The Sufis' Position on Dispensing with the Messenger

The questioner:
He is on something we hear, an argument he repeats regarding extremism, which is that knowledge comes through a path and its wali (close friend of Allah) is placed, so its meaning

The Shaykh:
We told you that they claim they reach Allah and eat from Him directly, so do they not need the Messenger? And is there any disbelief (kufr) greater than this, may Allah protect us? No, they say they do not need the acts of worship, so they abandon the prayer, and they do not need to abandon the forbidden things, so they commit the indecencies; because they have reached Allah, they do not need to be bound by the Shari'ah and its rulings of what is lawful and what is forbidden; rather, that is for the common people. And this is the greatest form of atheism, may Allah protect us, which is the denial of the Shari'ah. Yes.

The questioner:
As He decrees for you.

The Shaykh:
And they say, "Knowledge comes to us preserved from Allah, a light that Allah throws in without us learning from the people or learning from the Messenger. We do not need this; this is for the common people who have not reached [the state]. But those who have reached it have dispensed with the Messenger."

The questioner:
To see if you were in.

The Shaykh:
They say, "You take your religion from a dead person, from a dead person, meaning the chain of the hadith, from so-and-so, from so-and-so, from all of them. But we take our religion from the Living who does not die, meaning we take it directly from Allah. You mock the people of the Sunnah, who care about the chains of narration and look into their validity and invalidity." Yes.