and most of them went so far as to declare the Mariṣīs unbelievers or to pronounce them deviant. Once it is understood that the very doctrine now circulating among these latter-day proponents is nothing other than the creed of the Mariṣīs, guidance becomes evident to anyone whom Allah wills to guide. There is no power and no might except through Allah.

This fatwa is not the place for an exhaustive discussion; we shall merely point to the fundamental issues, and the intelligent reader may proceed and examine for himself.

[Some works devoted to conveying the creed of the early generations]:
The statements of the Salaf on this matter are preserved in many books, of which we can cite here only a few—for example, Kitāb as-Sunan by al-Lālikāʾī and al-Ibāna.