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Sister Umm Zaid has a nice piece about tariqa, shaikh’s, bayat, and the potential pride of the murid. 

Please take a look here:

Another teacher and I discussed this once, and he said, “Remember, the distance from a murid to maridh is very short.” In other words, to be a murid is not all that different from being maridh, a sick person in need of treatment, a patient. And who takes pride in illness?

So students should probably not look upon their bay’ah with pride, for pride is a sickness of the heart. Nor should they brag about it, for riya’, or showing off, is a sickness of the heart. Sheikh Abd al Khaliq al Shabrawi says, in reference to riya’, “As for the seeker of the path to the Real, he must strive to lower his rank in the hearts of others.”

UZ provides a good link in there to our Master, Shaikh Abd al Qadir Jilani (rad):

Your asceticism [zuhd] is part of your facade. Your religion [din] is part of your facade. Inwardly, you are a mess. It is like whitewash on the water closet, i.e. the toilet, or a lock on the garbage can. Since this is how you are, Satan has set up camp in your heart and made it a place for him to live in.