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"Around 1350 years ago from now, the truthful and attested [Messenger of Allah] (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said regarding his ummah:

لتتبعن سنن من كان قبلكم شبرا بشبر وذراعا بذراع الخ

“You will surely follow the ways of those who were before you [i.e. the Jews and Christians], hand span for hand span, arms length for arms length.” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated it from Abu Sa’id, Allah be pleased with him)...

Anyhow, Allah’s Messenger (Allah bless him and grant him peace) did not even like such words being said with respect to his blessed personality in which was even a trace of excess. Rather, with respect to this, he put a full stop. But it is the will of Allah that his ummati (follower) and claimants to his love break the limits that he has determined, and openly servants [of Allah] call him knower of the ghayb, and just like the Christians, they believe that this extremism and excess is a cause for gaining the pleasure of Allah’s Messenger (Allah bless him and grant him peace) and special proximity to him. Regarding these prisoners of ignorance and these hostages of misguidance, ‘Allamah ‘Ali al-Qari (upon him the mercy of the Creator) wrote:

وَلا رَيْبَ أَنَّ الْحَامِلَ لِهَؤُلاءِ عَلَى الْغِلُوِّ إِنَّمَا هُوَ اعْتِقَادُهُمْ أَنَّهُ يُكَفِّرُ عَنْهُمْ سَيِّئَاتَهُمْ وَيُدْخِلُهُمُ الْجَنَّةَ وَكُلَّمَا غَلُوا وَزَادُوا غُلُوًّا فِيهِ كَانُوا أَقْرَبَ إِلَيْهِ وَأَخَصَّ بِهِ ، فَهُمْ أَعْصَى النَّاسِ لأَمْرِهِ ، وَأَشَدُّهُمْ مُخَالَفَةً لِسُنَّتِهِ وَهَؤُلاءِ فِيهِمْ شَبَهٌ ظَاهِرٌ مِنَ النَّصَارَى الَّذِينَ غَلُوا فِي الْمَسِيحِ أَعْظَمَ الْغُلُوِّ ، وَخَالَفُوا شَرْعَهُ وَدِينَهُ أَعْظَمَ الْمُخَالَفَةِ

“There is no doubt that the motivation for these [people] towards extremism is only their belief that it will atone for them their sins and will admit them into the Garden, and [their belief that] every time they exceed bounds and increase in extremism therein, they come closer to him and become more special to him. They are the most disobedient of people to his command, and the strongest of them in opposing his Sunnah, and there is a manifest resemblance in them with the Christians who exceeded bounds with respect to the Messiah, the greatest extremism, and they opposed his law and his religion, the greatest opposition.” (al-Mawdu‘at al-Kabir, pp. 119-20) [4]

Anyhow, since this poison of the belief in ‘ilm al-ghayb is mixed with the milk of love before being put down the throat of the ummah, it is more dangerous than all those deviant beliefs which have not been branded with love and respect, and thus is in need of the attention [of the scholars]. Furthermore, for its preservation, the preservers of bid‘ah and the callers to misguidance, have written countless treatises making this [fitnah] even darker. Till now, from my experience, those treatises which have been completed by these people will not be less than fifty or sixty. On the other hand, the scholars of Ahl al-Sunnah believing that this opinion is clearly false gave little attention to it, and even if they wrote anything they limited themselves to the necessary amount, and they never intended to encompass all its sides and perspectives; because of which the misguidance of the common people was given more strength.

Now, under instructions from one of the senior scholars of this ummah [Mawlana Sayyid Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri], this worthless one has lifted his pen in order to verify this matter. The Real Almighty is asked to give accordance in being balanced and seeking truth, and to save [me] from partiality and fanaticism. Verily, He is Able over all things, and Worthy of giving response. O Allah! Show us the truth as truth and grant us adherence to it, and falsehood as falsehood and grant us avoidance of it. Amin."