Islams Reformers

Sharî’at, is called Karâmat. The devil cannot delude these people.
His creating without a cause the wishes of those sinners and
disbelievers who have subjected themselves to hunger and various
other mortifications and thus subdued their nafs into a state
wherein it cannot deceive their heart any more, is called Istidrâj
or Sihr (magic). If a person performing extraordinary events
without causes, e.g. informing about the places of lost property or
about future events or communing with genies, is at the same time
a person who leads a life of obedience to the Sharî’at, it will be
concluded that he is a Walî. If otherwise, it will be understood that
he is a disbeliever and that he has purified and polished his nafs.
His heart has not been purged from love of creatures and his nafs
has not desisted from its enmity against Allâhu ta’âlâ. The devil
never leaves such people alone.
A Muslim who has a wish to attain, applies Allâhu ta’âlâ’s law
of causation. He follows the procedure that will cause the creation
of his wish. For instance, a person who wants to earn money goes
into a business such as arts and trade. He who is hungry eats
something. He who becomes ill runs to a doctor and takes
medicine. He who wants to learn his religion reads books written
by scholars of Ahl as-sunna. Using a medicine prescribed by an
uneducated person may bring about death instead of restoring
health. By the same token, if a person reads a heretical and
fallacious book written by a non-Sunnite, miscreant and lâmadhhabî
person, his îmân will become blurred. Allâhu ta’âlâ has
preordained that saying prayers should be a means for attaining
one’s worldly needs as well as one’s wishes pertaining to the
Hereafter. Yet the acceptability of a prayer requires one’s being a
Sunnite and devoted Muslim, that is, endeavouring to attain
Allâhu ta’âlâ’s love. And this, in its turn, depends on not earning
one’s living by working on a way that is harâm or by infringing
others’ rights, and on invoking Allâhu ta’âlâ alone. A person who
cannot fulfil these conditions asks a person who fulfils them, i.e. a
Walî, to invoke a blessing on him. The Awliyâ will hear after
death, too. They will ask a blessing on those people who visit their
graves and beg them.
Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wa sallam’ stated, “When you
get confused in your problems, ask people in graves to help
you!” Shaikh-ul-islâm Ahmed ibni Kemâl explains this hadîth-isherîf
in his book Hadîs-i erba’în tercemesi. It is also explained in
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