Sufi

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Sufi

• The Mystics of Islam and the Lovers of Allah

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Sufi

• Followers of the tariqa

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• Tariqa
• The inner path
• Tasawwuf
• Purification

• Sufi Whirling Dervishes at World Sacred Music
  Festival in Morocco in 2004.

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rldSacredMusicFestivalReport2004
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• Disillusioned with the world.
• Faqir detached from material things.

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• Hidden meaning of the Quran

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• Rabia al-Adawiyya
• Influential and Beautiful

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• Abu Hamid al-Ghazali

http//www.famousmuslims.com/ABU20HAMID20AL-GHAZ
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Sufi Schools

• Compounds or Centers set up to carry out Sufi
  goals.

• People seek advice and guidance from the Shaykhs

http//sufinews.blogspot.com/2007/05/politicians-n
eed-shaykhs.html
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Sufi Goals

• Sufi Practices
• Non-attachment
• Names of Allah
• Ecstasy
• Veneration

• Whirling Dervishes of Turkey

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