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Very true akhi

salamu `alaykum

That may or may not be true. Unfortunately, many of us have limited the science of tasawwuf to a minimal goal of being merely good and pious Muslims. This is a praiseworthy goal for some, but not the ultimate goal - rather not a goal at all but a means to the true goal: Allah.

Even wilaya has levels. Every Muslim, by taking the shahada, is a wali of Allah. Thus, when the scholars state that "doing such and such will make you a wali" it does not necessitate that it means the elect of the elect, or that one becomes an `arif.

Tabligh is a blessing, but Tabligh itself is not enough nor sufficient to bring about the ultimate state the science of tasawwuf aims for, a very very high and unimaginable state to most of us.

Wasalam
Salman