Some excerpts from Shariat and Tariqat from the chapter on the necessary conditions to be a shaikh: Shaikh Junaid Baghdadi says, Whoever has not memorized the Quran and written ahadith cannot be followed in tasawwuf because this path and knowledge of ours is mutually intertwined with the Quran and Sunnah. Another one of his sayings is, “Any tariqat which opposes the Shari’ah is kufr.” Starts from page 120. http://madania.org/index.php?option=...ions&Itemid=52