Re: What is the philosophy behind your religion/sect
^ Peace Daddy’s Girl
If everyone is entitled to their own opinion on matters of 'aqeedah then everyone is a religion unto their own. My response above was only to temper the perception of Sufism with the established beliefs. There are a number of deviants sects all which claim to be Sufis if we are all entitled to our own opinion then people like Rajneesh in his Universal Sufi Order is correct - ?
My response above was an allusion to the fact that those people who desire to achieve non-existence is a state which is in EXCESS and harms society. Please read up on Sh. Mansur Al-Hallaj:
Mansur Al-Hallaj - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He reached such ecstatic states that he forgot himself and started to say that “He was the Truth” although this may not have been in his control (as it was a type of insanity), his words were damaging society as he was a revered shaykh of the area and other scholars feared that his words would instil shirk in the simple people so they had to give Al-Hallaj a public execution to send a message to society that his words are wrong.
The prophet Muhammad (SAW) warned us about excesses.