Barelvi

The Barelwi movement is an orthodox Sunni Islamic movement in South Asia, which in the late 19th century under the Pashtun Hanafi Qadiri ( scholar and leader ) Ahmed Raza Khan ( 1856-1921 ) was formed on the Indian subcontinent. Your name comes from the north Indian city of Bareilly, from where they originated. They are strict followers of the Hanafi school of law.

Of the Sunnis of Pakistan, constituting 75-80 percent of the country's population, about 70 % are Barelwīs.

It relies heavily on Sufism and beliefs of the people of Islam and is in opposition to the purist and Islamist Deobandi movement, the second influential Muslim group in South Asia. Unlike the Deobandis and their madrasas, it relies more on Pirs ( holy people ) and their dargahs.

They called for a

" Similar demarcation of the Islamic Community of the environment such as the Deobandis [ ... ] It aims to strengthen Islam among ordinary people through the promotion of Sharia by reputable intermediaries such as the sheikhs of the Sufi orders. They considered the Prophet Mohammad as a supernatural being. Your popular pietism, which is not that far away from Hinduism, resting on his Quasivergöttlichung. Mohammed is the identity of the group, his insult is an insult to the same group. " "

Faith in opinion regarding Mohammed and practices

The Barelwi view of faith to the Islamic prophet Muhammad performs the following points:

• He is nuri bashar: A man ( bashar ), created from God's light (only ), it is not made of flesh and blood, but of light.
• He is Hazir: In several places at the same time.
• He is nazir: Witness over everything that happens in the world.
• He has ilm -e- Ghaib: He has knowledge of the unknown, unseen and the future.
• He is mukhtaar kul: He has the authority to do what he wants.

The celebration of Mawlid, ie the birth of the Prophet, the building of mausoleums and the solicitation of intercession for the saints ( awliya ), Prophets and Pirs are common practice in the Barelwi movement.

Opposition

Since its inception, the Barelwis stand in opposition to the Deobandi. Scholars Deobands declared the faith considers the Barelwis about Muhammad inadmissible, Mohammed had been deified by the Barelwis, which satisfies the conditions laid Shirk. Solicitation of intercession, they declared also for shirk, also celebrating the Mawlid is inadmissible. The Deobandi scholar Ashraf Ali Thanwi referred to these practices and beliefs as shirk, bid ʿ a and Kufr. In response it was stated in a fatwa issued by the Barelwi leader Ahmed Raza Khan from 1900, along with other Deobandi ulema to unbelievers because they including no "Love for the Prophet " feel have insulted the Prophet and thereby committed kufr have should. So its all people who do not declare the Deobandis to unbelievers ( takfir to speak ) and see this as also unbelievers. In the fatwa, he is compared to Muhammad ibn Abd al - Wahhab, Ibn Taymiyya and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Other opponents of the Barelwis include all flows of the Salafis, such as the Wahhabis from Saudi Arabia and the Ahl -i hadith in Pakistan.