1. A lot of people call themselves sufis, or others call them sufis, where these people often are not sufis at all. In fact, in pakistan, older men with beards are usually called sufi ji, or sufi saab.
2. A sufi preaches the path of love. Love for God and all creation. Sufism is not a religion in its own, it is a school of self-knowledge, a practice, the essence of the Prophets' teachings.
3. There is a huge difference between sufis, peer, fakir, dervaish, and malang. Sufis do not give up normal life to be closer to God.
4. Sufis do not claim to be a religion, or to be the only way.
5. There are many schools of thoughts in sufism.
6. Merely doing bayt does not make one a sufi.
7. Sufi students are advised against discussing sufi matters until they have reached a level of maturity in sufi learning (hint hint naqsh).
8. Sufis do not like to be identified as sufis .
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