Speech done by Shaikh Aboobacker Ahmed at International Tasawwuf Meet at Cairo

 In the name of Allah,Most High. "All praise is due to Allah. Blessings upon Rasulullah(s) and upon his family and his companions all.
Rrespected dignitaries and audience , even though I brought long papers  on the subject; But I was two days late to reach in this conference .I will not take more time .I am from India, from Jamia Markazu Ssaquafathi Ssunniyya al Islamiyya , which accommodate around twenty thousand students.

 I need not to describe about Indai because you have already heard it from our brothers.My dear brothers, and respected scholars ,Sufism is the basic way for reform the persons and society.Iit make us wondering, in this modern age , we hear some people denying the Sufism  and insulting Sufis and some Ulama, saying ‘this is Sufi...

This is sufi ….’& they are wrong , wallah, we can’t understand why they do this denial.If there are many pseudo sufis here, like that, there was Musailimh Al Kazzab who argued prophecy but was not real prophet . Can we deny our prophet Peace be upon him for that? Lke that there are originals and duplicates in every thing., We take original and leave duplicates .Like that the tasawwuf which we are talking on. it is a great way which Awliya kiram has taken.Once Imam abul Qasim al Junaid(qs) was asked about Tasawwuf. He answered; it is the purification of heart from  all vices &likewise all sufi ulama described .The Tasawuf  that  we follow is that which  Rasulullah had taught us .In his SAYINGS, it is ‘Ihsan’,ie to worship Allah as  if you see him, You don’t see Him but H watches you.So, the purification of Heart  from all bad characters such as shirk& Kibr is Tasawwuf, that is what Allah says:“ Certainly did Allah confer [great] favor upon the believers when He sent among them a Messenger from themselves, reciting to them His verses and purifying them and teaching them the Book and wisdom, although they had been before in manifest error.”

Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) prayed that, : Our Lord, and send among them a messenger from themselves who will recite to them Your verses and teach them the Book and wisdom and purify them. Indeed, You are the Exalted in Might, the Wise”.Because the main aim in sending prophets is purification of heart purifying people from bad characters. Allah mentioned this in many places in Qur’an.Tthis was what mentioned our prophet PBUH in his saying.
My dear brothers and respected Ulama, so that we have  to swift  out  the  Real from Fake. We will not take the Tariqah which is in conflict with Shari’ah. See the word of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani (Q.S) in his book ‘ Futuh Al Gaib’. The first thing  to be followed by all Mu’min is to  follow  the orders and to avoid the prohibitions  and be satisfied on Allah’s Qadah(Fate)  Shaikh Abdul Qadir al Jilani also says that following the orders and avoiding the prohibitions is the condition of Tariqah .
Shaikh Zain ud din Maqdum (rah) of  Malabar says  in his book  Adhkiya Ila Triqil Awliya that, the tariqah of all masters are conditioned on the Holy book and Hadith.So the Tariqah which is in agreement with  Qur’an and Sunnah ,ie  with shariah of Prophet(s)  is the real Tariqah. That is the Tasawwuf,which will lead to His way.If anybody argues tasawwuf and tariqah which is not in  favour with Shari’ah and allows wine and other forbidden things,We will not consider it as tasawwuf. W only  follow the tasawwuf which was mentioned by prophet(s).As for the wordTasawwuf,it came later,asmany such words ,but it was basically taken from Qur’an and Sunnah.
The real Sufi , I will not say Islamic Sufi, because the real Sufi is Islamic Sufi ,is  He, who follows the Way of Muhammad(s). He follows the order of Allah and  avoid what He prohibited and ONE who purified the heart .  Rather, No stain has covered their hearts  with bad things, and it changed them altogether.We have to change that, may Allah help us .