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Fatwa CenterSufi 'Shaykh' claims to know faith of others
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Once in our local area a sheikh (Allamah) has came, every people of our local area took bayah upon his hand, he embraced with most of the peoples and kept his hand upon the heart of the peoples to testify the heart feeling whether their heart ( Qalb) actually remembering allah or not. He selected 10 (their heart or Qalb mostly remebers allah) out of 23, i.e-- He tested 23 peoples by keeping his hand on the heart and he selected only 10 people out of 23. Is it possible to understand the heart feeling by keeping the hand to testify as mentioned above according to islamic shariah, pls clarify me....
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His Slave and Messenger.
In addition, we have to warn that such a Bay'ah (pledge) taken by the Sufi Shaykhs and others like them, such as their followers, has no basis in Islam. Shaykh Ibn Baaz 
said: “I do not know of any basis for the Bay'ah that the Sufis take from each other, and this may cause problems, as the person who gives his Bay'ah may believe that he is obliged to obey the one who has taken his Bay'ah in everything … and I do not know in the Sharee'ah of any Bay'ah other than the pledge to obey the rulers and follow the Quran and the Sunnah.”
For more benefit, please refer to Fatwa 83352.
Allaah Knows best.
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