Here's a mini story that you should ponder over.
Muwaffaq al-Din Abu Muhammad ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi said: Al-Suhrawardi said: I had decided to read something of the science of theology, and I was hesitant whether to read Al-Irshad by Imam al-Haramayn, or Nihayat al-Iqdam by al-Shahrastani, or the book of his Sheikh. So I went with my uncle Abu al-Najib, and he was praying next to Sheikh Abdul Qadir. He said: Sheikh Abdul Qadir turned to me and said: O Omar, this is not from the provisions of the grave, this is not from the provisions of the grave. So I went back from that, and he was informed that the Sheikh had revealed to him what was in his heart. And he forbade him from the speech that Al-Qushayri and the like were attributed to him.
(The Book of Straightforwardness by Ibn Tayimiyyah pg 87)
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