Psychedelics for spiritual purposes

[Yusuf Shukur]

    I've read and heard some Muslims use psychedelics like marijuana to reach a higher state of conscientious during meditation. There is a small minority of sufis known for this. I'm just curious how you might feel about this. I'm sunni and interested in sufism. Also mufti Abu Layth on youtube is one of my sources of information but not one I'm sure is reliable. I follow mufti Menk for most of my answers and listen to what Mufti Abu Layth has to say and take both into consideration before making a decision.

[islamicmusic]

Salam and welcome to the forum.

Of course it is wrong, and being raised in a sunni-sufi society in Turkey, I never witnessed such a thing. I don't know if anyone really does that.

Anyway, spirituality in shia islam is known as irfan. And you can listen to the likes of Sheikh Farrokh Sekaleshfar, Hajj Khalil Jaffer, Ali Reza Panahian instead to know about the shia sufism. And if you dive in that, I am sure you will find the commonalities between sufism-sunnism-shiism and work for Islamic Unity inshaAllah.

Here's an article for you: Sufism: the meeting point of Sunni and Shia Islam

https://www.al-islam.org/al-tawhid/vol5-n3-4/tasawwuf-meeting-point-tashayyu-and-tasannun-sayyid-wahid-akhtar

Please also see Irfan and Sufism series by Dr. Farrokh Sekaleshfar

Also see, the art of yearning for God series by Br. Khalil Jaffer

 

And you can follow and subscribe to Hojjatul Islam Ali Reza Panahian's English pages:

https://www.facebook.com/Panahianen/

https://www.youtube.com/c/PanahianEnglish/videos

May Allah bless you and help you in your journey towards the Lord.

[Yusuf Shukur]

3 hours ago, islamicmusic said:

Of course it is wrong

Okay, I'll stay away from it.

[313_Waiter]

Here is halāl way to release DMT (inshaAllah)

 

 

edit: confirm with marja tho. 

Edited January 11, 2024 by 313_Waiter

[SO SOLID SHIA]

On 2/25/2022 at 8:33 PM, Yusuf Shukur said:

I've read and heard some Muslims use psychedelics like marijuana to reach a higher state of conscientious during meditation

In my opinion that is a farce. Most people who use it are either medicating or they are addicted to it because they can't function without it. 

I've done it a few times in the past to get that high and I didn't experience anything that I couldn't already see. You can get exactly the same results through breathing techniques and meditation & more plus you won't be such a paranoid gnome afterwards. Almost half the people I know are weed heads. You don't need it 

 

Regarding the small number of sufis using it - the main tariqas have already denounced these practices and said they aren't part of Sufism. 

Edited January 15, 2024 by SO SOLID SHIA