The Aims of Sufi Shaykhs in Their Preaching

In the vast majority of cases, under the banner of calling people to Islam, these people pursue the following aims:

1- Subjugating ordinary people and using them to serve their own interests, claiming that they are Allah’s people and His elect. Everyone must therefore submit to them and obey their every command, whatever the cost. Otherwise, they are threatened with being stripped of their faith and meeting an evil end.

To avert this grave danger, ordinary Muslims submit to them excessively, to the point of worshipping them. This is one of their conceptions of calling people to Islam. What do you think, dear reader?

From this understanding follows a well-known Sufi maxim:

The disciple must be before the shaykh like a corpse in the hands of the one washing it, deprived of freedom and choice, devoid of will or movement—even the movement of