Sufism and the Kabbalah

Abdul Qadir al Jilani, the founder of one of the most influential Sufi orders in Islamic history, the Qadiriyyah, according to a famous Jewish historian, was a secret Jew. Chacham Israel Joseph Benjamin II wrote Eight Years in Asia and Africa from 1846 to 1855, in which he reported that there was a mosque in Baghdad where the grave of the great Marabut (Sufi mystic) Abdul Qadir is a highly venerated, and mentioned that, “the Mosque was a Synagogue before,” and that “the Marabut was nothing less than the famous Talmudist Joseph Hagueliti.”[1]

His report is enlightening, as it has been claimed by occultists that the Qadiriyya Sufi order are the origin of the Rosicrucians, who in turn gave birth to the Freemasons. According to Rosicrucian tradition, an Egyptian “priest” named Ormus Christianized the Egyptian mysteries. This is to be understood to refer to Hermeticism, which was mistakenly believed to represent an ancient Egyptian “wisdom.” This Gnostic tradition then supposedly survived in Egypt, where it was kept by the “Knights of Palestine.” They were also known as the “Brethren of the Rosy Cross of the Orient.”[2]

This notion of “Eastern mystics,” with whom the Knights Templar came into contact during the Crusades, is a reference to the Asiatic Brethren of the tenth century, who despite their outward allegiance to Islam, were highly regarded by Kabbalists over the centuries. The Asiatic Brethren, like much of the occult in Islam, derived their influenced from the so-called Sabians of Harran in southeastern Turkey, who preserved the traditions of Hermeticism and Neoplatonism. The ideas of the Brethren of Sincerity reflected elements of Pythagorean, Neoplatonic and Magian traditions, which they attributed to a common origin, with Jewish roots.[3]

Mystical tradition also purports that the Zohar, the preeminent Kabbalistic text, written in the thirteenth century, was based on an earlier “Arabic Kabbalah” of the Brethren of Sincerity. The Brethren of Sincerity and other Sufi mystics were widely studied by later Jewish mystics, such as Abraham Ibn Ezra, Moses Maimonides, Judah Halevi, Bahya Ibn Pakuda, and Ibn Gabirol, the philosopher who most personified the interweaving of Judaism and Islam. An eleventh century Spanish Jew, Ibn Gabirol assimilated ideas from the Brethren of Sincerity to such an extent that they was his primary source of inspiration after the Bible. He also followed the teachings of the tenth century Sufi mystic Mohammed Ibn Masarra (883–931 AD), who had introduced Sufism to Spain.[4]

Ibn Gabirol, along with Ibn Arabi, was considered one of the two great followers of Ibn Masarra. Ibn Arabi (1165 – 1240) was the Arabic philosopher most responsible for the fusion of Sufism with Neoplatonic thought. He was heavily influenced by the Brethren of Sincerity, and formulated many of the ideas that became central to the Zohar.[5]

Al Jilani was condemned for harboring heretical works in his school, particularly the writings of the Brethren of Sincerity.[6] According to David Margoliouth, al Jilani’s fame among his followers in some cases nearly displaced that of the Prophet Muhammed, and he is regularly styled the Sultan of the Saints.[7] His reputation attracted numerous pupils from all parts of the Islamic world, and his persuasive rhetoric is said to have converted many Jews and Christians to Islam.

The legend of Jilani’s life and career were largely embellished by his successors. For example, his pedigree was traced on his father’s side in the direct line to Hasan, grandson of the Prophet. But the pedigree was shown to be a fabrication of his grandson, to whom numerous fictions can be traced.[8] The list of his performed miracles began at the earliest while only a child, when he was to have begun a fast by refusing the breast of his mother. He was believed to be able to punish distant sinners and assist the oppressed in a miraculous manner, walk on water and move through air. Angels and Jinn, and even the Prophet Muhammed himself, it was said, would appear at his meetings and express their appreciation.

Jilani also claimed to have come into contact with the mysterious figure of al Khidr, meaning‎ “the Green One.” Though not mentioned by that name in the Quran, al Khidr is identified with a figure met by Moses. But the name Khidr is found only in Hadith literature.

The figure of Khidr originated most likely from Jewish legends and is associated with the Muslim Mahdi, in the same way that the prophet Elijah is associated with the Jewish Messiah.[9] Elijah is an important figure of the Kabbalah, where numerous leading Kabbalists claimed to preach a higher knowledge of the Torah directly inspired by the prophet through a “revelation of Elijah” (gilluy 'eliyahu). The Zohar was ascribed to Shimon bar Yochai, a rabbi of the second century who, according to Jewish legend, was inspired by the Prophet Elijah to write the work.

Khidr also shows certain affinities with the ancient pagan dying-god by also representing fertility, which is offered as the reason for his association with the color green. Likewise, Elijah’s association with fertility and rain production is widespread in Biblical and rabbinic literature.[10] Khidr is recognized as associated with the Green Man motif, which is often related to fertility deities found in different cultures throughout the world.

The figure of al Khidr has its equivalent in the cult of Saint George, shared by Christian, Jews as well as Muslims. There is a tradition in the Holy Land of Christians and Muslims going to an Eastern Orthodox shrine of Saint George at Beith Jala, with Jews also attending the site in the belief that the prophet Elijah was buried there. These Muslims worshipped this same Saint George or Elijah as the Sufi figure of al Khidr, a tradition which was found throughout the Middle East, from Egypt to Asia Minor.[11]

Historians note that the origin of Saint George is in Cappadocia and is similar to the ancient god named Dionysus-Sabazios, who was usually depicted riding on horseback. George’s mother was from Lydda, Palestine, but he was a Cappadocian born in Cilicia, the heartland of the Mithraic Mysteries during Hellenistic times, and its capital city of Tarsus was the birthplace as well of the apostle Paul. Saint George is also the origin of the knightly tale of rescuing a maiden from a dragon. The legend is not a Christian story at all, but is a Christian adaptation of the typical duel of the Middle Eastern dying-god, like Baal, against the Sea-Dragon, or Zeus against Typhon the Titan.

A further identification with the dying-god and the Kabbalistic concept of the Primordial Adam, or Adam Kadmon, and later Metatron, is found in al Khidr’s identification in Sufism with the concept of the Qutb, meaning “pole” or “axis” and with Hermes. This idea of the perfect man among the Sufis is recognized by scholars as dating back to ancient Magian and Gnostic sources, and the notion is traced by Gilles Quispel to Kabbalistic conceptions concerning the primordial Adam.[12]

Idries Shah, secretary and companion to Gerald Gardner, the founder of the modern religion of witchcraft known as Wicca, and close associate of the godfather of twentieth century Satanism, Aleister Crowley, claimed the Rosicrucians derived from the influence of the Qadiriyya Sufi order. Christian Rosenkreutz would have supposedly come into contact with the Qadiriyya during his travels in the Middle East. Al Jilani, the founder of the Qadiriyya, was known as the “Rose of Baghdad.” The rose became the symbol of his order and a rose of green and white cloth with a six-pointed star in the middle is traditionally worn in the cap of Qadiriyya dervishes. According to Shah:

Ignorance of this background is responsible for much useless speculation about such entities as the Rosicrucians who merely repeated in their claims the possession of the ancient teaching which is contained in the parallel development called alchemy, and which was also announced by Friar Bacon [Francis Bacon], himself claimed as a Rosicrucian and alchemist and illuminate. The origins of all these societies in Sufism is the answer to the question as to which of them did Bacon belong, and what the secret doctrine really was. Much other Rosicrucian symbolism is Sufic.[13]

Although Shah’s works have been criticized by Orientalist scholars, he was chiefly responsible for popularizing his version of Sufism in the West, which was a thinly disguise Luciferianism. The introduction to Shah’s book The Sufis, was written by Robert Graves, author of The White Goddess, a key book for modern Pagans and Wiccans. Graves’ introduction described Shah as being “in the senior male line of descent from the prophet Mohammed” and as having inherited “secret mysteries from the Caliphs, his ancestors. He is, in fact, a Grand Sheikh of the Sufi Tariqa…” Graves confessed, however, that this was “misleading: he is one of us, not a Moslem personage.”[14]

Shah was also a member of the Club of Rome and, as reported by Robert Dreyfuss in Hostage to Khomeini, worked with the Muslim Brotherhood in London. Shah, like Bennett, Gurdjieff, Graves and the Naqshabandi Sufi order, represent the strange contribution of Sufism to the activities of the CIA, particularly through their association with MK-Ultra, and the hokey mysticism of the Esalen Institute, which has been the key organization behind the rise of the New Age movement.

Shah was also a close associate of John G. Bennett, former head of British intelligence in Istanbul, and protégé of “rascal mystic” and spy, George Gurdjieff, who claimed to derive his teachings from Sufi masters in Central Asia, known as the Sarmoung Brotherhood. Gurdjieff was instructed in Sufi secrets by Abdullah Faizi ad Daghestani (1891-1973), Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Sufi order, in Damascus. Daghestani was also the teacher of Sheikh Nazim al Haqqani, leader of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order, who along with his son-in-law and deputy Sheikh Hisham Kabbani, who are key agents in the convergence of Sufi ideas and the New Age movement.

Sheikh Kabbani supervises, which touts itself as one of the top Islamic websites in the world. Also associated with Kabbani’s wing of Shaikh Haqqani’s Naqshbandi-Haqqani order is Stephen “Suleyman” Schwartz, Jewish convert to Islam and author who has been published in a variety of media, including The Wall Street Journal. Schwartz wrote in article in the Huffington Post, “Islamic Sufism and Jewish Kabbalah: Shining a Light on Their Hidden History,” where according to him, “Islamic Sufism and Jewish Kabbalah -- that are so close to one another that the presumption of mutual influence is inescapable.”[15]

Shah claimed that it is from Sufism that Freemasonry derived its central tenet, which is that the world can be united in the acceptance of a single esoteric tradition (the Kabbalah), which is supposedly the root of all exoteric faiths. Therefore, according to Shah:

The connection between the ancient practical philosophies and the present ones is seen to have been based upon the higher level unity of knowledge, not upon appearances. This explains why the Muslim Rumi has Christian, Zoroastrian and other disciples; why the great Sufi ‘invisible teacher’ Khidr is said to be a Jew; why the Mogul Prince Dara Shikoh identified Sufi teaching in the Hindu Vedas, yet himself remained a member of the Qadiri Order; how Pythagoras and Solomon can be said to be Sufi teachers. It also explains why Sufis will accept some alchemists to have been Sufis, as well as understanding the underlying developmental factors in Rumi’s evolutionary philosophy, or Hallaj’s ‘Christianity’; why, indeed, Jesus is said to stand, in a sense, at the head of the Sufis.[16]

This is the ancient secret which Freemasons believe they inherited from the Templars by way of the Sufis. The ultimate mystery learned is the central teaching of the Kabbalah, that man is God. Robert Graves, in his introduction to Shah’s The Sufis, explains that the real builders of Freemasonry were, “not Solomon’s Israelite subjects or Phoenician allies as is supposed, Abdul Malik’s Sufi architects who built the dome of the rock on the ruins of Solomon’s temple, and their successors. Their names included Thuban Abdel Falz (‘Izz’) and his ‘great grandson’ Maaruf, the son (disciple) of David of Tay, whose Sufic code name was Solomon, because he was the ‘son of David’.” Therefore, the universalism of the Sufis is found in Freemasonry, as explained in The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, by Manly Palmer Hall:





[2] Allan H. Greenfield, The Roots of Modern Magick: 1700 thru 2000. (Manutius Press, 2006) p. 137.

[3] George Sarton, A History of Science (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1959) p. 246; Yves Marquet, "Ikhwan al-Safa", Encyclopedia of Islam, rev. ed. (London: Luzac, 1971) p. 1074

[4] Tom Block, “Towards an Understanding of the Jewish/Sufi,” Speech to the Jewish Community Relations Council, Ratner Museum, May 2, 2007 []

[5] Ibid.


[7] Ibid.

[8] Margoliouth, D. S., " ʿAbd al-Ḳādir." Encyclopaedia of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936). Brill Online , 2012. Reference.

[9] Abraham Elqayam, Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam.

[10] Brannon Wheeler, Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis (London: Routledge/Curzon, 2002), p. 24.

[11] Richard G. Hovannisian and Georges Sabagh, Religion and Culture in Medieval Islam. (Cambridge University Press, 200) pp 109-110.

[12] Joel L. Kraemer, Philosophy in the Renaissance of Islam: Abū Sulaymān Al-Sijistānī and His Circle. (Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1986), p. 301 n. 85.

[13] Idries Shah, The Sufis, p. 390.

[14]  Paul O'Prey, Between Moon and Moon – Selected Letters of Robert Graves 1946–1972, (Hutchinson, 1984), pp. 213–215.

[15] Huffington Post, May 10, 2011.

[16] Shah, The Way of the Sufi, p. 124-5

[17] Manly Palmer Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, (The Philosophical Research Society, 1940), p. 65.



Salam alaikum,

The above article answers many questions and raises many more. I come from a background where Sufism and islam are seen as unified entities. It pains me to see that the two major philosophies that i encounter daily are sufic and Wahhabi and I'm inclined to view them both as detrimental to islam. I had good reasons why whahabbism was detrimental as it's fruits clearly pointed the reason for disunity and destruction of ummah of prophet Muhammad pbuh, during the British colonialism. However, now I'm forced to accept a view where there wasn't much to be destroyed any way.

Although the claims from this article can be challenged, however; those apologetic challenges to these view can not deny the existence of common source material between kabbalah and Sufism as can be seen in both the literature. I wouldn't mind the parallels, except for the fact that they are also giving birth to luciferinism. This is what worries me most. Therefore, I would like to explore that paricular link before i completely switch my views and would like to have another concern addressed through research, regarding the true message of Islam.

I hope I'm making sense.. But the state im left in after reading what i just read, I would forgive me my own incoherence at the moment..

BTW, I have yet to read the new book.. I hope sooner than later...


I appreciate your challenges. These are confusing times. But this is a consequence of living without a Khilafah. There is no authority to protect the true tradition of Islam. Anyone can some along and claim they represent it, especially if they have the necessary financial backing.

Simply put, the Muslims are being played. They are made to think there are only two choices. The Wahhabis claim they have the truth, and denounce the deviations of the Sufis. The Sufis denounce the deviations of the Sufis, but falsely claim that their teachings are part of the truth traditions of Islam.

But neither are correct. True Islamic tradition is found in the Madhhabs, and that is the message that is forgotten.

Following the Madhhab's is just another form of following the traditions of men that run contrary to the laws of Allah.

Your argument that "Sufis are a trojan horse and a lie, Wahhabis are a trojan horse and a lie" is correct, and very obvious, but then you take the same path that these liars do- saying, "only following the men that I choose to follow is the TRUE ISLAM." As you acknowledge, most of what is pretending to be "Islam" is merely a cult controlled by the Western establishment. I won't deny that there is a true worship of the creator of course, but to draw a holy line in the sand and elevate the traditions of men- effectively deifying them- is of course a repeat of the Western Establishment cult nonsense. It's the same as the christians who blindly defer to "church fathers" despite the fact that nearly 100% of the so-called "church fathers" were Mithraic enemies of Isa. So too were many of those who are considered Madhhabs puppets and servants of the tyrannical gatekeepers who oppose truth.

Waraka was a Vatican pawn. Surely, you consider him to be among your holy Madhhabs? This worship of man is antithetical to the worship of the creator, and its the tell-tale sign of Western Establishment cult nonsense.

And the "islam is secretly corrupted by jews" angle that you keep trying is .....very consistent with the typical "agent provacatuer" nonsense that Western University Professors are often spewing for the establishment: so as to demonize islam as anti-semetic. The Western Establishment is not jewish, and you know that- as you are very familiar with the Guelphs, Bilderberg, Ernst August, etc., - so this angle is just pure nonsense. It is the Vatican that controls these fake forms of islam, including any form of islam that worships the Madhhabs. You very well know that Wahhabism is controlled by the United Kingdom, so this whole "jews are secretly ruining islam" thing is just idiot-bait and agent provacatuer type nonsense.

I've been on you to learn greek for some time, as it would take away many opportunities to get confused or to remain in confusion. Do it already!

Just like Christians who refuse to learn greek and refuse to understand Wellhausen, et al, so too do you seem to bury your head in the sand regarding the manipulations of Madhhab' Islam.

It is very true that Vatican dupes are behind all this nonsense; that's the only really accurate point you've made. Is an allah existed how could anyone operate contrary to 'his' laws'? Brainwashing garbage doesn't get any better with age, and these antiquated and pernicious death cults all need to be relegated to the dustbins of history.
All Abrahamic cults are the truest enemies of enlightenment, illuminism and the true Illuminati - the Perfectibilists. These old bags of claptrap have nothing to do with consiousness expansion - quite the opposite. A religion is a region with a li(e) in it. There is no point defending any Abrahamic cult as superior to any other. They are all damnable lies created and operated by liars. Sufism was always an attempt to evade and bypass the evil control freaks of the nasty old Islamic world.

Kabbalistic teachings take many forms - you can't lump them all under a single heading. Some schools teach nonsense, others mere book learning and mental masturbation, some the truer forms of yogic magic - like some forms of Sufism.

At least they don't kowtow to stupid mainstream priests, rabbis or mullahs!


I say A is right and you say B is right and David says C is right. What you are advocating is law of the jungle, might makes right.


Whereas Islaam says The CREATOR is right so follow HIS unlimited Knowledge that encompass everything (because HE created everything). Sounds exfremely logical to me. A creator knows his creation better than anyone else. Stick to his manual and advice...does that sounds insane to you?


The so called "Abrahimic Cult" didnt drop two atom bombs on Japan, didnt burn vietnam with napalm or cause two great world wars. That's the works of the great Democracy and Secularism of man.

Originally there were mazdhaahib of the Sahaba (The Companion of the Prophets) which later crystalized into the Mazdhab of Hijjaz (and Yaman by extension), the Mazdhab of Iraaq (Kufa and Basra) and the Mazdhab of Shaam (and Mi'sr by extension)  as the Sahaba moves out of Hijjaz after the death of The Prophet S'AWS and, settle in these locations. Majority of thethe Sahaba were founded in these three locations - Hijjaz, Iraaq and Shaam.


Later on, due to scholarly inter-state interaction and correspondence their students found a "glitch" in the mazdaahib of the Sahaba. Due to their daily activities during thr time of the Prophet S'AWS wherea some had travelled for trading, some had traveled as part of military expeditions while others were sent out as delegates and governors, the students find that most of the Sahaba, their teachers do not have the "complete picture" (though their Faith is unrivalled). So the students then began to travel cross borders and collect the knowledge of Islaam with the Sahaba and combine it into a whole corpus. This act gives birth to the 13 approved mazdaahib of the Salaaf generation who superceded the mazdaahib of the Sahaba due to the former completeness over the latter.

Before you want about this issue, learn about concepts such as Talaqqi, Sanad, Salasila, Ijaaza and Tawliyya. Orthodox Islaam academic and scholarship system is tighly regulated. Its even more strict than the issue of accepting and disparaging ahaadiysth for usage as Daliyl in Hujjaat.


You can reject the command to adhere to one of the approved mazdaahib if you wish, your choice, but by rejecting them you are automatically rejected as a Sunni in return, and comes Qiyaama, the Sunnis who had witness this rejection will testify against you at the Court of ALLAAH.


The Prophet states the Jews splits into 71 sects, all of them in the Fire. The Christians splits into 72 sects, all of them in the Fire. The Muslimiyn likewise splits into 73 sect, all of them in the Fire except 1.


Ihsan (or sufism) and Iman (belief) are both part of Islam (read islamic work, just pick up a copy of 'Shariah and Tariqa' from any islamic bookstore, that should be enough). A hanafi is a muslim, a shafi is a muslim, for that matter any one following either of the four madhabs is a muslim. Why this dependence on western writers to define or decipher sufism, why can't we refer to hundreds and thousands of books written by Islamic scholars on the subject. Our scholars have all been critical of the wrong elements that have crept into islam, whether that stems from being 'la madhabi' or innovations in islam.

I just don't trust western historians when it comes to describing Shariah and sufism. Its preposterous to say that a scholar of the repute of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani was a Jew! His whole family can be traced back to the Prophet (sallalahu alaihi wasallam), in fact both of his parents directly to the family of Ali radiallahu anhu! There are numerous non-muslims who came to Islam just by reading his works. Now he or any other scholar have and will continue to commit mistakes in their works (just like you have done in some of you works depending on non-islamic sources to trace islamic theology).

really need to learn and discover islamic history from our books with no alien translation. Also if we want khlilafah to return we need to listen and take guidance from the scholars today. Its surprising to read that brothers want to follow a khilafah but can't even follow the madhab and their imams properly!

I do agree with you that David needs to re-examine Abdul Qadiyr Al-Jilaaniy deeper as he is a Hanbalite scholar and his 'Tariyqa is naturally by right structured for the Hanbalis who are pro-Tafwiyd doctrine and discouraged the ta'gwiyl doctrine.

I for one find it strange that the Qadiyriyya Order when into symbolism and mysteries and whats else as the order was developed by the and for Hanbalites originally. The original Qadiyriyya was so strict that it banned all it adherents from even drinking coffee! I find it strange today  that it allow even more controversial things like symbolism and "mysteries" and such.

Towards this end, I do believe like the Shazdaliyya of North Africa, the Qadiyriyya too was penetrated by the Masons somewhere. I however doubt it began with Abdul Qadiyr Al-Jilaaniy tho who abandoned the Shafi'iy mazdhab just to rescue the Hanbaliy school from going extinct (meaning he is a faqiy'h).

With that in mind I do have to mentioned that the Hanbaliy school has always been the de facto school the Hashwiyya (crypto-anthromorphists) like to hide within as pseudo-Hanbalis.

I believe he needs to separate Abdul Qadiyr Al-Jilaaniy and the Qadiyriyya Order of today just as one will see a difference between A'hmad Rida Khan Berelwiy and the adherenfs of the Berelwiy institution of today. Just as the scholars warned that thwo scholars had their reputation was hurt by their "companions"; one was Imaam A'hmaad Bin Hanbal by the anthromorphists and the second was Imaam Ja'gfar As-Saddiyq by the Shiy'a.

I believe like the three names above, Abdul Qadiyr Al-Jilaaniy is in the same predicament.

Arshad its easy to see why aliester crowley said it wont be long before the black book of satanism will replace the quran by seeing how a stupid and unintelligent person like yourself can easily prostrate to fake knowledge.. do not eat of the fruit fool. Arshad knows not sufism because he knows not islamism.

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• Understanding Sufism and its Potential Role in US Policy

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• Building moderate Muslim networks

Understanding Sufism and its Potential Role in US Policy

This report builds upon a conference held in October 2003 on how Sufism relates to US foreign policy goals.
Sufism can play a dual role in the contemporary Muslim world. It can become a constructive part in the political process because, on the one hand, IT IS CAPABLE OF “ISLAMIZING” DEMOCRACY; ON THE OTHER HAND, IT IS CAPABLE OF DEMOCRATIZING ISLAM.

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The report suggests forging close ties with forces in the Islamic world that are more amicable to the West, identifying (4) four essential ideological positions in Muslim societies vying for control over Muslim hearts and minds: It suggest US should pursue a policy of “encouraging disagreements” between these groups.
1. Fundamentalists who “reject democratic values and contemporary Western culture”
2. Traditionalists who “are suspicious of modernity, innovation and change”
3. Modernists who “want the Islamic world to become part of global modernity”
4. Secularists who “want the Islamic world to accept a separation of religion and state.”

Suggested strategy

traditionalists should be supported against fundamentalists, and that the US should pursue a policy of “encouraging disagreements” between the two. Another suggested strategy would be to confront and oppose fundamentalists by challenging their interpretation of Islam and exposing their links with illegal groups and activities. Furthermore, Benard urges the strengthening of Sufism, since it represents a more passive and tolerant interpretation of Islam.

What is striking to note is that in almost all areas of the report, Muslims are not dealt with as reasonable individuals with legitimate fears, but are conveniently compartmentalized into subgroups for analysis depending on their degree of affinity for Western values and concepts. Those subgroups are to be used as pawns to further the interests of US hegemony – a policy of “divide and rule.”

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- ³Civil Democratic Islam:
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³US strategy in the Muslim World after 9/11² (December 2004)
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1. liberal and secular Muslim academics and intellectuals;
2. young moderate religious scholars;
3. community activists;
4. women¹s groups engaged in gender equality campaigns;
5. and moderate journalists and scholars.

*Basically,when you said it seems like Muslims are being set up so they see the only alternative as either Salafism or Sufism. I agree with you 100% on that part Sir....

Be calm and be what you be.

love and peace are the only last and powerfully lasting pieces of life and thereafter.

war mongers never had any real love, car and due spiritual atention.

love and peace.

Its absolute BS about Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani and if it does fit US plans then why do Taliban and Al-Qaeda (proteges of USA and Israel) destroy Sufi shrines in Pakistan,Afghanistan and Syria?.Sufism is about brotherhood between Muslims and other Faiths and isfilled not with ulterior motives like Illuminatism,Rosicrucianism and Kabbalah.If you are still in doubt read account of Sufi Barkat Ali Ludhianvi of Faisalabad in Wikipedia.

See.. what the illuminatti can done. Make ppl debating empty.
In my oppinion yes illuminati and freemason adopt sufism some of ways. But still its different, while true path of sufism is for surender to alMighty while illuminati follow the fallen angel order.
Sufism is not boxes by 1 religion. Many other religion have sufism in their on way. Hindu, Budha, christian, Jew, Catholic and Islam have the mutual supreme purpose for all mankind and other creation.. to remember where we come from and where we come back. Innalilahi wa inallilahi rojiun
So people who can not find the way inside themself will be not knowing where back to and will be trapped in this material world...Samsara.
Thats why important to human to understand religion is not the end result or purpose. Religion it's a vessel to come to Him the al mighty.
Thats why in every religion often mentioned to find the light in your heart. Light of God or light the fallen angel? The choice is yours.
Is wise to be wise in this matter. The illuminati will try whatever they could try to manipulate.
If people already in right sufi path whatever they religion is they will carefully not to judge other cause they knew rightfull is belong to Him.
Is my religion the best right? Are they are the wrong? Kafirr? Really?
Really really? Are we still mind on material thing.. think? Or already we are become one with emptyness. Nor sense with material thing? Fully commited surrender.. submit to with Him?
Religion and book of every religion is to develope pppl to become as holy as human can be. With God greatness .. whatever cover clothes religion is. Pppl greatness is weight by their act (taqwa) not religion. Many high rank religion position is still thinking about material world. Money power proudness.. so? Is they good enough? Is they act like our prophet and gods? Moses ibrahim jesus muhammad budha ismael rama gandhi?

Your grammar is as crap as your logic.


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The article is very interesting except it wants to show bias towards being jewish.

Now understand where the difference lay between islam and jews and the problem will be solved.

The religion is one that started with Abraham, so its the wisdom he had that is being transferred through his honoured house! Bani Israel are children of Abraham through his first wise Sarai. However Arabs are a nation descended from Abraham first son born of Hager(Hajra) an Egyptian Princess(Bani Ishmael)

Muhammad (PBUH) traces his lineage through the Hashmite Clan that are Qedarites, Children of Qedar, son of Ishmael! He was son of an arab man, but born to a mother who was half jewish, not just by faith but by ethnicity too. (check bani hajjaj) so as such Muhammad was both an arab and a jew.

Just like the Yahud that did not accept Jesus(pbuh) to be a prophet because he lacked a father and hence his lineage to the house fo David could not be established, Muhammad(PBUH) was rejected by the SAME people on the grounds that he was not bani Israel. However, most bani israel, and those from the house of david, that had NOT fell into the schism after Daniyal and Jesus accepted Muhammad as a messenger of the same G-D of Moses and David.

So as such the esoteric knowledge is more or less shared knowledge.

Excuse me Ahmad. But i beg to disagree with your statement that religion began with Abraham. What about Noah..Enoch? Didn't they have a religion? And also for you to try to link the holy messenger Muhammad ancestry to a Jewish background is totally unnecessary. The holy messenger of Islam doesn't need a Jewish ancestry to validate his mission as the last messenger sent by Almighty God. That's the last thing that was on God mind when he prepared his beloved messenger Muhammad to be the last messenger. The sealer of all prophecies. In fact God didn't want his last messenger to have any Jewish background whatsoever.

you idiot trying to win some popularity with this garbage your writing go learn about islam first read the quran and hadith then speak bloody ignorant

your the real kafir here you bastard

Salutations David
I agree with Craig analysis. I find your books fascinating but you are too obsessed with 'jew agent" with every aspect that you don't agree with. You quote the Jewish encyclopedia when talking about the origins of shiaism. I mean someone can accuse you of being a jewish agent as well. The four madhabs idea is alien to about 1/4 of the muslim population. At least two of them got their knowledge from Imam jafaar as Sadiq.
Your opinion of the door of ijthihad being closed is damaging islam. It may not have answers on genetic engineering which we as muslims face today.

1. The fiq'h mazdaahib (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'iy and Hanbaliy) are the last 4 remaining out of the original 13 approved fiq'h schools of the first 3 generations of Muslimiyn who are vouched by the Prophet S'AWS.


2. The fact that Imaam Abuw Haniyfa RHM and Imaam Maalik RHM sat and studied with Imaam Ja'gfar As-Saddiyq RHM (mostly about tassawuf) shows that the Sunnis are the one who has the proper and complete understanding of of Islaam whereas the Shiy'a can't proof that any of their ayatullaah has a connected salasila back to Ja'gfar As-Saddiyq. This connection between Imaam Ja'gfar and two of the 'Aimmatul Huda actually works in favour of the Sunnis claim.


3. The "Closing of The Door of Ijtihaad" after the passing of the first 3 generations of Muslimiyn has nothing to do with preventing scholars of making ijtihaad. Rather the issue was on the "usuwl (principles or the methodologies) scholars are allowed to use in deriving ijtihaad and rulings. The "Closing of The Door of Ijtihaad" is itself an ijtihaad that has reached the status of ijmaa among the Sunni scholarship and is not open for debate or to be challenge any longer. Only 7 methods of deriving ijtihaad or rulings are accepted among the Sunni scholarship.


In Fiq'h:

1.'The Hanafi 'usuwl

2. The Maalikiy 'usuwl

3. The Shafi'iy 'usuwl

4. The Hanbaliy 'usuwl


And in 'Aqiyda ('usuwluddiyn)

5. The Asthaariy (Hanbaliy) 'usuwl

6. The Ash'aariy 'usuwl

7. The Matuwridiy 'usuwl

Between these 7 schools, Islaam has all the needed 'usuwl to deal with any issues - past, present and future; scientific, spiritual, material, theological and etc. There is no need to reopen the Door of Ijtihaad to add any new school claimaints of adherence to Ahlussunna Wal Jama'a grouping [ASWJ] such as the Wahhabis and Salaafis are attempting).


So get the facts straight. The "Closing of the Door of Ijtihaad" is not the personal opinion of David Livingstone, rather the ijmaa of the Sunni scholarship who had debated the issue exhaustively (it took them 1 century (100 years) of arguments and counter arguments to finally reach ijmaa on the issue) to locked down and block any new... crap... such as Salaafism from being added to the approved schools within the ranks of ASWJ.


PS: All 7 Sunni schools (4 fiq'h and 3 'aqiyda) agreed anonymously and do not contend the case of the Yamaniy Jew Abdullaah ibn Sabaa and his machinations resulting in the birth of the Shiy'a.

Sufism and Kabbalah are not far from each other and both are about to unite with the Creator and both mention the Upper Worlds are indeed inside of ourselves (heart).
To create conspiracy theories and to relate to terror sounds irrational, I am afraid.
Sufists and Kabbalists were in direct contact especially in 12th and 13th centuries and it can be also noticed by the masterpieces written by both parties' figures.
As in many doctrines and beliefs, too many manipulations and deviations apply to both but the roots show only the same: illusion of duality and annihilation in the Creator.
I also assume, some Christian gnostics and Platon are also from the same root but I do not have much info on such so I won't argue more on that.
Thus, I leave to the reader whether it is proper to relate such love-oriented movements to terror etc; it sounds irrelevant and has nothing to do with neither Sufism or Kabbalistic teachings. On the contrary, a close connection between Kabbalist and Sufism communities would contribute to the peace!
All the best.

When Al-Hallaj declare "ana Al-Haqq" (I am The Truth - notice the capital T) where AL-'HAQQ is one of ALLAAH's beautiful names that describe HIS attritbutes, the grand daddy of Sufism, Junayd Al-Bargdaadiy RHM who was one of the respected 'aimma (leader-scholars) of the Salaaf generation decreed that he should be put to death for his words though takfiyr should'be refrained because the defendent might be a mu'gtawiyliyn (people who like to speak in metaphorical terms).

This is the real Sufism. It does not accept the doctrine of Huluwl (unity with God's Essence) in anyway.

Rather a Suwfiy is the title for a scholar who has mastered Tassawuf just as theI Faqiy'h is the title of a scholar who had mastered Fiq'h and the Muhaddiysth is the title of the scholar who had mastered the sciences of Hadiysth.

A student of tassawuf are called Muriyd. He is not a Suwfiy until he gains his Ijaaza (authorization  )as a scholar of tassawuf and he can't teach a subject until he gains a Tawliyya (permission). This is true to every scholarship for every Islaamic Sciences.

The whole issue of tassawuf is about cleansing and purifying the spiritual heart of a man and submitting the nafs (desire) to the Divine Will as ALLAAH's Revealed metaphorically only the Heart could contain HIM and nothing else. If a person wants to come close to ALLAAH and ALLAAH come close to him in return., he or she has to cleanse and purify the spiritual heart... which has a connection to the physical heart.

It has no mystical mumbo jumbo "mysteries" to it.


What the Sufism are doing in terms zdikir halaqa (group chanting) and such  are merely academic syllables of a given tassawuf school called 'tariyqa to purify the heart and break and mold  a person desire.

Actually if you look into the HIS-Story of Sufism, you will find the Suwfis and their mawaarid (plural of muriyd) are quite strict in adherence of the Sunna and frankly quite militant. The Suwfis of Hind actually wrote letters to the murghal emperor Akbar chastising him over the Diyn-e-Illaahi controversy and even threatens to call the 'turuq (plural of 'tariyqa) to take up arms against that innovation of spiritual-love-brotherhood-and-peace-unity heresy crap thinggie.

You know very much about Silsaliyea Qaddriyah as if we have never learnt.

This looks another conspiracy.
Wow! Very Well fabricated, saying the truth 95% and a 5% lie to shaken the very foundations of faith of a Muslim.
We have enough literary work of ours to differentiate between what is truth and what is not truth.
Our Beloved Prophet (sallal ka hu tala alibi wasalam), has given us everything, every light to save ourselves.
We don't need no conspirators who keep on framing conspiracies on every aspect.
Our Mujtahideen have always make us realise the differences between right and wrong.
First you create wahaabis then you expose them, for you information a Muslim does recognise with words what kind of faith the other fellow keeps.
So, keep difference if someone deceives you he knows well how to entangle you, and we know the deciver.

And that's exactly what the Jews are trying to do. Anything that's not Jewish isn't from God. Wrong!
Before the Israelites; God did send many messengers from all corners of the earth. Most of whom we know practically nothing about. So the little information we have is what is mentioned in the Old Testament. The Bible doesn't have enough pages to tell us what really happened since Creation until the appearance of Jesus then later the Holy messenger Muhammad. Sorry. It's a small book. Not enough pages. It's just a broad history. I'm sure such pretentious behavior by numerous authors who wrote the Bible is laughable. There is not enough information in the Bible to prove clearly what really happened. As one embark in the journey of Bible studies...the more pages read; the more confused one becomes. We jump from one unfinished story to the other. Too many unfinished stories in the Bible. Just to name a few. Indeed God isn't a Jewish or a Muslim. We are the Muslims and Jews. God is the Almighty who hates to be hijacked by a certain religion; group of people or race. God is above us and we are under him. He tells us what we should do and how we should live our lives and not the other way around.

"Do you not know, Muhammad, that lying is my doing, that I was the first to lie, and that whoever lies is my friend and whoever swears falsely in Allah's (SWT) name is my beloved? Do you not know, Muhammad, that in Allah's (SWT) name I swore to Adam and Hawwa (Eve) (Alayhis Salaam). 'For Allah's sake, surely I am one of your sincerest advisors.' The lying oath is the joy of my heart; slander and defamation are my fruits and my delight; and bearing false witness brings pleasure and satisfaction to my eye."



watch this movie and you will find that Kabalah and Sufism are ONE, Just like any other esoteric path, they are ONE. The G! is ONE. 

All is God and God is All


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