"The problems of Ahle Sunnah are manifold. Not only they face external onslaught of Missionary Sects, but they also encounter several difficulties within.
Of course, there are always exceptions and there are good Ahle Sunnah who are doing their religious duties well. But their numbers are small.
The descendants of Silsilas, the great grand children of famous Shuyooks are involved in certain rituals without knowing why they are involved in it. They have become shells without nut. They say that their Shaikhs used to do those practices, therefore, they do it. But when someone questions them on these practices and asks them to prove these in the light of Quran and Ahadith, they get angry and start fighting. The followers of Missionary Sects make fun of them in public. In such a scenario, their children are hapless cattle for powerful Missionary Sects' predators. They become victims of these sects one after the other.
The state of Dargahs is extremely pathetic. The people serving these places are famous for notoriety. There are infighting, embezzlement of funds, wrongful sales of dargah waqf properties and exploitation of innocent people."
This is an excerpt from a much longer article written by a Barelvi Sufi Shaikh. I am reproducing part of it here only to show that there are brothers in the Barelvi sect who are genuinely concerned about the state of the Ummah, although they are misinformed about a number of non-Barelvi Ulema.
The Shaikh's views on SF:
"There is no strong foundation or a synchronized effort to teach the children of Ahle Sunnah on long term basis. Poor hapless kids try to look to Internet to find answers to their logical questions. The Internet is full of sites of the followers of Sectarian Missionary and neo Islamist sects. They have hijacked the term "Ahle Sunnah Wal Jama'a" and everyone of them claim they are Ahle Sunnah. Title of their sites are deceitful, their home pages are misleading. Like there is a so called 'Sunni Website which has over 70,000 members but when you go inside its forum, it says -
'This is an Islamic forum and thus Islam will be respected. This means STRICTLY no slander against (among others) Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (r) and other scholars.' "
The original webpage does not contain any images, so if the site admins consider the article to be beneficial in any way, I will post a link to the article.
"There are some immature Sufis / group leaders in Ahle Sunnah who have a circle of Mureedeen / Mu'taqideen / friends. They are only interested to keep their people under the ambiance of their circle rather than look into the wider spectrum of religious education and training. When I talk of educating people so that they are able to protect their children from faithlessness; these immature Sufis and group leaders consider it a danger to their positions and try to keep themselves and their people away from mass awareness. They try to find faults with those who are sincerely trying to help Ahle Sunnah.
Personally, I have suffered a lot in the hands of these shortsighted group Sufis/Murshids/Group leaders. Everyone of them considers himself the ultimate Shaikh and behaves in a strange manner. When I talk of reforms of Ahle Sunnah, these group leaders try to scare their people away by making false allegations. They are not bothered about Islam or what is happening to Ahle Sunnah in the World. They neither develop their teaching skills to educate their people nor allow them to learn to defend their Islamic faith. They have developed strange theories in life and try to keep their people within the boundaries of those theories. These theories are presented to people as Islamic teachings. Essentially they are egoistic and shortsighted people. They do not realize that they have become road blocks in the development of Ahle Sunnah. They are more interested in their status in their groups rather than salvation of their people. They should know that they could remain leaders of their groups and at the same time educate themselves and their people by joining hands in mass awareness programs of Ahle Sunnah."
-- Shaikh Mir Asedullah Quadri, Barelvi Sufi Shaikh based in Hyderabad
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