The Ruling on the Sufis and Clarification of the Origin of Sufism

Question:
The issue of the Shaykh Abu al-Sufi is that he is from the people of the Sunnah and the transgressors.

Answer:
No, the deviant Sufis who worship graves and shrines, or those who claim the unity of existence, or those who claim the indwelling of the Divine, are not Muslims; these are disbelievers. As for mere Sufism, which means striving in worship, and they have not reached the level of worshipping the dead or exaggerating in persons, but they have a conception in the sense that they strive in worship beyond what is prescribed, this is misguidance without a doubt, and it is an innovation of misguidance. Sufism begins with an innovation and ends with disbelief; it begins with an innovation. Because they worship what Allah the Exalted has not prescribed, and it ends with disbelief. It led them to disbelief; it led them to worshipping graves due to exaggeration in persons and things; it led them to the claim of the unity of existence; it led them to the belief in the indwelling of the Divine, and to other forms of disbelief. Sufism is originally a foreign element in Islam; its origin is not from Islam, but it is a foreign element. It is said that it came to the Muslims from the lands of Persia or from India, from the Brahmins of India. It is also said that its origin is from the Christians. There is no objection to it being a mixture of Christianity, Buddhism, and Brahmanism in India. Yes.