#Druzism

[lauralot89]

Abrahamic Faiths

Because I thought there were only three but it turns out there are more.

Abrahamic faiths are religions that worship the God of Abraham.

Judaism: Characterized by belief in the God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses, and other prophets, and by living in covenant with God according to scripture and tradition

Christianity: Characterized by the belief that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah and the Incarnation of God

Islam: Characterized by following the teachings of Muhammad, who is viewed as the last prophet sent by God

Baháʼí Faith: Characterized by the belief that Manifestations of God have founded various world religions throughout history, with the most recent being the religion's founder, Baháʼu'lláh.

Druzism: Characterized by following the teachings of Hamza ibn ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad and by belief in reincarnation.

Gnosticism: Characterized by the belief that the world was created and governed by a lesser deity, while Jesus was a messenger of the supreme deity and enabled human redemption.

Mandaeism: Characterized by a lack of set doctrines and creeds and by revering John the Baptist as a major prophet.

Rastafari: Characterized by the belief that God partially resides in every person and by the reverence toward the Ethopian emperor Haile Selassie.

Samaritanism: Characterized by the belief that the Samaritan Pentateuch is the only true, unchanged version of the Torah.

[lunarian-anarchist]

Why is it that even today when you look up "three major religions" Judaism is in the top three on most of the search results?

Seriously y'all....why? Hinduism and Buddhism outnumber us by the hundreds of millions.

Hell even if you counted monotheistic faiths, we're still not top 3. Sikhism also outnumbers us.

We're 0.2% of the global population and 2.4% of the USA's population.

The only way this makes sense is if you're talking about the three major "Abrahamic" religions. But if that's the case maybe specifying that is important?

Btw there's also Bábism, Druzism, Samaritanism (Jewish kin), and the Baháʼí for "Abrahamic" religions.

[kaiasky]

At risk of being controversial i believe I found the best parallels between the Abrahamic religions and the nations of Scandinavia. The Swedes are the Christians of Scandinavia, the Norwegians are the Muslims of Scandinavia, and finally the Danes are the Jews of Scandinavia. Feel free to rearrange though

As a follow up to blow people's minds. Canada is the Norway of North America. The United States is the Sweden of North America. Mexico is the Denmark of North America.

so i know i saw somebody else recieve and answer this exact ask before. and ive tried to figure out who it was. but i can't remember who received it? can anybody remember who else recieved this ask. iirc they wrote a longpost about why they didnt' think the comparisons were true or someshit

anyways like. ok so anon obviously this is nonsense or something BUT like i wanna commend u on comparing TRICHOTOMIES instead of dichotomies. i am frequently annoyed and bored by dichotomies. with your trichotomies i am frightened and confused. is this an improvement? i do not know.

if u insist on this path, i think u should consider what other north american (central american + carribean) countries are like, mandaeism, samaritanism, druzism, uhhhh baha'i ig? what other faiths acknowledge abraham. or u could not

[gwendolynlerman]

Religions of the world

I spent three days procrastinating by creating this mind map of the world’s religions. I mainly followed Wikipedia’s division and categories, but made some adjustments and also used a few other sources.

An ellipse means that the branch is not a subdivision but a different category (Vajrayana) derived from the previous branch (Theravada), while a rectangle indicates that it is a different religion (Druzism) derived from the branch (Ismaʿilism).

I have only included living religions, but I might have missed some. If that is the case or if there is any mistake, please let me know and I will correct the mind map.

[the-funtime-autocrat]

Mohamed Alí Seineldín (Arabic: محمد علي زين الدين ) (November 12, 1933 in Concepción del Uruguay – September 2, 2009) was an Argentine army colonel who participated in two failed uprisings against the democratically elected governments of both President Raúl Alfonsín and President Carlos Menem in 1988 and 1990.

Seineldín was born in Concepción del Uruguay into a Lebanese Argentine family.[2] He converted from Druzism to Roman Catholicism during his youth,[2] and was consecrated to the Virgin of the Rosary (Virgen del Rosario).[2] He remained a devout Roman Catholic throughout his life, even devoting his men in the army to the Virgin of the Holy Rosary as well.[2] In an interview on his goals during his military career, Seineldín later explained, Luchamos por el mismo objetivo, que es la nacionalidad y la fe cristiana, which translates as, "We fought for the same goal, which is nationality and the Christian faith."[2]

Seineldín rose to prominence in Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War against the United Kingdom.[1]

An ardent Christian Argentine nationalist,[1] Seineldín became a member of the Carapintadas, or "painted faces," group within the Argentine Army.[1] The Carapintadas demanded that the Argentine government halt legal proceedings against army officers accused of human rights abuses during the Dirty War, which occurred during Argentina's military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.[1] The low-ranking officers were charged with a wide range of crimes, including the execution of guerrilladissidents, torture and kidnapping of guerrilla fighters and their supporters.[1]

In 1987 and 1988, the Carapintadas rebelled against the elected government of President Raúl Alfonsín, but both uprisings were quickly put down. In December 1988, members of the Grupo Albatros, led by Colonel Mohamed Alí Seineldín rebelled once again against the Alfonsín government and seized the military barracks at Villa Martelli. The mutineers eventually surrendered and Seineldín was arrested.[citation needed]

Seineldín led a second unsuccessful uprising against the government of President Carlos Menem beginning on December 3, 1990. The failed uprising resulted in 14 deaths, including five civilians.[1] Seineldín was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1990 mutiny.[1] However, he was pardoned by President Eduardo Duhalde in 2003.[1]

Mohamed Alí Seineldín suffered a heart attack and died in a hospital in Buenos Aires on September 2, 2009, at the age of 75.[1]

[hallsp]

These last three years have been quite the journey. I started my teaching career in September, 2017, with little in the way of formal training. Sure, I completed a comprehensive Certificate in English Language Teaching with mandatory teaching practice, but this was with adult intermediates. In 2017, I was hired as an English and Social Studies teacher instructing students in literature and history, teaching upper Elementary and early Middle School students already fluent in English.

The first two months were tough. I learned very quickly that teaching is not at all about imparting your knowledge to the next generation. Fundamentally, and crucially, teaching is for the most part all about classroom management. And classroom management is, in turn, all about relationships, consistency, and discipline, but mainly relationships, which cannot be formed over night.

I left school this morning, three years later, ecstatic but also deeply sad. I have built some amazing relationships with the kids. I have very little in the way of classroom problems, and everything in the way of joyful learning experiences. I'm sad to say goodbye, and to see my kids moving on with their lives.

I've been able to read and analyze some interesting pieces of literature and discuss some interesting topics from human history. We covered George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, as well as its on-screen musical adaptation My Fair Lady, confronting its themes of class, gender, and language. We covered The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a wonderful book as big as life itself. We studied a theatrical adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. We also looked at some great poetry, like Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley. We examined the great civilizations of antiquity, from the Egyptians and the Phoenicians in this part of the world to the Aztecs of Meso-America. We explored the great religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and Druzism too. I even had the opportunity to inquire into the issue of our origins, and the concept of evolution by natural selection, in a multi-disciplinary unit on mythology, geography, and biology. It's really been an amazing few years.

Needless to say, given the depth and breadth of these topics and given my location, I have some anecdotes. I was once teaching a class about the difference between the Christian and Islamic calendars, and speaking about the secular version of the Christian calendar, i.e. use of the Common Era (CE) in place of Anno Domini (AD), and use of Before the Common Era (BCE) instead of Before Christ (BC). Instead of hearing me say Before the Common Era, a number of them misheard me and thought I was talking about years Before the Common Error. Talking myself out of that one in a class filled with Muslims and Christians and Druze and any number of other religions wasn't ideal.

Another time, when I was correcting exams after a whole trimester of teaching The Diary of Anne Frank, controversial enough as it was, one student wrote in the exam that the Nazis were intent on killing all the Druze in Europe. Druze rhymes with Jews, I suppose, but there aren't that many Druze in Europe.

Another time, when we were learning about map scale and distance as part of Geography, I included a map of Lebanon in the exam. Unbeknownst to me, I had accidentally included the name of Israel on this map. This is an illegal act in Lebanon. I was lucky that the school only warned me against repeating this after complaints from parents.

There are numerous stories like this one. One day, we took the kids on a day trip to Chouf, the home of my colleague and the heartland of the Druze community in Lebanon. We wanted to bring the kids to see places of worship belonging to Christians, Muslims, and Druze. We visited a Maronite church, a Shi’a mosque, and a Druze shrine. The shrine, in a little town called Niha, was to Job, and is believed to be the location where he was healed from his ailments after his wife carried his frail body up a steep mountain in a basket. My colleague, who is Druze, arranged to meet the Sheikh in charge but he never turned up. The Druze are highly secretive about their religion, which is understandable given their long history of oppression. This is one of the reasons why they moved to the top of a mountain. We then headed for a mosque. My colleague knew the location, but wasn’t sure what denomination it was, and hadn’t made prior contact. What made things worse was that my colleague, a woman, had to bring the girls through the side-door and upstairs. I brought the boys in the main door. It was busy. It wasn’t prayer time, but there were quite a number of people. I sat the boys in a row to one side, before looking for the Sheikh. He wasn’t there, I was told. I got the class talking about what they knew of Islam. One boy volunteered to explain the process of ritual purification before prayer, called wudu. People started to gather around us. A man, listening to the boy speak, walked over and volunteered to help him. It was then that I realised two things. First, this was a Shi’a mosque. I knew because I noticed a turbah, a prayer tablet, on the floor. Only Shi’a use these. The next thing I realised was that my student was describing the wudu procedure coming from the Sunni tradition. Some of the Shi’a children noticed this difference also. I wasn’t at all sure how this would go down. The man was very understanding, and took it upon himself to explain a bit about his version of Islam to the kids. At this stage, we had formed a discussion group comprised of my students and a number of other eager participants. It was my favourite day inside a mosque.   

[pastor-cal]

So, as the Holy Spirit says; “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation, I said, “Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways” So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest” See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God, but encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. Hebrews 3:7-13 NIV - The apostle Paul, wrote to the Jewish followers of Yeshua in Jerusalem, to warn against unbelief, of those who held onto the Mosaic System & 613 commands of Judaism, over the original 10 commands handed to prophet Moses by Yahweh. - Sadly so it is today in this secular society we live were; Agnosticism, Bahá’í, Buddhism, Confucianism, Druzism, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Islamism, Jainism, Judaism, Rastafarianism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Spiritualism & Zoroastrianism distract from Christ gospel. “If today you hear His vice, harden not your heart”

[hazratsultanbahoo]

Unity of Muslim Ummah & Teachings of Hadrat Sultan Bahoo

Unanimous the faith of every Muslim on One Allah, His Messenger (Muhammad PBUH) as the last prophet, the Holy Quran and Sunnah/Hadith of Prophet became a binding force bringing together people of the different region as one Ummah. However, the anti-Islamic force couldn’t swallow this growing religion and unity among them considering it as a major threat towards their ideologies and religions. Muslim history is replete with glory and downfall, having difference as a healthy and creative activity, however, there was no question on differences on religious matters as are prevailing today. Instead of becoming enemies of each other they were respectful and courteous with each other but very stern for adversaries. During the period of Banu Uma-i-yah and Banu Abbas, there had been many attempts to disintegrate and disunite Muslims. Many sects grew and died. For example, Khawarij and Rawafidh were born during that time. Excellent and very sincere work of true scholars of Islam the Ummah rejected the beliefs of Khawarij, Rawafidh, and their sub-sects and Muslims remained united. In 1022, Al-Hakim Bin-Amr Allah with, the support of non-Muslims created new Mazhab(religion) called Daruzism. During early 1900 in Iran when Bahá'u'lláh claimed that God has manifested in him and founded the religion of Bahaism. Both of the above breaks from the Muslim community were not considered as major disunity among Muslims because both the followers of Druzism and Bahaism did not claim themselves as Muslims any more. One of the most recent attempts by the anti-Islam forces to disunite Muslims was the establishment of another religion within the Muslim community called Ahmedism or Qadyanism. In the meantime, tussle started between Shia and Sunni also thus creating animosity between them.

The intellectual difference of opinion always remained among the scholars of Islam but that should not be considered as a division. For the last 13 centuries, Muslims have dominated the entire world in every field ranging from Human rights, tolerance, equality, justice, military tactics/Strategy, Science/Technology, Laws for the state, health, and education. Khilafat-e-Uthmania (Ottoman Empire) was a thorn in the eyes of anti-Islam forces. They wanted to destroy this Islamic Empire at any cost. They were trying for the last 13 centuries to destroy it but did not succeed. These forces saw the shift in focus of Muslim scholars and took full advantage of it. They planted a very dangerous seed of nationalism among Muslims. Muslims started fighting against their own Muslim brothers because of either they were not from the same region or they were speaking a different language. When the Muslim superpower, Ottoman empire (Caliphate-of-Uthmania) was fighting against the European colonial powers, the English, the Dutch, the French, the Italians, etc, at the same time they had to defend themselves from their own Muslim brothers because Ottoman forces were TURKS and were not local. To create HATE for TURKS the local so-called scholars of Islam used religion in order to get support from all local Muslims. The tactics they used to get support from local Muslims in order to destroy Caliphate was simple. Keep Muslims busy in fighting on minor issues. Make small issues as big issues and fight against those Muslims who do not accept the ideology of these local nationalist scholars. Since these nationalist scholars of Islam were fighting against Muslim Turkish Ottoman Empire the Western Christian governments loved them and supported them in their struggle. Now, these Muslims were very friendly with Kuffaar and very hard on other Muslims. After a long series of events during 1800 and early 1900, most of the Muslims countries became colonies of European governments. These so-called nationalist scholars received big rewards from their Lords in the West and they were successful in destroying the unity of Muslim Ummah while still claiming the title of "Islamic Scholars".

Present Era Challenges

Probably, there are no other people in the world today who have been as divided as Muslims. They are divided along religious, political, ethnic, cultural, racial, linguistic, and sectarian lines. Muslims all over the world are facing brutality, hatred, and image of Islam is being portrayed as nontolerant and highly uncivilized. Whereas, tolerance, basic rights of man kinds, justice and equality was outlined by our Holy Prophet. These divisions extend further into subdivisions. Status, wealth, fame, and fortune have also created social differences among Muslims. Muslims are divided at the root into Sunnis and Shias. Sunnis are further divided into Hanafi, Maliki, Shanghai, and Hambali. Shias too are divided into Kesania, Zaidia, Imamia or Ithna ‘Ashari, Ismalia, etc. Sunnis are also divided into Ahle-hadith and Ahle-fight. In the Indian subcontinent (at least) Ahle-fiqh are further divided into Deobandis and Barelwis. Similar differences exist in other places as well. Are all these divisions and differences schools of thought as many Muslims claim? Whether or not we admit it, these differences and divisions do create physical, emotional, and psychological barriers amongst us. Muslims have left basic teachings of Islam and fall prey to the nefarious designs of enemies of Islam. Hadrat Sultan Bahoo Says: Na Main Sunni na main Shia Mera duhan to dil sariya Hoo (Neither I am Shia nor Sunni and I am fed up from both of them)

Teachings of Hadrat Sultan Bahoo:

Hadrat Sultan Bahoo has written 140 books, which are logically developed having its base on verses of Holy Quran and Hadith. These books are complete code in its essence and do not focus on only one subject matter as these are almost translation and description of Holy Quran. During research work on these Great Books we find all subjects have been covered consciously. Hadrat Sultan Bahoo has covered the unity of Ummah in his poetry vis-à-vis his other descriptive writings. He gave the lesson of love for the entire mankind, what to talk of Muslims or only one sect of Muslim only. Muslims of different sects and people of different religions including Hindus and Sikhs got benefitted from His teachings (FAIZ). So many non-Muslims embraced Islam due to truthfulness and reality of his message and his preaching are far away from Hippocratic approaches or any greed (which is presently evident in so many so-called Scholars of the present era). He mostly writes “Allah Buss Ma Siwa Allah Hawas” (Allah is enough and rests everything is greed). Allah says in the Holy Quran, the one who relied on Allah, Allah is enough for him (Verse 3 Tallaq, Chapter 28).

[gavrielabrahams]

Ok, quick conversation about ethnicity and how it's so much more complex that people like to make it.

I FREQUENTLY hear people talk about ethnicity as an exclusivley genetic thing. This is just not true, plain and simple. This becomes a huge issue in an ethnoreligion that allows conversion (Judaism, Samaritanism, Zoroastrianism, but not Yezidism, Druzism, Mandaeism, for example), because it raises the debate of whether the group is an ethnic group, linked by ancestry or is it a religion, linked by beliefs.

But ethnicity has never been about ones personal ancestry, and is defined as "the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition". And as such, it should not be seen as "conversion" but rather "naturalization".

"But what about being African American?". Is always what comes up. A white person cannot just decide to be African American. But that's because white people cannot share the cultural tradition of racial discrimination. This is actually A HUGE issue with biracial individuals, when they pass. They are left in a state of limbo, where they are raised in an African American ethnic community, but can never truly belong because they cannot share the experience of racial descrimination.

Let's take a different example, the Deaf Community. There is real and legitimate conversation on Deafness as an ethnicity and I think it easily qualifies, they have a unique shared culture, shared language, and shared experience. But there is no genetic or ancestral requirement to be Deaf. A child could have lost their hearing due to an accident, but if they were raised in the Deaf community, they are considered culturally deaf (and from my understanding this is a lot of the issue with cochlear implants, particularly in children, that many people see it as a form of ethnic cleansing, so to speak, but I'm not as well versed in that debate).

My biggest issue with requiring DNA to determine ethnicity is that it inevitably chooses blood quantum over social experience. This is a tactic of colonization to ethnically cleanse. Look at ISIL, the Yezidi and M and Mandeans only accept 100% Yezidi ancestry to belong to that ethnic group, so they rape the women (forcing women to choose to leave their unaccepted children or leave their ethnic community) or scatter the people (making it harder for them to practice endogamy). This is what nearly wiped out the Samaritans until their leaders agreed to allow outsiders to convert (again "naturalization" is a much better term) so long as they move to their communities and commit to their customs.

Some Indigenous tribes do this to. There's a beautiful article by Jeff Sanders about his adoption into the Crow nation. He was formally adopted by a couple, and given a new Crow name, and the ceremony had to be approved by several elders before being performed in front of the community. Granted there is still A LOT of debate about Tribal naturalization, as some tribes perform it in a honorary manner, bestowing it on people who are not members of the community, almost like a key to the city (Jeff Sanders acknowledges this, as Barack Obama was also made an honorary member of the Crow nation, and was close to his adoptive parents Sonny and Mary Black Eagle, but was not committed to assimilating to the culture), but the point is that for many tribes there has always BEEN an acknowledgement that people can be ADOPTED into a tribe.

And continuing in that manner is adoption itself. If a Jewish family adopts an infant, and raises that infant as their own, and never even tells that child that they were not born Jewish but we're converted in a ceremony in infancy, is that child not ethnically Jewish? Even my best friend, who didn't convert until after she married her Jewish husband. Is she less ethnically Jewish than her own children, whom she raises. It's this mentality that leads to people questioning her own children's Jewishness, when they're raised more Jewish than Shia LaBeouf, but he's ethnically Jewish and she's not...

Ethnicity is about culture and community, not blood.

[simonspicknell]

Syrian Druze man, Mas'ada, Golan Heights, Israel, June 2016. #documentaryphotography #photojournalism #documentaryreportage #travelphotography #travel #reportage #reportagespotlight #portraitphotography #portraiture #streetphotography #streetportraiture #nikon #nikontop #nikonphotography #druze #druzism #golan #golanheights #ramathagolan #ic_humans #worldface #portraitmood #bnwphotography #israel #lifeportraits #1415mobilephotographers #lensculture #one_shot_ (at Syria - Israel Border Golan Heights)

[hazratsultanbahoo]

Unity of Muslim Ummah & Teachings of Hadrat Sultan Bahoo

Unanimous the faith of every Muslim on One Allah, His Messenger (Muhammad PBUH) as the last prophet, the Holy Quran and Sunnah/Hadith of Prophet became a binding force bringing together people of the different region as one Ummah. However, the anti-Islamic force couldn’t swallow this growing religion and unity among them considering it as a major threat towards their ideologies and religions. Muslim history is replete with glory and downfall, having difference as a healthy and creative activity, however, there was no question on differences on religious matters as are prevailing today. Instead of becoming enemies of each other they were respectful and courteous with each other but very stern for adversaries. During the period of Banu Uma-i-yah and Banu Abbas, there had been many attempts to disintegrate and disunite Muslims. Many sects grew and died. For example, Khawarij and Rawafidh were born during that time. Excellent and very sincere work of true scholars of Islam the Ummah rejected the beliefs of Khawarij, Rawafidh, and their sub-sects and Muslims remained united. In 1022, Al-Hakim Bin-Amr Allah with, the support of non-Muslims created new Mazhab(religion) called Daruzism. During early 1900 in Iran when Bahá'u'lláh claimed that God has manifested in him and founded the religion of Bahaism. Both of the above breaks from the Muslim community was not considered as major disunity among Muslims because both the followers of Druzism and Bahaism did not claim themselves as Muslims any more. One of the most recent attempts by the anti-Islam forces to disunite Muslims was the establishment of another religion within the Muslim community called Ahmedism or Qadyanism. In the meantime, tussle started between Shia and Sunni also thus creating animosity between them.

The intellectual difference of opinion always remained among the scholars of Islam but that should not be considered as a division. For the last 13 centuries, Muslims have dominated the entire world in every field ranging from Human rights, tolerance, equality, justice, military tactics/Strategy, Science/Technology, Laws for the state, health, and education. Khilafat-e-Uthmania (Ottoman Empire) was a thorn in the eyes of anti-Islam forces. They wanted to destroy this Islamic Empire at any cost. They were trying for the last 13 centuries to destroy it but did not succeed. These forces saw the shift in focus of Muslim scholars and took full advantage of it. They planted a very dangerous seed of nationalism among Muslims. Muslims started fighting against their own Muslim brothers because of either they were not from the same region or they were speaking a different language. When the Muslim superpower, Ottoman empire (Caliphate-of-Uthmania) was fighting against the European colonial powers, the English, the Dutch, the French, the Italians, etc, at the same time they had to defend themselves from their own Muslim brothers because Ottoman forces were TURKS and were not local. To create HATE for TURKS the local so-called scholars of Islam used religion in order to get support from all local Muslims. The tactics they used to get support from local Muslims in order to destroy Caliphate was simple. Keep Muslims busy in fighting on minor issues. Make small issues as big issues and fight against those Muslims who do not accept the ideology of these local nationalist scholars. Since these nationalist scholars of Islam were fighting against Muslim Turkish Ottoman Empire the Western Christian governments loved them and supported them in their struggle. Now, these Muslims were very friendly with Kuffaar and very hard on other Muslims. After a long series of events during 1800 and early 1900, most of the Muslims countries became colonies of European governments. These so-called nationalist scholars received big rewards from their Lords in the West and they were successful in destroying the unity of Muslim Ummah while still claiming the title of "Islamic Scholars".

Present Era Challenges

Probably, there are no other people in the world today who have been as divided as Muslims. They are divided along religious, political, ethnic, cultural, racial, linguistic, and sectarian lines. Muslims all over the world are facing brutality, hatred, and image of Islam is being portrayed as nontolerant and highly uncivilized. Whereas, tolerance, basic rights of man kinds, justice and equality was outlined by our Holy Prophet. These divisions extend further into subdivisions. Status, wealth, fame, and fortune have also created social differences among Muslims. Muslims are divided at the root into Sunnis and Shias. Sunnis are further divided into Hanafi, Maliki, Shanghai, and Hambali. Shias too are divided into Kesania, Zaidia, Imamia or Ithna ‘Ashari, Ismalia, etc. Sunnis are also divided into Ahle-hadith and Ahle-fight. In the Indian subcontinent (at least) Ahle-fiqh are further divided into Deobandis and Barelwis. Similar differences exist in other places as well. Are all these divisions and differences schools of thought as many Muslims claim? Whether or not we admit it, these differences and divisions do create physical, emotional, and psychological barriers amongst us. Muslims have left basic teachings of Islam and fall prey to the nefarious designs of enemies of Islam. Hadrat Sultan Bahoo Says: Na Main Sunni na main Shia Mera duhan to dil sariya Hoo (Neither I am Shia nor Sunni and I am fed up from both of them)

Teachings of Hadrat Sultan Bahoo:

Hadrat Sultan Bahoo has written 140 books, which are logically developed having its base on verses of Holy Quran and Hadith. These books are complete code in its essence and do not focus on only one subject matter as these are almost translation and description of Holy Quran. During research work on these Great Books, we find all subjects have been covered consciously. Hadrat Sultan Bahoo has covered the unity of Ummah in his poetry vis-à-vis his other descriptive writings. He gave the lesson of love for the entire mankind, what to talk of Muslims or only one sect of Muslim only. Muslims of different sects and people of different religions including Hindus and Sikhs got benefitted from His teachings (FAIZ). So many non-Muslims embraced Islam due to truthfulness and reality of his message and his preaching are far away from Hippocratic approaches or any greed (which is presently evident in so many so-called Scholars of the present era). He mostly writes “Allah Buss Ma Siwa Allah Hawas” (Allah is enough and rests everything is greed). Allah says in the Holy Quran, the one who relied on Allah, Allah is enough for him (Verse 3 Tallaq, Chapter 28).