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[quote]I am not sure what you guys are trying to get from this sufism. It is making me sick to my bowels!! Hasn't our ummah suffered enough with other innovations yet that you people wish to introduce or revive Monkism in it? Havn't you seen the fruits of Monkism in other religions yet? This is why I posted that news about the sex scandal amongst the priests previously.
For God's sake let the ummah learn and practice some Islam and come out of this darkness and destruction. Whether it is wahdatul wajood or the other, at the end of the day what do you think Muslims can gain from it?

The only thing which helped me, which you may call a small reflection of Sufism was when once I happened to come across a group of women who sit together, close their eyes after seeing some beautiful pictures of gardens and waterfalls, think of Paradise, think of washing their hearts in a clear water river, then they  imagine looking after a little girl as their own childhood, hence reviving their innocence, getting a light from the skies from Allah SWT into their hearts and then spreading that light to everyone around them who they come across as this light now reflects out from their faces and whole bodies. I did not find a harm in this exercise as they started with Allah's name and the conducting lady was teaching about God, Hereafter and looking after yourself and your problems with Allah's Dhikr.

These things are effective here in such a mixed class of people and practices, stress and tensions while away from loved ones in other lands and so on. But I think one has to be very careful even about these not to cross the limits. these practices have perhaps been introduced in by some Muslims in the West in as an alternative to things like &quot;Art of Living&quot; by Ravi Shiri Shankar and others who claim to release all stresses by their meditation exercises and I have seen many Muslims being pulled to such. But I tell my non Muslim friends here that our five times prayers is a full course of peaceful meditation and breaks from stress during busy days and nights besides a source of one's training as a good human being, only if we understand and perform these prayers to full.

So why do we still need Sufism? I fail to understand.[/quote]

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