Reliability of Anwar al-Atqiya and ‘Attar’s Sayings

Question

(1) Anwar al-Atqiya — the translation by the respected Hafiz Barakatullah Farangi Mahalli of Hazrat Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s Tadhkirat al-Awliya — is this book reliable? (2) Was the author of this book a wali (a friend of Allah)? Is he counted among the foremost of the awliya’? (3) Are his sayings reliable and trustworthy (thiqa), such that they may be relied and depended upon? (4) What is the ruling on someone who considers this book futile and unreliable? (5)

Answer

(1) I have not seen this book, so I cannot say anything. (2) Hazrat Farid al-Din ‘Attar is counted among the well-known awliya’. (3) His word carries particular weight in the rectification of the inward (islah al-batin) and in [matters of] spiritual gnosis, and his guidance sheds light; thus his Pand-nama (“The Book of Counsel”)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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