Elaborate the origin of sufism and highlight the role of sufis toward tolerance
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Explanation:
Islamic mysticism is devoted to the promotion of onenness and pluralism.
The term SUFISM (tasawwuf) refers to the spiritual dimension and inner core of the world religion of Islam founded by the Prophet Muhammad. The tradition practiced by Islamic mystics is a religious current of devotion to the message of salvation embedded in the Qur'an and of rapture by the Divine which developed from the eighth and ninth centuries onwards. The texts of the mystic teachers contain a prescriptive utilization of the term Sufi which implies an ideal of ethical and spiritual perfection. The ethical values to which Sufis feel bound and which characterize their traditions include insights and modes of behaviour which in western overviews are categorized as expression of liberalness, desire for freedom and ‘tolerance’