\n Mysticism and spirituality in the Islamic history has...

\n Mysticism and spirituality in the Islamic history has been linked to very early stages of Islam; it was supposed to elevate a believer\u2019s spiritual level, however, in most cases, misuse of its basic requirements and concepts has led to some negative influences on the society by its fake users.\u00a0 The miracles and supernatural powers, were bestowed to Prophets -as and Imams -asws by Allah -azwj , as a Proof of their -asws Divine Status, and were shown by them -asws , when and where those acts were required.\u00a0 The non-believers and hypocrites tried to either deny these Divine Powers by calling those as sorcery or attempted to fake such miracles by joining forces with Iblis -la and his army.

[3] \n In Islamic history, two types of aggressions were committed against the Holy Family of Rasool Allah -saww , the former category belongs to the usurpers of the rights of true successor of the Holy Prophet -saww who took the reigns of government whereas the second one was adapted by the self-made \u2018Sufis\u2019 who kept Muslims away from the teachings of Masomeen -asws through inventing chanting rituals.\u00a0 Both of these groups, have been condemned by the Ahl Al-Bayt -asws as reflected by numerous Ahadith, some of those will be presented later in the article.

\n It is important to note, some of pious followers of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws in Indo-Pak, are also considered as \u2018Sufis\u2019 due to broad meanings of \u2018Sufi\u2019 terminology.\u00a0 Some of them (also considered \u2018Sufi\u2019 in Indian sub-continent) were forced to flee from the cruelties of the enemies of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws and took refuge in the land of Hindus\/Sikhs.\u00a0 The inhabitant of Indian sub-continent, not only welcome them but some of them also developed love and admiration of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws .\u00a0 The most of them (termed Sunfi) were mainly the Sadaat [4] who had emigrated from Arabian Peninsula, they had observed Taqqiya (dissimulation) to safeguard their Eman (belief) for generations but had been strictly following the teachings of Ahl Al-Bayt -asws .

Their devotion, love, charming manner, wisdom and spiritual purity from the filth of the sins, had a long lasting impact on the native Hindus and Sikhs.\u00a0 As a result, they would visit the Sadaat immigrants, and after developing respect and affection for them, they would embrace Islam in large numbers – the reason behind a large number of Muslims found today in Indian sub-continent.