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layout: post
publisher: alsalafiyyah@icloud.com
title: "Dealing with Sufi shaykhs and their followers"
hijri: Muharram 27, 1442
locale: en
lang: en
note: true
source: Fatawa Al-Lajnah Al-Da'imah no. 16696-2
excerpt: "What do you advise us concerning dealing with Sufi shaykhs and their followers?"
category: [sects]
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
  members: 
    - name: Shaykh Salih Fawzan
      url: /biography/fawzan/
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Aal Al-Shaykh
      url: /biography/abdulaziz/
    - name: Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
      url: /biography/bakr/
---


Question:

As a pioneer of the Salafiyyah Call (Da'wah) and the current Islamic awakening, what do you advise us concerning dealing with Sufi shaykhs and their followers? I appreciate your guidance. May Allah reward you
 
Answer:

You should call the shaykhs of [**Sufism**](/sufism/) and others to Allah (Exalted be He) with wisdom, fair preaching, and argue with them in the best way as Allah has ordered His Prophet (peace be upon him). You should urge them to abide by the Sunnah and abandon any Bid'ah (innovation in religion). 

However, this should be done without rigidity and turning them away. If anyone refuses to adhere to the Sunnah they should be abandoned and people should be warned against him in a suitable way which does not have a negative affect on the call to Islam. If there was no possibility to forbid this evil totally, it should be reduced as much as possible.