Salvation belongs to Him, and a chief over all called the Qutb al-Ghawth al-Fard al-Jami'. He said that the use of these names is an innovation for which God has sent down no authority. Rather, all of that is falsehood and misguidance, with no basis in the Book of God, nor in the Sunnah of the Messenger of God, peace be upon him. Nor did any of the early predecessors of the Ummah say it, nor the great, advanced shaykhs who are fit to be emulated. And God Almighty says: "Say: None in the heavens and the earth knows the unseen except Allah." And He says: "Say: I do not tell you that with me are the treasures of Allah, nor do I know the unseen." And He says: "Say: I have no power to benefit myself or to harm myself except what Allah wills. And if I knew the unseen, I would have accumulated much good, and no harm would have touched me." The Wahhabis have adopted this saying of Ibn Taymiyyah. Some Sufis have established ceremonies like the ceremonies of the manifest state, and they say that it is obligatory for the validity of the Qutb al-Batin, just as the Caliph is pledged allegiance to in the manifest state. Ibn al-Jawzi said that all the hadiths about the Abdal are fabricated. These Abdal, whom they claim are forty, and when one of them dies, God replaces him with another man. They have linked these reports about the Qutbs, the Abdal, and others to the reports of al-Khidr, as he knew