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One should not express anything contrary to their opinion, but should rather try to make
that which was unveiled to him consonant with those meanings which the learned Ulema
had understood. Any meaning that becomes disclosed to the inner heart and which is
contrary to the meanings understood by them is not at all reliable or acceptable and
absolutely null and void. It is a fact that every perverted one wished to prove the
correctness of his views from the Quran and Hadeeth alone.
“He misleads many thereby and guides many thereby.”(lIv 26)
And this fact, that the meanings understood by these learned men alone is correct, is so
because they have understood these meanings from the sayings of the Sahabah and the
Tab’ien, (May Allah be pleased with them all). They have derived them from the Light of
the Stars of Guidance. Hence eternal salvation and everlasting well-being is their lot and
their destiny.
“La, they are Allah’s party. Verily Allah’s party is the successfiul ones. (LVIIIv 22)
Just because some Ulema, in spite of being of sound belief, show some faults in masaail
and are guilty of some sinful lapses in their deeds, it is absolute injustice to degrade them
and turn them away from the entire class of Ulema, or to ridicule all of them. In fact to
reject them means rejection of most of the essentials of deen, because these people are the
ones who show the way of the essentials of deen and they are the ones who discriminate
between right and wrong.
“But for the light emanating from them we would not have been guided aright, and but
for their discriminating between right and wrong we would have gone astray. They are
the people who spent their efforts in elevating the firm deen and guide many to the
straight path. Whosoever follows them will be successfi4l and reach salvation and
whosoever opposes them is astray, leading others astray.” (Vol. 1 Chapter 5 Maktoob p
286)
The Shaikh says in another place:
“You should know that, if the words of the sufis are not in accordance with Shari at, then
it is not acceptable at all, so how can it be proof and good to follow? Only the words of
the Ulema of the Sunnah are good as proof and to follow. Those words of the sufis which
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