However...

However, when we turn to the Holy Qur’an for guidance on this issue, we are enlightened that Allah has declared His “Friends” (Aulia) as a go-between arrangement to lead his servants to purification, fruition of their virtues and ultimate emancipation.

This is the basic principle even of all professional training as well as general education that the experienced and the experts impart on the job training (OJT) to the novice who gradually and with dedicated efforts acquire skills and learn and one day become experts themselves. The spiritual bond with Allah is not a man-made ‘channel’. It is beyond man’s capacity to bring about such arrangements. This is Allah’s divine Will that His Friends are inevitable for…