Then they enforced the removal of the spiritual/meditation system
Greetings High Priest, thats what the Sufi did, based on The Sociologist Ibn Khaldoun, Sufi are the ones who introduced back meditation and magic to islam. They rebranded things but its basically very similar,
For example, they call the Siddhis : Karamat كرامات, they just use new words that are smooth.
They also have a very funny concept that i love, many say you should not ask Questions,
This comes from the Story of Moses with Alkhidr, where Al khidr was doing crazy things sometimes unethical and Moses asked why you did that ? And Al khider said : you should follow me and not ask questions, when Moses asked too much, Al khider then revealed why he did those which was from his perspective ´ethical ´ ( those are weird not ethical)
So what many Sufi say is that you should not ask, so for example lets say i am a Sufi Master, a discipline notices what i am doing is magic basically, so he asks me to have a debate,
I tell him : do not ask, remember Story of Moses and al khidr, if you keep asking i stop teaching ( thats the moral of story of Alkhider and Moses, especially that Moses was a Prophet and still was told to not ask.)
On top of that they add a loophole, that basically the Prophet can visit one in dream and tell him a new islamic insight, and this considered valid.
So one can tell me what i am doing is haram, and i tell him no, this is actually halal and was told that by prophet. In dream. And thats secret , not for everyone. Just for the ones who are deeper in the truth.
Thats why many Sufi did engage in weird things, some allegedly engaged in Zoophilia, since they thought there is no body but Allah, and we are all created from earth, so its just earth touching earth not really Zoophilia. Some was homosexuals, and more.
But, the disciples are many times guided : if you see your Guru having sex outside of marriage. Say it was my eye that had sex outside of marriage not the Guru.
So in Sufism one is teached to not ask a lot. And trust that the guru knows what he is doing.
This is very effective to bypass the islamic binding. And of course if one questions then the Guru stop teaching, The Moses and Al khidr story pops up again.
On top of ALL THE ABOVE,
THERE IS EVEN A MORE BEAUTIFUL TECHNIQUE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!
In islam, there is صلاة الاستخارة, this is doing a prayer to ask Allah about help in taking decision. And then Allah in someway confirms if decision is good or bad.
The Guru tells the disciple, do the Prayer, only if Allah tells you to receive teaching from me, do it. Otherwise do not.
And you know High Priest how the psychological thing goes,
So the discipline get a big YES, of course.
And the matter is forever closed, Allah himself said follow the Guru.
On top of ALL THE ABOVE,
They added a new idea,
They claim there are people who know religion, there are then the imams , and ´scientists of islam’.
BUT, there is a higher rank thank all of those, its the sufi, and those are not bound but many teachings, that the average muslim is bound by.
So for a muslim X is Haram, for a Sufi, its Halal, for some reason. And its impossible to debate them as a muslim. Since the defensive is perfect.
There are also some other Sufi, that are different type, those literally are directly with the real Gods, but they wear the Sufi outfit, to avoid prosecution.
So for example before a God Zeus ritual, they say some few thanks allah etc..
They say they are possessed and they do not want to do all that and that they are sick.
They say that ´May whoever laughs at us get what we have’. This scares people.
So they take a position that makes them not have negative reactions.
On top of that, its very known, there are two categories, some of whom if one reads Quran on them they start talking like if they got an invocation.
But its well known those are with some specific entities I.E. the Gods. One can recite quran all he wants, the person does not get the invocation etc..
So ´They cannot be healed’ So ‘i cannot be healed so i am doing rituals and such, its not by choice, i did not choose this, its imposed on me, whoever laughs, or blame, may Allah give him the same thing’
that way people do the rituals peacefully.
are perversions of the original beliefs of the Ancients in the region
The framework of islam is Polytheistic,
In Zevism, there is a God related to every aspect of existence.
In islam, there is an angel related to every aspect of existence and the big Allah.
Same idea, only instead of sayings different Gods, saying different angels. Same framework.