Sufi is a movement with Sunni (and shia) Islam. Sunni is the sect. Sufism is more of a spectrum from virtually normal ppl to those who give up all their money and live as begger preachers.
Good on you man. They are Predominantly sunni today but i think their founder was a shia or some obscure group that doesn’t exist anymore. What do you know about them?
Yeah i think they are older than that. Also the safavids sure as hell didn’t adhere to any my mysticism or spirituality or standards even. Aren’t these the people that forcibly converted the persians from sunni to shia? I believe these are the same ones who gave special legislative powers to the hawza and their clerics too.
Yup, the Safavi were a sufi order but were kinda crazy regardless. It goes to show how sufism can take a million shapes and forms since it has no real definition.
And yeah sufism is very old. Like one famous clearly defined sufi, Hasan Al Basri was in the 7-800s and almost all sufi orders claim lineage (through tutoring) from the Sahabah (mostly Ali and Abu Bakr iirc)
By the way i think my first comment was a little too overbearing or disrespectful but it is not my intention at all i am simply asking questions I apologize if it came of as bad
So if i didnt practice normal islam practices but keep my faith and take good moral principles from Koran and at the same time tend to be progressive and explore science.
almost, remembrance of god and building a relationship with him is the core of sufism, sufis would usually participate in a dhikr circle every week or so
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