I am not TAC but you are free to believe whatever you want
BTW weren't you a mod on OJ?
LMAO you aren’t good at this, it took you like 5 posts to deny that. Whatever man, do what you gotta do lol.
But for the record by ‘body’ I didn’t mean a literal monolithic body of scholars but rather the brunt of classical scholarship. Not just that but the beliefs of Sufism in general are in contradiction with the original sources. You can’t say practices like these are found in the Quran or the Hadith:
Anyways this may be beyond the pay grade of a weeb forum but if you look into the history of Sufism, it’s in the word where Suf means wool, where you had people who would try to practice asceticism by wearing the roughest of clothing at the time and would seclude themselves a lot. To be ascetic is considered virtuous and is encouraged in Islam, but the practice of dressing poorly and not working for a living and secluding yourself like a monk isn’t what is understood as asceticism according to the original sources. So it started with a misapplication in practice then evolved into what it did. The Ottoman Janisaries and the Sufi mystics who wrote such literature have no theological or textual basis for such actions and statements. The Sufis in the Ottoman Empire went too far for even the Ottomans themselves, the Taymiyyan influenced Ottomans literally cracked down on Sufi houses is that far enough for you?
Like I said I can get into it but it’s a bit above the pay grade of an anime forum, definitely not worth the time if you hide behind an alt lol.