The Middle Way: Sufism and the Madrasas

Answer

Concerning Sufism and the orders of the saints too, all manner of excess and defect is found. On one side is a class that gives Sufism a rank beyond its true one and does not hold it necessary to observe the rules of the Shari‘a within it: the teaching of the Qur’an, the teaching of hadith and fiqh, the questions of the Shari‘a, outward deeds, the specific acts of worship,…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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