Sufism- the call of divine humanity
Sufism. The way of divine humanity. The philosophy of love and syncretism. What is it all about, actually ? In a world of hatred and strife, where the ISIS gains headlines everyday for the wrong reasons, it might be useful to recall the philosophy of the Sufi. The origins of Sufism are somewhat obscure, but broadly one of its earliest proponents was the 11th Century AD Persian (current day Iran) philosopher and saint Ghazali , also known among his followers as " Sultan ul Uluma", or king of scholars. The mantle passed on to his disciple Bahauddin , who was ostracized for the opposition of his faith to traditional Islam. The inheritor of this tradition was, finally, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi . A prominent scholar , Rumi was a sufferer of internecine strife , having been displaced from his hometown of Balkh to Konya,along with his father , who was ostracized for his opposition to hardline, scholarly Islam . He faced hardship created