@Brother user invalid : Brother,I share all my other Brothers in their enthusiastic approval of the great job you did; It was indeed commendable,and we shall try to follow you.May Allah make your spiritual journey easy for you. Brother sulook is a very tricky path,full of unexpected and unforeseen events,one may avoid them by following a few 'hints' from our Akabir. Our Akabir tells us,that every thing which happens to a salik must 'only' be discussed with his 'Shaikh',and no one else,not even a 'Pir bhai',that is ,another Mureed of your own shaikh.It is not necessary that you hide 'big' things and disclose apparently small ones.....you must discuss absolutely nothing with others,relating to sulook,except your Shaikh....until you reach a stage where you gain the trust of your shaikh that you will not speak out,but by then one is mature enough to know that what happens between an Abd and his Rabb is strictly confidential. Your intentions are absolutely pure,Alhamdolillah,I know you just wanted to share some useful information with our brothers and sisters,but irrespective of how useful in reality it proves (as in sulook,every one has a different experience),it clearly violates the rules of the game.To keep silent about your personal experiences is the 'Rule of thumb' in sulook. And then who can be sure about his Nafs,not taking pleasure and pride from all the attention,praises,congrates etc which such 'exposures' invariably brings with it ? May be that is the main reason why our Akabir discouraged it. I expect when you talk to your Shaikh,and tell him you posted it on the net,he will say the same thing which I am telling you.It really does not matter that your identity is not known to anybody.Your own Nafs knows your true identity,and might be feeling very good at the moment,about every word of this thread,except this naseeha from a humble faqeer,who unfortunately have 'a huge nafs'....and has gained some experience during unsuccessfully dealing with it. Rasollullah sallallho alaihe wa sallam tells us to ' like for your Muslim brother what you like for yourself'.....hence these few lines ! I hope you don,t mind it.I thought for a while whether I should write it,because I am scared of the expected criticism coming my way in the next few letters,but undoubtedly " Din is naseeha". If you don,t point out things to me,or me to you,then we will both suffer in the long run. I pray for you that may Allah swt keep you safe from the unwanted consequences of all this.! In the end I may also suggest,that the title of the thread may be taken by some jahil like me as a claim to Wilayat,(which I pray for you that you get sooner than letter),but may be it was good to change the title. Please note,every word of this post is written with extreme ikhlas,otherwise writing just a few more praises or not writing any thing at all, was the easiest thing for me to do !