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[quote][size=2]Some people have very wrong concept about Tasawwuf these days.We Muslims sees Tasawwaf same as the non-Muslims sees Islam today and when mostly have chance to study the religion of Islam they got the shock of their life for the wrong concept of this religion spread all over the world.

As there are Muslims whose actions have caused to spread a bad picture of Islam all over so do some Muslims caused to spread the bad picture of Tasawwaf in the eyes of Muslims.Following is a lecture on Tasawwuf,If the participants here will spare some time to read it, I am hope full that It will remove their misconceptions against it and they will  benifit from it.
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The Place of Tasawwuf in Traditional Islam
Nuh Ha Mim Keller 1995

Perhaps the biggest challenge in learning Islam correctly today is the scarcity of traditional 'ulama. In this meaning, Bukhari relates the sahih, rigorously authenticated hadith that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, 
"Truly, Allah does not remove Sacred Knowledge by taking it out of servants, but rather by taking back the souls of Islamic scholars [in death], until, when He has not left a single scholar, the people take the ignorant as leaders, who are asked for and who give Islamic legal opinion without knowledge, misguided and misguiding" (Fath al-Bari, 1.194, hadith 100).

The process described by the hadith is not yet completed, but has certainly begun, and in our times, the lack of traditional scholars whether in Islamic law, in hadith, in tafsir 'Koranic exegesis' has given rise to an understanding of the religion that is far from scholarly, and sometimes far from the truth. For example, in the course of my own studies in Islamic law, my first impression from orientalist and Muslim-reformer literature, was that the Imams of the madhhabs or 'schools of jurisprudence' had brought a set of rules from completely outside the Islamic tradition and somehow imposed them upon the Muslims. But when I sat with traditional scholars in the Middle East and asked them about the details, I came away with a different point of view, having learned the bases for deriving the law from the Koran and sunna.

And similarly with Tasawwuf which is the word I will use tonight for the English Sufism, since our context is traditional Islam quite a different picture emerged from talking with scholars of Tasawwuf than what I had been exposed to in the West. My talk tonight, In Sha' Allah, will present knowledge taken from the Koran and sahih hadith, and from actual teachers of Tasawwuf in Syria and Jordan, in view of the need for all of us to get beyond clichés, the need for factual information from Islamic sources, the need to answer such questions as: Where did Tasawwuf come from? What role does it play in the din or religion of Islam? and most importantly, What is the command of Allah about it? [/size=2] 
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Please see the following link for complete article

http://www.tamilmuslim.co.uk/articles/traditional.htm

Edited by: usmani790 on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:13 AM[/quote]

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