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'Abid ul Haramayn Hadhrat Fudhayl ibn 'Iyadh Rahimahullah said,
"One who sits in the company of a Heretical Innovator (mubtadi') has not been given wisdom."
(Tazkirat ul Huffaadh pg 226)
Hadhrat Junayd al-Baghdadi Rahimahullah said:
"All avenues to obtaining the pleasure of Allah (wusul) that were rationally possible, have been closed to the creation except following the Aathaar (narrations) of Rasulullah (Sallalahu alyhi wa Sallam). Without following Rasulullah no one can gain closeness (Qurb) of Allah and the one who claims to have done so, is a liar"
(Madarij pg464 vol 1)
Hadhrat Zunnoon al- Misri Rahimahullah said:
"The sign of Haq Ta'ala's love is that His Habib (most beloved - Sallalahu alyhi wa Sallam) be followed in manners and acts and in every order and practice (Sunun - pl. of Sunnah)
(Risaalat ul Qasheeriyah pg.9)
Hadhrat Abu Yazeed al-Bistaami Rahimahullah said:
"For thirty years I made exertions (Mujahidaat - for the purification of self) but I found no exertion greater than that of gaining and acting upon Knowledge.
And "Acting upon knowledge" (ittiba' ul 'ilm) is the name of acting upon only the Sunnah"
Once an old man came into Bistaam, people rumored that he was a Waliullah. Abu Yazeed said to his friend, "Let us visit the Sheikh". When Abu Yazeed & his friend reached the Masjid, they saw the Sheikh spit towards the Qiblah. Abu Yazeed came back without greeting him and said, "This man does not act upon one manner from among the manners of Rasulullah (Sallalahu alyhi wa Sallam), how can he be a Waliullah".
Imaam Shaatibi (Rahimahullah) said that this statement of Abu Yazeed Rahimahullah is an "Asl ul Adheem" (Great rule). One who abandons the Sunnah of Rasulullah, does not get the of Wilaayah of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
(al-'Itisaam)
Hadhrat Ibraaheem Khwaas Rahimahullah:
Someone asked him' "What does 'Aafiyah (well-being) lie in?"
He said:
دين بلا بدعة وعمل بلا آفة وقلب بلا شغل ونفس بلا شهوة
"Deen without newly invented matters, actions without calamities, a heart unengaged (with Ghayrullah), and an inner self (nafs) unovercome by worldly desires."
(Sunnah wal Bid'ah)
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