If Salafis were any better, Saudi Arabia would not have been contracting their country’s security to hostile Americans who wish them ill and hope them to never ever produce a single bullet of their own.

strong anti-sufi words from Ikram but I’d like to know what he’s doing to ‘serve Allah’? You’ve got the solution to all our problems we’ve all been looking for then? masha Allah!

well this just shows what little exposure does. the UIC in Somalia was started by Sufis until it was taken over by wahabism. Sufis do a lot of work in their communities. Students of shaykhs spend millions in charity. another example is of Fathullah Gollen of Turkey.

Hopefully this will change all of Pakistan inshaAllah

I like having a strong spiritual base, which every Muslim needs. But this is not where we stop. We need to start working to serve Allah in every possible way we can, instead of spending 6 hours a day in dhikr.

There is a story of Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) during his khilafa, he went into the mosque during daytime and found some men there, he asked them what they were doing. They said they were doing dhikr. He chased them out with stick.

What Sufism has done is take Islam into a too spiritual direction, ignoring Islam’s action side.

How does tassawuf, if properly understood, promote “individualism”. Do you really think the great Sufis of the past, such as al-Ghazali, would approve of libertinism. If anything, orthodox sufism is all about instilling religious discipline needed for strong Ummah.

Islam is not a completely individualistic spiritual practice like Sufis think. Islam was sent to create a Muslim Ummah, not independent Muslim individuals.

And Islam is not a set of hard and dry rules like the extremists preach about it. Islam creates the perfect balance between spirituality and and action. Islam guides the heart first, then it asks it to perform action to serve humanity.

And in the end, asking a sheikh for baraka feels as repulsive as making sajda to Buddha to me.

Islam is between me and Allah. I don’t need a medium.

(I have much respect for our genius scholars who have devoted their lives to guiding us.)

Indeed. The authorities could work on building a more just society, free from corruption with a good standard of living for all, as happy people tend not be violent extremists (hence the failure of the Western based left wing terror groups), but that would probably be too much like hard work.