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[quote][size=1][b][blue]Origin of Sufism:

1. The first source:
 
Some worshippers amongst the Muslims turned all their attention to avoidance of the worldly life and to cutting themselves off in order to worship.

This first began in the lifetime of the Prophet (SAAW) when some of the Sahabah decided to spend the night striving in Prayer and abandoning sleep.

Others decided to fast every day without fail. Others decided to cease having marital relations with women.

So when that reached the Prophet (SAAW) he said: [/blue]

[green]"What is wrong with a people who say such and such. But rather I fast and I refrain from fasting, I pray and I sleep, and I marry women. So whoever turns away from my Sunnah, then he is not from me (Al-Bukharee and Muslim). Furthermore, the innovation of living like monks (monasticism) is forbiddeen in the Qur'an. He said:

[i]"...the Monasticism which they invented for themselves..." [57:27].[/i] [/green]

[blue]However, when the Prophet (SAAW) passed on to join the company of the highest angels, and many people entered into Islam from the previous religions then the number of those who went to extremes in avoidance of worldly life and its blessings grew and Sufism found a place in the hearts of these people since it had come across a fertile planting ground.[/blue] [/b] [/size=1][/quote]

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