A so-called "spiritual Management" of Adygea posted a few days ago a colorful picture ad on the front porch of a mosque in Maikop about recruitment of students into the Saifullo Qadi Dagestani Islamic University, the KC sources report from Adygea. And in the head of the message the name Saifullo Qadi is quoted.
The ad says that the university accepts "persons who have completed 9 or 11 classes, and girls who completed 8 classes, the studies period is 5 years, and the studies are free".
Then, those who wish to study Sufism are required to provide an application addressed to the rector, a copy of a high school graduate certificate and the internal passport, a medical certificate and a certificate of vaccination, a reference (apparently to check the "loyalty") and 6 photos, 3x4 cm.
Medical insurance is also required for personal presentation. The ad states that "the Islamic University prepares imams, Alims, teachers of Arabic and translators".
A further note is underlined with special characters: "For the time of the study, students are exempt from the army conscription".
If this last statement is to be understood literally ("for the time of study" and not "during"), then after the graduation, young people will not serve in the army. Obviously, the security services of Russia hope that the Adygei youth, even if it is inclined study the Sufi "science", will enlist into the Sufi University at least in order to avoid the conscription.
The ad is provided with color photos depicting followers of Nakshband Tarikat in typical caps involved in a study of some of their treatises or solemnly striding at some rally, waving their white-green flags. The address of the University of Buinaksk given in the bottom.
The fact is that in Adygea, Sufism never seriously spread. The only Sufi community in Maikop is represented only by the Chechen-Ingush Diaspora.
Although Adygeans, more than any other Caucasian peoples, have been subjected to religious assimilation, they are very rarely interested in any heretical movements in Islam.
This explains the fact that Adygeans, returning to Islam, are very favorably disposed to the jihad in the Caucasus.
Following instructions from Moscow on limiting travel of Muslim youth to study abroad, special services decided to impose at the same time Sufism in Adygea and spread fitnah (discord) among Muslims.
Modern Adygean youth is extremely skeptical towards the so-called Tarikats and Sufism in general because of their distortion of the Quran and Sunnah and fanatical following of their ustazes, or teachers.
Two days ago, the ad disappeared from the porch of the mosque: perhaps someone has torn it off.
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