The Mewlewī Sufis, also known as Whirling Dervishes, believe in performing their dhikr in the form of Sama.

Sufis believe they are practicing Ihsan ( perfection of worship ) as revealed by Gabriel to Muhammad, " Worship and serve Allah as you are seeing Him and while you see Him not yet truly He sees you.

As for those who do not think of Ibn ‘ Arabi and the Sufis except as a pure light in front of them, and believe in their sainthood – how can a Muslim attack them by accus ¬ ing them of disbe ¬ lief?

Sufis believe that Ali inherited from Muhammad the saintly power wilayah that makes the spiritual journey to God possible.

While all Muslims believe that they are on the pathway to God and will become close to God in Paradise — after death and after the " Final Judgment " — Sufis believe that it is possible to become close to God and to experience this closeness while one is alive .< ref >

While recuperating at Youpon Dunes, a home owned by Elizabeth Patterson, in Myrtle Beach, he worked on the charter for a group of Sufis, which he named Sufism Reoriented.

The Sufis were practitioners of the esoteric mystic traditions within an Islam at certain point sufism defined by the sufi master or Pir ( Sufism ) or fakeer or Wali in the language of the people by dancing and singing and incorporating various philosophies, theologies, ideologies and religions together.

Sufis have spanned several continents and cultures over a millennium, at first expressed through Arabic, then through Persian, Turkish and a dozen other languages.

The Sufis manage a system of Lataif-e-sitta, that are positioned at various points on the body, and at the level of the heart there are 3 positioned horizontally.

In Turkey, the famous Sufi Whirling Dervishes perform their whirling at the shrine of Jalal-ud-Din Rumi in Konya, while in Morocco and Algeria, brotherhoods of Black African Sufis, the Gnouia, perform elaborate songs at the shrines of their Saints.

The synergy between certain Sufis and Bhaktas in many regions of India led to Muslim and Hindu laity worshiping together at a mazar ( Sufi shrine ) attended by a Vaishnav priest.

Tirana soon became the center of Albanian art, culture and religion ( especially with the Spread of Islam and the Bektashi Sufis, it became famous because of its strategic position at the heart of Albania.

* Ruzi ba jama ' at Sufiyaan (" A day with the community of Sufis ")

In places like Syria where Sufis are a visible part of the fabric and psyche of society, each order typically has their private gathering on one day and will participate in a public haḍra at a central location to which both the affiliated and unaffiliated alike are invited as an expression of unity.

* The Wisdom of the Sufis: A Dialogue Between Hidayat Inayat-Khan and Deepak Chopra, ( Dialogues at the Chopra Center for Well Being ) ( Audio Cassette ) Hay House Audio Books ( February 2000 ) ISBN 1-56170-734-1

Unlike most of the Sufis who have lived as respected and revered members of their communities, he fell afoul of Caliph in Baghdad and was put to death at the age of thirty three.

Takfiris, on the other hand, exist in every Muslim sect, large or small, and often their fingers point not only to those who supposedly belong to a rival sect, but also to those within their own ; one example of this is the clear enmity between the Sufis and Salafi.

His disciple and other Sufis like Hazrat Ibrahim Sangani and his sons, Hazrat Abdullah AI-Ghazani, Hazrat Ziauddin Ghazanavi and Hazrat Shah Hamzah Hussaini kept their noble litterateur's traditions alive in Bijapur.

In this sense it is the western view of the Holy Grail which comes closest to the Sufic ideal ; for to the Sufis Perfection is the Grail ; and the Holy Grail is for those who after they become perfect by giving all they have to the poor then go on to become " Abdal " or " changed ones " like Enoch who was " taken " by God because he " walked with God ".

There are monist pantheists and panentheists in Zoroastrianism, Hinduism ( particularly in Advaita and Vishistadvaita ), Judaism ( monistic panentheism is especially found in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy ), and in Islam ( among the Sufis, especially the Bektashi ).

Beside followers of Sikhism, Guru Nanak is revered by Hindus and Muslim Sufis across the Indian subcontinent.

There are monist pantheists and panentheists in Hinduism ( particularly in Advaita and Vishistadvaita respectively ), Judaism ( monistic panentheism is especially found in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy ), in Christianity ( especially among Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglicans ) and in Islam ( among the Sufis, especially the Bektashi ).

The practice of khalwah is regularly followed by the Sufis, with the permission and the supervision of a Sufi authority.

The apartment is near the kha ’ neqa ’ h ( monastery ) of the Molavieh Order of Sufis ( founded by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi ), where Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Thomas de Hartmann experienced the sema ceremony of The Whirling Dervishes.

Another Shia group, influenced heavily by the Sufis, Turkic religion and other mystical movements, is that of the Alevi.

Al-Yafi ‘ i, Ibn ‘ Ata ’ Allah and others have declared that they considered Ibn ‘ Arabi a walî, noting that the language which Sufis use is appropri ¬ ate among the experts in its usage and that the knower of Allah (‘ ârif ), when he becomes completely ab ¬ sorbed in the oceans of Unity, might make some statements that are liable to be misconstrued as indwelling ( hulûl ) and union ( ittihâd ), while in reality there is neither indwelling nor union.

All castes can participate, although there is debate between Sufis and legalists about whether novice Sufis and ones more advanced in their faith are capable of achieving the same positive results from sama '.

Bhang or cannabis is also used amongst Sufis as an aid to spiritual ecstasy.

It is a spiritual writing that teaches Sufis how to reach their goal of being in true love with God.

Koran recitation is an important kind of unaccompanied religious performance, as is the ecstatic Zikr ritual of the Sufis which uses songs called na't, and the Shi ' a solo and group singing styles like mursia, manqasat, nowheh and rowzeh.

Qawwali () is the devotional music of the Chishti Sufis.

Amir Khusrau of the Chisti order of Sufis is credited with fusing the Persian and South Asian musical traditions, to create Qawwali as well as the classical music tradition.

This is when mystics or Sufis such as Shah Abdul Latif, Sachal Sarmast, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar ( as well as numerous others ) narrated their theosophical poetry depicting the relationship between humans and Allah.

According to Hadith which is narrated by Shia and Sufis, Muhammad told about him " I'm the city of knowledge and Ali is its gate ..." Muslims regard Ali as a major authority on Islam.

Current ways of " teaching " literature in schools and universities may make it difficult for literary people to approach Sufi literature as it should be: Sufis do not pull apart a tale to find its meaning, but cite the case of the child who has dismantled a fly and, left with a heap of wings, a head, legs, asks " Where is the fly?

Multan is known as the City of Sufis or City of Saints and Madinat-ul-Awliyah because of the large number of shrines and Sufi saints from the city.

There is a saying in Persian that Multan is the ' City of Saints, Sufis and Beggars ' ( Gard, Garma, Gada o Goristan ).

see many more famous sufis here List of Sufis.

While many Sufis theorize that Hallaj was a reflection of God's truth, scholars of the other Islamic schools of thought continue to see him as a heretic and a deviant.

Tariqas were brought to China in the 17th century by Ma Laichi and other Chinese Sufis who had studied in Mecca and Yemen, and had also been influenced by spiritual descendants of the Kashgarian Sufi master Afaq Khoja.

Part of this has been translated as Sufis of Andalusia, reminiscences and spiritual anecdotes about many interesting people whom he met in al-Andalus.

In any case it can be taken for granted that from childhood onward ` Attar, encouraged by his father, was interested in the Sufis and their sayings and way of life, and regarded their saints as his spiritual guides .< ref > Ta < u > d </ u > kerat al-Awlīya ; pp. 1, 55, 23 ff </ ref >

There are a number of different Sufi orders that follow the teachings of particular spiritual masters, but the bond that unites all Sufis is the concept of ego annihilation ( removal of the subject / object dichotomy between humankind and the divine ) through various spiritual exercises and a persistent, ever-increasing longing for union with the divine.

The general populace accords Sufis respect for their learning and for possessing karamat, the psychic spiritual power conferred upon them by God that enables pirs to perform acts of generosity and bestow blessings ( barakat ).

The orders are governed by shaykhs, spiritual leaders that mentor Sufis.

Nefta is considered by most Sufis to be the spiritual home of Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam ; many religious buildings are located in the district El Bayadha.

Other Sufis attempted to adapt theory and practice to their declining worldly authority and stressed the purely contemplative and spiritual aspect of Sufism.

" They focused on explaining the spiritual visionary experiences that Sufis underwent in everyday life.

Both poems have inspired in-depth spiritual commentaries throughout the centuries, and they are still reverently memorized by Sufis and other devout Muslims today.

Following is the spiritual lineage of the Chishti Sabri Order of Sufis up to Hazrat Zauqi Shah.