Bear in mind im just giving you information, i am in no way trying to change ur beliefs.
Yaar most people ask for Hadith and Quranic reference and I can give those to prove the validity of Aulia-Karam.
No Peer will make u mureed. until you go and insist on it again and again, and then also if he sees something inside you, then he will make u his mureed.
The peer who is elevated to the status of murshid is done by ALLAH only and thus only he is given enough powers, not ever peer can be murshid. This means he is very close to ALLAH thats why he is made murshid and thats why he is definitely closer to ALLAH than us.
But definitely if the peer who is murshid makes a mistake, then his mureeds are also stuck with it, but this is ALLAH's wisdom that HE doesnt choose weak persons as peers and then as murshid so the humanity doesnt suffer because of him instead he invokes the word of ALLAH in them.
I can give a very simple example for dead people:
Hazrat Muhammad (SAW) has asked us to send salam on graves when entering graveyard, "asslam o alikum warakhmatullah-a-wa-barakatuhu aye ehlal kaboor"
So why should we send salam to a grave with nobody inside it ? i hope u get my point. I can give more examples if you want.
1 - You can't change my beliefs even if you'd try to. People have tried but I guess I'm not "GUIDED" yet.
2 - I never questioned validity of Awlia-e-Karaam.
3 - Peeri-Mureedi doesn't make sense to me. Period.
4- And that "PEER" tells you that he's closer to Allah than you? WOW, I'd like to see that PEER who claims he's better than you and he knows it. Last time I checked, this "Betterness" is b'w that PEER and ALLAH SWT.. not you and him.
5 - "PEER" makes a mistake and his 100's of mureed gets punished? defeats the purpose of one of Allah's great names (AL-Hakam - The JUDGE or *[FONT=Verdana,Arial]AL-'ADL * [FONT=Verdana,Arial]The Just, The Equitable) - Naodubillah
6 - meaning of sending "SALAM" to people in grave is to send them PEACE and mercy of ALLAH SWT to them. I never questioned and have any issues with people making DUA for DEAD... Asking the "DEAD" to make dua is the issue. BODY is dead, consciousness is alive. They can hear you (probably), see you, but can't do anything for you... "TIME IS UP" for them to do anything for you or even for themselves. They've done their job in this world.
It seems we may be talking about same thing, but to the level you're taking this PEERI-MURSHID thing is beyond me. I know you quoted some versus in some of your previous threads and claimed that ALLAH wants us to go to HIM through his "Wali-Allah's". Some of the versus didn't even mean what you claimed they meant. Or I guess I'm very ignorant of all things.
My entire concern is that, never bow down to anyone but Allah, and never ask anyone for anything Except Allah. You can go to peers and murshids or molvi for guidence/knowledge, just dont ask them to help you. Asking them to help you or to do something for you, is not what a muslim, who only submitted to ALLAH, should do.