[Henldyhl]

what you see and feel on this forum is how sufis feel when they are all painted with one brush...salafis will point out the worst people who call themselves sufis like nazim haqqani..and certain barelwis and they insist this is sufism

on this forum its the opposite...they are bunching all salafis as one although there are different groups within salafis that all refute one another...just as there are in the sufis....but there are a lot of people here from indo/pak...who know salafis as the type of people who curse imam Abu Hanifah RH and call taqleed shirk etc

sister I know this and I always make a distinction between deobandi tassawuf which is basically using dhickr to clean the soul (which I dont practice but dont really have a massive objection to and certainly shouldnt be a cuase for fitnah at a time when teh kuffar plot against us and we are facing catastrophic circumstances), and teh likes of haqqani and the barelwis. I am against any salafi doing this and will always correct them although the salafi community is maturing and becoming more tolerant from my experience alhamdulillah.

The issue is, even if you could include anjem choudrys ilk amongst the salafis, he only has about 100 followers, thats not even 0.1% of the salafis, and the other 99.9% reject him and hate him,. although i reject taht he is salafi in the first place.

I wish we were togetehr, facing the troubles this ummah is facing together as a community who at least value tawheed and the sunnah and the salaf dispite some differences, but that seems more and more impossible whenever I venture to this forum, you'd think salafis are responsible for global warming and eat babies for breakfast, it makes me sad to be honest

shaikh ibn uthaymeen recommends taqleed for the layman and praises imam abu hanifah as being from the salaf, as do the rest of the salafi ulama, so I cant be blamed for what some random in pakistan says as much as you cant be blamed for what some random piir in pakistan says