Sufism

Sufism – the mystical doctrines of the Sufis. Every religion has its own mystical person who provided with supernatural abilities like healing by the power of touch or eye look, conversation with supreme power or something like this. Some scholars consider Sufism as a branch of Islam, other say that Sufism appeared as protest against Islam. They also have no single opinion as for etymology of term Sufism, some of them believe that it is deviant from Arabian 'suf' which is translated as 'wool', as wandering wise men of the time of Sufism appearance wore woolen lose overall. Another opinion that term Sufism is deviant of 'suf' which is translated as 'free of envy, angry' etc. There's also no common theory of Sufism appearance, but Sufis themselves say that Sufism is esoteric teaching in the movement of Islam and in no case run counter it.

At fist Arabian society was exclusively religious community and there was no other authority except Allah, but with the laps of time there appeared halifs who concentrated on enriching of government and there appeared fights for reign. From that time activity of halifs became more social and spiritual authority trespassed to Koran at which one may found answers for any question. That resulted creation of hadises the written memories of those who were close to Mohamed, those hadisese described Mohamed's point of view on different situation and problems and how he would deal with them. Correspondence of inner feelings to dids one performs became an important aspect of Allah worshiping. On the base of this idea appeared Sufism as teaching about disinterested love for Allah. Islam teach for fear of punishing god and as so one may follow the rules and norms written at Koran in order not to be punished, but Sufism teach for following those rules and norms in order to glorify Allah.

According to Sufism way to Allah consist of three obligatory stages. First stage is shariat, shariat may not be identified as exclusively Sufi stage as it's obligatory for all the followers of Islam. According to it one have to perform five main rules: to pilgrim to Mecca at least once in his life, to perform namaz five times a day, to keep fast Ramadan, to proclaim Allah as The Only God ('La Allah illa llah') and regularly pay the poor tax. The second stage is tarikat. Tarikat is away of spiritual perfection, in its turn tarikat is divided into makkas: tuba (penance), vara (avoid brutal expressions and bothering about private conversations), zufd (ascetism), fakr (poverty), fabr (patience), tavakkul (revential trust) and rida (obedience). As soon as one feels total abolishment of it inner 'I' he enters the Absolute, which is the higher form of eternity ant unity with god. After that one enters the third, and the last, stage called hakikat. Reaching hakikat traveler cognize the true sense of being and god and they call themselves 'ahl-ak-hakika' which means 'people of true being'.