Can a person increase in the ranks and degrees of wilayah (close friendship with Allah), and how does that happen?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: Can a person increase in the ranks and degrees of wilayah? And how does that happen?
The Shaykh:
Can he?
The questioner:
Can a person increase in the ranks and degrees of wilayah, and how does that happen?
The Shaykh:
Yes. How does he increase them? He increases them only by virtue of evidence from the Book and the Sunnah. The awliya (close friends of Allah) are not all on the same level; some are better than others.[Al-Baqarah 2:253] If Allah has preferred some of the messengers over others, so it is with the believers and the awliya; some are better than others. This will come up; the Shaykh will mention it. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: Can a person increase in the ranks and degrees of wilayah? And how does that happen?
The Shaykh:
Can he?
The questioner:
Can a person increase in the ranks and degrees of wilayah, and how does that happen?
The Shaykh:
Yes. How does he increase them? He increases them only by virtue of evidence from the Book and the Sunnah. The awliya (close friends of Allah) are not all on the same level; some are better than others.
Those messengers - some of them We caused to exceed others.
تِلْكَ الرُّسُلُ فَضَّلْنَا بَعْضَهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [197 -858] هل يمكن أن يزيد الشخص مقامات ودرجات الولاية وكيف يكون ذلك؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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