The Murid Observes the Thoughts of the Shaykh
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Imam Mahmud ibn ‘Ali al-Qashani
(q.s.) wrote, in Miswbah
al-Hidayah wa Miftah al-Kifayah, “The Lamp of Right Guidance & the Key
to What is Sufficient”, that the murid
should observe the thoughts of his shaykh. The murid
is not allowed to undertake anything, which rejects the thoughts of one’s shaykh.
We should not consider them to be of little importance, because we rely
on the kindness, the perfect clemency, the friendliness and the forgiveness of
our shaykh. What enters the consciousness of shuyukh because of rejection or
acceptance has a very strong influence on the person of the disciple.
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