Various misconceptions exist regarding tasawwuf.
It is of utmost importance that these misconceptions must be cleared upfront.
This mental re-conditioning is necassary otherwise, ages will pass without success & salvation.
Some of them are:
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Becoming aware of future or hidden affairs (khasf e kuni) or performance of supernatural phenomenon (karamat) is not necessary for tasawwuf.
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Salvation is not guananteed in hereafter by itself for any one who claims to be in tasawwuf (one has to strife and follow shariah for it).
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Success in wordly affairs or increase in one’s income or cure from some illness or fortelling of future events is not promised.
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Neither does it entail that by sheikh’s spiritual powers (tasarrufat) mureed’s condition will improve itself, without his detemination to strife for good works and abstain from sins. [common error].
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Nor does it assure that his intelligence & memory may increase for hifz of Quran or religious knowledge.
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Nor is there a time limit that such a spiritual state is reached that one finds pleasure in worship, does not get distrubbing thoughts, cries a lot (either from love or fear of Allah swt), or reaches a state where he in unaware of everything else except Allah swt. [This is the most common error].
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It is not necessary that one sees lights (anwar) etc. or hears voices during dhikr or shugal (special rememberace techniques)
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Nor seeing good and spiritual dreams is necessary.
BUT
The real objective of Tasawwuf
is to attain
Allah swt’s pleasure.
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