Emergence of Sufism and Moderate Sufism

Abstract

Sufism calls for a return to the teachings of Islam, and to hard work, construction and reconstruction that is accomplished with the blood of the heart. It calls for strengthening and educating the self, and reforming the souls according to divine law, and condemns the weakness, dependence, laziness, and escaping from shouldering the responsibilities, and confronting the problems of life, which seeks that the person who believes in the One God, the Almighty, the Powerful, the Mighty, who created the most honorable creature in the entire universe, and who has lost his selfhood, credibility, his humanity and status long ago, due to some false and misleading ideas of Sufism, specifically the idea calling for the annihilation in God instead of remaining by loving God, based on the doctrine of “Pantheism” which says, “there is no reality for this material world, including the man,” and the saying “you should die before you die.” However, the doctrine of Pantheism has some considerations. We must know first what Sufism is? When we search for this word, we see that it is not in the Qur’an or in the Prophetic hadiths, just as we do not find a Muslim in the first and second century since the rise of Islam called a Sufi, and Muslim in the first century of Islam liked to be called a believer due to his faith, piety, and self-purification. Where did this word come from? We only have to say that Sufism was taken from Soof: wool, so it is said that he is a Sufi if he wears woolen cloth, and what we rely on most for this is linguistic derivation. Many people took this opinion, including Al-Suhrawardy, the author of the book (Awarif Al-Maʻārif), Al-Tusi, the author of the book (Al-Lamʻ), and Ibn Khaldun, author of (Introduction).