1. What is Sufism?
2. What is Sufism according to the Sufi Order?
3. Is Sufism a new religion?
4. What is a guide?
5. Why have a guide? How to find one.
6. What is the role of the Guru vs. the Sufi Murshid?
7. What is Initiation?
8. Why do you change your names?
9. What are "practices?"
10. Does Sufism offer experiences beyond the ordinary?
11. What is spiritual power and how can I get it?
12. What do you mean by "remembrance?"
13. Rites of passage - Initiation (What do they mean?)
14. What does the Sufi Order International say about drugs?
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1. What is Sufism?
The word Sufi comes from a Persian word meaning wisdom. From the original root many derivations can be traced; among them the Greek word Sophia is one of the most interesting.
Wisdom is the ultimate power. In wisdom is rooted religion, which connotes law and inspiration. But the point of view of the wise differs from that of the simple followers of a religion. The wise, whatever their faith, have always been able to meet each other beyond those boundaries of external forms and conventions, which are natural and necessary to human life, but which none the less separate humanity.
Hazrat Inayat Khan