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Our next question is from sister or brother Sajracht.

I don't know if it's his sister brother I apologize.

Sajracht from Kashmir. And the question is about Sufism and the question is that some

people accept it and follow it, where others criticize it.

And so I am asked by this sister or this brother,

can I shed some light on this issue?

Wama, a rAru Sala, I'm kibnika,

I'll a Rilahrijalan no he

I'm fasalu a la dikirin. So just like our previous question this is a theological one and again as I said today

I'm going to be doing theological questions and so we am being asked about Sufism and again so much can be said and time is limited.

The term Suf, the term Sufism or Sufi,

most likely it comes from the term W sof in Arabic sof and that's because the earliest

practitioners of the saw-wof would dress in wool because it was the cheapest and the courthest material and that automatically gives

you an understanding of who the early Mutasawifah or Sufis were.

There were people who wanted to live simplistic, ascetic lives not involved in the luxuries of this world.

Now, there's a lot to be said about Sufism, but one could say that the main thrust of Sufism is that they view the world in a very different manner.

They view that the existence of Allah Subhana with Allah is the only real existence

and that the human soul is somehow linked with, maybe even connected to or an

emanation of the essence of Allah,

Suhanahwata. And that the goal is to have that human soul somehow

reunited, either in the proximity or maybe even you know with

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