The Results of The Opression on Sufism

Sufism is a part of the Islamic religion that is hardly ever talked about, that is mostly because it is banned in a lot of places. An important group of religious people banned Sufism because it was, from their point of view, driving people apart and sinful. In reality, Sufi music has the purpose of bringing people together and conveying love, forgiveness, and the understanding of human weakness. This last moral is part of what pushed many of the fundamentalist religious and political Islamic orthodoxy to ban it. Unfortunately, the ban of Sufi music made many people terrified of practicing…