Hyper-Salafism is a form of Sufism that adopts the principles of Salafis, but abandons their essentially socialist-materialist assumptions about reality.
In contrast to many versions of Sufism (with which we nevertheless have strong friendships and allegiances), we place very little emphasis on the sheikhs and scholars that came in the centuries that followed Islam's beginning, and instead we make heavy use of the "standard" hadith literature for spiritual guidance. We read Bukhari more closely than we read ibn Arabi and Rumi, so to speak (though we respect both).
To take a simple example, Salafis believe lack of short trousers leads us hellfire. So they make damn sure to hem their Gap chinos, or, even better, adopt what they imagine to be historically accurate recreations of the robes worn at the time of Prophecy bought from Shukronline.com.
The hyper-Salafi also believes a long garment that trails behind one will lead us to the hellfire. So we also cut hem our chinos. But we deny the existence of the Gap and Shukronline.com in the sense they understand it -- in fact, we deny the existence of "clothing" in the sense understood by most people. These things are all fictions, Imaginary games of language that we have implicitly agreed to participate in. In this sense, you can say we live in illusion: the illusion is broken when we fully understand that all life is imaginary games of language. And these games of language are the "real" meaning of clothing. The games can trail behind us, obstructing prayer -- or they can be hemmed, above the ankles, circumcised in righteousness.
Both the typical progressive Muslim, the Salafi and Richard Dawkins, for example, believe in the truth of this physical reality placed before us: they both would both say that clothing is clothing and the Gap "really" exists. They are all materialists when it comes to reality. A Salafi in particular will say -- I wear short trousers because God tells me to, and there is nothing more to it: because trousers are trousers (and there is nothing more to them). We have a different understanding of clothing (and the Gap, for that matter) as ayat of God, basically: Divine communication acts (that communicate the True nature of reality through their infinite forms).
If you like, my job as a hyper-Salafi Tailor is to hem the garment of the Salafis (and the wider ummah), which currently trails way behind them (in subscribing to all kinds of materialist dogma).
I can also give you a more trippy (a)historical perspective ... After a protracted silent march, Hyper-Salafism and Tailorite Sufism eventually won the battle for hearts and minds of the ummah, and came to be rightly regarded as the Orthodox understanding of Islam. By the year 4009, after the Great Expansion, the ideas morphed into a Galactic political movement, known as the Verandah Vanguard. Fragments of their manifesto and speeches appear from time to time on my blog:
http://thegoodgarment.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/re-volution-a-party-political-broadcast-on-behalf-of-the-verandah-vanguard/But unfortunately, the pendulum swings back and forth, and eventually the Verandah Vanguard's agenda was by the Demiurgic principles of a dictator known as President Ourobus, who waged a violent Anti-Gnostic campaign to wipe our Doctrine from the face of the earth. This was halted only by a young girl known Matronita Minor who actually broke this repetitious cycle of humanity's relationship with true Islam and idolatrous materialism in the guise of Islam. She broke it in a very unusual way, the events of which will be sketched in my upcoming novel (which I will plug mercilessly everywhere shortly).
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The Tailor
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