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Summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah

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Sufism and the Sufis

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The Sufism attributed to the Sufis

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is a doctrine that states that knowledge of Allah Almighty

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is attained through tasting and ecstasy

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not through rational inference.

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Most of them lean towards the Hindu doctrine of self-torment

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to become qualified for union with the deity, which they call annihilation (fana').

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Some Muslims have inclined towards Sufism

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after the fourth century Hijri.

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They introduced dancing and listening to music into the religion.

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They have innovative, deviant terminology

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and innovations, some of which lead their adherents

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out of the fold of Islam,

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and others less so.

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The emergence of Sufism in its early stages

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was due to historical reasons,

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including the weakness or deviation of the central Caliphate

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and people's indulgence in luxury and pleasures,

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their forgetting of the Hereafter and distancing themselves from its path.

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The reaction to that

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was to oppose and reject the worldly life.

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This was followed by influence from Indian or Christian monasticism.

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Among what the Sufis call

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is the influence of the Jabriyyah (determinists) doctrine

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and abandoning the taking of means.

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Their deviant terms are numerous and varied.

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We will present the most important of them in the following concepts.