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[Sultan al-Awliyah], Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, Qaddas’ Allahu Sirrahu, gives good advice when he said:
“Learn this art of farming [the path of spirituality] by its farmers/experts, the friends of Allah [Awliya Allah] and do not think your opinion to be sufficient. Our Prophet, Alayhis Salatu was’ Salam, says,
‘Seek help in every field from an expert in that field.’”
~ The Sublime Revelations, Al-Fathur Rabbani, The Sublime Revelations, pg. 202
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