*Mixing of Non-Islamic Ideologies in Islamic Sufism*


After the 4th century Hijri, non-Islamic Sufism also found its way among Muslims. And because this Sufism was non-Arab and non-Islamic, its constituent elements were antithetical to Islamic Sufism — namely: polytheism, _hulul_, _ittihad_ [union with God], man-worship, incarnation and transmigration of souls, monasticism, denial of religion, absolute antinomianism, and hypocrisy and flattery.[incarnation]


This is why, from Imam Ibn Taymiyyah (RA) and Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (RA) to Shaykh al-Islam Hazrat Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani (RA) and Hakim al-Ummah Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi (RA), all the revivers of the religion in the Muslim Ummah raised the banner of intellectual jihad with full force against this non-Islamic Sufism. And by making Muslims aware of its corruptions, they fulfilled their religious duty without fearing any blame.


It is human nature that if a person makes some personality his objective and starts living his life for that person, then gradually he becomes estranged from the worship of God. Because when something other than Allah is the object of gaze and the purpose of life, then Allah Himself will automatically disappear from sight, heart, and mind. And since personality-worship is a great form of polytheism, such a person cannot remain a Muslim — he will become a polytheist.


In the last period of the caliphate of Hazrat Uthman (RA), a Jew from Yemen, Abdullah bin Saba, came to Madinah and hypocritically accepted Islam. As long as he lived, he remained engaged in spreading mischief.


When Abdullah bin Saba met Hazrat Ali (RA), he addressed him and said: “You are God.” Hearing this, Hazrat Ali exiled him, because in his view this statement was disbelief. But this belief had already become openly established in the hearts of Abdullah bin Saba’s followers.


He said that, like Hazrat Isa (AS), the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) will also return to this world again. He said that at present Hazrat Ali is the heir or successor of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him).

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