HISTORY
SOCIETY
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Their mystical doctrine of union with God through love was regarded as heretical and attacked by orthodox Islam.
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They preached escapism and worldly detachment.
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They found a congenial atmosphere for naurturing their ideas in India, away from social surroundings.
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Their views were unacceptable to the general masses.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sufism originated after the death of Mohammed in 632, but it did not develop into orders until the 12th Century. The orders were formed around spiritual founders, who gained saint status and shrines built in their names. There are dozens of Sufi orders and offshoots.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sufism was a liberal reform movement within Islam. It had its origin in Persia and spread into India in the 11th century. Most of the Sufis (mystics) were persons of deep devotion who disliked the display of wealth and degeneration of morals following the establishment of the Islamic empire.
Detailed explanation-3: -Other practices or rituals that Sufis engage in, which vary from order to order, include prayers and fasting, the celebration of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, the visitation of, and performance of rituals at shrines and graves, meditation, and abstinence.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Sufis were not only the articulators of Islamic Ideology in traditional manners but they practically impress the masses from their moral deeds and character. They introduced a culture of learning which was consists of life skills and manners of society, which impress the people to accept the preaching of Islam.