Salam
I promised @The Hammer I would share my opinion.
The good:
Their spiritual language is very enlightening and shows the link of God with his creation. They might over emphasize the likeness aspect of creation with God as opposed to transcendence but this is fine, because they already know Quran and Sunnah emphasizes on the transcendence and people won't go astray.
Some expressions by Sufis such as:
"We are non-existence showing existence"
"The biggest sin is your own existence"
are paradoxes literally, but when understood from their proper context and angles, are very enlightening.
They emphasize on love of God and that the Prophet (s) is not disconnected from guiding his followers, but alive, and all Prophets (a) alive and helping.
They also (in the past more so then now) heavily emphasized on Ali (a) and rest of Twelve Imams (a) as being the spiritual poles or magnets of their time, pulling spiritually creation to God.
Thus Twelve Imams (a) have a special position in Sufism.
The bad:
Sufis over all make their own rituals aside from Islamic rituals prescribed by the Prophet (s). This is condemned.
They also give a lot of lip service to Ahlulbayt (a) and Twelve Imams (a) yet don't support them politically in that they don't emphasize they are meant for government as well.
They also don't give too much weight to their words as transmitted by the Shiites, so seems like lip service to me, but not truly loving Ahlulbayt (a) but using them to follow their own leaders.
Sometimes they conjecture about important beliefs, for example, believing hell is temporary despite the numerous verses about forever nature of hell, and warning not to stay "numbered days" as that would lead to apathy and lack of Taqwa (fear and guarding against God).
I promised @The Hammer I would share my opinion.
The good:
Their spiritual language is very enlightening and shows the link of God with his creation. They might over emphasize the likeness aspect of creation with God as opposed to transcendence but this is fine, because they already know Quran and Sunnah emphasizes on the transcendence and people won't go astray.
Some expressions by Sufis such as:
"We are non-existence showing existence"
"The biggest sin is your own existence"
are paradoxes literally, but when understood from their proper context and angles, are very enlightening.
They emphasize on love of God and that the Prophet (s) is not disconnected from guiding his followers, but alive, and all Prophets (a) alive and helping.
They also (in the past more so then now) heavily emphasized on Ali (a) and rest of Twelve Imams (a) as being the spiritual poles or magnets of their time, pulling spiritually creation to God.
Thus Twelve Imams (a) have a special position in Sufism.
The bad:
Sufis over all make their own rituals aside from Islamic rituals prescribed by the Prophet (s). This is condemned.
They also give a lot of lip service to Ahlulbayt (a) and Twelve Imams (a) yet don't support them politically in that they don't emphasize they are meant for government as well.
They also don't give too much weight to their words as transmitted by the Shiites, so seems like lip service to me, but not truly loving Ahlulbayt (a) but using them to follow their own leaders.
Sometimes they conjecture about important beliefs, for example, believing hell is temporary despite the numerous verses about forever nature of hell, and warning not to stay "numbered days" as that would lead to apathy and lack of Taqwa (fear and guarding against God).
