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**nemoforone** · 07-06-2011, 01:43 PM

Good point.

Moulana Yunus Patel saheb sites an example his shaykh Hazrat Hakeem Akhtar saheb gave about how an airplane is so huge, and it's wheels are so small... but can the airplane run without those wheels? The answer is obvious. So everything is necessary to make the person complete, the inside AND the outside.

It's slightly OT (because this clearly wasn't the intention of Maulana Taliban Sahab when posting this), but now that we opened the topic: I've often noticed how the "anti-exterior" "anti-nomian" deviants of today make large of use of certain sentences and episodes of the Sufi of the past which went in the direction of seemingly "belittling" the exterior acts and parts of Shari'ah in order to stess the importance of the corresponding interior conditions and parts.
But not only the intentions are completely different (the Sufis' objective was to put in proper order the focus of people's attention in some "provocative" way; while the modern deviants' purpose is to get rid of Shari'ah and all the "external parts" of Islam), the times also are completely different: in the past, those "external parts" of Shari'ah were the norm for every Muslim, something which no one really doubted about, nowadays, the times are the opposite: what was the norm is now an exception.

For this reason, those episodes can't be safely mentioned nowadays unless a proper explaination is offered, lest the risk of offering the wrong message may involuntarily back the enemies of Shari'ah and Sunnah.

Different times, different approaches and way of explaining, according to the urges and specific conditions of the era. By the way, I think that's also one of the reasons for which Tasawwuf cannot be taken from books: you need a living, reliable Shaykh...

07-06-2011, 01:43 PM	#16
nemoforone Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 401 Senior Member	Good point. Moulana Yunus Patel saheb sites an example his shaykh Hazrat Hakeem Akhtar saheb gave about how an airplane is so huge, and it's wheels are so small... but can the airplane run without those wheels? The answer is obvious. So everything is necessary to make the person complete, the inside AND the outside. It's slightly OT (because this clearly wasn't the intention of Maulana Taliban Sahab when posting this), but now that we opened the topic: I've often noticed how the "anti-exterior" "anti-nomian" deviants of today make large of use of certain sentences and episodes of the Sufi of the past which went in the direction of seemingly "belittling" the exterior acts and parts of Shari'ah in order to stess the importance of the corresponding interior conditions and parts. But not only the intentions are completely different (the Sufis' objective was to put in proper order the focus of people's attention in some "provocative" way; while the modern deviants' purpose is to get rid of Shari'ah and all the "external parts" of Islam), the times also are completely different: in the past, those "external parts" of Shari'ah were the norm for every Muslim, something which no one really doubted about, nowadays, the times are the opposite: what was the norm is now an exception. For this reason, those episodes can't be safely mentioned nowadays unless a proper explaination is offered, lest the risk of offering the wrong message may involuntarily back the enemies of Shari'ah and Sunnah. Different times, different approaches and way of explaining, according to the urges and specific conditions of the era. By the way, I think that's also one of the reasons for which Tasawwuf cannot be taken from books: you need a living, reliable Shaykh...
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