Tablighi Jama'at and offering Salah in Masjids containing graves

M.’A. From America says: I traveled with Jama’at Tabligh to India and Pakistan. We used to gather and pray...

Sufis who beat themselves with skewers

I know some people who call themselves shaykhs but they stab themselves with skewers etc. And ascribe fictitious things...

Sufi superstitions

The mentioned Imam says that one day Safi Al-Din ibn Ahmad passed along a road in that city and...

Status of the Sufi orders in Islam

I am forwarding to you this message that was sent to me by a woman who says her...

The pledge taken from a Sufi Shaykh

What is the ruling of Islam on the pledge that we make to the shaykh of a Tariqah (Sufi...

Origin and the creeds of Sufism

I ask your eminence to reply to us in short about Sufism and Sufis; what is Sufism, their ‘Aqidah...

Misguidance of all Sufis

I read in a book entitled “Hadhihi Al-Sufiyyah (This is Sufism)” that Sufism is a deviant Islamic sect that...

Ruling on kissing the hands and feet of the Sufi Shaykh

Some followers of a certain Tariqah (Sufi order) kiss the hands and feet of their shaykh and put their...

The followers of Sufism stance on their shaykhs

Some ignorant Sufis follow their Shaykhs in their error and immorality. The Sufi before his Shaykh is like a...

Ruling on Prophet's songs

Many Muslims celebrate the Prophethood of our Messenger (peace be upon him) with musical songs just as the Jews...

Ruling on setting up tents beside the graves

What is your opinion - may your favor continue - on setting up tents beside the graves, where...

Ruling on placing Henna in the Grave with the Deceased

Is placing henna in the grave with the deceased part of the Islamic ceremony? If yes, what are...

Ruling on placing book in the grave

We have a strange practice and would like to know the religious ruling on it. Some people place...

Claiming to have dream of deceased who command him to build a shrine for the deceased

Nowadays, there are a group of people who transfer the deceased months or years after burying them claiming...

Ruling on hanging photos of the deceased at home

Is it Haram (prohibited) to hang a photo in the home of one that died? Is it Haram...

The beggar sufis sect

An inquirer from Syria says: We have some people who claim that they are the children of Shaykh ‘Isa...

Sufi orders, litanies, and Adhkar

What is the ruling on the Sufi orders and the litanies they recite before the Fajr (Dawn) Prayer and...

What is the ruling of Islam on the Sufi orders that exist today

What is the ruling of Islam on the Sufi orders that exist today? Answer: Working according to Bid’ahs (innovations...

Sufism and their false ancriptions

The Problem of Sufism: What does it mean and what is the attitude of Islam toward it? I mean...

No human being existed before Adam

Brother M. M. Y. from Al-Judeidah district, the Republic of Yemen, asks: Some people claim that before Adam...