Can any one tell me what is Sufism?I want an exact answer.?
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exactly what richbro said "islamic mysticism" much like kabbala is jewish mysticism, hey theres wikipedia or askjeeves.com for such things
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In the name of Allah most gracious most merciful, I'll try my best to help you if u r really interested in Islam.\nFirst of all I'm Muslim because Islam has provided me the internal peace I'm searching for, In Islam I've found the unity of all Muslims in alot of occasions for example the times of prayers when u see alot these Muslims (not all of them due to lack of their faith) doing the same moves and asking the only God, renweing their faith five times a day through the whole day, especially Al-Fajr prayers when u wake up from your bed and go to make wodoo2 by washing your limbs and head with water then going in your path towards the mosque (if it was accessible or close to you) or towards the place where u do ur prayers and in the silence of the surroundings making the dialogue with your only God.\nI've found their unity in yearl pilgrimage (called hajj) to Makka from different spots of the earth having one target which is pleasing the true king of everything.\n\nI've beleived in Islam while i found it's talking to your mind and soul and guiding you to how to live peacefully with others and how to deal with all your problems.\n\nI've beleived in Islam while it has solved many of my daily problems and even fllowing it's commands made me a better person by the testaments of other people knowing me.\n\nI've beleived in islam while it dealt with other religions peacefully and has granted them free will to deal with their religions whether it was.\n\nI've beleived in Islam while it has been based on what humans can do not miracles, miracles have never been introduced in islam except when it was so necessary and in situations which will not face a normal(not a prophet) person ever.\n\nI beleived in islam while it treats my mother and father nicely and gave rights to women as far as they demand and more.\n\nI beleived in islam while u r in direct contact with God and not needing anyone or anything in between you.\n\nI beleived in Islam while I've found it's prophet telling about things which was far futuristic than his era and have been fullfilled as he said and will be fullfilled as he said.\n\nI beleived in Islam while when I read Quran I feel it's like a heavenly words coming through my spirit.\n\nI beleived in islam while it makes me manage my life easier than I could do.\n\nI beleived in islam while it made me respect myself as a human and gave me the right way to establish a successfull person.\n\nI beleived in it while I've talked to many christians and Buddhists, infidels and read about judaism but they never gave me the answer which can make me have peace with myself.\n\nThe greeting of islam is Peace be upon You so how come it calls for war and terrorism.\n\nIslam makes me clean, tidy, relaxed, thoughfull, considerate and trustfull.\n\nIslam means (maybe I'm not so good in English) providing yourself to your God.\n\nI've a special Doaa(asking God) which whenever I use it never fails.\n\nIslam deals with me by discussion of matters not by faith without reasons, there're ofcorse things which have to be beleived but it has reasons why should u beleive in.\n\nIslam has dealt with me as a normal human not burdening me without care.\n\nI hope i can talk more but I'm not a scholar anyway, u coudl email me on my add.: ahmedeldeeb@yahoo.com and I'll send you some links, books and even will try to get you to some place where u can learn about Islam if u really want it and will Inshaa Allah(God willing) try to provide you with the nearest place that could help you.
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They are members of the Mevlevi order of Sufism (an offshoot of Islam).  The description comes from their celebratory dance (sema), where they spin around the floor.
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Sufism is the mystical order of Islam, and is very broad, but generally is iconized by the whirling dervishes, which perform a spinning dance meant the aid in focusing on the Divine true God. It is inherently a peaceful order.\n\nThere are of course other groups in Sufism that are less acclaimed, and vary greatly in their beliefs, and practices, but generally the focus is on personal Spiritual practice.\n\nThe largest divergence is often in whether or not mystic wayfarers such as themselves need to follow the universally prescribed Divine Law or not. My faith, Baha'i, which believes itself a further succession of all faiths, including Islam, teaches that following the Law is necessary. \n\nI personally understand the interpretation of that Law becomes more perfect, and freeing as Enlightenment occurs, but not be changed so that others would be mislead.\n\nThis same debate occurs in Christianity calling grace what Sufis call mysticism. other faiths have the same debate. I believe in the middle road approach as suggested above.
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Seriously...I would give up television and radio and start reading books on things like Sufism. Especially anything at all by Idries Shah...like learning how to learn...knowing how to know...things like that...His books while not instruction in Sufism, do give the reader a basic course in STRAIGHT THINKING...something almost no one is capable in America today..\n  Also...religion is debilitating..even if you think you are intelligent now, you can increase your capacities vastly by giving up religious and 'magical' thinking...it opens up your capacities...It's is all about capacity...IQ is short for...Intelligence QUOTIENT...think about this... think think THINK.....
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Probably everything you want to know...\n\nhttp://www.sathyasai.org/
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Hello there. Funny you mention this because, as a boy, the first truly inspiring text I read was the Tao Te Ching. I still find myself reading it, at least in part, once a week. This text is so simple yet profound it put me on a path to seek out even more esoteric knowledge. I have also studied the writings of Confucius, the Vedic texts  of India, Buddhism,  Zen, Shinto, Suffic Islam, etc. All in all, the Tao really opened my eyes to a deeper understanding of things. I can read about Quantum Mechanics and sub-atomic physics and find the spiritual parallels within the science. I wish more westerners could be exposed to this. My email is viewable in profile.
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Hi, I am Rational Spirituality,\n\nI channel my Divine Spirit Guide Lysseus.  He conveyed to me the full concept of the evolution of the Universe.  Like you, I asked him about the Atlantis.  Apparently it existed, and it offered suitable conditions for the incarnations of the most advanced human Souls of that age.  That included the three Souls to become Divine, i.e. to become the Subjective God, as well as the majority of Souls from the 6th, the highest human Soul Group. Atlantis was in the spiritual sense the birth place of humanity, or at least of the very best of humanity.\n\n"Rational Spirituality" is available on the Dhaxem website.  Although conveyed only in February 2006, it is already a major force amongst the thinking people.
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Nusrat Fateh is not only the greatest sufi singer but simply the greatest vocalist to have ever lived. Noone who's ever heard his  magical voice can deny this. Apart from this he was also very professional and prolific in his output. He toured the world and spread his music far and wide.
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this is matter of self experience,any one can expeience this thru deep meditation,spirit is something which is beyond mind,thus limited mind does't  describe the unlimited.
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Hope to clear any of your doubts or any questions you may have regarding Islam.\n\nyou may contact me at haseena_haldir@yahoo.com\n\nThere are many things which i would really love to explain especially those misconceptions. However, its seriously wide.\nHope to hear from you if you have any queries.
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Try this website\nhttp://www.summum.us/philosophy/phi.shtml
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from my experiences, there is one god.  this god pervades everything that you experience and is within you also.  however, this god also pervades everything outside of our comprehension, and our feeble minds cannot comprehend the existence of this god.  even by attempting to describe God is a useless attempt because we are attempting to limit God to things that we know.  how you pay homage/honor/worship is on you though.  find whats right for you, there is no wrong way whether it be judaism, christianity, or islam.  the only wrong way is by not letting this God within you reveal him/her/itself by basing your beliefs off someone elses (the most intimate encounter one can have with God is through oneself).  Good luck to you
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Welcome friend, and blessings on the opening of your mind and heart.\n\nAs other answers have said, wicca is not a dogmatic religion. It seeks to put human beings, and humanity in general, in touch with what it calls the 'divine creative principal of the cosmos'. This divine principal resonates through wicca in the religion's veneration of nature, and its appeciation of polarity - the male and female - in all things.\n\nWhat that tells us directly about the origins of the universe is not exactly stated, and that's pretty much the point. Not being dogmatic and saying "this is exactly how it happened, and why, and what human beings are here for" allows wiccans the freedom to find their own explanations, their own sense of how and why things are how they are, within broad guidelines. \n\nThese guidelines include things that have already been mentioned: respect for the creative force within the universe, respect for nature (and some sense of good guardianship of our environment), respect for men and women both equally, and so on. You've already had something called the Wiccan Rede quoted at you - what this amounts to is the strictest doctrine we have - "As long as you harm no-one, do what you will". Sounds simple, but isn't, because it forces you to take account of your actions every day, rather than for instance, the concept of sin and damnation, which gives you a reckoning after death.\n\nSimilarly, a thing called the Law of Threefold Return is key to understanding Wicca. It just says that whatever you put out there into the universe comes back to you three times - good or bad. So self-discipline, self-reliance, and the quest to be a positive influence on the world are pretty big in Wicca.\n\nTo try and sum up and answer your questions directly, there's no one idea in Wicca of who created us, or why we are here, or if we get reincarnated.\nThere is an idea that nature - the stuff we see around us every day - is an expression of divinity and creative power, and that it's probably the same divine creative power that made the universe, and all that lives, including us. Why we are here is a mystery and a journey that is probably supposed to be in harmony with nature and that divine creative principal - to bring light, in whatever way we are each uniquely gifted to do - to the world, to other people, and to the community of which we feel a part, which is the communtiy of the world. This is what makes Wicca a very personal religion - you bring to it what you have, and you improve the world by your being in it. Some Wicca, as has been said, believe in the reincarnation of spirit energy in new bodies over time, and there are ideas that our spirits learn lessons about life while here, and may need to learn other lessons as they develop, so we may take many earthly lives to learn all we need to know.\n\nWhatever others believe, if you explore a Wiccan path, it will be personal to you; your reasons for being here, your reasons for being on the path you follow, will be unique to you, because you yourself are a unique expression of the creative wonder of the universe.\n\nI've attached a link from the UK Pagan Federation, which might give you more eloquent information, and wish you luck and joy upon the pathway that is right for you.
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I assume you've read the Wikipedia entry on it, that might be of help. Otherwise, I'll just leave the original question for someone else to answer.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahai
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I am pretty sure it is not a religion in it's own right. I understand mysticism as a religious method or approach that could be one aspect of just about any religion.
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Mainstream Islam is Sunni, Salahfi's are otherwise known as Wahhabis (Saudis).  Salahfi's believe there is a great deal of bida (innovation) are are trying to return to Islam the way it was during the time of the Prophet (S).  This sect is extremely strict...\n\nSufis, on the other hand, are "in the pursuit of a direct perception of spiritual truth, through mystic practices based on divine love."  Sufis therefore are more spiritual in nature..\n\nNonetheless, Prophet (S) has said the proper path is what the majority of my people will follow... and that is mainstream Islam (Sunnis)...