The danger of fringe sectarianism and the trio of Shuyukh that can act as a protection

Growing up, my spiritual struggles were no different than many other Muslims who struggled to reconcile between the world around them vs the world that their religion i.e., Islam, presents to them. Between the person that their religion want them to be vs the person that their world let them to be. One peculiar response to that challenge was trying to separate one's spiritual life from that of one's worldly life. That ended up transfiguring Islam merely into a religion of rituals only practiced at designated places and at particular intervals and otherwise ignored altogether. It is at that crucial moment of my life that I was blessed to come to know of Sayyid Abul 'Ala Mawdudi rh:. Had it not been for Al-Ustadh Al-Imam Abul 'Ala I think I would have turned away from Islam altogether. Because the alternatives were worse than none. It was mostly Deobandi or Barelvi chicanery in one form or the other. Hardly any people with a rational mind could hold onto that. But God blessed me with a spiritual soul and a religious mind. So even if I had turned into an atheist or an agnostic I would have remained religious at the core. But eventually I started to feel a lack in Mawdudi's political theology. Looking back it seems to be a God sent to come to know of Shaykh Abdul Qadir as-Sufi and Shaykh Umar Faruq abd-Allah. At this juncture of life I believe that the trio of Shaykh Abul 'Ala, Shayh Abdul Qadir, and Shaykh Umar Faruq will suffice for the modern Muslims for the foreseeable future. Of course this Ummah is blessed with countless Shuyukh. But they are only affordable to the seekers of knowledge. Meanwhile, the normative Muslims, can make do with The Trio. And what's more important is to protect the normative Muslims from falling prey to the fringe sectarianism.