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**SAUNDERSAN** · 02-13-2012, 11:40 PM

"The point is that Allaah - the One free from all imperfections, the Most High - has prohibited
following all those who possess such attributes. So it is absolutely essential that a person
considers whether such attributes are found in his shaykh, or the person who's example he
follows, or the person that he obeys. If they are, then he should distance himself from such a
person. However, if it is found that the person is, in most cases, pre-occupied with the dhikr
of Allaah and with following the Sunnah, and his affairs do not exceed the limits, but rather
he is judicious and resolute in his affairs, then he should cling to him very firmly."

Indeed this is the same criterion of a shaykh and the concept of Shaykh-Mureed relationship that the Deobandi Mashaikh have that Ibn Qayyim is saying above. So, our kind of Peeri-Mureedi is also advocated by Imam Ibn Qayyim RA.

02-13-2012, 11:40 PM	#2
SAUNDERSAN Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 371 Senior Member	"The point is that Allaah - the One free from all imperfections, the Most High - has prohibited following all those who possess such attributes. So it is absolutely essential that a person considers whether such attributes are found in his shaykh, or the person who's example he follows, or the person that he obeys. If they are, then he should distance himself from such a person. However, if it is found that the person is, in most cases, pre-occupied with the dhikr of Allaah and with following the Sunnah, and his affairs do not exceed the limits, but rather he is judicious and resolute in his affairs, then he should cling to him very firmly." Indeed this is the same criterion of a shaykh and the concept of Shaykh-Mureed relationship that the Deobandi Mashaikh have that Ibn Qayyim is saying above. So, our kind of Peeri-Mureedi is also advocated by Imam Ibn Qayyim RA.
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