What is the ruling on the request by the Peaceful Sheaves gatherings for the women attending the lesson and the seekers to visualize the image of the female Shaykh when remembering Allah the Exalted?

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. The third question: It is requested of the women attending the lesson and the seekers to visualize the imageThe Shaykh : of the female Shaykh when remembering Allah the Exalted. What is the ruling on that? May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : This is, in what I knew of the misguidance of the Naqshbandiyyah, that they confined this conduct, which contradicts the Shari'ah, to the Shaykh. That is, the Shaykh of the path is the one whom every seeker should visualize before his eyes and not visualize the Lord of the worlds (Mighty and Majestic) in his heart. And now the misguidance has shifted from the great Shaykh, not to theThe Shaykh : small one, but to theThe Shaykh : small female one as well. In reality, this is major shirk (associating partners with Allah), because it clearly indicates that this seeker, in the expression of the Sufis, should not attach his heart to... Allah (Mighty and Majestic), as is pure tawhid (the oneness of Allah), claiming that he has not yet reached that state, and that the one who will bring him to it is the Shaykh. And now, in the question, it is the female Shaykh. They mentioned, indeed, that Shaykh Ahmad Kifartu himself, in some of his old lessons that he delivered there in Damascus, in some mosques or in some circles, related to his seekers the following story: That the Shaykh intended to travel, so one of his seekers wanted to accompany him, and he permitted him on the condition that he not criticize, not object, and not contradict the Shaykh in anything. So he agreed, as is required of every seeker to be a blind follower of his Shaykh. They traveled until they reached the shore of the sea. The Shaykh said to the seeker: "I am now going to walk with you on the surface of the water, and this is from my karamah (a miracle granted to a righteous person) with Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He). And I say: 'O Allah.' As for you, you must say: 'O my Shaykh.'" He said this, and they set out walking on the sea as if they were walking on land, according to the claim of the narrator, who isThe Shaykh : Ahmad. La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah (There is no power nor strength except with Allah). And they were walking in the sea—Allahu Akbar (Allah is the Greatest)!—Satan came and whispered to the seeker, saying to him: "How is it that you call for aid to the Shaykh and do not call for aid to Allah? Say: 'O Allah.'" The seeker was convinced by this speech and said: "O Allah." And he began to drown. As he was drowning, he revealedThe Shaykh : what had occurred between him and Satan. So the Shaykh turned to him, took his hand, and saved him. He said to him: "Did I not condition you that you not contradict me? How did you leave calling for aid to me and call for aid to the Lord of the worlds?" This means shirk (associating partners with Allah) in the name of Islam. And this, in this question, leads to this great misguidance, which is visualizingThe Shaykh : the female one during the dhikr (the remembrance of Allah), and she is not the Lord of the worlds. So this is a diversion from the remembrance of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and the visualization of His greatness, as He (Mighty and Majestic) said in His Book: .