A Clarification of the Sufis' Claim of Taking Directly from Allah
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The questioner:
As for the Shaykh, we hear him repeat an argument, digress, and continue, saying that knowledge comes through the path of the awliya (close friends of Allah), which is a distortion. Its meaning is
The Shaykh:
We have told you that they claim to reach Allah directly and neglect Him, do they not need the Messenger? Is there any disbelief greater than this, may Allah protect us from it? No, they say they do not need the acts of worship, meaning they abandon the prayer, and they do not need to avoid the forbidden, so they commit the major sins, because they have reached Allah, so they do not need to be bound by the Shari'ah and its rulings of what is lawful and what is forbidden; that is only for the common people. This is the greatest form of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and other forms of denying the Shari'ah. Yes.
The questioner:
Yes, yes.
The Shaykh:
And they say, "Knowledge comes to us as a fard (obligatory) from Allah, a light that Allah throws in without us learning from the scholars or learning from the Messenger. We do not need this; this is for the common people who have not reached [the state]. As for those who have reached it, they are self-sufficient without the Messenger."
The questioner:
That we see there is something in it.
The Shaykh:
And 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 the generalities. But we take our religion from the Living who does not die, meaning we take it directly from Allah. You are mocking the people of the Sunnah who care about the chains of narration and look into their validity and invalidity."
Another questioner:
Peace be upon you. Do names resemble actions?
The Shaykh:
And therefore, and therefore, it has become famous among them now, absent from them among the callers to Allah, it has become famous among them: "Do not learn, do not sit in the gathering of dhikr (remembrance of Allah), do not learn knowledge; it is enough that you pray, fast, worship, and remember Allah. You engage in dhikr, tasbih (glorification), and tahlil (testification of oneness), and this is enough for you instead of learning knowledge from so-and-so and so-and-so. Yes. This is a branch of the branches of his false madhhab (school of jurisprudence). Yes.
As for the Shaykh, we hear him repeat an argument, digress, and continue, saying that knowledge comes through the path of the awliya (close friends of Allah), which is a distortion. Its meaning is
The Shaykh:
We have told you that they claim to reach Allah directly and neglect Him, do they not need the Messenger? Is there any disbelief greater than this, may Allah protect us from it? No, they say they do not need the acts of worship, meaning they abandon the prayer, and they do not need to avoid the forbidden, so they commit the major sins, because they have reached Allah, so they do not need to be bound by the Shari'ah and its rulings of what is lawful and what is forbidden; that is only for the common people. This is the greatest form of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and other forms of denying the Shari'ah. Yes.
The questioner:
Yes, yes.
The Shaykh:
And they say, "Knowledge comes to us as a fard (obligatory) from Allah, a light that Allah throws in without us learning from the scholars or learning from the Messenger. We do not need this; this is for the common people who have not reached [the state]. As for those who have reached it, they are self-sufficient without the Messenger."
The questioner:
That we see there is something in it.
The Shaykh:
And 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 the generalities. But we take our religion from the Living who does not die, meaning we take it directly from Allah. You are mocking the people of the Sunnah who care about the chains of narration and look into their validity and invalidity."
Another questioner:
Peace be upon you. Do names resemble actions?
The Shaykh:
And therefore, and therefore, it has become famous among them now, absent from them among the callers to Allah, it has become famous among them: "Do not learn, do not sit in the gathering of dhikr (remembrance of Allah), do not learn knowledge; it is enough that you pray, fast, worship, and remember Allah. You engage in dhikr, tasbih (glorification), and tahlil (testification of oneness), and this is enough for you instead of learning knowledge from so-and-so and so-and-so. Yes. This is a branch of the branches of his false madhhab (school of jurisprudence). Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 35 من 64 / شرح القصيدة النونية / هو قابض هو باسط هو خافض / صالح الفوزان / العقيدة / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (46:56)
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