{"id":6567,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/sufi-saints-and-tasawwuf\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:26:52","slug":"sufi-saints-and-tasawwuf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/sufi-saints-and-tasawwuf\/","title":{"rendered":"Sufi Saints And Tasawwuf"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>If  Sufism is not Islam then what should a Muslim&#8217;s attitude should be  about the great Sufis like Baba Frid Ganj Shakar, Khwaja Moinuddin  Ajmeri, Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar kaaki and others?.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Muslims  should refrain from pronouncing any verdict regarding these great  personalities. They should consign their matter to God and try to follow  those of their teachings which they find in conformity with the Qur\u2019an  and Sunnah. Of course whenever they can, they should pray for their  forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-20<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6567\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If  Sufism is not Islam then what should a Muslim&#8217;s attitude should be  about the great Sufis like Baba Frid Ganj Shakar, Khwaja Moinuddin  Ajmeri, Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiar kaaki and others?.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1191],"tags":[1901,2435,1509,2434],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-muslim-sects","tag-saint","tag-sufi","tag-sufism","tag-tasawwuf"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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