The recognition of the saints of Allah and loving them has plenty and ample of training effects. The benedictions which are obtained from this acquaintance soothes the heart and soul of every truth-seeking person and calls and attracts him towards harmony and coordination together with faith and piety.

Fundamentally, honouring the saints of Allah and His capable servants and expressing love and affection for them, is as a matter of fact appraising and appreciating the spiritual values and monotheistic aspirations and the cause or promotion and maturity of faith and piety in man's life.

It is necessary that man should, get his relations closer to the saints of Allah and beneficent souls, who have a status, station, and reverence with Allah, and move along, harmoniously with them. Such relations and bonds make man recall and remember those values, facts and principles of which these worthy and decent men were proclaimers and heralds.

Before everything else, for the sake of establishing closer bonds and stronger ties with the pious servants of Allah, their love must take its place in the heart of man, in a way that he may live with their love and die with their love. This is a love of Allah which He has promised his faithful servants.

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ سَيَجْعَلُ لَهُمُ الرَّحْمَٰنُ وُدًّا

Surely (as for) those who believe and do good deeds for t them will Allah bring about love (Surah Maryam, 19:96).

As love is a matter of heart and interior and apparently does not have any visible sign, therefore, one should, for its declaration and expression, make use of the special ways and means which is traditionally accustomed among the intellectuals except where it is prohibited by the Sacred Divine Law.

The various actions such as seeking gift for luck, imploring for help, imploring to intercede, visiting graves, and commemorating the Allah’s Saints all are manifestations of love and affiliation with them.

We have in this book, by referring to Qur'an and Sunnah and on strength of Allah and Prophet's sayings and the character of Sahaba (the companions of Prophet [S]) and Tabiyin (those under their influence) proved the legitimacy and desirability of these activities and manifested this fact that these do not have any aim and object except expressing friendship of those whose friendship has been declared obligatory and necessary by Almighty Allah.

We perceive that every free Muslim who does not care about the doubts and the broad casting of every Dick, Tom and Harry and only keeps the Qur'an and sunnah of the Holy Prophet (S) in his view, will clearly and distinctly follow this fact and will observe and find out that how weak and baseless is the pledge of that small group which considers the honouring of Allah's Saint as idolatry, polytheistic, and controversial to the Qur'an, sunnah and the characters of the pious ancestors.

We hope that this book would be the cause of clarity and illumination of the minds of the Muslim brothers who, under the (negative) effects of the extremists, reasonlessly and baselessly accuse their brothers of going astray and take distance from them.

Likewise, we are desirous that the fact gets clear and illuminated for all and they may know that the friendship of the Saints of Allah and their respect and honour is the only and sole harmony of motion and direction with those guided aright, following whom is the source of salvation.

أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ هَدَى اللَّهُ فَبِهُدَاهُمُ أُقتَدِهْ قُل لَّا أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًا إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرَىٰ لِلْعَالَمِينَ

These are they whom Allah guided, therefore follow their guidance (Al-An’am, 6:90).

Yaqoob Jafary