What is the ruling on the absolute submission of Sufi students to their shaykhs?

The questioner: It contains two questions: the first is the absolute submission of Sufi students to their shaykhs, and the second is the invalidation of wudu' by sleep, along with other fiqh issues. This session was recorded in the year 1404 AH, corresponding to 1983 CE.

The Shaykh: The shaykhs of the tariqas and their like are upright in the practical aspect they call "al-suluk" (spiritual conduct), but they deviate completely in matters of 'aqidah (creed). Therefore, we need to weigh the gain against the loss. What will be the outcome for these people who are upright?
But they deviate completely from the 'aqidah, without doubt. In this case, the loss will be greater than the gain. Therefore, we should not be deceived by some appearances and manifestations and say, "He used not to pray, but now he prays. He used to drink khamr (intoxicants), but now he does not drink khamr." We know this for a fact from many of the Sufis. In Syria, they will reach the level of , yes. Perhaps I told you once about your story. The matter.
And I have no objection to calling him Ahmad Kiftaro. Yes, professor, yes. How does he teach people in the mosque that the murid (seeker) must be obedient to the shaykh and not object to him or deny him, even if he sees a cross hanging around his neck? Allahu Akbar, he does not deny him. Allahu Akbar. And he narrated to them a story of how a shaykh in the past ordered his student to go and slaughter his father. So he went and came back and informed the shaykh that he had slaughtered his father. The shaykh laughed in his face and said to him, "Did you really slaughter your father?" He said to him, "No, I did what you ordered: slaughter your father. This is your mother's companion; your father is absent. This is your mother's companion." This superstition was told in the mosque, and no one moved, why? They were drugged and intoxicated. By chance, that night, one of the nights of Ramadan, one of our brothers was present in the lesson, and a relative of his named Abu Yusuf. We were staying up in my shop. So our Salafi brother named Mahmoud came and started telling me about the lesson of Kiftaro and the misguidance in it. A little while later, his relative Abu Yusuf passed by. He called him and he entered. But falsely, they started discussing. The conversation began: "What do you think of Kiftaro's lesson?" They said, "Masha'Allah, Masha'Allah, tajalliyyat (manifestations), lofty, the money." We have a neighborhood called al-Qasi'ah, most of whose residents are Christians, and one of them opened a tavern, writing on it "Tajalliyyat, qali qali" (manifestations, a little, a little). So when one of these Sufis speaks the word "tajalliyyat," one of our companions follows with "tajalliyyat of the tavern," meaning truly this is intoxication and drugging. In any case, our man and Abu Yusuf entered into a discussion. Of course, their academic level is simple. So I found that the religious interest was for me to take the wudu' with him. He was not attached to any tariqa. He said, "This, man, is not reasonable and not acceptable in the Shari'ah. How do you imagine that he orders the killing of this man and depicts to the son that this is his father? And then surprises him by saying this is not his father. Well, if it is not his father, why did you order his slaughter? Because he is a fornicator. Well, what about the mother? Goodbye." This, if it were permissible for him to execute the hudud (fixed punishments), but he does not have that. From where you come, I say about it in Syria, you will find it missing. What is this talk? It is as if you are talking to this wall; if it understands, it understands. Finally, I said to myself, and here is the point, strike the sensitive string. I said to him, "Well, Abu Yusuf, if the shaykh told you now, 'Go and slaughter your father,' would you do it?" He stood up and rejected it like this, and my companion, at his voice, said to me, "I have not yet reached that rank. See where you are trying to reach, that if the shaykh tells him to slaughter his father, he would obey him." So I said to him, in the Syrian expression, "May Allah grant you a long life, may Allah grant you a long life. If the outcome is that you reach this result, we do not want it, brother. This good conduct that you are gathering for him, we do not want it, because what is behind it is more dangerous. That is exactly what the Christian male and female missionaries do. How do they enter upon the Muslims with friendship, gentleness, humility, honor, and kindness, and so on, and then that