Hakikat Kitabevi Publications No: 10 answer to an enemy of islam

‘Committing sins leads one to
disbelief.’ Hadrat Abû Sa’id Abu ’l-khair (d. 440/1049), one of the
great Awliyâ’, was asked, ‘So and so walks on the surface of
water. What would you say about that?’ ‘It is worthless. A duck
can float on water, too,’ he said. When asked, ‘So and so flies in
the air?’ he said, ‘A fly flies, too. He is as valuable as a fly.’ When
he was asked, ‘So and so goes from one city to another
instantaneously?’ he said, ‘The Devil also goes from the east to
the west in a flash. Such things are worthless in our religion. A
manly person lives among the people and goes shopping and gets
married, yet he does not forget Allâhu ta’âlâ even for a moment.’
Hadrat Abû ’Alî ar-Rodbârî (d. in Egypt in 321/933), one of the
great Awliyâ’ and a disciple of al-Junaid al-Baghdâdî, was asked,
‘A man with religious duties who listens to musical instruments
[or makes friends with na-mahrâm girls and women or allows his
wife and daughters to go out without covering themselves as
prescribed by Islam] and who says that his heart is pure and that
the heart is important, what would you say about him?’ ‘His
destination is Hell,’ he said. Abû Sulaimân ad-Dârânî, who
settled in a village called Darya of Damascus and died there in
205/820, said, ‘First I compare my thoughts and intentions with
the Book and the Sunna. I then say and do the ones which are
compatible with these two just documents.’ The hadîth ash-sherîf
declares, 
‘The men of bid’a will go to Hell’; ‘The Devil makes a
person worship very much who has made up a bid’a and commits
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it. It makes him weep a lot,’ and ‘Allâhu ta’âlâ does not accept the
fast, salât, hajj, ’umra, jihâd and fard or supererogatory worship
of a person who commits bid’a. Such a person goes out of Islam
easily.’
[1]
Shaikh Ibn Abî Bakr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-
Andulusî, who lived in Egypt and died in 734/1334, said in his
book