There must be the guide, it is the guide that takes his hands to the right path, he should be respectful to him at this, the same politeness that the companions used to have with the prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him).
Although Allah chose our sir Moses as a prophet and revealed His message to him, when Allah wanted him to reach perfection and degrees of perfect men, He saw that his soul was still alive, He ordered him to go to a righteous man to seek perfection.
I'll mention the story in brief:
After Allah granted Moses and his people and they went out of Egypt and He destroyed the pharaoh and his soldiers, they were very happy by the favor of Allah and they met to thank Allah, our sir Moses numerated the grants of Allah over him and his people, he mentioned a lot of them even their eyes were always teary. When Moses finished, they asked him: "Oh Moses, is there anyone who has more knowledge than you?" He said: "No." Allah expostulated him at once because Allah likes his slaves to be modest to Him, He said to all of us in the noble Koran:
"Above every knowledgeable one, there is one who is even more knowledgeable." (Surat Yusof, verse 76)
Never feel arrogance or that you not need the guide in the way of these devoted people even if you studied so much, got much knowledge, wrote lots of books and have lots of audiences, you surely need sheikh, conductor and the knowledgeable applying guide who directs you because Allah said to His beloved (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) whom He taught things that He never taught anyone else:
"And say, "My Lord, increase my knowledge." (Surat Taha, verse 114)
Although Allah taught him all types of knowledge and gave him knowledge of past, present and future, He also asks him to keep seeking more knowledge and never stop doing that.
There is no end to seeking knowledge and no end to studying it from birth to death.
So, Allah revealed to Moses and expostulated him: "How you say that while there is on earth someone who has more knowledge than you." He was astonished and asked: "Who's he? Oh my Lord, take me to him." Allah says:
"One of our servants, whom we blessed with mercy, and bestowed upon him from our own knowledge." (Surat Al-Kahf, verse 65)
"Go to Al-Khedr." He asked: "Where is he Oh my Lord?" He said: "You find him at the meeting of the two seas, take your servant, a roasted fish and food in a basket, when the fish jump into water, this is his place." Our sir Moses prepared what Allah asked him, he traveled with his servant, the basket with the fish and the food, he ordered his servant to watch the fish and tell him if he sees it moving, Moses vowed to walk to the servant (Al-Khedr) hundred years to learn from him as Allah says:
"I will not rest until I reach the point where the two seas meet, no matter how long it takes."
(Surat Al-Kahf, verse 60)
That who seeks knowledge shouldn’t stop or feel bored or tired, he should ask for more, whatever Allah taught him he always asks for more knowledge from Allah as the prophet said:
"Two crapulous never feel satiated; a knowledge seeker and life seeker."
Moses and his servant walked, when they reached the rock where they were to meet the servant, they were tired and they slept, the servant came and did ablution, the water (drizzle or spray) reached the fish, it got back to life and it went into the sea, then the servant went, Moses and his servant woke up and continued traveling, they felt tired and hungry and wanted to eat, Moses said to his servant:
"Let us have lunch. All this traveling has thoroughly exhausted us."
(Surat Al-Kahf, verse 63)
The servant looked in the basket but he didn’t find the fish, he remembered and they went back, when they reached the rock, they saw Al-Khedr asleep, Al-Khedr said: "You are Moses of Bani-Israel?" He said: "Yes, who told you about me?" He said: "That who sent you to me." As Allah says:
"Moses said to him,
"Can I follow you, so that you may teach me some of the knowledge and the guidance bestowed upon you? He said, "You cannot stand to be with me. How can you stand that which you do not comprehend?"
(Surat Al-Kahf, verses 66, 67, 68)
At that moment, a bird came down and drank from the sea, Al-Khedr said:
"Oh Moses, you have knowledge from Allah that I don’t know, I have knowledge from Allah that you don’t know, both my knowledge and yours, according to the knowledge of Allah, is like what that bird drank from this sea."
I.e. the drop, that the bird took from the sea, and so how much knowledge do all people have from Allah's knowledge, secrets and inspirations? All the knowledge of people from the beginning of this life to its end according to the knowledge of Allah doesn’t even equal an atom, because the knowledge of Allah never to be counted or known as He is The All-Knowing and The All-wise.
Moses asked the good servant to follow him and to teach him from the guidance of Allah with him although Moses is the prophet of Allah, His interlocutor and one of the greatest apostles, the servant explained to him that they are higher conditions, it is not easy for him to understand or be patient when he sees them although he knows about Sharia because he doesn’t know their secrets, but Moses promised to be patient, the servant stipulated that he shouldn’t ask him about anything until he himself tells him about it first.
They are the manners and the commandments between the teacher and the learner, between the guide and the pupil between the chastening sheikh and his student.
Allah teaches us that the scholar of legislation should learn from the scholar of fact and the scholar of fact should also benefit from the scholar of legislation.
The true scholar is that who follows Sharia externally and gets knowledge and facts from lights of Allah internally until he becomes as Allah says:
"He bestows wisdom upon whomever He chooses, and whoever attains wisdom, has attained a great bounty." (Surat Al-Bakarah, verse 269)
Moses walked with the servant and the journey of the learned prophet and the teaching servant started, Allah mentioned it in His noble book to be as a guide and a way to us.
After this oh brothers, whoever scorn or disapprove to look for the conserving sheikh and guiding teacher however knowledge or deeds he has?
I'll explain it in more details oh brothers and readers, the need to conserving sheikh in the way of Sufis, and the guide who clarifies the way of chastening the soul and exposing what is hidden in it is essential because no one can chasten his soul by himself.
There should be the guide (sheikh, teacher, conserver), lets express this by modern terms, there should be the doctor, experienced doctor and expert in medicine graduated from the faculty of:
"Muhammad - the messenger of GOD - and those with him." (Surat Al-Fat'h, verse 29)
He should have certified rays by:
"Say, "This is my path: I invite to GOD, on the basis of a clear proof, and so do those who follow me." (Surat Yusof, verse 108)
He examines me by his rays, shows me my faults and gives me medicine from the pharmacy of Koran and the drug-store of the prophet, they are drug stores but I not to know my illness or the prescription, there should be an experienced licensee adviser as mentioned by Allah:
"The Most Gracious; ask about Him those who are well founded in knowledge."
(Surat Al-Furkan, verse 59)
He knows my case and gives me the suitable medicine as the apostle of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) used to do with his companions, for example:
Someone asks him for preach, he said to him: "Never get upset." He said to another one: "Never tell lies." He puts his hand on the chest of a third one and supplicates for him, he said to a fourth one: "Recite the Koran a little louder." He orders a fifth one to recite the Koran a little quieter, a sixth one asks him to be with him in paradise, he supplicates for him and delights him, he orders a seventh one to prostrate a lot as this is to chasten his soul, he orders an eighth one to eat legal food, he orders a ninth one to tell the truth.
Another one asks him to give him a part of Koran to recite (as purvey), he tells him not to finish it in less than three days, he tells another one to finish it in a week and he advises another one not to be interested in numbering the verses.
He takes from someone all his wealth as charity because he sees him ready for this, he tells another that he should only give one third and that one third is much.
A poor man asks for money and he asks people to give him and he asks another one to buy an axe and collect wood to sell and comes to him after a week to see what he did.
Someone asks him to let him fast more days, he tells him to fast only three days a month and he tells another one to fast day after day.
Enough examples?
By Allah, if we numerate different prophetic prescriptions and numerous recipes of Mohammed and most of them are apparently similar but they are internally different, he gives everyone who asks him what suits his spiritual power and the organs of his body, we couldn’t mention all these examples.
So, we assure and say: "Never pay attention to those who oppose the way of Allah." The experienced guide should have the rays of insight and permission from luminous prophet (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), he doesn’t help followers to reach Allah's favor by himself but by Allah's bounties and His support he guides and promotes people to his Lord because he took permission and signs of the way from his Lord as Allah says:
"Inviting to GOD, in accordance with His will, and a guiding beacon." (Surat Al-Ahzab, verse 46)
So, we say if the doctor hasn’t got permission from the beloved (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him), he may give me a thousand unit antibiotic while I only need a two hundred unit one. He must give me the suitable dose or he ruins me and leads me to death, then he is not the spiritual doctor who can help me to chasten my soul.
He is a luminous doctor and spiritual wise man educated by a previous doctor. Oh you who is arrogant to know the tracks of the way by an experienced guide, you should know that this experienced guide only knew the way and followed it by a previous guide and previous smart expert, and so they follow one another to the greatest expert (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him).
Can anyone learn medicine only from books? Without working in practical hospital? Or being taught by a doctor? He should apply this knowledge in a hospital, he should watch doctors and they teach and direct him that he should perform this surgery by this way and the other one so and so, and so in everything. If this is the medicine of bodies, what you think of the medicine of hearts? If the medicine of bodies needs practice and experience, then the medicine of hearts needs more and more, as the righteous man Ibn Al-Banna Assarkasty said:
"These people are traveling to Allah. They needed in their way to a guide, who knows when to go and when to rest. He went through this way and came back to tell people what he learned."
So, I do need learned applying experienced permitted smart guide or doctor, if I go to the applying knowledgeable guide, he will teach me and take my hands.
