Why does monastic practice not exist in the Islamic faith? What has taken the place of a monastic movement in Islam?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Monasticism should not exist in Islam
1. Quran warned against the asceticism of Christian monks
2. Muhammad regarded as blasphemous
3. Christian influence was not easy to filter out of early Islam
B. Growth of Sufism as a monastic movement
1. groups cultivated a tradition of thinking
2. organized themselves into orders
3. founded houses of common life
4. schools in which they trained in mystical techniques
5. supplied Islam with some of its supplest thinkers and most dedicated and successful missionaries
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