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**GoblinGaga** · 04-23-2012, 06:04 AM

Does anyone know of any living ascetics? I remember in a lecture Shaykh Hamza Yusuf saying he knows someone who subsists on nothing but milk. Also, please include where/how I could contact them.

Did he say he considers that person to be an ascetic? If he did then we should ask the shaykh to give his definition of what asceticism is and match it to sunnah to see if this is correct or not. If this is his definition of asceticism then I have to disagree totally with it and say that this definition of asceticism has added to the bad image people have about tasawwuf.

04-23-2012, 06:04 AM	#7
GoblinGaga Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 475 Senior Member	Does anyone know of any living ascetics? I remember in a lecture Shaykh Hamza Yusuf saying he knows someone who subsists on nothing but milk. Also, please include where/how I could contact them. Did he say he considers that person to be an ascetic? If he did then we should ask the shaykh to give his definition of what asceticism is and match it to sunnah to see if this is correct or not. If this is his definition of asceticism then I have to disagree totally with it and say that this definition of asceticism has added to the bad image people have about tasawwuf.
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