DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post - How does the devil drive people away from good Sufi shaykhs ?

**clapsoewmred** · 09-26-2011, 08:02 AM

Assalamu alaykum

as brother umar said:
Anyway, the first and foremost reason of driving people away from "good Sufi Shaykhs" is the huge quantity and deviancy of fake deviant bid'ati shirki "sufis" around: they drive people away from "real Sufis" more than all Salafis put together.

i am into tazkiyat nafs but there is so many dodgy sufis out there im really scared of giving bayat to a sufi shaykh. if someone like muft taqi uthmani lived near me and accepted bayat i would give it to him because he is someone who adheres to the shariah and he is a faqih, someone knowledagable.

This whole issue of negative portrayal of the Sufis is really quite sad and strange. But, the people who spread Islam and saved the Islamic civilization are also the Sufi people !!! Instead of praising and respecting the Sufis, the trend has become Sufi-bashing !!!

----------------------------------
http://khutbahbank.org.uk/2011/09/br...ional-khutbah/

There is nothing remotely new in this. Islam has always spread primarily through social interactions connected with work. The early Muslims who conquered half the world did not set up soapboxes in the town squares of Alexandria, Cordoba or Fez, in the hope that Christians would flock to them and hear their preaching. They did business with the Christians; and their nobility and integrity of conduct won the Christians over. That is the model followed by Muslims, particularly the Sufis, down the ages; and it is the one that we must retain today, by interacting honourably and respectfully with non-Muslims in our places of work, as much as we can.

-------------------------------------

Anyway, this is an off-topic issue which is being discussed in another thread.

http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/show...ng-!!&p=555640

09-26-2011, 08:02 AM	#10
clapsoewmred Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 618 Senior Member	Assalamu alaykum as brother umar said: Anyway, the first and foremost reason of driving people away from "good Sufi Shaykhs" is the huge quantity and deviancy of fake deviant bid'ati shirki "sufis" around: they drive people away from "real Sufis" more than all Salafis put together. i am into tazkiyat nafs but there is so many dodgy sufis out there im really scared of giving bayat to a sufi shaykh. if someone like muft taqi uthmani lived near me and accepted bayat i would give it to him because he is someone who adheres to the shariah and he is a faqih, someone knowledagable. This whole issue of negative portrayal of the Sufis is really quite sad and strange. But, the people who spread Islam and saved the Islamic civilization are also the Sufi people !!! Instead of praising and respecting the Sufis, the trend has become Sufi-bashing !!! ---------------------------------- http://khutbahbank.org.uk/2011/09/br...ional-khutbah/ There is nothing remotely new in this. Islam has always spread primarily through social interactions connected with work. The early Muslims who conquered half the world did not set up soapboxes in the town squares of Alexandria, Cordoba or Fez, in the hope that Christians would flock to them and hear their preaching. They did business with the Christians; and their nobility and integrity of conduct won the Christians over. That is the model followed by Muslims, particularly the Sufis, down the ages; and it is the one that we must retain today, by interacting honourably and respectfully with non-Muslims in our places of work, as much as we can. ------------------------------------- Anyway, this is an off-topic issue which is being discussed in another thread. http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/show...ng-!!&p=555640
	Quote