groopies

about the hamza yusuf "groopies" and leaders/followers. In my journeys, i visited the graves and witnessed the devotees of Jalaluddin Rumi in Konya, Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer, Ali Hajweri in Lahore, Bahauddin Zakaria in Multan, Shabazz Qalandar in Sewan, Nizamuddin Awliya in Delhi. It is said that love is a blindness. sometimes in our passionate attachments to great scholars we lose our ability to see their and our own human deficiencies. but this issue must be handled delicately. i thank allah for giving me intelligent and articulate friends like usman and mathew and mairaj who took part in a much needed discourse on this subject on the muslimdisc list.