The Sufi heritage and its role in reforming the values in the modern era

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Professor in Arabic Department, Misr University for Science and Technology

Abstract

The Islamic Sufi heritage is a wealth of human values and virtues. The people of Sufism are special servants of God, who believed in their servitude and strived to purify their souls, seeking God Almighty's awareness. to reach the status of piety in dealing with creation and the Creator.
Perhaps this approach of tolerant religious thought is what made philosophers and sages in every age respect Sufism in general, but include its studies within the framework of realistic human philosophical studies, which introduce solutions to many psychological and social problems.
In fact, the Sufis are not a sect of Islam that has made for itself an imposed share of the beliefs that contradict the majority of Muslims. On the contrary, they were the people of achieving monotheism, the people of faith, and the people of privacy, and that is why they sometimes absolve themselves from being distinguished from others by a name, Imam al-Shibli was asked, may God bless him. Why was Sufism called by this name? He said: For the rest, they remained in their souls, and if it were not for that, they would not have been named.
the idea of ​​this research comes From here, which sees the dissemination of the heritage of balanced Sufi thought that stems from the origins of religion and is supported by logic as a way to address contemporary problems faced by people in light of globalization and the intellectual confusion, cultural superficiality, and moral corruption caused by social media. These problems are generally divided into nodal problems, ethical problems and psychological problems. The doctrinal problems: such as the dissolution of religious beliefs, as well as religious sectarianism, then sectarian or ethnic fanaticism or “communalism”, so to speak. Ethical problems are well known, and developments have spread on social networks, such as bullying, harassment, lying, cheating, infringement of material and moral rights, and infringement of privacy. As for psychological problems, most of them focus on frustration, despair, pessimism, negativity, and the spread of strife and grudges among people.

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