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Tasawwuf Tajdeed-e-Deen Book by Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

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25 sec
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Sufism's spiritual practices are alien to Quran/Sunnah
“Tasawwuf as a spiritual discipline is foreign to Quran and Hadith”
1 min 28 sec
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Historical origins of Sufism as a formalized discipline
“Tasawwuf as a spiritual discipline is foreign to Quran and Hadith”
3 min 53 sec
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Full history of Sufism's origins and its deviant offshoots
“The first man ever called a Sufi lived around 150 AH”
35 sec
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Sufism absorbed foreign Greek, Christian, Hindu elements
“By the third century, Sufism took shape as a formal discipline”
34 sec
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The heretical Batiniyyah sect and hidden-meaning doctrine
“One branch of Sufism is called Batiniyyah”
1 min 18 sec
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The Batiniyyah sect: no religion, no obligation for elites
“One branch of Sufism is called Batiniyyah”
29 sec
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Sufi heresy claiming God merges into the worshiper
“At the soul's final stage, they claim, God enters the seeker”
2 min 5 sec
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Three companions' extreme vows and the Prophet's correction
“Three men came to the Prophet's wives asking about his worship”
5 min 10 sec
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The complete argument against excessive ritual worship
“Three men came to the Prophet's wives asking about his worship”
32 sec
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Prophet's famous declaration: this is my sunnah
“Are you the ones who said such and such?”
1 min 57 sec
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Debunking the myth the Prophet worshipped less out of leniency
“It's said the Prophet worshipped less out of mercy for us”
25 sec
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What Allah truly wants from His worshippers
“Allah doesn't want you performing spiritual stunts”
2 min 7 sec
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Why worship allows no innovation but daily life allows ijtihad
“In matters of worship, innovation is categorically rejected”
20 sec
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Ibn Mas'ud's rule: follow, never innovate in worship
“Follow, don't innovate, said Ibn Mas'ud”
4 min 10 sec
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Ibn Mas'ud rebukes the pebble-counting dhikr circles
“We used to sit at Abdullah ibn Mas'ud's door before Fajr”
1 min 36 sec
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Ibn Mas'ud confronts a dhikr circle counting with pebbles
“Ibn Mas'ud stopped at one circle and asked: what are you doing?”
46 sec
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Ibn Mas'ud's fiery warning against religious innovation
“O Ummah of Muhammad, how quickly ruin has come to you!”