Sharia, tariqa (path), truth, aversion of sharia, guardianship, pederasty, intoxication.

Of alleged Islamic mystics, there are few who have been negligent of sha-ria and have sometimes established their aversion of sharia on reasons. In this descriptive-analytic research, I analyze such aversion, aiming to consider certain deviations among the Sufis and mystics from compli-ance with sharia. Their grounds for aversion of sharia include the follow-ing: (a) the truth is not in need of sharia, which is explicitly or implicitly indicated by some of these mystics; (b) the guardian of the saints is con-trasted to the prophethood of prophets. Certain pseudo-mystics cite had-iths attributed to the Prophet to talk of the infallibility of the saints in the sense that everything is permitted for them; (c) a sacred goal justifies the deployment of non-sharia means. Thus, they believe that certain mystics made love to handsome teenage boys not because of personal lusts, but because of seeing the divine beauty in their faces, and (d) in-toxication removes religious duties. This applies mostly to the so-called “the sane of the insane” whose reason is taken away from them by God and are thus set free from duties.