Awliya
\r\n Al-Furqan (The Criterion) - Chapter 25: Verses 27-29
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\"And [remember] the Day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands and say, 'woe to me! Would that I had taken a path with the Messenger. Ah, woe tome! Would that I had never taken so-and-so as a friend. He indeed led me astray from the Remembrance after it had come to me and Satan is ever a deserter to man in his hour of need.'"
Many people fall into error thinking that if a particular individual is a Waliy (friend)of Allah, then everything he says and does has to be accepted and believed, even if it contradicts the Book and Sunnah. Therefore, they end up agreeing with this individual and contradicting that which Allah sent His Messenger with! This Messenger with regards to whom Allah made Obligatory upon the whole of creation to believe what he said and obey what he ordered. Allah appointed him as the criterion between His Awliya and His enemies, between the inhabitants of Paradise and the denizens of Hell and between the joyous and the wretched. So whosoever follows him is from the Awliya of Allah, His party who have succeeded and His righteous servants. Whosoever does not follow him are His sinful enemies who have attained loss and anguish. Such people are first led to innovation and misguidance through their agreeing with this individual and opposing the Messenger and finally they end up in disbelief or hypocrisy.
\r\nCompiled From:
\r\n \"The Friends of Allah and The Friends of Shaytaan\" - Ibn Taymiyyah, pp. 154, 155