If I am a Hanafi does that mean I have to...

[Ibn Ali Asghar]

Follow a Sufi Tariqah?? Like Naqshabandi or qadiri or chisti etc??
Because only recently have I decided to follow a madhab after having come to this site, and now this whole order of sufi's thing is kinda freaking me out

Like a I heard a story from a naqshabandi dude that in the cave with RasoolAllah (saw) and Abu Bakr (ra) all the naqshabandi sufi's were present as well, and I don't know but that seems slightly far fetched to me...

I am happy with the Hanafi madhab, and am currently reading a book on how to pray by Shaikh Riyadh-ul-haq.. its just the sufi tariqa thing that I'm not sure about...

[Hmmm]

No, you don't have to join a tariqah or have anything to do with them if you don't want to, tasawwuf is separate to fiqh

[Ibn Ali Asghar]

It is not that I deny tassawuf or anything.. its that I see it as something as a personal thing, like a relationship between oneself and his Lord (Allah The Most High).. Rather than it being a kind of tariqa that one has to follow, well I'm happy thats cleared up.. Jazaak'Allah!

[Shamli 1857]

It is not that I deny tassawuf or anything.. its that I see it as something as a personal thing, like a relationship between oneself and his Lord (Allah The Most High).. Rather than it being a kind of tariqa that one has to follow, well I'm happy thats cleared up.. Jazaak'Allah!

Remember brother, Bay'at is sunnah, but tazkiyyat al-nafs (spiritual reformation and reaching the goal) is wajib on every individual.

Also bear in mind that having a guide who has treaded the PATH can make the journey an easy one. Make du'a, Allah grants me the realisation of this as well.

[The_Humble_One]

salam,

you don't have to be a sufi if you are a hanafi but i have personally benefited tremendously from my shaykh and i am only a beginner. so it's something you should keep in mind.

[Skilly]

Follow a Sufi Tariqah?? Like Naqshabandi or qadiri or chisti etc??
Because only recently have I decided to follow a madhab after having come to this site, and now this whole order of sufi's thing is kinda freaking me out

Like a I heard a story from a naqshabandi dude that in the cave with RasoolAllah (saw) and Abu Bakr (ra) all the naqshabandi sufi's were present as well, and I don't know but that seems slightly far fetched to me...

I am happy with the Hanafi madhab, and am currently reading a book on how to pray by Shaikh Riyadh-ul-haq.. its just the sufi tariqa thing that I'm not sure about...

No you don't have to be any sufi tareqas. Their where many past scholars who did not belong to any taqeeqas or/and had nothing got to do with them.

This can also be said you can be a Hanafite without being a Maturidi in theology or a Shafite without being an Ashari.

[chviky]

Yes the bayat is sunnah but not for sufiesm, madhabs, jihadis, Tableegies, its for the complete ISLAM. Do find a tanzeem who really want to Implement Complete ISLAM and bayat to them!