[Superstitionism among Sufi Muslims]

For example, most Sufi Muslims have no basis but enthusiasm for many of their religious beliefs, and for this reason, they do not see a great role for the intellect in cognition, nor do they consider it as proof, just like the Salafists, and compose poems to condemn it; as, for example, they say: «پاي استدلاليان چوبين بود/ پاي چوبين سخت بي‌تمكين بود»[1], which means “the legs of people of reasoning are wooden, and the wooden legs are very unstable,” and what they mean by reasoning is intellectual reasoning! While it is certain that God has reasoned in His Book, informed about the reasoning of His Prophets, commanded His Prophet to reason, and asked disbelievers to bring their reason if they have any, and the basis of reasoning in all these cases is the intellect. Therefore, it is not clear how the legs of other people would be if the legs of people of reasoning were wooden; because the intellect is the strongest foundation of cognition, and the other foundations are weaker than it, and intuition, which is considered the foundation for knowing the truth among Sufis, if it means observing the truth from beyond nature, does not conflict with the intellect, but rather it is one of the tools of the intellect that serves it, like the sense of sight, and the efforts of Sufis to show that it is in conflict with the intellect are like the efforts of Ahl al-Hadith to show that Sharia is in conflict with the intellect, which has no reality and is nothing but an illusion; unless what is meant by intuition is the imperfect and variable enthusiasm of the human being that, due to its imperfection and variability in its essence, can be in conflict with the intellect, and for this exact reason, it cannot be the criterion of cognition; especially considering that people’s enthusiasm, whenever it is not based on the intellect, will be multiple to the number of them, and following it, regardless of the fact that it has no basis, will lead to their disagreements, which is not desirable.