Shaykh 'Alā' Abū al-'Azāyim, the head of the Sufi 'Azmīyah Order, said his group has never supported Mubārak or his regime as some rumor, adding the Sufis are never silent over rulers' injustice because Sufis are not parasites in the society.

"The Supreme Council for Sufi Orders is fighting whoever tries to offer a good thing to Egypt, which is not strange to a body led by a remnant of the former regime," Shaykh 'Alā' said in an interview to al-Ahrār newspaper, the mouthpiece of the al-Ahrār (Liberal) Party.

He pointed out that whoever believe that religion is away from politics are so naïve, adding Sufism has always been marginalized since the time of late Egyptian President Jamāl 'Abd al-Nāsir.