This is a fatwa from one of the scholars on dancing of the Sufis: Al-Imam Abu Bakr Al-Tartoushi al Maliki (d.520 H) (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked: What does our knowledgeable master say about the madhab of the Sufis? And also know – may Allah preserve your time – that a group of men gather, and then increase in the mentioning of Allah the Exalted, and the mentioning of Muhammad (peace be upon him)...and then some of them stand up and dance and fall into a state of faintness, until he falls unconscious, and then they get something to eat. Is attending with them permissible or not? The answer: May Allah have mercy on you, the madhab of the Sufis is that of wastefulness, ignorance and misguidance. Islam is but the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His messenger. As for the dancing and the states of faintness, the first to perform this are the companions of Al-Samiri (a pagan at the time of Musa alayhisalam), when he founded for them an image of a calf that had a sound, so they started dancing around it and fainting before it, thus (this action) is the religion of the Kuffar (unbelievers), and the worshippers of the calf... Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) used to sit with his companions, as if birds were standing on their heads from their dignity (tranquility and stillness). That is why the ruler of the muslim country and his assistants are required to stop (these people) from gathering in Masjids and in any other places. It is not permissible for anyone that believes in Allah and the hereafter to attend with them, and to assist them in their evil and wastefulness, and that is the mahhab of; Malik, Abu Hanifa, Al-Shafi, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and others from the scholars of the Muslims, and from Allah we seek success.-[Imam Qurtubi in his tafseer under Surah Ta-Ha verses 94-98 and Surah al-Kahf verse 14]. youtu.be/URbHFDQxwOg
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