Dealing with the Bektashi Sect in Albania

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this is a questioner from Albania who says: We have a sect in our country called the Bektashi.

The Shaykh:
From where? From where?

The questioner:
The Bektashi claim to be Muslims, but they have acts of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and kufr (disbelief), such as slaughtering for other than Allah, seeking nearness to Allah through the dead, and seeking blessing from them. They do not pray with us except rarely. He asks: How should we consider their common people? Are they considered to be within Islam? And how should we deal with these people?

The Shaykh:
Explain to them and call them to the correct Islam, and clarify things to them, perhaps Allah will guide them. I do not know them, nor do I pass judgment on them, but you should explain to them and call them to Islam, and encourage them in Islam, perhaps Allah will guide them. Yes.