Irreligious “Dervishes” and Their Claims

Question

When the Prophet ﷺ was honoured with the vision of the Lord of the Worlds on the Night of Mi‘raj, how many words did Allah ﷻ speak to His beloved ﷺ at that time, and how many of them are outward (zahir) and how many inward (batin)? Is any fixed number of them, and their division into outward and inward, established by any hadith, any perfect spiritual guide, or the books of tasawwuf?

Answer

Conversation and debate with such dervishes is useless — indeed, harmful. Such people have no share in religion. Were there an Islamic government, such people would be given the severest punishment. Whoever does not accept the Qur’an, the hadith and the tafsir is outside Islam and deserving of the Fire.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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