تاريخ اسلام در آينه پژوهش

Using a descriptive-analytical method and adopting a historical approach, this article studies the infallible Imams’ (PBUT) methods of confrontation with Sufi groups. Historical evidence suggests that Sufi behavior emerged in the time of the Imams in the form of behaviors such as leaving the world, seclusion (withdrawing from society), Self-criticism, poverty, austerity, hunger and the like, this kind of behavior and lifestyle caused the reaction of the Imams (PBUT). In the first step, the most important symbols of Sufi tendencies are expressed and the role and place of these symbols in the thoughts and lives of mystics and Sufis of the first Islamic centuries is examined. In the next step, the ways in which the Imams dealt with such behaviors and thoughts are discussed. Findings show that the Ahl al-Bayt’s approach to Sufi extremist ideas was denial and rejection. They have always tried to keep the society away from the tendency towards such thoughts and attitudes. Imams’ (PBUT) methods of dealing with Sufi tendencies are explained in two parts, scientific and practical.