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Assalaamu'alaikum,

Can anyone here recommend a good thread/article/website that discusses the different Sufi Tariqas and their similarities/differences?

JazakumAllahu khairan

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Assalaamu'alaikum,

Can anyone here recommend a good thread/article/website that discusses the different Sufi Tariqas and their similarities/differences?

JazakumAllahu khairan

Wa alaykum salam,

I dont know of any articles... But from what I've read and heard through different lectures, there are basically four characteristics of a tariqa of which each one will contain at least two of the characteristics.

2 Concerning the Goal and 2 concerning its methodology.

Ihsan is of two catogories.

1- to worship Allah as though He see you (low path)
2. to worship Allah as though you see him (high path)

Methodology

1- Ishraq - rigorous methods (such as extreme fasting, prayers)
2- shuruk - relies on the grace of Allah to take the traveler from one state to the next.

Also....

Its education:

1- Knowledge base (meaning alot of books are read to the students)
2- Emulation based (meaning by imitating the shaykh one attains what he has attain - not much reading of sufi books)

Similarities:

The goal of Ihsan
Methodology of following one of the four madhabs of fiqh and one of the two schools of aqidah.

I hope that helps...

And Allah knows best...

[elektikakass]

Don't know any article/website etc but looking at tasawwuf academically can be very confusing and I think the truth is we won't truly appreciate the differences until much later. Tasawwuf is a path to be experienced (haal). If you have access to a Shaykh that is firm on Sunnah and Shariah and you have a good level of munasabah, then you should simply dedicate yourself to them.