The Aim of The Sufi Callers (I)
Most times this group's objectives in the name of calling to Islam are as follows:
One: To labour and exploit the common folks for their sole benefits by claiming that they are friends of Allah and His favourites thereby making it incumbent upon all the people to humble themselves before them and be obedient to their commands even if it overburdens them, and if they refuse to be that way then they are threatened with spoilage and evil endings.
And to ransom this colossal danger, the common Muslims will exert in humbling themselves towards them to the point that they considerered it as worship. And if this is one understanding of dawah to Islam by the Sufi group, so what is the view of my distinguished reader?
Advancing from this conception (of dawah) is a popular maxim of the Sufis: “It is obligatory upon the Murīd (mentee) to be in front of his Suufi Shaykh as the corpse is in front of the washer, deprived of liberty and preference.†Lacking free will and free movement, not even the movement of the heart and the speech of the mind, because from the (self acclaimed) attributes of the Suufi Shaykh is that he knows what the hearts conceal and whoever flouts this principle will be susceptible to the Shaykh's anger and whoever warrants the Shaykh’s anger will perish!
(To be continued, Inshaa Allaah)
