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**SweetCaroline** · 12-24-2010, 03:59 AM

walaikum assalam

what does OP mean?

to be honest i knew that some of the leading scholars of the deoband had afiliation with tariqahs but i didnt think it was something that was encouraged!?!; although living amongst a deoband community there now seems to be a trend to exercise sprituality which of course is encouraged, alhamdulillah.

i would like to know a bit more about the approach of deoband to tariqah because i think the animosity that was once there is now reducing inshAllah

OP = Original Poster (i.e. abz in this case)

Seems youre frm a barelwi background. Barelwis do like to spread myths about Deoband and this is one of them. Tasawwuf and spirituality is extremely encouraged. Mawlana Ashraf Ali Tahanwi

is considered a Mujaddid in this field in the Indo/Pak subcontinent (well, among non-Barelwis that is).

to be honest i knew that some of the leading scholars of the deoband had afiliation with tariqahs but i didnt think it was something that was encouraged!

How on earth would that work then?!?!?!? Leading scholars affiliated to tariqahs but then they dont encourage it....???....weird

...there now seems to be a trend to exercise sprituality "trend"... astaghfiruLlah. What do you mean by that?

Every single one of the Deobandi elders were affiliated to and greatly encouraged tasawwuf and spirituality...though not the type of "spirituality" which is restricted by some to mazars and dances.

......animosity that was once there is now reducing.... animosity...what nonsense!!! Animosity was to Shirk and Bid'ah, not tasawwuf!

Your notion that the Ulama of Deoband where against tasawwuf is just on of many myths created by some barelwis, which theyll have to answer for inshaAllah.

A good place to start would have been www.deoband.org but theyve got some technical problems at present.

But since it seems you dnt really have a clue about the maslak of Deoband, you may want to read this: http://www.darululoom-deoband.com/english/index.htm

Here's a great snippet from it:

If this track which has been obtained through the spiritual connections (Nisbats) of the predecessors and the successors is reduced to technical language, then in sum it is this that religiously Darul Uloom is Muslim; as a sect, Ahl-e-Sunnat wal-Jama'at; in practical method, (Mazhab), Hanafi'yat; in conduct, Sufi; dialectically, Maturidi Ash'ari; in respect of the mystic path, Chishtiyyah, rather comprising all the Sufi orders; in thought, Waliyullhian; in principle, Qasimiyah; sectionally, Rasheedian; and as regards connection, Deobandi".

12-24-2010, 03:59 AM	#10
SweetCaroline Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 450 Senior Member	walaikum assalam what does OP mean? to be honest i knew that some of the leading scholars of the deoband had afiliation with tariqahs but i didnt think it was something that was encouraged!?!; although living amongst a deoband community there now seems to be a trend to exercise sprituality which of course is encouraged, alhamdulillah. i would like to know a bit more about the approach of deoband to tariqah because i think the animosity that was once there is now reducing inshAllah OP = Original Poster (i.e. abz in this case) Seems youre frm a barelwi background. Barelwis do like to spread myths about Deoband and this is one of them. Tasawwuf and spirituality is extremely encouraged. Mawlana Ashraf Ali Tahanwi is considered a Mujaddid in this field in the Indo/Pak subcontinent (well, among non-Barelwis that is). to be honest i knew that some of the leading scholars of the deoband had afiliation with tariqahs but i didnt think it was something that was encouraged! How on earth would that work then?!?!?!? Leading scholars affiliated to tariqahs but then they dont encourage it....???....weird ...there now seems to be a trend to exercise sprituality "trend"... astaghfiruLlah. What do you mean by that? Every single one of the Deobandi elders were affiliated to and greatly encouraged tasawwuf and spirituality...though not the type of "spirituality" which is restricted by some to mazars and dances. ......animosity that was once there is now reducing.... animosity...what nonsense!!! Animosity was to Shirk and Bid'ah, not tasawwuf! Your notion that the Ulama of Deoband where against tasawwuf is just on of many myths created by some barelwis, which theyll have to answer for inshaAllah. A good place to start would have been www.deoband.org but theyve got some technical problems at present. But since it seems you dnt really have a clue about the maslak of Deoband, you may want to read this: http://www.darululoom-deoband.com/english/index.htm Here's a great snippet from it: If this track which has been obtained through the spiritual connections (Nisbats) of the predecessors and the successors is reduced to technical language, then in sum it is this that religiously Darul Uloom is Muslim; as a sect, Ahl-e-Sunnat wal-Jama'at; in practical method, (Mazhab), Hanafi'yat; in conduct, Sufi; dialectically, Maturidi Ash'ari; in respect of the mystic path, Chishtiyyah, rather comprising all the Sufi orders; in thought, Waliyullhian; in principle, Qasimiyah; sectionally, Rasheedian; and as regards connection, Deobandi".
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