Can Muslims join Sufi orders?
A77. Those who call themselves Sufis are various types, most of those, however, these days are innovators, superstitious people who follow a path alien to real Islam. It is not fair, however, to issue a general verdict against all Sufi and accuse them all of perversion, or to say that they are all good. What one’s heart feels ease to express is to say that those Sufis who follow the Quran and the Sunnah are good, while those who pervert from the path shown by Allah and his Messenger, the path of truth; those who introduce into Islam what is not part of it, these are innovators who have perverted from Islam. Q78. Is it allowed in Islam to present the Quran with English translation to non-Muslims as a method of introducing Islam to them? Are non-Muslims allowed to enter the mosque? What manners should they observe in the mosque esp. if they are women? A78. Yet it is allowed in Islam to give the Quran with any translation (English, French, or other) to non-Muslims in order to call them to
