Sufism (Mysticism), instead of Bahaism in Iran!

 

What I meant that only mullahs and their closest relatives benifit from the regime, Rafsanjani diverted a river to irrigate his fields leading to drying up several villages. It is estimated that 20 billion $ the income from khoms go not to relieve the poor, but to the pockets of the mullahs and support foreign adventures. Sufis offer a false hope. They pretend to be pious and deeply religious but in reality they are as bad as the mullahs.

 

Al-Jassas

 

Well, it seems that the misconceptions sufis spread already have taken over you. Indians, Turks, Iranians all became muslims well before sufism was established. Even in the Balkans, only the Albanians were islamised by sufis. Sufism really started back in the 11th century but spread after the mongol invasion. These people killed innovation when they controlled the state and confiscated endowments for educational institution to build Tekkis and shrines. They declared war on anyone who tries to bring something new or innovative in the field of war or science. In Tripoli, a provincial city, there was 300 registered schools with public funds, buildings and staff. There madrassah taught everything and prepared student for advanced courses in larger schools in the big cities. But the sufis confiscated all that. Al-Nabulsi said there was only a few number of people who ever know how to read or right in the city because all the 300 schols were closed but some 50 Tekkis were open. Katip Celebi, an Orthodox sunni scholar was a champion of innovation, the introduction of print presses and modern western ideas, this was in the 17th century. Yet the sufis, who controlled both the ulema and the janissaries refused that. Same thing happened for the Azhari scholars some of whom were brilliant mathematicians and scientists in those day tried to introduce simmilar measures that Katip Celebi said were also attacked. Al-Ghazali, the premier intellectual of the sufi movement deplored science, technology, trade, literature and innovation. He gratified idleness, isolation anything that takes you  mind off of worldly  business. These people spread superstition, attacked reason and urged the burning of book and strongly encouraged people not to read, even the Quran, becaue their minds could be poisened. hundered of scholar were murdered or imprisoned because of them and it was their interventions that distroyed the Ottomans when they killed many sultans by the hand of their cronies the janissaries.

 

AL-Jassas

 

By the way, They did not control ottoman empire. Ottoman empire is controled by ulema, patisah and army and only army is effected from Bektasi sect.

 

Ulema generally disliked from sufist movements.(They are generaly not controled by states). Even, Turkey does not like sufists. Ataturk increased ulema power(Diyanet) and destroyed sufists closed their tekkes and zaviyes.

 

Bektasi is sect of yeniceries. It is not sufism itself and majority of albania is bektasi not sufists.