Were The Sufi Saints And Scholars Lying?
The sufi scholars you named above were not lying. Ghamidi sahab never claimed that they were lying either. Such experiences are indeed possible, however, they have nothing to do with the religion of God. Once someone approaches any knowledge through wrong doors, they can build a perception which then leads to wrong conclusions. Very concisely, scholars of tassawuf had accepted the idealistic philosophical ideas and they approached the Quran with such preconceived notions. In the following old and rare video Ghamidi sahab explains how this behavior causes one to err. https://youtu.be/7LXzFHSv9R4