If you heard 2007 was declared as the international year of Rumi by unesco, who is a huge figure in sufism. And for the last few years since i have been following VC and similar blogs i was quite curious as to why 'they' were supporting sufism.
In my research i found a couple of articles that provided proofs about sufism and its satanic roots but sadly it's not in english so no use to share it. But it made a lot of sense as it told about the main belief system in sufism which was wahdat al wujud (means something like unity of everything) and what does it actually mean.
It was stated wahdat al-wujud was the Islamic way of saying 'everything is God'. It means everything is a part of God, everything you see around is a manifestation of God thus everything is good. The problem is if everything is good there is no evil. And if eveything is a part of God and everything is good there is no need to call anything good as they are what they are supposed to be. And there is no wrong as since everything is God incarnate, everything is permissible. Which is a pretty dangerous and similar way of luciferian thinking in my opinion.
In the beginning of the book Masnawi by Rumi there are statements God used for the Holy Qur'an in Qur'an Itself that he changed and used for his own book. For example Rumi says for Masnawi that 'it is recorded in honored sheets, exalted and purified, carried by the hands of messenger-angels, noble and dutiful' where as Allah says in the Holy Qur'an chapter 80 verses 13 to 16 the same thing for the Holy Qur'an. So he kind of declares himself a prophet in disguise and applies Qur'an verses to his own book. In Islam it's strongly condemned to even trying to change Qur'an verses or least twisting the meaning for personal reasons.
If you ever heard of Mansur al-Hallaj who is an another strong figure in sufism also the mentor of Rumi, he also has a famous work open to question. In which he shows Satan (or Ibles) as a noble and proud being, for him, Ibles was a “true monotheist,” so how could he worship God and still bow down before Adam in prostration? As in the Qur'an Ibles is the first to disobey God and in islam he is the first racist.
So in my opinion other than messages of peace and love sufism contradicts a lot with the Islam i am still learning from the Holy Qur'an.
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Wahdat al wujud means Unity of Consciousness.
it doesn't mean 'everything is God'.
This core idea is built on the idea of there being a single universal consciousness (ie the kalam/word of Allah, ie the logos which is what John 1:1 was referring to).
the problem is that at the level of the Kalam, ie the ultimate point of Ihsan...a person can witness Allah in fullness of consciousness and this is problematic to most theologicans because many people have wrongly mistaken the Kalam itself as Allah.
the Kalam is the expression of the Essence of Allah and it is through the Kalam HE manifests His names...
I use the prism/light refraction analogy to describe this.
eitherway wahdat al wujud was still condemned by sufis and explained instead as wahdat ash-shuhud (Oneness of perception).
it is only due to the prism analogy that I am perfectly comfortable with wahdat al wujud and do not believe it is wrong, just potentially misinterpreted by thick people.
light refraction, think about it
because Allah is The Immanent.
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As for the Masnawi, pretty sure Rumi was referring to Wisdom itself which is in the Loh-e-Mahfooz. The Quran is a microcosm if the Loh-e-Mahfooz...you should quote directly so i can comment some more.
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al hallaj's problem was that he lost the balance of Tawhid
look at the attributed statement of Imam Malik RA
"Whoever studies jurisprudence [fiqh] and didn't study Sufism (tasawwuf) will be corrupted; and whoever studied tasawwuf and didn't study fiqh will become a heretic; and whoever combined both will be reach the Truth.
hence al hallaj was also condemned by his own teacher...who was a sufi.
you're cherry picking and twisting statements to make sufi islam look bad but why is it al-hallaj's teacher, Junayd al-baghdadi also condemned al-hallaj?
you can moan about the controversies in sufi islam but they still go along with what imam Malik said.
we have to keep it balanced between the logical and mystical truth...
4) this is my own personal view on the matter of iblees/the fall etc.
when our soul's gained sufficient awareness of the 'self' they also gained awareness of multiplicity/separation
at that point, desire was born in us...ie the fire, the nafs. This is a desire that has no end which is why we're never satisfied.
the only solution is to take that desire and direct it towards the infinite ie Allah and then it'll grow ie iblees rose higher than all the angels because his desire to grow had to limit.
iblees meeting adam meant that fire was forced into the illusion of the physical world and then it became a source of evil where that desire to grow instead comes out in the forms of jealousy, pride etc
