The State of Sufism and the Doctrine of the Sufis

The questioner:
Himself in. From the sects. What is your word for the one who believes that holding the Prophet’s birthday celebration (Mawlid) is an expression of love for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and that the one who does not do it does not love the Prophet? The festival prayer.

The Shaykh:
Yes, Sufism is undoubtedly a sect among the sects; the Sufis are a sect among the sects of misguidance. They exaggerated in worship and asceticism until they worshipped Allah with acts of worship that Allah and His Messenger did not prescribe. This is the doctrine of the Sufis’ exaggeration. In fact, their doctrine developed to the point of exalting their followers and their sheikhs until they legislated for them, commanded them, and prohibited things for them, and they considered obedience to them to be worship. For this reason, they say that the seeker (murid) with his sheikh is like the dead with his washer. The seeker means the student with his Sufi sheikh; he does not speak and does not acknowledge anything. If they do not point out anything to him, he complies, and his heart is such that it enters the Fire. They also say, as they claim, that the one who has no sheikh has Satan as his sheikh. Thus, they exaggerated regarding the individuals and the followed ones until they considered obedience to them to be worship. There is no doubt that Sufism is a sect among the misguided sects. We ask Allah for safety. My brother, write down your question; there is no basis in speech, there is no oral question at all.

The Shaykh:
No, no, there is nothing but to write "rooms"? The rest of the question? There is no doubt that loving the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is obligatory upon the Muslims. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So his love is obligatory upon us, more intense than our love for ourselves, our children, our fathers, our mothers, and all of mankind. This is without doubt, and it is part of the religion; this is from the religion. No one hates the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) except one who has apostatized from the religion of Islam. One of the types of apostasy is hating the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), or hating what the Messenger brought, or hating anything of what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) brought. So loving the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) is faith, and hating him is disbelief. But does loving the Messenger mean establishing the Mawlid?
Ha, and no. If it were the case that the Companions did not love the Messenger because they did not establish a Mawlid for him, would Abu Bakr, 'Umar, 'Uthman, 'Ali, the Companions, the Successors, and the preferred generations not love the Messenger because they did not establish Mawlid celebrations? Rather, it is these people who came after them and introduced the Mawlid celebrations. Is there any misguidance greater than this misguidance, if we declare the Companions, the Successors, and those who followed them to be misguided, and say that they do not love the Messenger because they did not establish Mawlid celebrations? This is a great error. It is obligatory to follow the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So whoever loves the Messenger follows him, obeys him, and leaves what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade. And he forbade innovations and newly invented matters. The Mawlid is a newly invented matter or an innovation. The one who does it is disobedient to the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). This is hating the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): that you contradict him, intentionally contradicting him, and you bring something that the Messenger did not legislate and his righteous Caliphs did not do, and you say this is love for the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). O my Lord, where are the minds? All good is in following the Sunnah, and all evil is in following the bid'ah (religious innovation), whatever it may be. Yes.