Claims About Sufism and the Sufi Orders

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The claim "enemy of Sufism" and, in the opposite direction, "against the Sufi orders"; what has been said about Sufism.

The "He Called Cübbeli Ahmet an Unbeliever" Claim

No such sentence was ever uttered. Those who relayed it relayed it without checking, and the person it was brought to answered without checking either.

Unfounded

The "Enemy of Sufism" Claim

The person said to reject Sufism is someone who has given thirty hours of lessons on that very subject. Sufism is held to be necessary today as well; what is rejected is the outlook that loads the attributes of Allah onto a sheikh.

Unfounded

The claim that he is "against the Sufi orders"

He does not hold the Sufi orders to be wrong; he accepts them as a legitimate path. The only thing he says is that what today calls for is a religious community. This is not enmity but an openly defended choice of priority.

Partly true

The "He Called Cübbeli Ahmet an Unbeliever" Claim

The "Enemy of Sufism" Claim

The claim that he is "against the Sufi orders"

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