Sunday 25 March 2012

Sufism and Irfan

مستدرك الوسائل - الميرزا النوري - ج ١٢ - الصفحة ٣٢٣

Mustadrak al wasail by Muhadith Noori, Volume 12, Page 323

[١٤٢٠٤] ١٤ المولى العلامة الأردبيلي في حديقة الشيعة قال: وبالسند الصحيح عن أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر البزنطي، ومحمد بن إسماعيل بن بزيع (١)، عن الرضا عليه السلام، أنه قال: " من ذكر عنده الصوفية ولم ينكرهم بلسانه وقلبه، فليس منا، ومن أنكرهم، فكأنما جاهد الكفار بين يدي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله

[14204] 14- Allama Ardbili wrote in Hadiqat al Shia: And by a sahih (authentic) sanad (chain of narration) from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. abi Nusr al Bazanti, and Muhammad b. Ismail b. Bazi', from Imam al Redha (as) that he said: "One in whose presence the Sufis are mentioned but he does not denounce them with his tongue and heart, so he is not from us. And the one who denounces them, so he is like the one who fought the kuffar along the Prophet (pbuh)."

[١٤٢٠٥] ١٥وفي الصحيح عن احمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر البزنطي، عن الرضا عليه السلام، انه قال: " قال رجل من اصحابنا للصادق جعفر بن محمد عليهما السلام: قد ظهر في هذا الزمان قوم يقال لهم: الصوفية، فما تقول فيهم ؟ قال: انهم اعداؤنا، فمن مال فيهم فهو منهم، ويحشر معهم، وسيكون اقوام يدعون حبنا، ويميلون إليهم، ويتشبهون بهم، ويلقبون انفسهم بلقبهم، ويأولون أقوالهم، الا فمن مال إليهم فليس منا، وأنا منهم براء، ومن أنكرهم ورد عليهم، كان كمن جاهد الكافر بين يدي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله

[14205] 15- And in a sahih (authentic) hadith from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nusr al Bazanti, from Imam al Redha (as), that he said: A man among our companions said to Imam al Sadiq Ja'far bin Muhammad (as): "A group has appeared in this period, they are called sufis, so what do you(as) say about them?" Imam(as) said: "Indeed they're our enemies so whoever is inclined towards them so he's not from us and would be resurrected with them and people would come (in the future) claiming to love us while they would be inclined to them (sufis) and would imitate/emulate them(sufis), adopt their titles and interpret their sayings, but then whoever is inclined to them (sufis) so is not from us and I(as) dissociate from them and whoever denounces their teachings so he's like as if he did jihad against the kuffar  along the Prophet(PBUH)."

روي، عن الإمام الرضا لا يقول بالتصوف أحد إلا لخدعة أو ضلالة أو حماقة.

المصدر : الأثنا عشرية , الحر العاملي, ص
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It has been narrated from Imam al Redha (as) that: "None professes by Sufism but for deception, deviance or idiocy."

عن علي بن الحسين بن بابويه القمّي في قرب الإسناد الذي صنفه عن سعد بن عبد الله عن محمد بن عبد الجبار عن العسكري عليه السلام أنه قال سئل الصادق عليه السلام عن حال أبي هاشم الكوفي فقال : إنه فاسد العقيدة جدا وهو الذي ابتدع مذهبا يقال له التصوف وجعله مقرا لعقيدته الخبيثة.

المصدر : الإثنا عشرية, الحر العاملي, ص33 , حديقة الشيعة, الأردبيلي, ص562

From Ali b. al Hussain b. Babuweh al Qummi in Qarbul Isnad, who wrote it from Sa'd b. Abdullah from Muhammad b. Abdul Jabbar from al Askari (as) that he (as) said: Imam al Sadiq (as) was asked about the state of abi Hashim al Kufi. So he (as) said: "Indeed he has an extremely corrupt belief. And he is the one who started the religion called Sufism and made it the basis of his evil belief." (Source: "Al Ithna Ashariya" By Shaikh Hurr al Amili Page 33, "Hadiqat al Shia" By Allama Ardbili Page 562)

Relationship between Irfan and Sufism

قال كمال الحيدري : التصوف مرحلة من مراحل العرفان فإنه عندما يريد الإشارة إلى العرفان باعتباره رؤية فإنه يطلق عليه اسم (العرفان) وأصحابه هم (العرفاء) وعندما يريد الإشارة إليه باعتباره تجربة عمل فإنه يطلق عليه اسم (التصوف) وأصحابه هم (المتصوفة).

المصدر : العرفان الشيعي, كمال الحيدري, ص9
 

Ayatullah Kamal al Haidery says: "Sufism is a stage among the stages of Irfan. So indeed whenever it is intended to refer to Irfan in terms of vision (theoretically) then it is termed Irfan and its adherents are called 'Urefa. And whenever it is intended to refer to it in terms of practice then it is called sufism (tasawwuf) and its practitioners are called sufis." (Source: "The Shi'ite Irfan" by Ayatullah Kamal al Haidery, Page 9)


2 comments:

  1. There were sufis who converted millions of ppl,not any molvi did,their miracles are recorded in histories of sunnis,non-muslims,all,so these traditions can't be true.Allah doesn't grant miracles to deviant people.

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  2. @Anonymous: The end doesn't justify the means. If being a good salesman, capable of achieving mass conversions, is a criteria of faith, then going by that token Dr. Zakir Naik should be the ideal Muslim.

    As for the supposed "miracles" of sufis, it is not surprising that sunnis have "recorded" (fabricated) them since sufism belongs to sunnis and all major sufi figures were sunnis. As for non muslims having also recorded them, why didn't those non muslims convert to Islam then if they actually believed in those "miracles" and had not recorded them just as local folklore/fairytales narrated by idiotic mohamadens (as most non muslim writers who traveled to india, referred to muslims)? Strange that the sufis supposedly converted so many people to islam, but the non muslims who supposedly recorded their miracles did not convert.

    Even if for argument's sake we accept the validity of the "miracles" of sufis, it doesn't prove anything because hindu yogis, shaolin monks etc also do their tricks all the time. Such magic tricks only fool the gullible, who take them as miracles.

    In all, the only thing sufism has done is to corrupt tashayyu.

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