Osomir
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The saints of Islam, fly in the air, walk on water, visit the heavens and come back as they wish, and say "be" to anything they want and it shall be, and other things. They are the champions of this science, they are the ones to whom, truly, everything except God is vain.
You are joking, right? I have found a friend for you on twitter. Do a search for him and you will find Anjem Choudary. He is infamous in Britain for promoting Islamic extremism. You should get on well with him. I have started tweeting him telling him to preach his garbage to the talking ants.
He's a Sufi of a non-mainstream order in West Africa. This poster isn't really tapped into mainstream Islam at all.
That explains a lot. I once wasted six months disputing with a member of the Rashad Khalifa cult thinking he was a representative of Islamic beliefs. Before I realized he was only a member of a tiny group. On another forum I also had words with another sufi which was equally confusing.
Yeah, they tend to be pretty insistent they are simply "Muslims" which they are, but they certainly aren't representative of the primary schools of theological and jurisprudential thought that most Muslims are associated with. Even a lot of "mainstream" Muslims tend to be influenced by local flavors of Islam or by Sufi style mysticism. It is just really appealing for people to have this belief that they have some sort of secret or unique understanding of the faith that makes them better or more pure Muslims than others. Christianity went through the same thing with the gnostics.