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  1. Nov 2024
  2. Oct 2024
    1. Hadra Sheikh Nazim Sheikh Mehmet Eid al Adha 2010

      Fairly wild and ecstatic sama performance circling around the shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani (kissing his hand and so forth). Other thing that struck me was some people seemingly coming to the front and dancing? I believe this is a Naqshbandi Tariqa.

      See other ritual that Sufis do besides the Sama (Hadra): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haḍra

  3. Jun 2024
    1. Don't take this fool seriously. He starts out with saying that taswwuf is bidah. Then, he says that sufism has become even more crazy, by becoming mystic. He also says that these teachers are money makers. Isn't he, himself, a money maker? He obviously has a different background in Islam, but the way he responds to the question seem full of hatred.

      This becomes even more clear at 2:30, where he says that tasawwuf "... has nothing to do with Islam. You wanna become a muslim? Leave these deviant sects alone."

  4. Oct 2023
    1. Also, in the 15th century, Sufi monasteries in Yemen employed coffee as an aid to concentration during prayers.[1]

      Sufis, coffee as aid for focus during prayer