Sufi culture is answer to rising extremism: Bilawal

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Sufi culture is answer to rising extremism: Bilawal

KARACHI: Patron-in-Chief, Pakistan Peoples Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has emphasised on spreading message of love, peace and human fraternity to the nook and corner of the world besides truly following it in our country.
“Let the world know about the saints and philosophers, we so fondly revere,” Bilawal stated this, in his message on 270th annual Urs of great saint Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai scheduled to start at Bhit Shah on Wednesday.
Bilawal said the best way to pay tribute to our sufi saints and their legacy is to make their teachings of love, peace, brotherhood and humanity as practicing traditions. Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai’s poetic wisdom and philosophy forms one of the best parts of our heritage. Indeed, he added, it is continuity of our beautiful Indus valley civilisation marked by 5,000 old civilisation of Mohenjodaro. PPP Patron-in-Chief said that Sindh’s sufi culture is the answer to rising evil of extremism which is raising its monstrous head in the country and many parts of the world. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that his idea of Sindh Festival scheduled for two weeks in February 2014 is meant to preserve, protect and promote our heritage and tell the world that whenever we pray for our own-self and land, we do send prayers for well-being of entire world as well.

Sufi culture is answer to rising extremism: Bilawal

 

[Imran Khan]

idiot bilawal don't know Sufism is not culture ?

 

[Kompromat]

Hahahaha a scammer talks about Sufism. Can he read Sindhi,Punjabi and Pashtu ?

Most of the Sufi work of Tasuwaf is done in these languages. This topi drama thinks that by listening to a few kaafis and qawalis, he 'knows' Sufism... Moron

 

[American Pakistani]

idiot bilawal don't know Sufism is not culture ?

Sufism is the soul of Pakistan & i think it can be said culture.

Pakistan unrest is due to half majority people extreme Muslims & half majority following Indian culture.

 

[mr42O]

its because of family like bhutto we are in this mess. One question to bilo WHY IS HOME TOWN MOST BACKWARD PLACE IN PAKISTAN ? and also most places PPP win in Sindh.

 

[Chronos]

Sufism is the soul of Pakistan & i think it can be said culture.

Pakistan unrest is due to half majority people extreme Muslims & half majority following Indian culture.

:o :o :O

that many? Wut?

 

[Developereo]

Bilawal should focus on things he knows best: spending daddy's money on

 

[naveen mishra]

idiot bilawal don't know Sufism is not culture ?

it is partially correct ,any philosophy is incomplete without tradition and culture ,so both are important , a philosophy which you believe and practice (the way you act) ,and how you are incorporating both that makes really difference
for example Hindu in Indonesia ,they have different tradition,ritual which make them culturally different for Indian Hindu, Hindu in yogyakarta (central java) also circumcised ,this act they didn't correlate with religion,they consider as celebration of manhood,because sultan believe every buddy has to represent same culture,so Hindu is following his instruction

similarly sultan of yogyakarta still practice some Hindu ritual ,it is land of volcano and tsunami,so it is very difficultly for them to stop worshiping fire and water , because they are living under highly active volcano (Merapi) ,

just one example (there may be many more example)

Islamization Watch
"It is the responsibility of Islam to embrace the liberties required for citizens of a modern state, and not the other way around." Family Security Matters

HINDU INFUSE ISLAM

A Pakistani Muslim devotee smokes outside the shrine of Muslim saint Hazrat Ali bin Usman Al-Hajveri, popularly known as Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh, during three day annual ''Urs'' or religious festival in Lahore on January 24, 2011. Data Ganj Bakhsh was a Persian Sufi and scholar during the 11th century. He was born in Ghazni, Afghanistan (990 AD) during the Ghaznavid Empire and settled and died in Lahore spreading Islam in South Asia. Thousands of Muslim devotees across Pakistan participated in the 967th annual festivities at the shrine to pay their tribute to the saint.

Hmm.. what's in the pipe??

Arabia be up there to throw money to rid Islam of this!

Destruction and annihilation of mystic practices at Sufi Tombs is the cornerstone strategy of Wahhabism:

The Unitarian concept of Abdul Wahab was that the only stone a Muslim can use as anintercession is the Black Stone of Kaaba [/central shrine or idol ~ pre-Islamic that must have been the Allah stone ~ to which every Muslim must pray everyday - a stone forms the center of Islamic worship!!], whereas all other shrines and mausoleums are considered to be ungodly. But here, in the subcontinent and Far East, the population had a natural tendency and adoration towards shrines and saints due to Hindu and Buddhist backgrounds. It was expressed through their great love for music, an art form that had divine connotations to sing devotional paeans in an opium-induced trance. So what was part of a culture became part of the religion. It may have not been something prescribed by the Prophet [he did it pre-Islamic Arabian practise are all over Islam], butsans tradition, the evolution would be different. Now changing these people by force to the “desert” version of Islam [Islam and laws are almost entirely about life in the desert ~ if you kill a man ~ you should take the family a camel, burying the body the next day because of the heat] is a very big challenge and Taliban realizes that the only way they can do it is through bloodshed, terror and senseless killing like we witnessed in Data Darbar. [+]

A Pakistani devotees dances outisde the shrine of Sufi Saint Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore on January 23, 2011. The three-day celebrations of 967th festival of Hazrat Ali Bin Usman popularly known as Data Gunj Bakhsh started with traditional zeal with 'chaddar' laying ceremony at the shrine after the after noon prayers. At least 42 people were killed on July 2, 2010 in two suicide attacks at the tomb of an Islamic saint Data Ganj Bakhsh in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

Islamization Watch: Hindu infused Islam - Photos

 

[Indos]

Not Sufi culture that can change extremism......but Sufi Mind Set. Those extremist put focus on action and literal Quran and Hadist without proper context.......while Sufi put focus more on intention, inner interpretation of Quran and Hadist with proper context. And Sufi masters are vary.....different to one another...It is good to mix Sufism with Wahhabi understanding...in Indonesia two major Islam (NU and Muhammadiyah) organization embrace Sufism...including Muhammadiyah who is actually a Wahhabi branch in Indonesia......

 

[ajpirzada]

how mistaken. people see all this nonsense happening around shrines and they perceive as if Sufism allows this (and hence liberal). if all those people buried in these shrines were to come back to life, the first thing they'll fight against will be these nonsensical things happening around the shrines.

if anyone was to read the books of Tasawwuf - of which the two key ones are kashf-ul-mahjoob of Ali Hujveri and risala Qushayria - he/she will probably find the usual shariah to be much more lenient than the way these Godfearing people of Tasawwuf lived their lifes.

the more i listen to this nonsense, the more averse i become of the term 'sufism' because of the way it is being understood by people today.

 

[Kompromat]

@naveen mishra

Its funny how a rather ludicrious comparision has been drawn between Sufism and Hinduism.

First of all Sufism is not a 'sect'. Its a 'state of mind' or a 'school of thought'.

Sufism is not a product of Hindu Muslim 'infusion' in India. Modern day Sufism has its origins in Turkey, Iran and C.Asia.

If one reads the teanents of Sufism, like 'Tasuwwuf, Maarfat, Ishq, Vijdan' and so on, it will be clear that its a very strong monotheistic Islamic evolution of religious thought rather then so called 'infusion' with Hinduism.

Islam in the sub continent was spread by Sufis, who 'Practiced Islam and didn't have 'empty beliefs'.

@ajpirzada

Digesting Kashf ul maujoob ain't easy hommie.

 

[Kompromat]

@naveen mishra

Its funny how a rather ludicrious comparision has been drawn between Sufism and Hinduism.

First of all Sufism is not a 'sect'. Its a 'state of mind' or a 'school of thought'.

Sufism is not a product of Hindu Muslim 'infusion' in India. Modern day Sufism has its origins in Turkey, Iran and C.Asia.

If one reads the teanents of Sufism, like 'Tasuwwuf, Maarfat, Ishq, Vijdan' and so on, it will be clear that its a very strong monotheistic Islamic evolution of religious thought rather then so called 'infusion' with Hinduism.

Islam in the sub continent was spread by Sufis, who 'Practiced Islam and didn't have 'empty beliefs'.

 

[Kompromat]

@naveen mishra

Its funny how a rather ludicrious comparision has been drawn between Sufism and Hinduism.

First of all Sufism is not a 'sect'. Its a 'state of mind' or a 'school of thought'.

Sufism is not a product of Hindu Muslim 'infusion' in India. Modern day Sufism has its origins in Turkey, Iran and C.Asia.

If one reads the teanents of Sufism, like 'Tasuwwuf, Maarfat, Ishq, Vijdan' and so on, it will be clear that its a very strong monotheistic Islamic evolution of religious thought rather then so called 'infusion' with Hinduism.

Islam in the sub continent was spread by Sufis, who 'Practiced Islam and didn't have 'empty beliefs'.

 

[livingdead]

but what most sufis do is unislamic... I wonder why they are still considered muslim but ahmedis are not.
I mean is mohammed being last prophet more important than following the life in islamic way? Such a muhammd centric belief is more mohammedanism and less islam, dont you think.. ?
ps : dont reply to my post.. just some thoughts on table..

 

[Bilal.]

but what most sufis do is unislamic... I wonder why they are still considered muslim but ahmedis are not.
I mean is mohammed being last prophet more important than following the life in islamic way? Such a muhammd centric belief is more mohammedanism and less islam, dont you think.. ?
ps : dont reply to my post.. just some thoughts on table..

Please read the post of ajpirzada, what you are referring to are a bunch of drug addicts hardly following the teachings of Islam and getting passed around as Sufis while they are not. Sorry had to reply to help correct the train of thought

On topic, what Pakistan needs is education not another round of social engineering to perpetuate someone's rule and legitimacy....