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**TeapseTic** · 06-02-2010, 08:09 PM

Shaykh Abdul Fattah Abu Ghudda (ra) quotes in one of his footnotes to Risalat al-Mustarshidin, translation here:
http://attalib.blogspot.com/2007/04/...by-shaykh.html
(A similar point is reiterated in his tahqiq of Sibahat al-Fikr lil Laknawi‏)

"For the Sufi is defined as he who protects himself from all doubtful matters, and leaves off even some of what is permissible out of fear that he may fall into the offensive, much less the impermissible"

06-02-2010, 08:09 PM	#1
TeapseTic Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 517 Senior Member	Simple and concise criteria to differentiate real sufis from fake sufis Shaykh Abdul Fattah Abu Ghudda (ra) quotes in one of his footnotes to Risalat al-Mustarshidin, translation here: http://attalib.blogspot.com/2007/04/...by-shaykh.html (A similar point is reiterated in his tahqiq of Sibahat al-Fikr lil Laknawi‏) "For the Sufi is defined as he who protects himself from all doubtful matters, and leaves off even some of what is permissible out of fear that he may fall into the offensive, much less the impermissible"
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