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One of the terms subjected the semantic shift in Islamic world is “ruhbaniyyat” (ascetism). “There is no ascetism in Islam” narrative, which have been appeared in the unreliable hadith books after the second century Anno Hegirae, affected the understanding of ascetism and negative meanings have been assigned to this term. This new notion of ascetism took place in Qur’anic commentaries and even in Qur’anic interpretations. Another problem with the misunderstanding of ascetism is that it had been related with Sufism in the frame of new meaning assigned it later. In this article, the validity of mentioned logical proposal was questioned based on the premises. For this reason, at first, the place of the verses that includes “ruhban and ruhbaniyyat (ascetic and ascetism)” terms in Qur’an, in commentaries was addressed. The place of aforementioned narrative in hadith literature was also addressed. Then, it was examined that why the “ruhbaniyyat (ascetism)” term has been related with Sufism from the second century Anno Hegirae and the validity of these reasons.