Allamah Khalid Kurdi was a very great scholar of Syria who came to spend forty days in the khanqah of Shah Ghulam Ali in Delhi. Shah Ghulam Ali was the khalifah of Mirza Manhar Jane Janan (Rahimahullah). Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddith Dehlwi (Rahimahullah) came to meet Allamah Khalid. The latter wrote a note to him saying that he was not able to meet anyone as he was spending time in the company of his Sheikh. After completing his forty days, he would go and meet him. This is the status of the Sheikh that one should do as he says. Until you do not sacrifice the whole creation, your relatives, businesses and desires, you cannot reach Allah. Make yourself subservient to the wishes of Allah and see what you achieve. Those who are deeply involved in love affairs should spend two years in the khanqah. They should not go outside even to eat pan [betel leaf]. Then see whether you become a saint or not. If a person lives among flowers but in between he also goes to the sewerage area, will not be able to change his nature. If after two months or four months you make an excuse of visiting some relative or your brother has arrived from abroad, you leave the khanqah, then you have reached the centre of sin. You have in actual fact entered the sewerage area and smelt the feces. Your nature will also be spoilt and all your effort will be wasted. May Allah raise the status of my Sheikh. What an amazing person he was! He used to say that one should live with the people of taqwa and hold firmly onto them. He said that wherever Allah revealed any command, He also prescribed an easy method of fulfilling that command. As in the case of taqwa, He has prescribed living with the pious ones.