Part of Concepts of Ahl as-Sunnah (series completed)
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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (269) | Sufism and Sufism
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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.