Malamitism, Sufism, and the people of fatwa

In the second half of the third century AH, a group of Sufi sects appeared in the city of Nishapur in Khorasan, called the Malamiya or Malamiya, founded by men among the truest men of the path in that century, which was distinguished in the history of Islamic Sufism by true piety and piety.The path of malamism is nothing but a form of asceticism prevalent in that era, with its own regional characteristics and characteristics. The path of malamism is a practical path from beginning to end, and a set of etiquettes intended to struggle with the soul and exercise it, a struggle and exercise that leads the ascetic to self-denial, erasing signs of human arrogance, and extinguishing The flame of hypocrisy in the heart, more than it leads to conditions of attraction, erasure, annihilation... and similar conditions that others have spoken about. From Sufism and charted the way to achieve it. Indeed, if there is a feature that truly distinguishes the Malamite doctrine, it is their struggle in the teachings of all previous manifestations of Sufism, and their attempt to return Islamic asceticism to its first, simple path.