Warning Against the Sufi Paths
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Question:
He asks and says: I often hear that a person took a path from one of the masters or shaykhs, and after that he is able to strike himself with a sword and eat glass. I want from your eminence the secret of this path and what is said to him, and how do you guide me, as I am a young man at the beginning of my life? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
This path is one of the false paths of the Sufis, and all of this is illusion and all of it is a lie. He does not stab himself and he does not slaughter himself; it is all a lie, all of it is false, all of it is an illusion for the people from the work of the Shayatins and the work of the enemies of Allah who made this falsehood attractive to them. The Shayatins inspire them to do these things and they do what makes the attendees think that this is real, when it is not real. He kills himself, he stabs himself with a dagger, with a knife, with a spear, he cuts off his head and removes it. All of these are myths, all of them are false. Those who do them are wrongdoers, misguiders, and those who mislead others. They must be punished for that. It is obligatory upon the rulers, if they are Muslims, to punish them and to prevent them from this vile path. Some of them call it the Rafi'i path.
The point is: that this path is false. ... They claim that their stabbing themselves with knives or spears or daggers is all false, and their eating glass is all false. They are lying. If he stabbed himself, he would die, and if he ate glass, he would die. But this is from the deceptions of Shaytan and from the tricks of Shaytan by which he plays with people. We ask Allah for safety. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
He asks and says: I often hear that a person took a path from one of the masters or shaykhs, and after that he is able to strike himself with a sword and eat glass. I want from your eminence the secret of this path and what is said to him, and how do you guide me, as I am a young man at the beginning of my life? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
This path is one of the false paths of the Sufis, and all of this is illusion and all of it is a lie. He does not stab himself and he does not slaughter himself; it is all a lie, all of it is false, all of it is an illusion for the people from the work of the Shayatins and the work of the enemies of Allah who made this falsehood attractive to them. The Shayatins inspire them to do these things and they do what makes the attendees think that this is real, when it is not real. He kills himself, he stabs himself with a dagger, with a knife, with a spear, he cuts off his head and removes it. All of these are myths, all of them are false. Those who do them are wrongdoers, misguiders, and those who mislead others. They must be punished for that. It is obligatory upon the rulers, if they are Muslims, to punish them and to prevent them from this vile path. Some of them call it the Rafi'i path.
The point is: that this path is false. ... They claim that their stabbing themselves with knives or spears or daggers is all false, and their eating glass is all false. They are lying. If he stabbed himself, he would die, and if he ate glass, he would die. But this is from the deceptions of Shaytan and from the tricks of Shaytan by which he plays with people. We ask Allah for safety. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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