Are you Deobandi, Barelvi or Ahle Hadith?

[Black Zero]

There used to be a Dargah near my house where I grew up. Used to listen to Sufi songs during urs festivals. Some were really nice with beautiful tunes.
All of my Muslim friends were sunnis as far as i know. My friend used to be the namaz orator too. He also used to sing songs during urs. Still in touch with him thanks to FB.

I still listen to some Sufi songs when I am browsing YouTube. But not too interested in its origins.

I can guarantee the main theme of poetry has not changed..

and I wonder if i look at Jewish Kabbalah or Parsi mystics, how much different they would be...

IMO, this school of thought is rooted in some human need...

 

[troodon]

I can guarantee the main theme of poetry has not changed..

and I wonder if i look at Jewish Kabbalah or Parsi mystics, how much different they would be...

IMO, this school of thought is rooted in some human need...

Did you do PHD in religious studies?

 

[Major]

I'm the other way round. Not that I have much to do with mosques, but the singing and chanting at Barelvi mosques makes me really uncomfortable. I think I would prefer the Wahabi ones where you can just go in, do the necessary and get out quick. If I want to chant or sing, I think I'd rather visit a nice Hindu temple where they do these things much better.

but as a wahabi you would be shooting blank darts at shaitan (if you know the whole story)

 

[Cpt. Rishwat]

Sufism did not arrive in India until 15th and 16th centuries. More than 500 yrs after The first Muslims arrived with their armies.

May be if Arab and central Asian armies arrived in India singing and chanting, the entire India might have been Muslims.

Us Indians like Bhajans and chanting too much.

So do us Barelvis, or at least my biradari do. I am the black sheep of my family, like my avatar, always looking for the exit door when that starts ( no offence fellow Barelvis).

I might put it on my bucket list to visit a Hindu temple and see if the chanting and music feels any better there.

 

[chacha kashmiri]

Was raised a deobandi naqshabandi

Flirted with Salafism while keeping a hanafi aqeedah

Now i’m a Banna type Muslim but without the TJ outreach
Still find dhikr calming

 

[IAJ]

I am a Sunni muslim following Shafi madhab.

My nearby mosque is a salafi masjid where i have heard about this 'ahle Hadith' term in Qutba. No idea about the deobandi's, barelvi's etc tbh.

Ma sha Allah. Imam Shafe’e (ra) was a great Faqih’ ( Islamic jurist). I follow the Hanafi madhab after Imam Abu Hanifa (ra).

Since many many Sunni muslims, me included, love Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barailly (ra) and follow his aqeeda people start calling us Barelvis. I have nothing against it.

 

[IAJ]

I do not know if Hassan Basri was into music.

Sufism arrived much earlier, few examples:

Ali Hujwiri (lahore)
Nizam uddin Aoulia (delhi)
Fariduddin Ganjshakar
Moinuddin Chishti (ajmeer)

Ma sha Allah, those are some real big names in Ahle Sunnah’. Aja wapis inke raste par

 

[Nostalgic]

Now that old Baba Bulle Shah sher comes to mind


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Nice bit of poetry, but are you sure it is by Baba Bhulleh Shah? The references to Wahhabism and Deobandism make me sceptical.

Bulleh Shah passed away in the mid-18th century, and while there is an overlap between his life and Abdul Wahab's in Arabia, the term Wahhabism was probably not in use in the subcontinent at that time. The term Deobandism certainly wasn't, since it emerged as a movement in the mid- to late-19th century, after the War of Independence, and Deoband wasn't established as a center for the movement for over a century after the good baba passed away.

 

[Black Zero]

Ma sha Allah, those are some real big names in Ahle Sunnah’. Aja wapis inke raste par

Some 20 years back, one person wanted me to meet his murshad. ..and when I was taken to that place (somewhere in lahore), I was surprised that the murshad was an old but a healthy guy from Saudi Arabia.

He had a big following from all over pakistan.