqahs) myself, when people start connecting sufism to the idolatory practices of shrine worshipping and seeking help from other than Allah, I very much feel the same…

Perhaps, people should go and really look into the lives of people who follow sufism than just reading books written specifically against them and then looking at the practices propagated by the haters… much like what Wahabbism is facing in western media for its viewers.

In essence, Sufism is based on the system of Ba’yah which is nothing but an oath to follow Prophet:saw: and Quran… We take oath to establish salah… take care of parents, dedicate our lives to teach whatever good we know of Islam to others… Much like what Prophet:saw: took baya’h from his companions and then it followed by the baya’h of Khulaafa-e-Rashideen…

That being said, this system of baya’h made a connection tree from them.. most of them linking to Syedana Ali:razi: … like for instance, a Chishti tareeqah can be traced to Ali:razi: all the way including Imam Hasan Basari :rehm:

similarly a naqshbandi is normally traced back to Syedana Abu Bakar:razi:

Of course, people do not have to follow them and can label them whatever they want… I found enough evidence that it does exist within the boundaries of Sharia’…

[Mal1k]

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Sharaabi - Dude, dont be intimidated with the provocaters, who are asking U to stop drinking alcohol, they hardly even know U outside the circle of Gupshup.

Omair - Salman has totally lost it...:D, he should stick to drinking.

I just want to add one more thing, who are those people who do Roohani Ilaaj, are they the Sufis...??? I say we should get rid of this sector, how Abdul Wahab got rid of all the mazaars.

[ramyssysIX]

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@SyedAbduallah

No problem. You seem like a young man willing to learn. Heres a link to the book in e-book form. Read the chapters on sufism and its heretic syncretism of semetic and aryan(persian and indian) ideas although Iqbal believes it to lean more towards aryan influences.
http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/F-J/I/Iqbal/metaphys/iqbfn.htm

Here is an excerpt from this, the beginning of Chapter V (pp 76, 77).

You should note that the

1. The thesis is about Persian Sufism in particular.
2. The latter part of it gives Quranic references used by the Sufis in general.
3. Never for once has Iqbal spoken of Sufism in a negative tone in the entire thesis.

Do you agree? If not, please reply by quoting references from the text that indicate otherwise.

====================================================

… Much has been written about the origin of Persian Suifiism; and, in almost all cases, explorers of this .most interesting field of research have exercised their ingenuity in discovering the various channels through which the basic ideas of Sufiism might have travelled - from one place to another. They seem completely to have ignored the principle, that the full significance of a phenomenon in the intellectual evolution of a people, can only be comprehended in the light of those preexisting intellectual, political, and social conditions

which alone make its existence inevitable. Von Kremer and Dozy derive Persian Sufiism from the Indian Vedanta; Merx and Mr. Nicholson derive it from Neo-Platonism; while Professor Browne once regarded it as Aryan reaction against an unemotional Semitic religion. It appears to me, however, that these theories have been worked out under the influence of a notion of causation which is essentially false. That a fixed quantity A is the cause of, or produces another fixed quantity B, is a proposition which, though convenient for scientific purposes, is apt to damage all inquiry, in so far as it leads us completely to ignore the innumerable conditions lying at the back of a phenomenon. It would, for instance, be an historical ,error to say that the dissolution of the Roman Empire was due to the barbarian invasions. The statement completely ignores other forces of a different character that tended to split up the political unity of the Empire. To describe the advent of barbarian invasions as the cause of the dissolution of the Roman Empire which could have assimilated, as it actually did to a certain extent, the so-called cause, is a procedure that no logic would justify…

[bao_bihari]

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Being inclined towards Sufi teachings and following (& being bai’t in four different tareeqahs) myself, when people start connecting sufism to the idolatory practices of shrine worshipping and seeking help from other than Allah, I very much feel the same…

Perhaps, people should go and really look into the lives of people who follow sufism than just reading books written specifically against them and then looking at the practices propagated by the haters… much like what Wahabbism is facing in western media for its viewers.

In essence, Sufism is based on the system of Ba’yah which is nothing but an oath to follow Prophet:saw: and Quran… We take oath to establish salah… take care of parents, dedicate our lives to teach whatever good we know of Islam to others… Much like what Prophet:saw: took baya’h from his companions and then it followed by the baya’h of Khulaafa-e-Rashideen…

That being said, this system of baya’h made a connection tree from them.. most of them linking to Syedana Ali:razi: … like for instance, a Chishti tareeqah can be traced to Ali:razi: all the way including Imam Hasan Basari :rehm:

similarly a naqshbandi is normally traced back to Syedana Abu Bakar:razi:

Of course, people do not have to follow them and can label them whatever they want… I found enough evidence that it does exist within the boundaries of Sharia’…

Great post AQ.

Pir Sahab-

oh btw it is very easy to be both a deobandi and a sufi. if one looked at the gentlemen who were behind the development of maaher al aloom and dat al aloom. two institutions which later became the birthplace of deobandi school of thought you would notice that they were inclined towards both

Kia zamana aa gaya hay- i have started agreeing with pir sahab
Mazahir ul uloom -Seharanpur and Dar ul uloom Deoband

@Sheraz CT

oh great ab sufis kay peechay par gayee…apnay kaam say kaam rakho beta..pehlay sharab peena band karo

Sheeraz pa-jee If you dont have some thing constructive to share then do not waste your and our time

Wo kia kehtay hain na-

Puppo yaar tang na ker

*Tu lang ja saadi khair hay *

Paarai larai main abdullah deewana
waghaira waghaira

[ramyssysIX]

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@Sharaabi

Are you trying to sa..Abu Hanifa was a sufi? If so, where’s your proof.

As for the rest of the folks you mentioned…yes we ignore their works.

Imam Ghazali is probably the only person who work has enough weight to be respected, but if you’d read his life history and the number of fields of studies he adopted and then rejected. He was into Speculative theology, philosophy..and he rejected all that and finally settled on sufism. Had he lived longer he might have rejected sufism too.

Here you go, complete with references. It even includes Imam Abdul Wahab’s appreciation of Sufism:

(http://www.crescentlife.com/spirituality/early_scholars_on_sufism.htm)

Early Scholars on Sufism

The following quotations of the scholars of Shariah regarding the precedence of the knowledge and science of Tasawwuf (Purification of the Self).

Imam Abu Hanifa (85 H. - 150 H)
“If it were not for two years, I would have perished.” He said, “for two years I accompanied Sayyidina Ja’far as-Sadiq and I acquired the spiritual knowledge that made me a gnostic in the Way.”
[Ad-Durr al-Mukhtar, vol 1. p. 43]

Imam Malik (95 H. - 179 H.)
“whoever studies Jurisprudence [tafaqaha] and didn’t study Sufism [tasawwaf] will be corrupted; and whoever studied Sufism and didn’t study Jurisprudence will become a heretic; and whoever combined both will reach the Truth.”
'Ali al-Adawi , vol. 2, p 195.]

Imam Shafi’i (150 - 205 AH.)
“I accompanied the Sufi people and I received from them three knowledges: …how to speak; how to treat people with leniency and a soft heart… and they… guided me in the ways of Sufism.”
[Kashf al-Khafa, 'Ajluni, vol. 1, p 341.]

Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (164 - 241 AH.)
“O my son, you have to sit with the People of Sufism, because they are like a fountain of knowledge and they keep the Remembrance of Allah in their hearts. they are the ascetics and they have the most spiritual power.”
[Tanwir al-Qulub p. 405]

Imam Ghazzali (450 - 505 AH.)
“I knew verily that Sufis are the seekers in Allah’s Way, and their conduct is the best conduct, and their way is the best way, and their manners are the most sanctified. They have cleaned their hearts from other than Allah and they have made them as pathways for rivers to run receiving knowledge of the Divine Presence.”
[al-Munqidh, p. 131].

Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi (544 - 606 AH)
“The way of Sufis for seeking Knowledge, is to disconnect themselves from this worldly life, and they keep themselves constantly busy with Dhikrullah, in all their actions and behaviors.”
'Itiqadaat Furaq al-Muslimeen, p. 72, 73]

Imam Nawawi (620 - 676 AH.)
“The specifications of the Way of the Sufis are … to keep the Presence of Allah in your heart in public and in private; to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) … to be happy with what Allah gave you…”
[in his Letters, (Maqasid at-tawhid), p. 20]

Ibn Taymiyya (661 - 728 AH)
"Tasawwuf has realities and states of experience which they talk about in their science. Some of it is that the Sufi is that one who purifies himself from anything which distracts him from the remembrance of Allah and who will be so filled up with knowledge of the heart and knowledge of the mind to the point that the value of gold and stones will be the same to him. And Tasawwuf is safeguarding the precious meanings and leaving behind the call to fame and vanity in order to reach the state of Truthfulness, because the best of humans after the prophets are the Siddiqeen, as Allah mentioned them in the verse:
“(And all who obey Allah and the Apostle) are in the company of those on whom is the grace of Allah: of the prophets, the sincere lovers of truth, the martyrs and the righteous; Ah! what a beautiful fellowship.” (an-Nisa’, 69,70)

"…some people criticised Sufiyya and Tasawwuf and they said they were innovators, out of the Sunnah, but the truth is they are striving in Allah’s obedience [mujtahidin fi ta’at-illahi], as others of Allah’s People strove in Allah’s obedience. So from them you will find the Foremost in Nearness by virtue of his striving [as-saabiq ul-muqarrab bi hasab ijtihadihi]. And some of them are from the People of the Right hand [Ahl al-Yameen mentioned in Qur’an in Sura Waqi’ah], but slower in their progress… And this is the origin of Tasawwuf. And after that origin, it has been spread and [tasha’abat wa tanawa’at] has its main line and its branches.
[Majmu’a Fatawa Ibn Taymiyya al-Kubra, Vol. 11, Book of Tasawwuf, p. 497].

“The miracles of saints are absolutely true and correct, by the acceptance of all Muslim scholars. And the Qur’an has pointed to it in different places, and the Hadith of the Prophet (s) has mentioned it, and whoever denies the miraculous power of saints are only people who are innovators and their followers.” [al-Mukhtasar al-Fatawa, page 603]. Ibn Taymiyya says, “what is considered as a miracle for a saint is that sometimes the saint might hear something that others do not hear and they might see something that others do not see, while not in a sleeping state, but in a wakened state of vision. And he can know something that others cannot know, through revelation or inspiration.”
[Majmu’a Fatawi Ibn Taymiyya, Vol. 11, p. 314].

Ibn Khaldun (733 - 808 AH.)
“The way of the Sufis is the way of the Salaf, the preceding Scholars between the Sahaba and Tabi’een of those who followed good guidance…”
[Muqaddimat ibn al-Khaldun, p. 328]

Tajuddin as-Subki (727 - 771 AH.)
“May Allah praise them [the Sufis] and greet them and may Allah cause us to be with them in Paradise. Too many things havebeen said about them and too many ignorant people have said things which are not related to them. And the truth is that those people left the world and were busy with worship. …They are the People of Allah, whose supplications and prayer Allah accepts and by means of whom Allah supports human beings”
[Mu’eed an-Na’am p. 190, the chapter entitled Tasawwuf]

Jalaluddin as-Suyuti (849 - 911 AH.)
“At-Tasawwuf in itself is the best and most honorable knowledge. It explains how to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) and to put aside innovation.”
[Ta’yid al-Haqiqat al-'Aliyya,p 57]

Ibn Qayyim (691 - 751 AH.)
"We can witness the greatness of the People of Sufism, in the eyes of the earliest generations of Muslims by what has been mentioned by Sufyan ath-Thawri (d. 161 AH), one of the greatest imams of the second century and one of the foremost legal scholars. He said, “If it had not been for Abu Hisham as-Sufi (d. 115) I would never have perceived the action of the subtlest forms of hypocrisy in the self… Among the best of people is the Sufi learned in jurisprudence.”
[Manazil as-Sa’ireen.]

Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab (1115 - 1201 AH.)
“My father Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab and I do not deny or criticize the science of Sufism, but on the contrary we support it, because it purifies the external and the internal of the hidden sins, which are related to the heart and to the outward form. Even though the individual might externally be on the right way, internally he might be on the wrong way. Sufism is necessary to correct it.”
[ad-Dia’at mukathaffa did ash-shaykh ibn Abdul Wahhab, p. 85]

Ibn 'Abidin (1198 - 1252 AH.)
“The Seekers in this Sufi Way don’t hear except from the Divine Presence and they don’t love any but Him. If they remember Him they cry, and if they thank Him they are happy; … May Allah bless them.”
[Risa’il Ibn 'Abidin p. 172 & 173]

Muhammad 'Abduh (1265 - 1323 AH.)
“Tasawwuf appeared in the first century of Islam and it received a tremendous honor. It purified the self and straightened the conduct and gave knowledge to people from the Wisdom and Secrets of the Divine Presence.”
[Majallat al-Muslim, 6th ed. 1378 H, p. 24].

Maulana Abul Hasan 'Ali an-Nadawi (1331 AH b.)
"These Sufis were initiating people on Oneness and sincerity in following the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) and to repent from their sins and to be away from every disobedience of Allah 'Azza wa Jall. Their guides were encouraging them to move in the way of perfect Love to Allah 'Azza wa Jall.
"…In Calcutta India, everyday more than 1000 people were taking initiation into Sufism. “…by the influence of these Sufi people, thousands and thousands and hundreds of thousands in India found their Lord and reached a state of Perfection through the Islamic religion.”
[Muslims in India, p. 140-146]

Maulana Abul ‘Ala Maudoodi (1321 - 1399 AH.)
“Sufism is a reality whose signs are the love of Allah and the love of the Prophet (saw), where one absents oneself for their sake, and one is annihilated from anything other than them, and it is to know how to follow the footsteps of the Prophet (s). ..Tasawwuf searched for the sincerity in the heart and the purity in the intention and the trustworthiness in obedience in an individual’s actions.”
"The Divine Law and Sufism: “Sufism and Shariah: what is the similitude of the two? They are like the body and the soul. The body is the external knowledge, the Divine Law, and the spirit is the internal knowledge.”
[Mabadi’ al-Islam, p. 17]

In sum, Sufism, in the present, as in the past, is the effective means for spreading the reality of Islam, extending the knowledge and understanding of spirituality and fostering happiness and peace. With it, Muslims can improve, transform, and elevate themselves and find salvation from the ignorance of this world and the misguided pursuit of some materialistic fantasy.

[bao_bihari]

Re: Sufism Exposed.

@Sharaabi

Contrary to what the sufis claim, the Sufi Tareekas have no connection to the Prophet (sas) or his companions.** None of this is proven from Sunnah.** Hence, it is a serious heresy. To those who insist on claiming that the tareekas are from the first generation of Islam, show us the proof from Hadith. .

None of what?

1-Taking bayah other then islam and jihad?
2-Those sufi terminologies which are not treated as ibadah?

[Lajawab]

Re: Sufism Exposed.

@Anwaar Qureshi

Sharaabi bhai: tau phir fatwaa kiyaa hai..???

Anyone who believes in Sufism is Kaafir?

Oh and, aap zaraa wahdat-ush-shahood bhee bayaan kar dijiye… woh kiya balaa hai?

One of the biggest lies and accusations against Ahl-e-Sunnah wal Jamaah is that they call others as kafirs…

, unless the outward manifestation and declaration is uttered by someone which totally goes against the Quran and Sunnah, noone can be declared a Kafir…

The points highlighted by Sharaabi are merely beliefs that Sufis hold and he has brought them forth…Now, as a Muslim, it is your job to weigh those actions against the Quran and Sunnah…If you find such attributes in Islam, then by all means, practice Sufism, if not, then as a Muslim it your duty to throw them in the trash…

There is no verdict, no sentence, no judgement…The facts have been laid before you, it is up to you to decide…

[yo_wasim]

Re: Sufism Exposed.

@Lajawab

One of the biggest lies and accusations against Ahl-e-Sunnah wal Jamaah is that they call others as kafirs…

, unless the outward manifestation and declaration is uttered by someone which totally goes against the Quran and Sunnah, noone can be declared a Kafir…

The points highlighted by Sharaabi are merely beliefs that Sufis hold and he has brought them forth…Now, as a Muslim, it is your job to weigh those actions against the Quran and Sunnah…If you find such attributes in Islam, then by all means, practice Sufism, if not, then as a Muslim it your duty to throw them in the trash…

There is no verdict, no sentence, no judgement…The facts have been laid before you, it is up to you to decide…

Allahamdullillaah again.