Ramadan:Why do Some People Here confuse Sufism As a SECT?
SufismSufism is a mystical-ascetic approach to Islam that seeks to find divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God. By focusing on the more spiritual aspects of religion, Sufis strive to obtain direct experience of God by making use of "intuitive and emotional faculties" that one must be trained to use.
The Wahhabi/salafi/neo-khawarij cult are subverting this wonderful faith of our through their lies and innovation.
I am a Muslim too (Sufi, Sunni and Shia) - it is a reflection of the diver sty and vitality of the faith. My faith is too Miltie-sourced and complex to fit into a category. It is search for the Truth wherever it may come from.
My spiritual journey started when I came across systematic revisions being made http://www.al-islam.org/tahrif/yusufali/index.htm It was then that I woke up to the lies and started to use my brain to investigate such that I may be guided to the Reality, Truth, Haqq.
Morpheus: You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Yup Yup you are 100% correct
I think people are getting confused, i mean threes too many 'sects' now
Salafie/Wahabie only came in about 100-200 years ago.
Gr these sects ah so annoying
Sufism started as a wonderful part of Islamic Knowledge, just like the rest of the Islamic types of science were formed, such as Fiqh, Hadith, Quranic Sciences, Tafseer..etc, Sufism was all about heart purification, asceticism, constant remembrance of the blessings of Allah and how guilty a man is...etc its in other words, constant attempt to reach the level of perfection (Ihsan), many Sufi scholars benefited the nations including Bishr Al Hafi, Al Junaid Al Baghdady, Al Imam Alghazaly, many political leaders were also Sufi including Nour Aldeen Zinky, Saldin...etc
Nevertheless, some people who called themselves Sufi made some outrageous exaggerations in terms of sayings, poems, actions which went beyond the Prophet teachings, and we can see nowadays the so called Sufis starting to make Bidaa's, some are visiting graves and starting new rituals...etc those type of people are Sufis by name only and they are more likely to be called Sinners and loony
this is for us to differentiate between the modern so called Sufism and the original Sufism
And Allah knows best
Edit: Tahir, am not defending Sufism, the last thing i wanna do is to go through discussion with my Muslim brothers, I know about the Sufis in Pakistan, and India I guess, but have u ever seen righteous Sufis in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Malaysia, no? well pls, dont judge Sufism based on the majority of Sufis in one or two countries.
They are called Salafi, they have nothing better to do, their Alma teach them to hate all Muslims, and call them shrieking, they busy them with hate, so they can control their logic.