The ruling on saying: If your soul entices you to sin, then remember your shaykh

Q: A shaykh said to his disciple, who intended to study in Europe and was seeing him off: "My son, if your soul entices you to sin there, then remember your shaykh; Allah will avert this evil and this sin from you." Is this associating partners with Allah?

A: This is a great abomination and associating partners with Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He); because he turned to the shaykh to save him from this thing. The obligatory thing is to say: "Remember Allah, ask your Lord for help and success, and hold fast to Him." As for advising him to remember his shaykh, this is one of the errors of the extremists among the Sufis. They direct their disciples and students to worship them instead of Allah, to turn to them, and to rely upon them in fulfilling needs and relieving distress. This is major shirk. We seek refuge in Allah from that.
So it is obligatory for this person to fear Allah, and to turn to Him (Glorified and Exalted is He) in what concerns him, and to ask Him for help and success, not to his shaykh who taught him to turn to him. And Allah is the One to be asked for help.