05-21-2005, 01:47 AM
" Rumi and khayyam and some other Sufi texts have gained popularity. But in an honest appraisal, Budhists have written the encyclopoedia in philosophy while Sufis have in comparision produced only a booklet."
Although Sufi saints advocated mysticism and other such things they are not true Muslims. Their teachings are considered to be heretical and unislamic, also many Hindus seem to have some positive image of Sufis. Infact Sufis are the worst kind of fanatics, they acted as scouts for Muslim armies before the invasions and lead many Hindus astray posing as saints. Guru Nanak denounced them and said that they were leading Hindus astray with the intention of converting them to Islam, infact many of the Dargah's that Hindus foolishly go around worshipping are built on destructed temples. Moinuddin Chishtiâs dargah I think is also built on a destroyed Hindu temple, a good book on this subject is:
"In recent years, several books criticizing Islam and its role in Indian history have been banned. One of them is Richard Maxwell Eaton's Sufis of Bijapur 1300-1700 (Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India), published in Princeton 1978, which debunks the pious fable that the Sufis were bringers of a tolerant and refined Islam and the pioneers of a synthesis between Islam and Hinduism"
http://voi.org/books/ayodhya/ch12.htm
Although Sufi saints advocated mysticism and other such things they are not true Muslims. Their teachings are considered to be heretical and unislamic, also many Hindus seem to have some positive image of Sufis. Infact Sufis are the worst kind of fanatics, they acted as scouts for Muslim armies before the invasions and lead many Hindus astray posing as saints. Guru Nanak denounced them and said that they were leading Hindus astray with the intention of converting them to Islam, infact many of the Dargah's that Hindus foolishly go around worshipping are built on destructed temples. Moinuddin Chishtiâs dargah I think is also built on a destroyed Hindu temple, a good book on this subject is:
"In recent years, several books criticizing Islam and its role in Indian history have been banned. One of them is Richard Maxwell Eaton's Sufis of Bijapur 1300-1700 (Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India), published in Princeton 1978, which debunks the pious fable that the Sufis were bringers of a tolerant and refined Islam and the pioneers of a synthesis between Islam and Hinduism"
http://voi.org/books/ayodhya/ch12.htm