بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ
الصلاة والسلام عليك يا سيد يا رسول الله
In the Name of Allah, the Rahman, the Merciful
A zealous and honorable Sufi from the Khanqah of Said al-Suada, also known as the Khanqah al-Salahiyyah for it was established by Salahuddin al-Ayyubi himself, was the one who had the Sphinx defaced by removing its nose in 1378 CE. His name was Muhammad Saim al-Dahr. He found the ignorant Egyptian peasants of the area were making offerings to the Sphinx in hopes of increasing their harvest. Jealous for Allah and His divine unity, the zealous Sufi defaced their idol. May Allah reward him abundantly and have mercy on his soul! The episode illustrates that the Sufis are indeed orthodox and have incredible zeal for the oneness of God and for the Shariah of the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم
In our time it is sad to see that those who identify themselves as men having zeal for Islam and its honor have channelled that zeal into killing Muslims and other humans through bombings. By Allah, they have no zeal for God or His Religion. If they did, they would be blowing up the idols and pagan monuments that are most offensive to God, rather than office buildings and marketplaces filled with noncombatant civilians. They would be assassinating those who have blasphemed the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم or desecrated the Holy Quran rather than government officials, their political opponents and even clergy who aren’t on board with their Kharijite ideology. That is the difference between the Sufi whose soul is infused with passion for Allah and His Apostle صلى الله عليه وسلم and the emotionally unstable youth who has no religious training or tarbiyah but wants to kill someone in the name of Islam to express his rage due to whatever personal crisis he is dealing with. The neo-Kharijite terrorists are manipulated by men seeking political power, ideologically influenced by foreign philosophies like revolutionary Marxism and Leninism. The Taliban blasted the Buddha statues of Bamiyan in March 2001, an act of sanctified violence that was motivated by zeal for Allah and His oneness. Only a few months later, in September 2001, the neo-Kharijite hijackers of Al-Qaeda flew planes into the World Trade Center twin towers of New York City, killing themselves and thousands of civilians. The former is an instance of sacred violence that is beloved to God, while the latter an instance of politically motivated violence that is an affront to God. This is partly a consequence of the Mawdudian and Qutbist redefining of monotheism and polytheism, in which they see that the rulers and governments of our day are the actual idols and not the lifeless statues which depict various false deities to which people burn offerings, sacrifice animals and make obeisance. The distressing state of affairs of Islam and religiosity that has led to this bipolar extremism in the Arab World today, swinging between one extreme of utter cultural secularity to the other of neo-Kharijite terrorism, is a result of the elimination of Sufism from the Arab soul. The materialistically motivated violence of the neo-Kharijites has no precedent in orthodox Sunni history, but rather a continuation of the pattern of activity historically associated with non-Sunni heresies. They replicate the terrorism and armed revolts against the State by the original Kharijites, Najdat, Azariqah, Kaisaniyyah, Zaidis, Khurramites, Janahiyyah, Qaramitah and Nizari terrorists of Alamut among others. Let’s be honest, they inherit and follow the legacy of Wahhabism too, which should be added to that category of non-Sunni factions which raised the sword against the mainstream of the Muslim Ummah.
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