Is Sufism Islam ?
- Islam rejects mysticism
- Islam’s disbilief for other faiths
- Monotheist
- Mohammed the ultimate
Confusion
the Shi‘ah partake in the performance of Ziyarah, none of which include the worship of the people buried within the tomb
The Shi‘ah do however perform Ziyarah, believing that the entombed figures bear great status in the eyes of God — Ayatullah Borujerdi and Ayatullah Khomeini.
Sayyid Muhammad Hasan Musawi writes: In this regard, Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani also narrates a hadith from the tenth Imam of the Twelver Shi‘as: The Ziyarah of the Imams is also done by the Shi‘ah, not only as a means of greeting and saluting their masters who lived long before they were born, but also as a means of seeking nearness to God and more of His blessings (barakah)
Controversy
In Saudi Arabia, the Guardian of the Two Holy Mosques, attempts to prevent Shi’as and Sufis from performing ziyarat to the graves of nobles (except the tomb of Muhammad) while they are visiting Mecca and Medina during the Hajj.
For an example, the Baqi Cemetery, is surrounded by large billboards proclaiming the sinfulness of shirk and grave-worshipping. Visitors are advised to visit the cemetery only to remind themselves of death and the Hereafter.
Critics
scholar and theologian Ibn Taymiyya who condemned the importance accorded to walis (saints)
many Muslims have questioned the orthodoxy
more bitter enemy of Sufism was Mohamed ibn ‘Abdel-Wahab, the puritanical founder of the Wahhabi movement that continues to be the official doctrine of Saudi Arabia
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