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What is the meaning of inner and spiritual effusions, and do they constitute major shirk? How can the statement in the book "Al-Muhannad 'ala Al-Mufannad" be explained, which affirms the validity of receiving inner effusions from the breasts and graves of great personages, and benefiting from the spirituality of revered sheikhs "in the manner known among their people and elite, not in what is common among the masses"?

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It is a false Sufi term meaning the obtainment of effulgence and aid from the dead. It is considered a pagan phenomenon and a path to polytheism (shirk) with Allah, as some Sufi groups, such as the Deobandis, believe in the permissibility of seeking effulgence from the occupants of graves, claiming that this is established among the "masters of Sufi realities." Hanafi scholars have affirmed that the phenomenon of obtaining effulgence from graves is a legacy of pagan Greek philosophers and must be guarded against to preserve monotheism (Tawhid).

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