Not all shaykhs say that prostrating to other than Allah is not permissible.

The Shaykh: Every person, every shaykh says: No, prostrating to other than Allah is not permissible. Pardon me, I said: All shaykhs say that prostrating to other than Allah is not permissible. I wished that I had been successful in being correct when I said: All shaykhs. But I am sorry and compelled to say: Not all of them say so. In some of the tariqahs, it is among their traditions that when the murid wants to take permission from the shaykh to circulate in the majlis, he prostrates to the shaykh, and they say: This prostration is for exaltation, not prostration of worship. We have read this in many treatises. Is the Muslim exalted by prostration? The answer: Praise be to Allah, no, at least according to the majority. As for those, they are deviants.