“Kashf (visions) and Karamah (wondrous acts) are not essential to Tasawwuf though charlatans claim such gifts as Sufism, in order to gain personal advantage in business, or win cases in the courts of law. Nor is Sufism in any way involved in hocus pocus and talisman trading. Sufism has also nothing to do with prostration on tombs or the lighting of lamps on them. To predict future is not Sufism either, nor is calling the Aulia (Saints) in absentia (with the belief that they hear such a call), nor the belief that they have the power to deliver mankind from its sufferings. No Tawajjuh (spiritual attention) of a mentor can edify and enlighten a disciple and direct him toward the Straight Path without his own efforts and his own adherence to the Prophet’s Sunnah. Claims for the veracity of Kashf and Ilham are not Sufism, nor are taken to be essentials of Sufism, whereas in fact they are its opposite!”
Shaykh Allah Yar Khan
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