Hi Ginny

This piece was written By Br. Yusuf Hijazi. This article is posted on 
Allaahuakbar.net.

Sufi and Soofi are the same thing like As salaamu alaikum and As salaamu 
aleikum. The Arabic word is the same but when transliterated to English the 
spellings differ. As for wearing woolen coats, this is what was done 
centuries ago. I am not sure if current Sufi groups engage in wearing woolen 
outfits.

Beside some of the statements of Imam Shaafi’i, Imam Ahmad, Ibn Taymiyah 
against Sufism among others in the article I posted, there is a lot written 
up about Sufism like *The Reality of Sufism in light of the Quran and 
Sunnah* by Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Rabee Ibn Haadee al-Madhalee and *The other 
side of Sufism* by A.A. Tabari.

My goal was not to get into a toggle here but to show that some of the 
greatest Imams of old and some from our time spoke against and refuted 
Sufism using their (Sufi Sheikhs) own statements and texts.

I hope this clarifies some of the questions you posed.

Take care,
Salieu



>From: Ginny Quick <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: A Different View Of Sufism
>Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:14:03 -0500
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>Hello, Salieu, could you kindly tell me where this article cam efrom?
>Articles with no author or no citation as to where the particular
>article came from tend to bother me.
>
>      Also, as far as "sufism" goes, this is an area that I don't have
>the most knowledge about, but I'm almost sure the basis of the English
>word "sufism", is based on "tasawwuf" and not "soof", as the article
>states, or sels why is the word spelled "sufi" and not "soofi"?  Also,
>in the different tariqas that I'm aware of, at no point are the
>initiates made to "wear a woolen coat".
>
>      I'm not saying that there aren't some wacky things going on by
>so-called "sufis", but there are also sharia-compliant,
>Islamicly-sounded tariqas out there.
>
>      You have a lot
>of anti-tasawwuf propaganda out there, and it seems this article might
>be one of those articles.
>
>
>      One way of weeidng out the "goofy sufis" from the genuine tariqas
>who do practice tasawwuf, which is a genuine Islamic science /
>discipline, is to see whether or not the tenets of Islam are upheld.
>And if not, then you should avoid them.
>
>      Just some thoughts.  There are numerous articles out there
>regarding the legitimate science of tasawuff / purification of the
>heart, and I'd be happy to send them per people's request, but I don't
>want to give the impression that I'm starting an article war here *
>smile *.  If "sufism" or "tasawwuf", whatever you choose to call it,
>is something that is not up your alley, then you are free to leave it
>alone.
>
>Take care.
>
>Ginny
>
>

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