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[quote]Islam tells us that the angels are the source through which Allah has given his guidance/scriptures to his messengers. It means that they act as a link between humans and GOD as far as guidance/wahee is concerned.

But tasawaff has its own meaning/sources of guidance from GOD (like kashf etc) which they achieve after establishing their relation according to their beliefs (most perdominently Wahdat-ul-wajood) making them independent of any source. And then based on their relation, the next step is categorisation like in Islam we do (although the criteria is different).

SO what I meant was that the sources plus the means of guidance in tasawaff are not same as that of Islam. Also regarding prophets they categorise the guidance from GOD in two broad categories ; one obtained by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH through angels which is just to obtain Jannah and goodness of the people and the second one which is knowing the realities of the actual reality. Now the second concept raises many questions: like what’s the source, the criteria on which the guidance is obtained etc . which eventually leads to the categorisation on some self-made criteria developed for this purpose.

SO by having beliefs of Angels we are basically rejecting all the other ways of guidance from GOD (except for some signals in shape of good dreams which are of personal nature).[/quote]

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