Question on sufi's...abit confused, need clarification

[Ummu Sufyaan]

just recently from reading a thread/posts here that there is Sufism that is moderate/acceptable and there are the extreme kind...
i grew up basically having no idea about this and believed that all Sufi's are bad (probably because i have only seen the extreme kind)...

could some shed some light on this? i mean, what did the salaf (pious predeccors) have to say on this....what is the moderate/acceptable kind? maybe some history behind "what went wrong" as well...

and i hate to be picky, but views from shaikh's uthaymeen, al-Albaani, ibn baz, etc would be good...

 

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just recently from reading a thread/posts here that there is Sufism that is moderate/acceptable and there are the extreme kind...
i grew up basically having no idea about this and believed that all Sufi's are bad (probably because i have only seen the extreme kind)...

could some shed some light on this? i mean, what did the salaf (pious predeccors) have to say on this....what is the moderate/acceptable kind? maybe some history behind "what went wrong" as well...

and i hate to be picky, but views from shaikh's uthaymeen, al-Albaani, ibn baz, etc would be good...

:statisfie
Too much on sufism to write so i will just copy and paste some authetic links on sufism from the point of view of the 4 imams and salaf. Hope you find what you were looking for.

1, http://www.ahya.org/amm/modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=145

2, http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/sufism/67134

3, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sufism

May Allah peace and blessing be upon muslameen and musleemaat Aameen:statisfie