Naqshbandi Haqqani

GrandSyaikh Sulthanul Awliya Nazim Adil al Haqqani

2006-12-31T15:26:00.000-08:00

He is the Master of Saints and the Saint of the Masters

He is the Imam of the People of Sincerity, the Secret of Sainthood, who revived the Naqshbandi Order at the end of the 20th Century, with Heavenly guidance and Prophetic ethics. He infused into the Nation and the Planet, love of God and love of the lovers of God, after they had been darkened with the fire and smoke of tribulation and terror, anger and grief.

He is the Unveiler of Secrets, the Keeper of Light, the Shaykh of Shaykhs, the Sultan of Ascetics, the Sultan of the Pious, the Sultan of the People of the Truth. He is the Chief Master without peer of the Divine Knowledge in the late 20th Century. He is the Rain from the Ocean of Knowledge of this Order, which is reviving spirits in all parts of this world. He is the Saint of the Seven Continents, his light having attracted disciples and students from all quarters of the globe. He wears the Cloak of the Light of the Divine Presence.

He is unique in his time. He is the orchid planted in the earth of Divine Love. He is the Sun for all the universes. He is known as the Saint of the Two Wings: the external knowledge and the internal knowledge.

He is a Miracle of Allah's Miracles, walking on the earth and soaring in the Heavens. He is a Secret of Allah's Secrets, appearing in His Divinity and Existing in His Existence. He is the Owner of the Throne of Guidance, the Reviver of Divine Law, the Master of Sufi Way, the Builder of the Truth, the Guide of the circle, the Lyric Poem of All the Secrets. He is the Master of Saints and the Saint of the Masters. Seekers circle the Kabah of His Light. He is a Fountain always flowing, a Waterfall continuously cascading, a River always flooding, an Ocean endlessly cresting and breaking on infinite shores.

Wa min Allah at Taufiq

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01. We Must Rebuild Our Personality!
Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil

Astaghfirullah!...Tubtu wa rajatu ila-llah…Tubna wa rajana ila-llah!…Destur, ya Sultanu-l AwliyaMeded, Meded, ya Rijalallah, a´inuna bi madadikum! As-salamu alaikum!... O our Lord, put Your weak servants under Your DivinelyProtection! Therefore - you must try to say as much as possible more: As-salamualaikum, As-salamu alaikum, As-salamu alaikum!… As-Salam, peace - when you are saying (it) too much, (it is) bringing peace toyou and (to) everything around yourself and also spreading that blessings andmercy through East and West. But now people are not using too much to say:As-salamu alaikum.

Say (it), as much as possible! And we are saying: As-salamu alaikum! As salamu alaikum, ya ´ibadallahi salihin…Allah Allah…Allah Allah…And we are asking Divinely Support; and Divinely Support (is) never coming to people directly. That is like a - as we are saying it for understanding blessing is coming like Niagara Falls. You can't reach to take from that, but if it is going through pipes, (you) may drink (from it), (you) may use it. Therefore, Awliya, whole Alwiyas, Awliyas means, Waliyullah that means: Friendof Allah, or (someone) who is going to be friendly to Allah. Try to be friendlyto Allah! But people (are) running to be friends of Shaytan, because it is (fromthe) Last Days' signs that people should run to be friends of Shaytan and veryfew people (are) running to be Friends of Allah Almighty.

And you can't be friend of Allah Almighty, till you are going to be friend toHis most beloved servant SayyidinaMuhammad - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam! Andyou can't be reaching to that point- to be friend of Rasulullah - sallaLlahu´alayhi wa sallam - till you are going to be friendly to (the) friends ofRasulullah - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam. If you are not reaching (the) friendsof Rasulullah - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam, you can't reach to be friend ofAllah Almighty! A´udhu bi-llahi mina shaytani rajim! O our Lord, please give Your Protection onYour weak servants! We are saying: "We are weak servants, please make YourDivinely Protection on ourselves, not to be friends of Shaytan!" Friends ofShaytan (are) going to be in Hells, (and it is) beginning here, they areburning!

They are burning from inside of themselves or (from) outside (they are)burning, but they are insisting to be, yet to be, friends of Shaytan! Say: "A´udhu bi-llahi mina shaytani rajim, o our Lord, we are running to You,not to be friends to Shaytan!" Say! In such a meaning say: A´udhu bi-llahi minashaytani rajim!…People (are) coming to me, saying: "O Sheikh, I am ill, but I am going to Doctors (and) they are sending me to tahlil, analysis, (saying): 'Go to that oneto make (a) check-up for yourself and bring that (result) to me to look', and Iam going (to a) different analysts, (the) analyst (is) saying: 'Oh, you are…nothing with you, you are okay!' "But" - he is insisting - "I am (still) feelingthat I am not healthy!" Yes… but yet there are not thinking that that is something (which is) notbelonging to their material being, no, (it is something) from inside! Yet theyare not coming to say, to accept that we have another being through ourselvesthat that is our souls.

They (are) never going to ask, to make a check-up fortheir souls. (They are) running to make check-up (for) every organ throughthemselves, but they (are) never going to look, to make a check-up for theirsouls, no, because people (are) becoming such materialists. They are thinking(that they are) only material beings. Material beings never making a thing tomove by itself, no. (A) car is a car, but you must put in its box a kind of water and that water(is) changing in(to) another… position and moving… making car to move. They arealways looking: "What is the matter? Our car can't walk, (but) we are looking(that) everything (is) okay." "Look, if it has fuel"… "What is fuel? Our car isokay, for what fuel?" "Ya Hu, without fuel your car can't move!"… People (are) running to Doctors.

(The) doctor (is) saying: "You are 100% okay!""O Doctor, if 100 % I am okay, why I am coming to you? I am feeling something inmyself that (is) making me not to be rest; (there is) disturbing me somethingfrom inside. What is that?" "You must go to Haci X… there is a person that hemay understand such a matters…what is their name?… Their name (is)psychiatrists… And so many psychiatrists (are) coming to Sheikh, saying: "OSheikh, I am feeling no good!" "What you are doing?" I am asking. "Psychiatry.""Ahhh… psychiatry… and you are coming to me for (a) treatment, to treat you?"… I am saying first: "Jump!" If (he is) jumping, I am saying: "You are alright,okay, go away, finished!" "(But) I am coming for (a) check-up!" "That is mycheck-up! If you are jumping, (it) means, (that) you are okay, nothing (wrong)with you!…

(But) if (it is) not enough (for you), (we make) another check-up:Run from up to that side!" "For what?" "There is a cat running in front of you,run and catch it!"… I am psychiatrists' doctor! All psychiatrists also they arestrange…antika… All psychiatrists, their minds out of their minds, two feet… "Iam trying you, if you are okay or not." "I can't be!" "You can't be? (Then) youmust try to run every day 100 meters to catch a cat. Catch and bring (it) tome!" "How…?" "I am doctor of psychiatrists, you don’t know! Come, what I amsaying to you, it is okay!" (For) everything: Check-up! But for psychiatrists - they are unhappy to bechecked up! You are making check-up for people and (you are) saying: "Nothing(wrong) with you", but I am looking that you also (are) falling into a deepwell, (and) you can't be able to take yourself out. That is my check-up to you! And we are in need (for someone) who (is) making (a) check-up for our unknownbeing, souls! The authority for that just (has been) granted to Prophets.

Then,Prophets, from Prophets that (have been) granted to make a check-up, (it is)granted- what they have been permitted (to do)- (to those who are) throughProphets line people. They may do this, not (just) anyone (who is) saying: "Ican do!" You cant do! But people are running non-sensely to make a check-up,check-up… for themselves and it is impossible. Really we are in need a check-upfor our souls and who can do that check-up for our souls? Those whom they areauthorized with heavenly Authority, authorised by heavenly Authority! They cando only this, not (just anyone who is) going (to a) school (and who is) reading,reading, reading… They can't understand anything! And they are so very rare now, (these authorized people), because people arerunning to make their check-up with psychiatrists and their level (is) on (the)same level (with them) and (so) they can't take any benefit. Finished, finished!Mankind just finished, because they are in ruins innerly.

In ruins! They mustrebuild their personalities once again! First they must try to recognize their real identity. Who are you? First, forrebuilding himself through this life, to recognize himself: Who are you? Someonemust teach him: Who are you? Because by yourself you can't know, who are you.You can see everything, except yourself; your eyes (are) looking and seeingeverything, except yourself. What you are in need? You need a mirror! (You are looking into the mirror), (but) you say that: "I am this one (in themirror)?" (Then) you must bring two witnesses (to confirm to you) that throughthat mirror you are that one! By himself he can't recognize himself also in (a)mirror! He may think: "That is another one! I am not this one, because I am notlooking myself, putting myself second to that and to see that this and this(are) same no. Perhaps that mirror it is a strange instrument, showing shadows,showing something in it."

But if no one in that area, you can't say that: 'Thisis, I am that one.' You need two witnesses (to tell you) that: "This you are,you are looking. That is mirror, showing to you." Therefore, (for a) man who is asking: Who are you? (there) must be a person like(a) mirror (for him), to be able to show (to him): "You are this one!" When heis accepting, what he is saying, then that person (is) just permitted to build,to rebuild your existence, to manifest yourself again, as before. Because youare in ruins, destroyed; your real being (is) destroyed, therefore you are inneed a rebuilding, and rebuilding (is) only (for) those people, who have beengranted heavenly Lights and (who are) authorized through Heavens- not fromearth, no! (Authorization) from earth (it means:) on our level…(the) level ofanimals…zoo level…We are on zoo level…(They are) putting some examples in(tothe) zoo-garden, but (they are) not putting one man inside also that we are onsame level!… You went zoo-garden?… You have been in zoo-garden?… I went also,but I was escaping, not to put me also in another place… (because they aresaying) that: "This one also (is) on that level, (he is an) animal!"… Our level (is the) first level, (that) of animals. Only (that) we have beengranted (the ability) for speaking, other animals are not speaking. Samequalities that they have, we have same also, only they are running on four legs,we are running on two legs… But we must get up for rebuilding our realpersonality! If you are not recognizing yourself, you can't be able to understand anything!(then you are) coming (here as a) 'hayvan', going (as a) 'hayvan', coming as(an) animal, and going as an animal… And this life that people (are) living now,it is not (on the) 2nd level of real mankind. Because first level (people),their characteristic (is) on… same character, all of them! If they are gettingon (the) 2nd level, they can't touch like this…(they) can't give (troubly toanyone)… (they) can't harm anyone! Once my Grandsheikh showed me in Mecca Mukarrama Baitu-llah sharafaha-llah:"Look, Nazim Effendi, up!" I am looking one, first level people: they are makingTawwaf, but they are quarrelling and making everything, giving harm (to) people,pushing them, pulling them… but the 2nd one, (there) I am looking and seeing agroup of people, (that) they are like butterflies… no sound… no trouble…noharming…! (On the) first level, (the) level of animals; they are giving to eachother harm, biting, hitting, everything they are doing… Now look and say truth! What is the level of living people, whom they areclaming that: "We reached to top of civilization"? They are so big liars,because that is Shaytan's teaching to them, to say: "Now you are on top level ofcivilization!" For what? "Because you have so many kinds of weapons and hightechnology you have, therefore you reached (the) top of civilization." And I amsaying: "Yet you are on (the) same level (with animals)! Technology (is) nevertaking you (up to be) on (the) second level. Only spirituality can take you (up)and your spirituality (is) under (such) heavy pressure (that) you can't be ableto leave it, to reach to that point." And people are trying to kill, to harmpeople, to destroy - what is that? That is the level of mankind? I am sorry tosay (that) it is not (the) level of real… human beings level. And I am sorry tosay that even animals level they are not accepting (these people on) their leveland (so they are) kicking them down! Kicking them down! That is the position, general view of our world in our days that it is lastdays, and we are reaching to Yaum al-Qiyyama… O people, come and listen and ask truth! To ask truth, it is your most importantcharacteristic (as human beings). You must ask truth and you must try to learn(the) truth about your life (so) that you should be up (on the 2nd level), neverharming (anyone). Therefore - (the) Prophet - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam -(was) saying: "A surrendered people"- that people are running away from Islam,the name of Islam; they are hating (it) and (they are) running away (from it),but really Islam what (it is) saying? (it is saying): "A real Muslim (issomeone) who (is) never harming people, (neither) by his tongue, (nor) by hishand, (or) by his power." They are not real Muslims, now (these) people,Muslims! You are looking and seeing what (is) happening! And people (are)thinking that Islam (is) ordering to kill people without any… with reason orwithout reason! (They are) destroying every day and they are saying: "In thename of Islam!" A´udhu bi-llah! Allah takes them away! Takes them away… Don’t be with them! Don’t say that they are doing good! That is not Islam andthey are not Muslims! Only by name; their names may be written Muslims, but theyare so far - as far (as the) earth (is far) from Heavens, they are far away fromIslam!… May Allah forgive us and bless you! For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine PresenceSayyidinaMuhammad - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam, Fatiha.

Sohbet 7.05.06
Follow the way of the true ones!

As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatu!
Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim!
Say: Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmani Rahim.

Khairu Kalam - best talking, to say: "Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani
rajim, Bismillahir Rahmani Rahim."

O, so honour to you, o mankind to say: "Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim!"
Allahu akbar!

Destur, ya Sayyidi, ya Sultanu-l Awliya, Meded!

We are thankful or we must be thankful or we must try to be thankful to
Allah that we are asking truth! And truth is (the) capital of true
ones!… Clear? You are understanding?… Truth is (the) capital of true ones. You can't find truth through liars. True ones- whom they are? They are Prophets and their followers that they are sacrificing their souls for true ones, whom they are carrying truth from Heavens. And it is honour for mankind to be true ones, highest honour- or to try to be with true ones.

Not everyone can be true ones, no. They are like ruby among stones or
like emerald through stones; they are (the) pearls among people, they
are like diamonds. Don't think that every stone is a ruby. Don’t think
that every stone (is) going to be (an) emerald. Don’t think that very
stone (is) going to be (a) diamond, no… But man likes to have diamonds,
they like to have rubies, they like to have jewels. Yes, everyone likes, and they are stones, but they are not asking true ones that they are (the) most valuable creation among creation!

They like to have much more jewels to put on their fingers or on their
necks or their hands or to put their ears… and- (it is a) very bad
habit now- (that) men (also) are trying to put (that in) their ears, their noses, their hands! Men (are) asking to have such a jewels and jewels is not for men; (for them it is) only to carry through their rings a precious stone, but not to have golden rings, golden bracelets… They are putting and it is no good! Men must try to be men, women must try to show that they are women!

Now we are living in a time that men (are) trying to look like women
and women like to be seen like a man. I know women they are thinking that men (are) higher than themselves, therefore they are trying to reach the level of men. No! They are wrong thinking creatures! Men have a level that Allah granted to them. Not try to reach to that level. Worst women who they are trying to show themselves like a man (and) therefore they wear trousers! I am swearing to them: "You are not women? Why you are dressing that trousers? For what? They give to you honour? Never give to your honour, but you are going to be cursed one with dressing trousers to show that: 'I am also a man or like a man'!" Ignorant ones; they are not knowing what Allah Almighty (is) giving to them, to women!

And men also - (they) are trying to be like women. Worst ones! Their
heads should be cut down. Angels should cut (them) down. S.Mehdi (is)
coming (and) cutting their heads also! Try to show yourself that you are a man! And women must try to show themselves that they are women. Allah Almighty created male and female. If He was asking to create only one kind, He can do, He was able, but (He was) making this and that.

I am saying to you something perhaps you never heard it. (It is) from
Prophets' knowledge that (is) reaching to me also, that Shaytan… How its generation (is) going (on), you know it?… Never!… Shaytans one leg (is) carrying man's (sex), (the) second leg (is) like (that of a) women. Making itself by itself and his generation in such a way (is coming)!

But Allah Almighty (is) honouring you, O people, to be man and woman.
That is honour! But now people are running to be like Shaytan! (It is
the) worst thing; that (is) making Heavenly Anger to fall on those
people! And now people (are), as (the) Prophet (was) saying sws, that: "(There) should come a time on my nation that (a) man (is) going to be satisfied by (a) man and women (are) going to be satisfied by women!" That is (the) worst situation that reached (the) 21st century 'civilization', (as) they are saying... It is not civilization, but it is (a) falling down… Man can't be woman, woman can't be man, but artificially… Shaytan (is) making them to run men after men, women after women. Therefore (the) Heavenly Anger (is) just ready to burn them!

O people, whole nations (are) on (the) wrong way and governments (are)
never taking any care! Even (the) European 'civilization' (is) making a
law or giving a permission - even I am sorry to say that churches they
are so (much) on (the) wrong way - that (it is possible) making a
marriage man to man. What is that! What is that? (It is the) worst dirtiest acting from man!

Jesus Christ was walking - that is another knowledge that (is) reaching
to me also from Prophets' knowledge, Heavenly knowledge: Jesus Christ
was walking or travelling - (church people must listen to that point and they must ask forgiveness from Allah Almighty, because they are doing so wrong things!) - he was travelling and he saw in a plain, on a land out of (the) cities, two persons. One burning, then that one burning one and second, when that was burnt, second one going to be fire and burning second one. First (one) going to be fire and- Allah creating quickly their bodies as before- one going to be fire and burning that one, then it is ashes, coming and becoming like a man (again), and burning second one. Therefore, (from) that second one's ashes Allah creating that person again and it is… this first one going to be fire and burning, one burning, then another (one) burning…

And Jesus Christ was saying: "O my Lord, it is a very strange. You know
that I am asking to learn what is this?" Then Allah Almighty (was)
sending to him Archangel Gabriel and saying to him: "O son of Maryam, son of Mary!" (He was not (the) son of any man, and he is not (the) son of the Lord! They are wrong ones! If I am saying to you that: "An ant
(has) just born a man", you are saying: "(The) Sheikh (is) going to be (a) no-mind person.. (An) ant (is) bringing a man? What is that!" (So-) how Mary (is) bringing (a) baby from Allah? What is that foolishness? But no one (is) saying anything! They are (only) saying: "We find it like this and we must follow." Follow, up to (the) fire!)

He (Jesus) was asking and (the) Lord (was) sending Gabriel, saying: "
O, son of Maryam, Isa, o Christ", they are as now two men, going to be
married- they are saying (it is) okay- "two persons are marrying each
other, therefore Allah Almighty (is) punishing them (in this way that
first) one (of them is) going to be fire, and burning second one, and
(then the) second one (is) going to be fire and burning (the) first - up to Yaumu-l Qiyama!" …Na´udhu bi-llah!…They are not looking their books! (It is) through their holy Books, I may show them!… I know nothing, but sometimes I know something!… Dirtiest thing, dirtiest acting that man can do: that man to man, women to woman…

May Allah forgive us and protect ourselves, not to fall into the trap
of Shaytan, because Shaytan, its generation (is) coming for itself- one
leg (is like that of a) man, one leg (is like that if a) woman, making
itself by itself and bringing generation- (and he is) trying to make
man on its way! Allah (is) cursing that one and who(ever is) following
that one!

O people, whom they are on wrong way - Heavenly Revenge (is)
approaching! I don’t know (if) today or tomorrow, I can't say this week or next week, I can't say this month or next month, I can't say this year… I can't say next year…(it is) so (quickly) approaching! Heavenly Anger (is) approaching to people that they are living and making so dirty things and making Heavens to be angry with them…coming on them...

May Allah forgive us and protect ourselves from wrong things! O people,
don’t trust on yourself, on your ego - ego is Shaytan! See: when your
ego (is) going with Shaytan, quickly (it is) coming a wrong acting
(after that). O people, try to run away from shaitanic actings! Try to save yourself, or something (is) reaching to you from Heavens and it is
(going to be) a Revenge from Heavens! Oh, oh, oh!…

We were saying about true ones… True ones…ask true ones! (The) whole world (is) under the hegemony of liars now and people (are) running after them! Those leaders that (are) leading people to false and who(ever is) running after them, (they) should be taken away, because cursing (is) making them to finish under divinely Anger.

O people, you have been honoured to be from mankind and Allah Almighty
(is) ordering His servants, (making) wasiyat, advising them and making
His Will and saying: "O My servants, follow My true ones: Ya ayyuha
ladhina amanu, ittaquLlaha wa kunu ma´a sadiqin!" That (is an) Ayatu
Karim, that is (a) Holy Word (that) Arabs must look for it much more.
Arabs, you must understand and you must close the doors that (are) opening to wrong ways. First Arabs must close down (the) doors to wrong actings.

First (the) leaders and Sultans of Arabs must close their doors, (so)
that people (are) not (going to) run into fire, (so that they are) not
(going) to run after shaitanic teachings and reaching to Hells!
Therefore Arabs - that they are first believers - now they must try to be also……Hu… leading people to Holy Quran's true way! And (the) true way - they are knowing that - (it is) only with true ones. True ones may show you true ways! That is our mission: To call people to Allah Almighty and they are making me to speak to you in such a way that you must take your much care (for) what we are saying: what (it is that is) making a person to fall into fire eternally, (so that he is) never getting out (again)…

O people! O people, give your pity! First for yourself be merciful,
give your mercy, merhamet… (Sheikh is asking for the translation of the
word 'merhamet': …No one (is) understanding, no one (is) knowing
anything!… All of you!… I am saying pity, I am asking (for the translation of the word) 'merhamet', (and) no one (is) saying 'mercy', till I am saying… All of you, I must swear (to) all of you, because some of you (are) sleeping, some of you (are) taking so many things… and not taking care!…)

Whom they are not giving mercy to themselves, no one (is) going to give
them mercy! First give mercy to yourself - but mercy (has) just (been)
taken up from the hearts of people… and this is the time of tyrants
that (it is said that): When (the) last days (are) coming, tyrants (are) going to be leaders. And they are on behalf of Shaytan making everything to make mankind down and dishonoured…

We are trying to show you (how) to journey the way of honour that the
Lord of Heavens honoured us, ourselves (with). O people, that is honour
for you: to follow true ones. If (you are) not (doing that), (there is)
no honour for you, no mercy for you, no blessings for you, no favours
on you, no eternal life for you! Try to understand and try to follow
that true way!

May Allah forgive me and forgive you and bless all of you!
For the honour of the most honoured one in His Divine Presence,
Sayyidina Muhammad - sallaLlahu ´alayhi wa sallam,
Fatiha!
1. Sohbet Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Cyprus, May 18 2003
2. Sohbet Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Cyprus, May 20 2003
3. Sohbet Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Cyprus 17 May 2003
4. Sohbet Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Cyprus, April 17, 2003
5. Divine Presence
6. BEING FULLY PRESENT
7. Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Cyprus, April15, 2003
8. Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Cyprus 22 May 2003
9. Familiarity Breeds Enlightenment
10. My Lord, I Love You!
11. Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Cyprus 25th May 2003
12. The Heart - Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Sohbet 25 May 2003 (The Onion & SARS)
13. Nikah Mut’a
14. Avoiding Arguments
15. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al Haqqani Sunday, 21st April 2002
16. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al Haqqani Monday, 22nd April 2002
17. The Heart - Najm al-Din Kubra
18. The Safety of Sham - Hadith Sheikh Muhammd Nazim Tuesday, 23rd April 2002
19. A little bit about Shaykh Ahmed (for those who don't know him)
20. Importance of Taking a Shaykh
21. Excellence of Seeking Knowledge
22. Muhammad in Europe:A Thousand Years of Western Myth-Making
23. MUHAMMAD(saw) is his blessed Name!
24. Mouthwatering...
25. Bang Bang..
26. The Night of the 15th of Sha`ban : Q&A
27. Planting green stalks on top of graves By Shaykh Gibril Haddad
28. ALL TYRANTS WILL PERISH.March 2003
29. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al Haqqani,Monday, 24th 2003 , TAUBAT
30. Khutbat al-Jumu`ah Shaykh Hisham al-Kabbani an-Naqshbandi,Masjid al-Iman, Oakland
California, 02-14-2003
31. Responding to a critic of Mawlana Shaykh's Dawah
32. The Qadariyya, Mu`tazila, and Shî`a
33. SHARH ASMA' AL-NABI ,THE NAMES OF THE PROPHET
34. Fitnatul Wahhabiyyah The menace of Wahabism
35. LOVE, Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al Haqqani. Monday, 24th march 2003
36. Cyprus. Wednesday, 19th March 2003 Refutation against Shaykh Qubrusi by Shaykh Samir
al-Kadi
37. Muslim Community Schools
38. QA : Deviation from the Naqshbandi Tariqah
39 What Sheikh Nazim al Haqqani said about Maulana Rumi:
40. Wahabi [Deobandi] {salafi}
41. Commonly Recited Wordings in the Post-Adhān Du‘ā
42. Fasting: Why Stop Eating 10 Minutes Before?
43. Bi HamdikaYa Ilahi
44. Calling on Allah: Give me light!
45. Gathering of Dzikir
46. Wisdom taken from the Holy Quran Majeed
47. Ten Days Allah Swore By The First Ten Days of Dhu'l Hijjah
48. Raising the Hands for Ruku
49. QASIDAT AL-BURDA
50. Just One
51. The secret of this Tariqa
52. DUA for Heart:
53. These Nine Points
54. O N E
55. Intellect
56. The Prophet's Followers And Their Different Paths By DAVID PRYCE-JONES
57. The Night of Bara`ah
58. The Legacy of Ataturk
59. Group of Loud Dzikir
60. The Inner Dimensions of Fasting, By Hujjat ul-Islam Imam al-Ghazali
61. Qasida
62. THE BOOK OF ASSISTANCE, IMAM AL-HADDAD
63. The Good & the Bad Stephen Schwartz on Islam and Wahhabism. From "The National Review
64. Mevlana Rumi on Fasting
65. SUPPORTING AMERICA
66. Dealing With a 'Deviant Soul'
67. Taken from the Hanafi Fiqh electronic mailing list:
68. Make your Intentions for Allah's Sake
69. Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani on Laylat al-Qadr ON LAYLAT AL-QADR
70. Dzikir HUU
71. Why Muslim hate Jews
72. THE CONDITION OF THE LOVERS OF ALLAH ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT CONCERNING THE RITUAL
PRAYER OF THOSE WHO ARE EMANCIPATED [FROM THE FIRE OF HELL] IN 73.THE MONTH OF SHAWWAL
74. ABOUT MAULANA RUMI.
75. Power and choice, Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim al Haqqani
76. Mevlana Rumi
77. This religion is easy.
78. Claims about the Sultan of Awliya'
79. Why do some Sufis act like circus performers?!
80. Responding to a critic of Mawlana Shaykh's Dawah
81. The Pseudo Salafi
82. Where do we worship
83. Children of Abraham
84. An Interview with Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi by Carter Phipps for "What is
Enlightenment?"
85. More on Keramat
86. Rumi, "Mathnawi"
87. GUARANTEE
88. Khutbat al-Jumu`ah Shaykh as-Sayyid Muhammad Hisham Masjid al-Iman, Oakland Calif. 02-
14-2003 "Throw Away Your "intellect" !
89. THE ROAD TO DUBAI
90. Suhbat: "A Loss which is Forever" Shaykh as-Sayyid Muhammad Hisham al-Kabbani Scott's
Valley, California
91. HAJI KALFA (FATIMA) HANIM.
92. Love of the Prophet Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
93. Wiping the slate clean?Getting back to praying regularly
Answered by Shaykh Gibril Haddad
94. HUDUR AL-QALB
95. The Month of Muharram-The First Month of the Islamic Calendar Night Prayer
96. The Day of `Ashura': The Tenth of Muharram
97. Giving in Charity on the Day of `Ashura'
98. Explanation of Sufiyya and Wilayat Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
99. GET MARRIED

100. OUR MASTER JULAYBIB
101. RUMI
102. Kinship with the detached
103. Tafsir Surat ash-Shams, Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, Masjid al-Iman, Oakland, CA
104. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani Cyprus, April 02, 2003
105. Muslim Women's Coalition Mawlud Series Muhammad SallalAllahu Alaihi Wasalam
106. The Messenger Of Islam by Hajjah Amina Adil "AND MUHAMMAD IS HIS MESSENGER"
107. The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety
108. Donating The Reward For Koran Recital To The Deceased
109. The Saints' Unveiling Of The Unseen
110. Excerpted from Encyclopedia Of Islamic Doctrine.
"The Prophet" by Shaykh Hisham Kabbani.
111. USWAI RASOOL E AKRAM
112. Muhammad Khwaja al-Amkanaki
113. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil Al-Qubrusi Al-Haqqani Cyprus, April 19, 2003
114. Love of the Prophet PEACE BE UPON HIM Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
115. Thinking of Other Women in a Sexual Way… Turning to Allah, Repentance, Seeking
Sufficiency in the Halal, and Thanking Allah for His Blessings
116. Thinking of Sin & Determining to Sin
117. Taking Care of One’s Eyes and Ears
118. Repetitive repentence? Answered by Shaykh Gibril Haddad
119. Repentance: Keep Erring, Do I Have To Tell?
120. How Does One Repent?
121. 'Your ego, your God' by Maulana Sheikh Nazim
122. ‘Importance of Communal/Weekly Dhikr’Maulana Sheikh Nazim
123. Dhikr’ by Maulana sheikh Nazim
124. Tariqatuna as-suhbah, By Shaykh Hisham Kabbani an-Naqshbandi
125. HUU
126. I'TIKAF 2003
127. I'TIKAF WITH HUSAIN ABDUL SATTAR IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
128. The Khatm al-Khawajkan
129. Answered by Mufti Muhammad ibn Adam al-Kawthari, www.daruliftaa.org
130. Film review - THE MATRIX
131. RE: Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, Shaykh Nazim, and the Encyclopedia of Islamic Doctrine
and Beliefs…
132. Oh Master of the Masters
133. From the "Memorial of the Saints" of Fariduddin Attar
134. The light shining from Pattani Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
135. Listen, open a window to God
136. Fight your tongue.
137. Seek Your Heavenly Dress, Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani Suhbat 10-03-2003
138. The Night of Bara`ah
139. Secrets of Laylat al Bara'at, 26 NOVEMBER 2001
140. The inner knowledge/ilm-i batin
141. The Prayer of Benefits [Salat al-Khair]
142. It is Disliked to Pray the Sunna of Wudu & Other Non-Obligatory Prayers
143. During the Disliked Times
144. Have Salafis Taken Over the Muslim World and Muslim Communities
145. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani Cyprus, Monday, 1st of December 2003
146. FORTY HADITHS ON THE MERIT OF SAYING LA ILAHA ILLALLAH from Shaykh Hisham Kabbani's
147. I need a supplication to say at the end of prayer…
148. Loss and Tragedy by Sheikh Nazim Al-Qubrusi
149. From "Divine Sources" in the Mercy Oceans series ON LAYLAT AL-QADR
150. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani Cyprus 9 July 2003
151. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani Cyprus 8 July 2003
152. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani Cyprus 6 July 2003
153. The Last Ten Days of Ramadan Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
154. Don't listen to everyone's speech. Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q)
155. Levels of ‘Ilm and Our Heavenly Names
156. Wali Qutb
157. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani Cyprus 5th July 2003
158. Wahhabi /Deobandi/Tablighi Do Not Proclaim Ya Muhammad
But Muslims Do Proclaim Ya Muhammad.
159. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani Cyprus 3rd July 2003
160. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani Cyprus 7 July 2003
161. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani Cyprus 1st July 2003
162. Maulana Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani Cyprus 14th July 2003
163. Ponder Allah's Creation- Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
164. WAHHABI
165. LIE
166. TARAWIH 20 RAKAAT
167. The Spiritual Significance of the Miraculous Night Journey and Ascension of the
Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him BY SHAYKH MUHAMMAD HISHAM KABBANI
168. Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi
169. Mawlana Jamaludin al-Ghumuqi al-husaini (q)
170. The Night Vigil Prayer
171. Excellence of Prayer at Night - Qiyam al-layl
172. A practical program for the development of the belief .. (Eeman)
173. Position of Grandsyaikh Nazim Adil al Haqqani
174. Keep your Sheikh in your heart
175. His Crown is BismilAllah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem
176. ASMÂ’ AHL BADR
177. Secrets of Ablution/Wudu & Power in The Hands

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2006-01-20T09:51:00.000-08:00

BAY'AT TARIQAH NAQSHBANDI HAQQANI
GrandSyaikh Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil al Haqqani

Bay'at President SBY di Jakarta tahun 2003

Syaikh Nazhim Adil al Haqqani ketika berada di Damaskus, Syria berkata, "Grandsyaikh Abdullah Faiz Daghestani telah memberi otoritas dari Rasulullah saw kepada saya untuk seluruh cabang Thariqat Naqsybandi di seluruh penjuru Timur & Barat; agar mereka datang
dan memperbaharui ikrar mereka di hadapan kami. Oleh karenanya, ikrar tersebut adalah sebuah deklarasi bagi semua pengikut Naqsybandi, yang jumlahnya mencapai ratusan, bahkan jutaan: orang merasa takut akan jumlahnya.

Bay'at di Masjid Istiqlal setelah Mawlana Syaikh Hisham Kabbani memberikan Kutbah Jum'at

Tetapi mereka salah paham, mengira bahwa kita mengejar Dunya, padahal tidaklah demikian, kita hanya mengharapkan ridha Allah swt semata—mata. Karena satu-satunya jalan yang benar bagi seorang hamba adalah mengharapkan ridha dari Tuhannya. Kita tidak menggunakan kekuatan spiritual untuk kehidupan (di dunia) ini tetapi kita menggunakannya untuk mencapai maqam yang lebih tinggi di Surga. Oleh sebab itu, tidak ada rasa takut pada diri jutaan pengikut Naqsybandi, mereka (orang-orang) harus merasa puas dengan para pengikut Naqsybandi. Kita adalah Muslim Naqshbandi, target kita hanyalah mencapai ridha Allah swt, Tuhan Pemilik Surga—tidak ada yang lain. Siapa yang senang terhadap kita, mereka boleh datang dan selamat datang, siapa yang tidak, mereka boleh pergi sesuka hati mereka.

Bay'at di Daarut Tauhid Bandung, Aa Gym dan Jama'ah Pesantren Daarut Tauhid

Setiap orang di seluruh penjuru di Timur dan Barat harus memperbarui thariqat mereka melalui Grandsyaikh mereka—dan beliau memberi izin kepada saya—atas nama Grandsyaikh, Saya memberi bay’at kepada setiap orang yang mengikuti Thariqat Naqsybandi, bila mereka
menerima, itu adalah untuk kebaikan mereka, siapa yang menolak, mereka boleh tinggal di mana pun mereka berada, mulai sekarang sampai Hari Pembalasan nanti.

Jusuf Kalla dan Arifin Ilham berbay'at di Darmawangsa dan Brawijaya Jakarta

Saya berharap apa yang telah ditanam oleh Grandsyaikh di Damaskus akan segera tumbuh—musimnya telah tiba, musim untuk berkembang di seluruh Timur dan Barat serta Utara dan Selatan—di mana-mana orang akan mencari jalan menuju Allah swt."

Wa min Allah at Taufiq

Posisi Tariqat Naqshbandi
Syaikh Muhammad Nazim al Haqqani an Naqshbandi

Insya Allah kita akan berbicara mengenai suatu hal yang sangat penting. Mengenai aliran Tariqat. Begitu banyak orang datang ke Damaskus dari berbagai negeri asalnya untuk mengunjungi kami. Beberapa di antara mereka sudah terikat dengan seorang Syaikh dan
mengikuti tariqat tertentu. Mereka meminta bay’at yang baru. Salah satu dari mereka, Syaikh Salahuddin mengalami konflik mengenai hal ini dalam batinnya. Kami harus memperjelas hal ini bagi setiap orang di seluruh dunia agar mereka mengetahui apa itu tariqat, apa itu Syaikh, berapa banyak jumlah mereka dan bagaimana hubungan mereka satu sama lain.

Bay'at President Abdurahman Wahid dan President Islam Karimov Uzbekistan

Allah swt akan bertanya kepada setiap orang di Hari Akhir nanti, "Apa yang kamu bawa hari ini, wahai hamba-Ku?" Apakah kamu membawa Qalb-us-Saliim, hati yang murni, hati emas yang mulia?" Allah swt meminta setiap orang agar mempunyai hati yang bersih. Kalian
hanya bisa mendapatkannya melalui tariqat. Mereka yang tidak menjalani tariqat hanya memenuhi hidupnya dengan kehidupan luar, meninggalkan hatinya.

Bay'at Abah Anom di Tasikmalaya April 2001

Ada 41 aliran tariqat, 40 di antaranya diturunkan melalui hati Imam ‘Ali ra dan satu lagi, tariqat Naqshbandi berasal dari Abu Bakar as-Shiddiq ra. Rasulullah mempunyai 124.000 sahabat. Siapa sahabat terdekatnya? Beliau adalah Abu Bakar ra . Rasulullah saw bersabda, "Seluruh hal yang Allah percayakan kepadaku di malam ‘Isra, Aku telah tanamkan dalam hati Abu Bakar ." Sayyidina Ali ra dihubungkan dengan Abu Bakar ra sedemikian rupa sehingga Sayyidina Ali mendapat gelar Kota Pengetahuan.

Bay'at di Masjid Taskent, Rusia

Hal ini dikenal sangat baik di antara para Syaikh pemegang tariqat yang sebenarnya. Mereka semua menhormati tariqat Naqshbandi sebagai yang pertama. Syaikh sejati, bukan mereka yang menyebut dirinya sendiri Syaikh, seluruh Syaikh yang termahsyur, seperti: Abdul Qadir Jailani , Rumi , Darqawi , Rifa’i mereka semua mengetahui posisi sebenarnya dari tariqat
Naqshbandi. Sekarang jika seseorang berada dalam satu aliran tariqat, mereka bisa saja mengambil tariqat Naqshbandi dan tetap bebas menjalankan amalan-amalan seperti biasanya atau menjalankan amalan tariqat Naqshbandi saja.

Jika hanya melakukan amalan tariqat Naqshbandi saja itu sudah cukup. Tidak menjadi masalah apabila kalian berasal dari tariqat lain kemudian mengikuti tariqat Naqshbandi. Beberapa orang merasa takut kalau Syaikhnya mendengar bahwa dia telah menganut tariqat kedua lalu dia akan marah. Jika dia adalah Syaikh sejati bagaimana mungkin dia bisa marah? Seorang Syaikh sejati harus mengetahui apakah muridnya bersama dia di Hari Perjanjian (pada awal penciptaan) atau tidak. Seorang penggembala mengetahui keadaan biri-birinya, satu dalam seribu, bahkan jika mereka semuanya berwarna putih. Dia memiliki cahaya di matanya dan mengenal mereka tanpa membuat kesalahan.

Dalam tariqat tidak ada kepiluan bila seorang murid pergi ke Syaikh yang lainnya. Kami berterima kasih kepada Syaikh pertama yang telah melatihnya sampai dia bertemu Syaikh yang sesungguhnya. Abu Yazid Bistami q berkata, "Selama melakukan pencarian, Aku bertemu 99
Syaikh sebelum Aku bertemu Grandsyaikh Qasim bin Muhammad bin Abu Bakar as-Shiddiq q ."
Kalian bisa bertemu dengan banyak Syaikh dan melakukan suatu amalan, tetapi tidak akan menemukan kepuasan sampai akhirnya kalian menemui Grandsyaikh kalian, lalu seperti sungai yang bertemu samudra.

Begitu banyak Syaikh yang hanya menjadi pelatih, sampai akhirnya Grandsyaikh memanggilmu. Bukan melalui surat, dari hati ke hati, di sana banyak sekali jalan. Jika seorang Naqshbandi Syaikh memberi tariqat, beliau harus memberitahu muridnya siapa Grandsyaikh di
tariqat Naqshbandi saat itu dan beliau harus mengarahkan kepadanya. Begitu banyak orang dari Barat yang berdatangan sekarang, diundang melalui hatinya untuk menemui Grandsyaikh. Mata rantai Masyaikh berakhir pada satu titik.

Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil al Haqqani dan GrandSyaikh Abdullah Faiz Daghestani

Grandsyaikh Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil adalah mata rantai terakhir dalam Mata Rantai Emas dan beliau memegang posisi itu, Saya hanyalah hambanya. Untuk Masyaikh Naqshbandi, kita semua menunggu mereka untuk memperbarui bay’at-nya dengan kita, jika tidak mereka hanya menyematkan gelar di diri mereka sendiri. Imam Mahdi as dan ketujuh wazir besarnya, 40 kalifa, 99 termasuk 40 orang yang berada di sisi wazir dan 313 Mursyid besar semua berada di tariqat Naqshbandi. Di masa ini tidak ada kekuatan bagi tariqat lain untuk membawa seluruh orang mencapai tujuan akhirnya. Oleh sebab itu semuanya diundang untuk memperbarui
bay’at-nya dari Grandsyaikh dan semua akan merasakan adanya kemajuan pada dirinya. Di masa kita, ada sekitar 1000 Syaikh Naqshbandi, tetapi hanya satu Grandsyaikh. Membawa mereka semua, siapa yang akan menjadi Imam? Jika 124.000 sahabat dibawa, siapa yang akan menjadi Imam? Abu Bakar ra. Dan Naqshbandi berasal dari silsilahnya.

Setiap Syaikh harus menunjuk satu orang deputi. Maulana Khalid al-Baghdadi menunjuk Syaikh Ismail , tetapi banyak sekali cabang tariqat Naqshbandi yang menghilangkan namanya dari silsilah dan dengan demikian juga kehilangan rahasia Grandsyaikh. Sekarang banyak sekali Syaikh Naqshbandi yang berada di Damaskus, Aleppo, dan Homs tidak dapat menemukan
penerusnya. Kecuali bagi Grandsyaikh kita, tidak ada seorang pun yang ditunjuk sebagai deputi. Hal ini karena kita mempunyai Syaikh Ismail dalam silsilah kita.

Wa min Allah at Tawfiq

NEW RELEASE - TSUNAMI

2005-12-31T23:48:00.001-08:00

PART 1
Corruption and Tsunami
Mawlana Syaikh Hisyam Kabbani
Suhbat 01-01-2005, Michigan USA

Obey Allah, obey the Prophet (s) and those in authority among you. Obeying Allah results in reaching paradise. Obeying the Prophet (s) results in paradise. Obeying those in authority keeps one from going to prison.

Allah said, Dhahar al-fasaada fil-barri wal-bahr bi ma kasabat aydeen-naas li yudheeqahum ba`da alladhee `amiloo la`allahum yarji`oona. Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of (the deeds) that the hands of men have earned, that ((Allah)) may give them a taste of some of their deeds: in order that they may turn back (from Evil). [30:41]

Fasad means corruption. Fasad can mean people leaving their prayers, and fasting, their charity, leaving remembrance of Allah, not remembering the Prophet (s), not doing what Allah wants, running after zina (fornication), running after drinking, running after all that Allah has said for us to avoid. And that is one side and the other side means corruption in the system, corruption between governments, corruption in business, corruption in cheating people.

All this is under fasad. Also under this is backbiting, speaking about others, trying to promote false issues about people, trying to innovate new schools of thought that are not Islamic but are radical in their ideology. li yudheeqahum ba`da alladhee `amiloo la`allahum yarji`oona that ((Allah)) may give them a taste of some of their deeds: in order that they may turn back (from Evil).

That corruption has been appearing on earth and on sea. Appearing on earth full of corrupton, all kinds. On sea , full of corruption and full of fasad. This happens because of what people have done for your selves. "This what you have done O human beings!" Allah mentioned that for every generation from beginning to end. And Allah said He is going to make them to taste, for what they have done, to taste hard times.

And Allah has a lot of ways and means to make people to taste hardship through what they have done thru their corruption. But within that it might be innocents will go also. When punishment comes, it comes in general. It reaches those who were doing it and it reaches those who were not. Those who were innocent go as shaheed. Those who were not innocent, Allah gives them hardship. And the Prophet (s) said, "Ya Ayesha we are a nation that Allah gave mercy (ummatun marhooma)." So Allah gives us hardship in dunya to clean them for the next life. That is because the dunya has no value even compared to that of a mosquito. It might be the wing of the mosquito has more value than all of this dunya. So is He .

And Allah has a lot of means to do that. He is not waiting for other people. He might make some people to fight others. Say: "He hath power to send calamities on you, from above and below, or to cover you with confusion in party strife, giving you a taste of mutual vengeance - each from the other. See how We explain the signs by various (symbols); that they may understand." [6:65 ]. And Allah has many ways and means, not many, but infinite. And no one can do anything. They say "nature is angry." Allah is not happy, Allah is angry with what is going on. One time sayyidina Musa said, "O my Lord, when you send you revenge on some people, many innocents are included." Is there an answer for that? Allah said, "Ya Musa, go to that forest and see a rock and sit on that rock and wait for My answer." He was kaleemullah speaking to Allah without intermediary.

So he went to that rock and waited for that answer. And where he was sitting there was a nest of ants. Allah ordered the ants to go and climb on his leg. And Musa was not feeling them as they were climbing his calf. Then Allah ordered one ant of these hundreds to bite him. So one ant bit Sayyidina Musa and since he was in pain he pressed on his leg and crushed all the ants. Allah said, "Ya Musa, when adhaab comes, whoever is in that area, it will hit him." That is why Sayyidina Lut was ordered to take his children and go out. Sayyidina Nuh was ordered to take the believers with him because when adhaab comes it is gone. Because at that time when adhaab comes it does not leave anyone.

When Sayyidina Muhammad came, he asked Allah, "Don't make my nation like those before when you would take them all at one time." Allah accepted that du`a and said, "I will not take them all at once, but they will fight amongst themselves." Now Allah is giving us lessons to learn and He has a lot of signs. And everything is obeying Allah. Everything is waiting for Allah's Orders. When Allah's Orders come, no one can stop events. And these Allah's Orders are coming in the way of an inspiration or a way of understanding that people might not be aware of but there is a way of ordering, by which heavenly orders come.

When Allah's Will comes, it goes from His Ocean of Wills to His Ocean of Knowledge. When the Essence, when Dhatullah, the unknown, absolute unknown, that even Sayyidina Muhammad was told, qul huw Allahu ahad. Hu means the Absolute Unknown. When you say Allah, that encompasses the 99 names and attributes. You cannot know more than the Attributes and Names: The Generous; the Veiler; the Merciful. When He wants something, then the attribute al-`Aalim, takes and plans it and then His Attribute of al-Qaadir executes it. And when qudrah, through the name al-Qaadir, when the power appears through His qudrah, that is energy. Every moment a creation is coming into existence. Not just our earth. What is earth? That is nothing but the head of a pin in this universe, it is nothing.

And if someone will only think a little bit, they say that the earth moved a fraction in its spinning around its axis, due to that earthquake, because it was a big earthquake. But they did not say who made this earth to spin around its axis. If there are scientists and geniuses today, can they make the earth to rotate clockwise? Or can they make it stop rotating? Who is making the earth to rotate? It is something beyond the mind. If people think about it a little, people would be in sajda day and night, because there is not one moment to waste. If you waste your time not in sajda, then you are wasting your time.

Common people are not in that mood. Awliya are in that mood. Is Azraeel coming with punishment or mercy. That is why you see them always in worship, either thru prayers or helping others or visiting sick people or advice or counseling for Allah's sake. Not something else. We are busy in all kinds of things that make us to deviate from what Allah wants us to be. Wa maa khalaqta al-jinn wal-ins ill-liy`abudoon I have only created Jinns and men, that they may serve Me. [51:56]. No Sustenance do I require of them, nor do I require that they should feed Me. [51:57]. Whoever does that Allah will provide for them. That is for normal people. But those who are doing for dunya and working hard for
dunya and giving in Allah's way, that is considered worship for them. Those who do in dunya and help the poor as if they are in Allah's way all the time, like awliya, who are always in sajda.

But those who are running after dunya. Allah will have a different judgment for them. Sayyidina Musa pressed on his leg and caused all the ants to die. Anyone who goes in a disaster, especially in drowning, the Prophet (s) said, "Whoever died in drowning or died in a fire is shaheed." Because Allah sent His reminder to His servants. The One who made the earth to spin on its axis no one can say to Him anything, it is His Will, He can make it spin the other direction or to stop spinning or to blow it up completely.

Everything is praising Allah, but you cannot understand their praises. Why when someone speaks, you can hear. The sound comes in a vibration and it enters the ear inside which are three bones and these then drum on a coiled tube which contains many nerves, and in this way the waves are picked up by these nerves. And when we speak we generate waves and we hear. Why then cannot we hear whatever is making the tasbih. Our ears are not cleaned or not tuned. No they are not tuned. It means the different wavelengths that are made by these minerals and creations. The earth has its own tasbih, the moon has its own tasbih and whatever is on earth as well has its tasbih.

You see these walkie-talkies that you buy. Each one has its own frequency. They can hear according to the frequency that they are assigned. Allah made human beings to create machines that can listen to different aspects of the human body and read it, they can read the heart and graph it. You can see that EKG. You can hear only a sound using a stethoscope; you can tell generally if that heart is good. But they sometimes put that instrument there to detect the heart. When it goes flat what does it mean? inna lillah wa inna ilayhi raji`oon

You cannot know that until that line becomes zero. It means every star is praising Allah, and every constellation, in its own vibrations. That is why from far they are receiving these vibrations. That means they are at a different frequency. Ma zaala abdee yataqarabu ilaya bin-nawaafil hatta uhibuh. Fa idha ahbabtahu kuntu sam`aulladhee yasma`u bihi wa basar-ulladhee yubsiroo bihi wa yadah-ulladhee yabtashu bihi wa rijlah-ulladhee yamshee bihi. "My servant approaches Me thru voluntary worship until I will be the ears which he can hear with.." It means these vibrations can be heard. That is what differs awliya from normal people. That is different kinds of vibrations, like ultraviolet light. And that is not just a different kind of vibration but it is a different language.

"You cannot understand their tasbih" It means they are speaking a form of language. Look for computers, how many languages are there? [200, 300] Where is that language? Can you name some of these? And what they did for all these languages to speak with each other, they innovated a software to speak with each other. They are all different frequencies but that software can interact with all different languages. If that can be done with software, what do you think that Allah cannot give such a software to His Messenger who went on Isra and Mi`raj.

Similarly there are so many languages that can be seen and understood from those who are inheriting from the Prophet (s). That you must understand. Sometimes you have movie stage and there is a magician. That magician begins to take from the hat rabbits. How many? He keeps taking out. Or he waves his hand and he makes someone disappear. That is from the two angels of Sulayman. They followed what the evil ones gave out (falsely) against the power of Solomon: the blasphemers Were, not Solomon, but the evil ones, teaching men Magic, and such things as came down at babylon to the angels Harut and Marut. But neither of these taught anyone (Such things) without saying: "We are only for trial; so do not blaspheme." They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife. But they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah's permission.

And they learned what harmed them, not what profited them. And they knew that the buyers of (magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter. And vile was the price for which they did sell their souls, if they but knew! [2:102] Wa labis ma sharaw bihi anfusahum. Allah is saying that they are teaching people how to separate people from each other to create confusion and not to give benefit to each other. What to these magicians do. They change the frequency of the light that is being emitted. So that frequency. so when they move their hands they change the frequency. And then you cannot see what is on the stage. Or they show you the frequency of a rabbit.

If that is a magician what about the Prophet (s)? What about the sahaba even. Sayyidina Umar in one second was reaching to Saariya from Madinah al-munawwarah to Sham. "and such things as came down at babylon to the angels Harut and Marut. But neither of these taught anyone (Such Things) without saying: "We are only for trial; so disbelieve no." If people are inheriting from shaytan how do these square-headed people say that no one is inheriting from the Prophet (s)? Where did they throw this kind of knowledge, tassawuf. And they are becoming so obnoxious that they cannot see these frequencies.

They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife. And how bad indeed was that for which they sold themselves if they but knew. If that is the case, everything has its language, when you have the pure right heart, alaa bi-dhikrillah tatma'in al-quloob. "Those who believe, and whose hearts find satisfaction in the remembrance of Allah. for without doubt in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find satisfaction. [13:28]

Allah gave a language to earth and ordered it to praise Him more and more in a certain place because too much corruption is there. When that praise begins it causes too much boiling. Kaana tastajeer. Earth was crying, asking Allah swt and boiling asking for heavenly support on that night. Asking heavenly power to come on earth. Asking Allah to send his awliya, to send them to take that corruption. Calling for Mahdi to come. And that sound was coming from that area. That Indonesia area, there are a lot of awliya there, lot of Muslim jinn there. In that whole area, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Indian ocean.

They were asking to send heavenly power from up. Hajj is coming. Dunya.. Most hadith had happened. Look in books of hadith, Sahih Muslim and Bukhari. Dunya is coming to its end. They were praising and praising and praising so much and that went up from that area. Those who understand the language of vibration, given purity, they know what is going on. Don't think earthquake come haphazard like that. They say there is a belt of earthquakes. That is the belt of awliya, and jinn. Those are main stations of awliya and jinn. They are yastajeeroona billah. That is the small shake wait for the big shake. When the entire earth will shake altogether. O mumin try to learn the language of the earth, of the sun, of the moon. Learn the language of the universe. Then you will be saying like the Prophet (s), "If you know what I know you will cry a lot and laugh a little."

We are not created to only run after bad desires. May Allah protect us from the big one that is coming. The Prophet (s) said, "too many earthquakes will occur in the last days." Four years ago Mawlana Shaykh said to me, "My son, there will be coming a day in the very near future, that you will be hearing that 100,000 died, 500,000 died a whole city disappeared." Muhyiddeen ibn Arabi said that there will come a day that people will be walking on dead bodies. Now you can see that. No one believed him, still they speak bad about him. What do you think when the big one comes, idha zulzilat al-ardu zilzalaha. We have to try our best. We are not Sahaba, we are not awliya. Because you are weak and helpless, inna ma `amaalu bin-niyyaat. Every action is by intention.

You only have to make your intention. We cannot do what the Prophet (s) is doing. We cannot do what Sahaba are doing. We cannot do like awliya are doing. We can only do like an ant. Earth is still seeking refuge in Him from the corruption that is going on until today. Those resorts were resorts for corruption. Now they are no longer there. They are doing in the Gulf many resorts now. They are making a resort in the Gulf out of many islands and they are in the shape of the whole world. And they are selling homes there, so you can buy for example, on Somalia island, a home there.

And all kinds of prostitution and fornication and drinking is taking place there.That is coming for them also. Allah is not leaving them. Anyone that comes against Allah, Allah comes against them. May Allah save us and save us from corrupted people.

Bi-hurmatil fatiha.

PART 2
Thursday Night, 6 January 2005
Bigger Tsunami Will Happen
Suhbat by Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani qs.

Ba'da dhikr Khatm Khawajagan
A'uudzu billahi minasy syaithanirrajiim, Bismillaahirrahmanirrahiim. Nawaytul Arba'in, Nawaytul I'tikaf, Nawaytul Khalwah, Nawaytul 'Uzlah Nawaytur Riyadah, Nawaytus Suluuk, Lillahi ta'alaa. Athi'ullaaha wa athi'urrasuula wa ulil amri minkum (QS An Nisa' 4: 59)
Allah SWT orders us to obey Him, to obey Prophet/Rasul (s) and to obey our leaders or people who are in authority. Allah does not like us to disobey.

Allah said: "Innaa Nahnu Nazzalna dz-dzikraa wa innaa lahuu lahaafizhuun" (QS Al Hijr 15:9), "Surely We have revealed Adh-Dhikr (the Reminder) and We will most surely be its guardian (literally: We save it)". That Dhikr (The Reminder) is revealed only to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s), not to anyone else. Revealed to him through the Archangel Sayyidina Jibril 'alaihissalam. The general meaning of Adh-Dhikr is Holy Quran. It means everything in the Holy Quran. It means everything in the whole creation because Allah said: "Wa laa rotbin wa laa yaabisin illaa fii kitabin mubiin (QS Al-An'aam 6:59)" "nor anything green nor dry but (it is all) in a clear book (Holy Quran)". Living or non-living is in the Holy Quran.

Holy Quran: is Divine Knowledge that Allah SWT bestows and gives to Prophet (s) over or about the whole creation, before the time of the Prophet (s) and after the time of the Prophet (s). That is why, Holy Quran mentioned stories of previous ummah (nations) and also future scientific knowledge. Also, Hadits of the Prophet (s), the Tradition,
is also revelation. Allah mentioned in the Holy Quran: "Wa maa yanthiqu 'anil hawa', in huwa illa wahyuy yuuhaa" (QS. An-Najm 53:3-4) "Nor does he speak out of desire. It is naught but revelation that is revealed".

Real Ulama' (Awliyaullah - the Saints of Allah) can extract meaning and secrets from Words, from letters of the Holy Quran. Normal Ulama only study here and there (to know what is already talked/written in books). Prophet (s) is given that Knowledge from Allah, then Prophet (s) divide the Knowledge to his Sahabah(s). Every one is a star, a guide (to humanity), carrying different Hadits that Prophet has given to him. And the inheritors of the Sahabah, i.e. Awliya'ullah, carry that Knowledge also.

[Like what was mentioned in previous suhbat on 1st January 2005] Innocent people died with people who are not innocent. Both of them under certaiin tajalli of Allah's names. The innocents will go with those who are not innocent. Why? Remember the story of sayyidina Musa 'alaihissalam (told in previous suhbat) when he asked Allah about Allah's Justice. Then Allah told him to wait in the forest. Then hundreds of ants crawling on him. When only one of the ants bit him, he immediately smashed all of them to death.

We have to learn from this lesson: Death come with no notice, at anytime, at any place, at any occasion. When 'ajal (death) came, no one can run away. But, if 'ajal is not written, even he/she is in the middle of explosion, in the middle of earth quake, in the middle of
ocean, then he/she will be safe. Allah took whom He wants. We do not know why, and we can not ask why. Allah said (in the verse mentioned above), "We preserve the Holy Book
untill Judgement Day, and (including) the secrets in it , is going to be 'saved' " 'To be saved' means to be poured into someone's container that can take this and save it until the time it (the secret) will (should) appear. Like nowadays, if we'd like to save anything into our computers, we press the button 'save'. If we don't do it, it will disappear. That 'saving' means to be saved into different frequency of vibration.

The technology available nowadays, already mentioned by the Holy Quran to the Prophet (s) 1400 years ago. But, we cannot understand it. [Allah said] "Wa in min syai-in illaa yusabbihu bihamdihi wa laakin laa tafqahuuna tasbiihahum" (QS Al-Isra' 17:44), "and there is not a single thing but glorifies Him with His praise, but you do not understand their glorification". It (the Knowledge, the Secret) is saved, but we do not have the Technology to extract them out. Allah SWt said (in the same verse, the beginning part): "Tusabbihu lahuu s-samaawaatu s-sab'u wa l-ardhu wa man fiihinna" [QS Al-Isra' 17:44] "The seven heavens declare His glory and the earth (too), and those who are in them;" It means everything is glorifying Him, but you cannot understand their glorification.

In other verse (QS Al-Hijr 15:9): "Surely We have revealed Adh-Dhikr (the Reminder) and We will most surely be its guardian (literally: We save it)" It means every creation is saved in the Holy Quran. It means all the frequency of vibrations. Like in computer: we save everything (every kind of data, ed.) into computer as frequency (of number) from 0 to 1.
Awliya'ullah, what they inherited in their heart(s) from the Prophet (salla-Allahu 'alayhi wasallam) are with different frequencies. They can decode them by pressing "the button" which is the Asmaul Husna (the Beautiful Names of Allah), and all this knowledge come out onto "screen" in front of them, like now they have this teleprompter in front of the news presenter. What is written in the teleprompter comes out from computer.

All this number is from 0 to 1. As you become 0, and you will be given 1, the Knowledge.(Allah said) "We revealed it, and save it". It means Kalamullah (Words of Allah) can not be changed. Everything in the Quran is to be taken out at its time. This Awliya' know. So, when they see that [as Allah mentioned] "Zhaharal fasaadu fil barri wal bahri bimaa kasabat aydin naas..." [QS. Ar-Ruum 30:41]. "Corruption has appeared in the land and the sea on account of what the hands of men have wrought," they are asking Allah, yastajiruuna billaah. Everything glorifying and praising Allah. That glorification was moving so much like thunder that then it moves the earth. Awliyaullah are too many in that area, and they were praising and praising too much that it shakes everything. When everything shakes, everything goes.

The Earth turns around its axis (rotation). When it turns, it creates magnetic field that protects the Earth from radiation from outside. Allah said in the Holy Quran in Suurah Al-Anbiya' (Surah no. 21): "wa yaquuluuna mataa haadzal wa'du in kuntum saadiqiin" [QS 21:38, see also 10:48 and 36:48]. "And they say: When will this threat come about, if you are truthful?" They said, "When it will happen...?" "Idzaa Zulzilatil Ardhu Zilzaalahaa" [QS.az-Zalzalah 99:1] "When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking," That Tsunami in Asia that just happened is just the beginning. Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi mentioned in Futuhat al-Makkiyyah, that there will be a time when a child's hair will grow White, because 6 out of 7 people will die. Look now, leaders are (still able) going to that place (to Indonesia for holding a Summit over the Tsunami, ed.). What is coming in front of us is much bigger, no more leaders. Everyone is devastated.

Allah said: "Bal ta'tiihim baghtatan fa-tabhatuhum falaa yastathii'uuna raddahaa wa laa hum yunzharuun" [QS Al-Anbiya' 21:40]. "Nay, it shall come on them all of a sudden and cause them to become confounded, so they shall not have the power to avert it, nor shall they be respited." What just happened (the Tsunami in Asia) is a small sign. Wait until
you see the big sign. Six out of seven people will go (will die, ed.) So, if now the Earth has 6 billion population, only 800 million will remain alive. It will be more than earthquake.

There are two kind of punishment:
1. From above, from every direction (from outside)
2. From within

Allah mentioned in Qs Anbiya' 21:44 "Bal matta'naa haa-ulaa-i wa aabaa ahum hattaa thoola 'alaihimu l-'umur" "Nay, We gave provision to these and their fathers until life was prolonged to them." They have plan for (their) future, up in 5 years, for their next 10 years, 20 years, etc. Look how people are now running to help the victims of Tsunami. That is important, to help other people (with food, shelter, medicine, etc). But, remember also to help people for their aakhirah. They are not thinking about this.

[in the continuation of the ayah, verse] "Afalaa yarauna annaa na'til ardha nanqushuhaa min athraafihaa. Afahumu l-ghaalibuun" [QS 21:44] "Do they not then see that We are visiting the land, curtailing it of its sides? Shall they then prevail?" Gradually, We (Allah) reduce the land which is in their control. So, reducing the border. Who is going to win? We or them? It came to them where people do not think it's going to come. That is, it came from the ocean. From the border. (As Allah mentioned in the verse, "nanqushuhaa min athrafihaa, reducing the land from its border from the ocean on the coast area, ed.)

Angels are seeking refuge, Awliya' seeking refuge, The Earth is also seeking refuge. When you hold a wire, a long wire, and you shake it at one end, a vibration or a wavelength will be created. So, what happened is Angel was just touching, taking the praises and glorification (from Awliya'), touching at one end, and making a line vibration. We have to praise day and night in order that that vibration (caused by the touch of the Angel at one end) does not destroy th whole world. And this is just a small sign!! "annaa na'til ardha nanqushuhaa min athraafihaa.." Gradually reducing... means the Earth is reduced. The protective layer of the Earth, Allah SWT will flip it inside, destroying Earth... when 6 out of 7 people will die.

Don't say, "How is it going to happen?" Even if Awliya' had told you before that a Tsunami would happen (in Asia, ed), you would not have believed them. After this Tsunami (the Asia Tsunami) happened, bigger than this Tsunami will happen!! This is to remind people of Akhirah. The Day of Judgement is coming. And it will not differentiate old or young. Look on TV: children loosing their sisters, their brothers, father, mother, grandparens, they became orphan. And that was just the result of a small tsunami.

Bigger Tsunami will happen!

Don't be afraid! If bigger tsunami comes and takes you away, at least you have done good in dunya. Fasad (Corruption in broad meanings. See previous suhbat!, ed.) must be finished. All, on these beaches, all kind of Fasad happened. And Allah does not like it so.
Do your 5 Pray. Do your charity. Do your fasting Ramadan. Do your Hajj. And make Shahadah every day. If these five pillars not enough, and you need more protection, use Ihsan, as mentioned by Prophet sall-Allahu 'alaihi wasallam.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq, bihurmatil habib Al-Faatihah.

Qualification of a Master, Need of Living Guide, Bay'at, Uways Qarani, Taking Syaikh

2005-12-31T23:48:00.000-08:00

Qualifications of a Master

The master must have four qualifications:
· He must be a scholar in all the obligations of the religion;
· He must be a Knower (carif);
· He must be an expert in the way of purifying the Self;
· He must be authorised by his shaikh to give guidance.

1. Being a Scholar in the Obligations of the Religion

The master must be a scholar in all religious obligations, such as the conditions of prayers, the conditions of fasting and the conditions of zakat (obligatory charity). He must be knowledgeable in the Jurisprudence of Islam and all necessary matters of Islamic Shari'ah. He must be a scholar in the Science of Tawhid (Oneness) according to the Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama'at, and all the and all the other conditions of faith (iman).

2. Being a Knower

To be a Knower means the master or murshid must have the knowledge of the conditions of the state of Ihsan, as mentioned by the Prophet (s) in the hadith, "Worship Allah as if you are seeing Him, and if you are not seeing Him, know that He is seeing you." A Knower must bear witness in his heart that Allah is the Unique One in His Essence, and in His Attributes, and in His Actions. He must know about His Attributes through Vision and Taste, by experiencing self-effacement in the Divine Presence.

3. Being Sanctified

The Master must have already purified or sanctified himself as a seeker under a master of his own. He will have come to know the different stages of the ego, its illnesses and its defects. The Master must be fully aware of all the methods Satan uses to enter the heart. He must know all the ways to sanctify others and the methods to heal his followers in order to raise them up to reach the State of Perfection.

If a seeker comes to the shaikh with perfect sincerity and truthfulness, asking to be initiated in the order, the shaikh must not hurry to initiate him, until he knows that he will remain trustworthy when he reaches the Goal. He must look at his capability. If his capability corresponds to the capability of the Close Ones (muqarrabin), then he will show him the way, as it is the way of the Trustworthy.

That way is built on killing one's own will, and connecting and submitting oneself to the will of one's shaikh. One must do as the Prophet (s) said, "Die before you die!" He must leave his natural will, which causes him to move according to his mind, and leave all his affairs to the will of his shaikh. The shaikh will lift him up through a path filled with difficulties, train him through worship, and guide him to a state of complete Self-
Effacement. Only this will elevate him to the Divine Presence.

That is why Khwaja Ubaidullah al-Ahrar said: "Who is the shaikh? The shaikh is the one who can know, through the vision that Allah has granted him, the capability of his murid. From the day he meets him to the day of his death, he will know which state the murid will attain, and in which way he will taste, and in which way he will reach the Divine Presence. If the shaikh cannot summon that knowledge, it is forbidden (haram) for him to give the seeker initiation."

He continued, "The shaikh must avoid the wealth of his murid. If the murid wishes to help the shaikh it is his choice. The states of guidance are above all states, and the master must not ask except from the Divine Presence." "It is said that one time a murid of Junaid came to him and wanted to give him all his money. Junaid refused and said, 'No.' When that same murid reached the State of Perfection and was lifted up to the Divine Presence, he came to Junaid and again wanted to give all his money to him. At that time he said, 'Yes. Now, I accept, because when you give now, you will not regret later.'

"That is why we don't like our murids to give all their money to the shaikh. When they haven't reached the state of perfection, they might regret later and be in doubt, and they will be harmed. But when the murid reaches that state he will give sincerely and will never regret it later. The evidence of this is that Sayyidina Abu Bakr and Sayyidina 'Umar came to the Prophet (s) and from the first Sayyidina Abu Bakr gave all his money. The Prophet (s) asked, 'What have you left for your family?' He replied, 'I have left them Allah and his Prophet (s).' When the murid reaches the state of real generosity and real perfection, then the shaikh may accept what he gives. If he has not reached that state his gift must not be accepted."

The shaikh must not order any of his followers to do something he himself cannot do or would not do. He must know all the obligatory and forbidden actions according to the Shari'ah. Similary, he must know all the States of spirituality, and must have tasted all Tastes, so that he is an example, and when he speaks he speaks with real knowledge.
An example of this is a lady who came to a perfect shaikh one time with her son, saying, "My son is always asking for sweets. Please pray for him to leave that desire, as I don't always have sweets to give him." He said, "Be patient for three days and then bring him back to me." After three days she brought him back and the shaikh told him, "O my son, don't eat candies, because it is harmful for your stomach."

From that day the child never ate sweets again. Some time later someone asked the shaikh, "Why did you wait three days to give the child that advice?" The shaikh replied, "When the lady came to me, she asked me to prevent her child from eating sweets. I couldn't do that for him because I myself was under that temptation of eating sweets. So I stopped eating sweets for three days. When I had stopped, I was able to make a du'a for him, and that du'a was acceptable."

Qushayri relates in his Letter that allaj was once asked to talk about poverty. He said, "Wait a minute." He entered his house, went out somewhere and came back. Then he sat and spoke, saying poverty consists of this and this and that. One murid asked him, "O my shaikh, why didn't you speak like this from the beginning?" He said, "When I was asked, I had one dirham in my house. I couldn't speak about poverty while I still had something. So I went took that dirham, went and spent it in Allah's way, and then I could speak on poverty."

4. Having His Master's Authorization

The Shaikh must have authorization from his Master for training and uplifting his followers and showing the Way of this Path. That ijaza (permission) must reach him through the chain of the grandshaikhs from one to another, all the way back to the Prophet (s). As the wise person will not go to a doctor who has no license in healing, so the seeker in this way must find a perfect guide who has received the license, the ijaza, from his shaikh. Imam Muslim said, "This great knowledge [the knowledge of the self] is by itself the religion. So you have to know from whom you take your religion." In the book of Hafiz ibn Ali Kanz al-cUmmal," the following hadith is found. The Prophet (s) said, "O Umar, your din is your flesh and blood. Look at those from whom you take your din; take it from those who are on the right path and don't take from those who deviated." A knower said, "Knowledge is a spirit which is blown into the hearts, not philosophy or pretty tales to be written. So be very careful from whom you take it."

5. The Signs of Mastery

The main indication of mastery is that when you sit with a master you feel a breeze of faith, spiritual pleasure. He doesn't speak except for Allah. He is always advising the good. You will benefit from being in his company as you benefit from his words. You will benefit when you are far from him as you benefit when you are near him. You must see among his murids the picture of faith, sincerity, humbleness and taqwa (God-consciousness), and you must remember, when you are mixing with them, the highest state of love and truth and deference to others. You must see that his followers represent all different kinds of people in the community. That is how the Companions of the Prophet were.

Importance of Taking a Shaikh
Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil al Haqqani

Allah said in the Holy Qur'an, "Fear God and accompany Trustworthy people" [9:119]. Allah's Word is for all time, for every era and for every century. It is an ongoing order, from which we understand the importance of keeping company with the Trustworthy. Allah orders all human beings to accompany them, because by keeping their company one will see how they live their lives, how they deal with people, how they address their companions, how they eat, how they sleep, how they worship. By accompanying them, one will learn all their good manners, and their ways of life.

Another way too understand this verse, is that one should accompany a trustworthy person, because to be trustworthy is very rare and not many people achieve it. Everyone, however, can find a trustworthy person and accompany him, in order to be guided. Following a Trustworthy One is essential to our spiritual path. Such a one is needed to lead us and guide us and to be a beacon for us on that way. In the Naqshbandi Order, the living presence of a connected shaikh is essential. Through his physical and spiritual linkage to the Prophet (s) he establishes the murid's connection. The murid's obligation is to maintain his connection to his shaikh, to hold tightly to the hand of the one within his reach. The shaikh maintains the further connection to the previous shaikhs and to the Prophet (s).

From what has been said above, and in the biographies of the Masters, the importance of accompanying a True Master has been clearly demonstrated. It provides the seeker with the opportunity to learn the essentials of ethics and good conduct, to discover the hidden defects of his heart, and to be lifted to the states of perfection. There are two requisites for entering upon such an endeavor: when the seeker feels the need to seek in this way he must purify his intention and ask his Lord to connect him to a Truthful One; and he must look in his own country for someone who will point him in the direction of the Perfect Master.

The Need for a Living Guide
Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil

If one is separated from his shaikh by death or other circumstances, it becomes necessary to find a living guide, who can complete the work of the first master. The path itself is not the Goal, but the means to reach the Goal. Holding onto the attachment to a master who is no longer present, usually represents an unrealistic expectation and a false hope. It may also be a manifestation of pride. Although they had already pledged themselves to the Prophet (s), the Companions had to take initiation with Sayyidina Abu Bakr (r) after the passing of the Prophet (s), and as they renewed their pledge to the successive khalifs, Sayyidina 'Umar, Sayyidina 'Uthman and Sayyidina 'Ali, so too does a sincere seeker need to put his hand into the hand of a living shaikh, and renew his initiation, in order to complete his journey to the Divine Presence.

Taking Initiation (Bay'ah)
Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil al Haqqani

The seeker must follow a perfect Master able to guide him to the way of Allah, Almighty and Exalted, and to illuminate for him that way until he reaches the State of Annihilation. The seeker must give his oath and his promise to his guide, to learn from him how to leave his bad manners and to lift himself to better conduct in order to reach the Perfect Knowledge of Spirituality.

The meaning of initiation and its conditions have been mentioned in the Holy Qur'an, in the Sunnah of the Prophet and in the life of the Companions.

1. In verse 10 of Surat al-Fath, "Verily those who swear allegiance to thee indeed swear allegiance to Allah. The hand of Allah is over their hands. So whoever breaks his oath, breaks it to his own loss; and whoever fulfills the covenant that he has made with Allah, He will surely give him a great reward." [48:10]

2. In verse 91 of Surat an-Nahl, "And fulfill the Covenant of Allah when you have made it; and break not your oaths after making them firm, while you have made Allah your surety. Certainly, Allah knows what you do." [16:91]

3. In verse 34 of Surat al-Isra', "and fulfill the covenant, for the covenant shall be questioned about." [17:34]. We see the Qur'an encouraging the people to give their oath and to keep their oath to the Prophet (s), who leads them to the presence of Allah, Almighty and Exalted. That initiation was done in the time of the Prophet (s) and after the time of the Prophet (s).

According to the Sunnah of the Prophet (s), the oath was taken from men, as a group, or as individuals; from women, as a group or as individuals, and even from children. Bukhari and Muslim narrate that cUbada ibn as-Samit said, "The Prophet (s) said, 'Give me your pledge and oath not to associate anything with Allah, not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to kill your children, not to backbite, not to fall into sin; and who keeps his promise, then his reward is from Allah, Almighty and Exalted.' And then we gave our pledge to the Prophet (s) and our oath."

The Prophet (s) used to give initiation (bay'ah) to all people and urged them to take it. Bukhari and Muslim narrated in their books that 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar said, "When we pledged to the Prophet (s) to listen and obey, the Prophet (s) used to say, 'To the limit that you can carry.'"

Initiation of Women

The Prophet (s) gave baya'h to women many many times. It is narrated by Imam A mad in the Musnad that Salma bint Qays said, "I came to the Prophet (s) with many people from the Ansar, and we gave him our bay'ah, our pledge that we would not associate anyone with Allah, we would not steal, we would not commit adultery, we would not kill our children, we would not backbite and we would not disobey. We gave him our bay`ah and we went."
Initiation of Children. The Prophet (s), according to the books of Nisa'i and Tirmidhi gave initiation to Umayymah bint Ruqiyyah. It was narrated by Tabarani that 'Izza bint Khayyil took initiation from the Prophet (s) when they were not yet seven. It was also narrated by Tabarani in in an authentic hadith that the Prophet (s) gave baycah to al-H asan, al-H ussain, cAbdullah ibn cAbbas and cAbdullah ibn Jacfar when they were 7 years of age.

The Companions of the Prophet (s) gave baycah to the khalifs of the Prophet (s) after his passing. It is narrated through the books of Sirah of the Sahhaba that the Sahaba gave bay'ah to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, to cUmar ibn al-Khattab, to cUthman ibn cAffan, to cAli, to Mucawiya, and to all the khalifs who came later, as they had given it to the Prophet (s).
The Prophet (s) said in a hadith related by Abu Dawud and Ahmad, "Whoever imitates a group of people will be of them." So the inheritors of the Masters of the Sufi orders, especially the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, inherited the initiation in every century.

As it was an obligation in the time of the Prophet, and in the time of the Sahaba and in the time of the Tabicin and Tabic at-Tabicin, and in the times of the Umayyads, Abbasids, Seljukids, and Ottomans, so it is also an obligation to give our baycah to a perfect guide, who guides us to the Way of Allah, Almighty and Exalted. And who is a better guide than the Sufi Masters who are inheritors of the Prophet (s) and inheritors of the Divine Presence?

The scholar Abul asan cAli Nadwi wrote in his book Rijal al-Fikr wa-d-Dacwah , page 253, "Abdul Qadir Jilani, the Ghawth of the Sufi Orders, Shaikh Muhiyideen ibn cArabi, and all the Masters of the Naqshbandi Golden Chain, opened the door of initiation as wide as possible, for every individual who has good and true belief, to find something that will be of value to him spiritually, and for everyone to renew his baycah with Allah, Almighty and Exalted. These Sufi Masters of the Naqshbandi Golden Chain and all Sufi orders lifted their followers to a station of Truthfulness, to feel the responsibility of their initiation and to renew their faith."

Thus we see that it is an important factor in every Sufi Order for one to take baycah with the shaikh, in order to sanctify oneself and to be lifted up to the Divine Presence. These guides are the revivers in every century, to connect our hearts with the heart of the Prophet (s), who in his turn connects our heart to the Divine Presence. These guides are the beacon of the light of the Prophet (s) and the light of the Divine Presence and they are the true examples for all nations to follow.

Shaikh Abdullah ad-Daghestani's Vision of Uwais al-Qarani (r)
Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil al Haqqani

Our grandshaikh 'Abdullah ad-Daghestani said: "After Shaikh Sharafuddin passed, and I was awaiting an opening to emigrate from Turkey, I was in a seclusion in the mosque next to the tomb of my shaikh, praying one night before Fajr. It was a cold and snowy night. I could feel the coldness in my bones. I could hear the quiet falling of the snow on the trees and the howling of wolves in the woods. I heard a voice calling my name, 'Abdullah Effendi.' I looked around but saw no one. Then I heard the voice again calling out, 'Abdullah!' I looked again, but again could not see anyone.

I knew it was the voice of my shaikh. The warmth of that voice energized me, and I ran outside, without even putting on my shoes or my woolen cloak. I saw my shaikh in a brilliant vision, standing on the hill. He called to me and said, 'Abdullah Effendi, come.' I did not even think to put shoes on; I walked on the snow and could feel warmth from the Divine Love emanating from his spirit. As I reached him he said, 'My son, tonight I have been ordered to take you to the presence of Sayyidina Uwais al-Qarani (r) by the order of the Prophet (s).'"

"Then he said, 'My son, take my hand.' I was very happy to take the hand of my shaikh, and as soon as I took his hand I found myself in the association of saints, in the presence of the Prophet (s), and Sayyidina Uwais al-Qarani (r) was sitting there. We entered, and found there were two places left for us to sit. We gave our respect and took our places."
"Then Sayyidina 'Ali (r) stood up and said, 'For the first time we are revealing this secret to the association of saints. Only now have we received the permission from the Prophet for that secret to appear.'"

"I saw present in the gathering the 7,007 Naqshbandi saints, together with the 313 Naqshbandi saints who are on the footsteps of the 313 great messengers, and the grandshaikhs of the Golden Chain. Sayyidina 'Ali said, addressing the association, and especially me, 'When the Prophet (s) was passing away, he called Sayyidina 'Umar and me to his presence and he said, 'After I die, you take the clothes I am wearing when I pass away, as a trust from me to Uwais al-Qarani. You will find Uwais al-Qarani in such and such a place.''"

"Sayyidina 'Ali said, 'While the Prophet (s) lay dying he was sweating a great amount. After he had passed we took those sweat-soaked clothes as a trust. We went as the Prophet (s) had directed us and looked for Uwais al-Qarani. We asked about him but no one knew of him. Then Sayyidina 'Umar said, 'O Ali, we haven't found him and no one here knows of him. We might as well go back.' I said, 'O Umar, that is impossible. If the Prophet (s) said he is here, we must find him. Perhaps he is known by a different name.' Then we began asking, 'Do you know someone who is a shepherd? He takes care of his mother and never leaves her.' Some people said, 'Yes. But his name is not Uwais al-Qarani, his name is 'Abdullah.' Then they showed us where he lived.'"

"'We went to that place and we saw in the distance a man sitting with his back to us. We approached. When we came near, without turning around, he said, 'O 'Ali, O 'Umar, give me my trust.' Immediately we handed him the robe of the Prophet (s). He stood up, kissed the robe, put it on his head, then put it to his heart and said, 'I accept, I accept, I accept.''" "'We wondered why he was kissing the robe and saying these words, because he had never seen the Prophet (s) in all his life. But we were hesistant to ask.'"
"'Then he turned to Sayyidina 'Umar and said to him, 'Ya 'Umar, how many times have you seen the Prophet (s)?' 'Umar was astonished at this question. He said, 'That is a strange question. I spent my whole life in the company of the Prophet.' Sayyidina Uwais said, 'I am asking for a reason. How many times did you actually see him?' Sayyidina 'Umar said, 'How do you mean? I was with him all the time!' Sayyidina Uwais al-Qarani said, 'Describe him to me.' Sayyidina 'Umar began to describe the Prophet, his eyes, his features, his appearance. Then Sayyidina Uwais said, 'Ya 'Umar, this description is known to everyone, including those who disbelieved in him.'"

"'Then he looked at me and said, 'Ya 'Ali, how many times did you see the Prophet (s)?' I knew what he meant, and I said, 'Ya Uwais, in my life I only saw the Prophet (s) one time.' Sayyidina 'Umar was looking at me in amazement. I said, 'I saw him one time. The Prophet (s) called me and told me, 'Look at me from my navel and above.) I looked and I saw that the Prophet (s) from his navel up filled the universes and the Seven Heavens. From his neck and up, I was unable to see, but it was above the Sidratul Muntaha (Furthermost Limit). Then he told me, 'Look from my navel and down.' I looked and I saw all these universes, all these worlds, stars and planets had disappeared and all that I saw was the Prophet (s), from his waist to his knees filling up that entire space. And from his knees down to his feet I was unable to see. Then he (s) said, (Look at all of me, from top to bottom.) I looked at him, and the Sidratul Muntaha and all these universes disappeared, and all I saw was Muhammad (s), everywhere. At that time I knew that Muhammad (s) is the Heart of the Divine Presence (al-Haqiqat al-Muhammadiyya).'"

"'Then Sayyidina Uwais looked at me and said, 'You really saw the Prophet (s) one time. And that is why he (s) said about you, 'I am the City of Knowledge and 'Ali is its Door.' Allah has also given this Divine Knowledge to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, as the Prophet (s) mentioned, 'Whatever Allah poured into my heart, I poured into the heart of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq).'"'In this state of wonderment, Sayyidina 'Umar asked Sayyidina Uwais, 'What is the significance of that robe we brought to you?' He said, 'O 'Umar, that is one of the biggest secrets, which will not be revealed to people until the Last Days of his Nation. While the Prophet (s) was passing away, he was asking for intercession for his Nation.'"
"'Then he said, 'His Nation includes all human beings. And that is why Allah said, 'Say [O Prophet]: O mankind! I am a Messenger to you all from Allah, to Whom belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth.' [7: 158]. The Prophet asked for intercession and Allah gave permission. He was interceding for every individual that Allah created.

As he was asking he was sweating, and each drop of sweat represented one human being. He took on the burdens of each person. Until he was satisfied that Allah had forgiven everyone, then he left this world. And the symbols of that forgiveness are the drops of sweat which soaked this robe.'" "'This robe was given to me because the Prophet (s) wanted to tell me, 'O Uwais, I am passing to you the Divine Knowledge to clean the Nation after they make sins. You must pass that power to your successors, from me to you and from you to them.''" "And Sayyidina 'Ali said that Sayyidina Uwais al-Qarani said, 'I didn't see the Prophet (s) physically, but in every moment, of every day, I was with him during his life. I received from him every matter of importance for his Nation. I am going to transmit this secret to the many successors and inheritors among Allah's saints.

Without a physical connection but through a spiritual connection, they will receive the secret of the cleansing power and revive it in every century, until the Day of Judgment.'"
"Then Sayyidina 'Ali said to the association of saints, but directing his speech to me, 'What is passed to you and to many saints before you is from that Uwaisi power. This is the first time that secret has been revealed, by permission of the Prophet (s).'"
"Then my shaikh said to me, 'O my son, now you can go back to your seclusion.' As soon as he said that, I found myself entering the mosque and feeling the cold again." From time to time, saints experience such inspirations and visions through the spiritual power of their exalted predecessors.

Testimony of the Scholars of External Knowledge in Support of the Precedence of the Scholars of Internal Knowledge
Mawlana Syaikh Hisham Kabbani

Imam Abu Hanifa (81-150 H./700-767 CE)

Imam Abu Hanifa (r) (85 H.-150 H) said, "If it were not for two years, I would have perished. For two years I accompanied Sayyidina Jacfar as-Sadiq and I acquired the spiritual knowledge that made me a knower in the Way."
The book Ad-Durr al-Mukhtar, vol 1. p. 43, mentions that Ibn cAbidin said, "Abi Ali Dakkak, one of the sufi saints, received his path from Abul Qassim an-Nasarabadi, who received it from ash-Shibli, who received it from Sariyy as-Saqati who received it from Macruf al-Karkhi, who received it from Dawud at-Ta'i, who received the knowledge, both the external and the internal, from the Imam Abu Hanifa (r), who was supporting the Sufi Spiritual Path." The Imam said before he died: lawla sanatan lahalaka Nucman, "Were it not for a certain two years, Nucman [i.e. myself] would have perished." There were the last two years of his life, when he began accompanying Jacfar as-Sadiq (q).

Imam Malik (94-179 H./716-795 CE)

Imam Malik (r) said, "Whoever studies jurisprudence (fiqh) and didn't study Sufism (tasawwuf) will be corrupted; and whoever studied tasawwuf and didn't study jurisprudence will become a heretic; and whoever combined both will be reach the Truth." This saying is mentioned and explained in the book of the scholar 'Ali al-Adawi with the explanation of Imam Abil-Hassan, a scholar of jurisprudence, vol. 2, p. 195.

Imam Shafi'i (150-205 H./767-820 CE)

Imam Shafici said, "I accompanied the Sufi people and I received from them three knowledges:
1. They taught me how to speak
2. They taught me how to treat people with leniency and a soft heart.
3. They guided me in the ways of Sufism."

This is mentioned in the books, Kashf al-Khafa and Muzid al-Albas, by Imam 'Ajluni, vol. 1, p. 341.

Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (164-241 H./780-855 CE)

Imam Ahmad (r) said, advising his son, "O my son, you have to sit with the People of Sufism, because they are like a fountain of knowledge and they keep the Remembrance of Allah in their hearts. They are the ascetics and they have the most spiritual power." This is explained in the book Tanwir al-Qulub, p. 405, by Shaikh Amin al-Kurdi.
Imam Ahmad said about the Sufis, as mentioned in the book Ghiza al-Albab, vol. 1, p. 120, "I don't know any people better than them."

Imam al-Muhasibi (d. 243 H./857 CE)

Imam al-Muhasibi reported that the Prophet (s) said, "My Nation is going to split into 73 divisions and only one of them will be the Group of Salvation." And Allah knows best that the Group is the people of Tasawwuf. He went deeply into the explanation of that subject, in the book Kitab al-Wasiya p. 27-32.

Imam al-Qushayri (d. 465 H./1072 CE)

Imam al-Qushayri said about Sufism, "Allah made this group the best of His saints and He honored them above all of His Servants after His Messengers and Prophets, and He made their hearts the secrets of His Divine Presence and He chose them from among the Nation to receive His Lights. They are the means of humanity. He cleaned them from all connnections to this world, and He lifted them to the highest states of vision. And He unveiled to them the Realities of His Unique Oneness. He made them to observe His Will operating in them. He made them to shine in His Existence and to appear as Lights of His Lights." [ar-Risalat al-Qushayriyya, p. 2]

Imam Ghazali (450-505 H./1058-1111 CE)

Imam Ghazali, Hujjat ul-Islam, the Proof of Islam, said about Sufism, "I knew to be true that the Sufis are the seekers in Allah's Way, and that their conduct is the best conduct, and their way is the best way, and their manners are the most sanctified. They have cleaned their hearts from other than Allah and they have made them as pathways for rivers to run receiving knowledge of the Divine Presence." [al-Munqidh min ad-Dalal, p. 131].

Imam Nawawi (620-676 H./1223-1278 CE)

Imam Nawawi said, in his Letters, al-Maqasid, "The specifications of the Way of the Sufis are five:
1. To keep the Presence of Allah in your heart in public and in private;
2. To follow the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) by actions and speech;
3. To keep away from dependence on people;
4. To be happy with what Allah gives you, even if it is little;
5. To always refer your matters to Allah, Almighty and Exalted." [Maqasid at-Tawhid,p. 20]

Imam Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi (544-606 H./1149-1209 CE)

Imam Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi said, "The way the Sufis seek Knowledge is to disconnect themselves from this worldly life, and keep themselves constantly busy in their mind and in their heart, with Dhikrullah, during all their actions and behaviors." [Ictiqadat Firaq al-Muslimin, p. 72, 73]

Ibn Khaldun (733-808 H./1332-1406 CE)

Ibn Khaldun said, "The way of the Sufis is the way of the Salaf, the Scholars among the Sahahba, Tabicin, and Tabic at-Tabicin. Its origin is to worship Allah and to leave the ornaments of this world and its pleasures." [Muqaddimat ibn Khaldun, p. 328]

Tajuddin as-Subki

Tajuddin as-Subki (r) mentioned in his book Mucid an-Nacim, p. 190, under the chapter entitled Sufism, "May Allah praise them and greet them and may Allah make us to be with them in Paradise. Too many things have been said about them and too many ignorant people have said things which have no relation to them. And the truth is that they have left dunya and are busy with worship." He said, "They are the People of Allah, whose duca and prayers Allah accepts, and by means of whom Allah supports human beings."

Jalaluddan as-Suyuti

He said in his book Ta'yad al-Haqiqat al-cAliyya, p. 57, "Sufism in itself is the best and most honorable knowledge. It explains how to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) and to leave innovation."

Ibn Taymiyya (661-728 H./1263-1328 CE)

In Majmaca Fatawa Ibn Taymiyya, published by Dar ar-Rahmat, Cairo, Vol, 11, page 497, Book of Tasawwuf, Ibn Taymiyya says: "You have to know that the rightly-guided shaikhs must be taken as guides and examples in the Dan, as they are following in the footsteps of the Prophets and Messengers. The Way (tariqat) of those shaikhs is to call people to Allah's Divine Presence and obedience to the Prophet." Ibn Taymiyya says on page 499 of the same volume: "The shaikhs whom we need to take as guides are our examples and we have to follow them. As when on the Hajj (the pilgrimage), one needs a guide (dalil) to reach the Kacba, these shaikhs are our guide (dalil) to Allah and our Prophet (s)."

Among the shuyukh he mentioned are: Ibrahim ibn Adham, Macruf al-Karkhi, Hasan al-Basri, Rabia al-Adawiyya, Junaid ibn Muhammad, Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, Shaikh Ahmad ar-Rafa'i, and Shaikh Bayazid al- Bistami. Ibn Taymiyya quotes from Bayazid al-Bistami on page 510, Volume 10: "...the great Sufi shaikh, Bayazid al-Bistami, and the famous story of when he saw God in a vision (kashf) and said to Him: 'O Allah what is the way to You?' And Allah responded, 'Leave yourself and come to Me.'" Ibn Taymiyya continues quoting Bayazid al-Bistami, "I shed my self as a snake sheds its skin."

Implicit in this quotation is an indication of the need for zuhd (self-denial or abstention from the worldly life), as that was the path followed by Bayazid al-Bistami.
So we see from the above quotes, that Ibn Taymiyya was accepting many shaikhs by quoting them and urging people to follow guides to show the way to obey God and to obey the Prophet (s).

What Ibn Taymiyya Says About the Term Tasawwuf

"The crucible itself tells you, when you are strained, Whether you are gold or gold-plated copper." Sanai. Following is what Ibn Taymiyya said about the definition of Tasawwuf, from Volume 11, At-Tasawwuf, of Majmuca Fatawa Ibn Taymiyya al-Kubra, Dar ar-Rahmah, Cairo:
"Alhamdulillah, the use of the word tasawwuf has been thoroughly discussed. This is a term that was given to those who were dealing with that branch of knowledge (tazkiyat an-nafs and Ihsan)."

"Tasawwuf is the science of realities and states of experience. The Sufi is that one who purifies himself from everything which distracts him from the remembrance of Allah and who is so filled with knowledge of the heart and knowledge of the mind that the value of gold and stones will be equal to him. Tasawwuf safeguards the precious meanings and leaves behind the call to fame and vanity to reach the state of Truthfulness. The best of humans after the prophets are the Siddiqin, as Allah mentioned them in Surat An-Nisa', 69: "All who obey Allah and the Messenger are in the company of those on whom is the grace of Allah: the prophets, the sincere lovers of truth (siddiqin), the martyrs and the righteous; Ah! what a beautiful fellowship.'"

He continues about the Sufis, "They are striving to be obedient to Allah... So from them you will find the Foremost in Nearness by virtue of their striving. And some of them are from the People of the Right hand..."

The Sufi Cloak (khirqa)

Before proceeding to Imam Ibn Qayyim, it may be useful to say something about the wearing of the Sufi cloak. In the view of the Trustworthy, there are three categories of shaikh:
1. The Shaikh of the Cloak
2. The Shaikh of the Dhikr
3. The Shaikh of Guidance

The first two categories (The Shaikh of the Cloak and The Shaikh of the Dhikr) are really deputies of a shaikh, representing the reality of the shaikh or the tariqat through the intermediary of either the cloak or the dhikr. The Shaikh of the Cloak (Khirqah) depends on the power of the cloak to act on the murid. The murid takes his support from the cloak, which a fully realized Shaikh of Guidance has imbued with his blessings.

The murid of the Shaikh of Dhikr is supported by the dhikr, not directly by the shaikh. In these two cases, the shaikh becomes the symbol, because the real support of the murid is the cloak or the dhikr. The highest of the three categories is the Shaikh of Guidance. He is the one who supports the murid without any intermediary, directly from himself to the murid. He is the real shaikh because, without any means, he supports and directs the murid directly through his heart. That is why Sayyidina Ahmad al-Faruqi said, "In our tariqat the shaikh guides the murid directly, unlike other tariqats which use the cloak and other means to lift up their murids."

In the Naqshbandi Tariqat only one shaikh, the Shaikh of Guidance, is therefore accepted as possessing real authority. When that shaikh passes away, the murids must renew their initiation with his successor, to whom he has transmitted all his secrets and his inheritance from the Prophet (s) and all his predecessors in the Golden Chain.

Imam Ibn Qayyim (d. 751 H./1350 CE)

Imam Ibn Qayyim stated that, "We can witness the greatness of the people of tasawwuf in the eyes of the Salaf by what has been mentioned by Sufyan ath-Thawri (d. 161 H./777 CE). One of the greatest imams in the 2nd century and one of the foremost mujtahids, he said: "If not for Abu Hisham as-Sufi (d. 115 H./733 CE) I would never have perceived the action of the subtlest forms of hypocrisy (riya') in the self." (Manazil as-Sa'ireen)
Ibn Qayyim continues: "Among the best of people is the Sufi learned in fiqh."

Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab (1115-1201 H./1703-1787 CE)

Following is a quotation from Muhammad Man ar Nucmani's book (p. 85), Ad-Dia'at al-Mukaththafa Didd ash-Shaikh Muhammad ibn cAbdul Wahhab: "Shaikh cAbdullah, the son of shaikh Muhammad ibn cAbdul Wahhab, said about Tasawwuf: "My father and I don't deny or criticize the Science of Sufism, but on the contrary we support it because it cleans the external and the internal of the hidden sins which are related to the heart and the outward form. Even though the individual might externally be on the right way, internally he might be on the wrong way; and for its correction tasawwuf is necessary."

In the fifth volume of the collection of letters by Muhammad ibn cAbdul Wahhab entitled ar-Rasa'il ash-Shakhsiyya, page 11, and again on pages 12, 61, and 64, he states: "I never accused of unbelief Ibn cArabi or Ibn al-Farid for their Sufi interpretations."

Ibn Abidin

The great scholar, Ibn cAbidin in his book Rasa'il Ibn cAbidin (p. 172-173) states: "The Seekers in this Way don't hear except from the Divine Presence and they don't love any but Him. If they remember Him they cry. If they thank Him they are happy. If they find Him they are awake. If they see Him they will be relaxed. If they walk in His Divine Presence, they melt. They are drunk with His Blessings. May Allah bless them."

Shaikh Muhammad Abduh (1265-1323 H./1849-1905 CE)

He stated, "Tasawwuf appeared in the first century of Islam and it received a tremendous honor. It cleansed the self and straightened the conduct and gave knowledge to people from the Wisdom and Secrets of the Divine Presence." [quoted from Majallat al-Muslim, 6th ed., 1378 H, p. 24].

Shaikh Rashad Rida

He said, "Sufism was a unique pillar from the pillars of the religion. Its purpose was to cleanse the self and to take account of one's daily behavior and to raise the people to a high station of spirituality." [Majallat al-Manar, 1st year, p. 726].

Maulana Abul Hasan Ali an-Nadwi

Maulana Abul Hasan Ali an-Nadwi is a member of the Islamic-Arabic Society of India and Muslim countries. He said in his book, Muslims in India, written some years ago, p. 140-146, "These Sufis initiate people in Oneness and sincerity in following the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) and in repentence from their sins and in avoidance of every disobedience to Allah, Almighty and Exalted. Their guides encourage them to move in the way of perfect Love of Allah."

"In Calcutta, India, everyday more than 1000 people are taking initiation into Sufism."
"Thanks to the influence of Sufi people, thousands and hundreds of thousands in India found their Lord and reached a state of Perfection through the Islamic religion."

Abul Ala Mawdudi

He said in his book Mabadi' al-Islam (p. 17), "Sufism is a reality whose signs are the love of Allah and the love of the Prophet (s), where one absents oneself for their sake, and one is annihilated from anything other than them. It instructs how to follow in the footsteps of the Prophet (s)."

"Tasawwuf searched for sincerity of heart, purity of intention, and trustworthiness of obedience in all of an individual's actions." "Shari'ah and Sufism: what is the similitude of the two? They are like the body and the soul. The body is the external shari'ah knowledge and the spirit is the internal knowledge."

In sum, Sufism, in the present as in the past, is the effective means for spreading the reality of Islam, extending the knowledge and understanding of spirituality, and fostering happiness and peace. With it man can find himself and, in so doing, find his Lord. With it man can improve, transform, and elevate himself, and find salvation from the ignorance of this world and its misguided pursuit of some materialistic fantasy. And Allah knows best what he intends for his servants.

The Superiority of Service
Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil al Haqqani

Shah Naqshband's benevolence in private and public marked his way. He said,
"One time I went to the school of Qutb ad-Din as-Sadr in Samar. I found there four people with very high fevers. I began to serve them, cleaning their clothes and feeding them, until I too became infected with the same fever. This didn't stop me from serving them. The fever in me increased and increased until I felt that I was going to die. I made an oath to myself, 'Let me die, but let these four people be served.' I continued to serve them. The next day I found myself completely cured, while they were still sick."

He said, "To help and serve people, in the understanding of this Way, is better than Dhikr and meditation. Some people think that to do the supererogatory Sunnas is better than serving and helping those in need. It is our view, however, that to take care of people and to help them and to show them love is better than anything else." In this regard, Shah Naqshband (q) used to say, "We love to serve, not to be served. When we serve, Allah is happy with us, and this brings more attraction to the Divine Presence and Allah opens that state more for us. However, to be served, brings pride and weakness to the heart and causes us to recede from the Divine Presence."

Shaikh cUbaidullah (q) said, "I didn't take this tariqat from books, but I pursued this tariqat by service to people." "Everyone enters through a different door; I entered this Spiritual Order through the door of service." He was extremely strict in keeping the adab (right conduct) of both external and internal behavior, in his seclusion and among the people. Abu Sacad al-Awbahi said, "I accompanied him 35 years and was with him continuously.

In all that time I never saw him remove the skin or the seeds of fruit from his mouth, so as not to open his mouth with food inside. When he was sleepy he would never yawn. I never saw him spit. I never saw him do something which would disgust people. I never even saw him sitting cross-legged. He sat only on his knees in perfect good conduct

Seclusion
Mawlana Syaikh Hisham Kabbani

Seclusion [khalwat] is better than isolation [cuzlat] . It is a kind of isolation, that can only be prescribed by the shaikh. Its shortest time limit is 40 days, as mentioned in the Holy Qur'an about Sayiddina Musa (s), "And remember We appointed forty nights for Moses" (Surah al-Baqarah, 51). Muslim narrated that the Prophet (s) made seclusion in the cave of ara for one complete month. Its aim is to clean the heart of connection to this world of material pleasures, and to bring it to a state of remembrance of Allah, Almighty and Exalted. In it countless visions occur, and it elevates the murid to a state of knowing the self, and from there to a state of knowing Allah.

Seclusion requires the seeker to disconnect himself from people and to disengage himself from all material interactions for a set period of time. His heart must be engaged only in God's Remembrance, and his mind relaxed from daily concerns. All this must take place under the guidance of a gnostic shaikh, to teach us if we forget, and to remind us if we are heedless, and to throw out of the heart all gossip and whispers of the ego.
The shaikh orders the murid to seclude himself in a room where he will be served every day only with what is necessary for survival. Then he will teach his tongue the way of reciting Dhikr, until he will be engaged with that recitation.

The shaikh will support his murid in opening the Vision of the Divine Presence in the heart (surat al-mushahada fil-qalb). Whatever happens to the murid during the seclusion, he must tell his shaikh, and he must conceal it from anyone other than the shaikh.
Seclusion is not an innovation but is an order of Allah, Almighty and Exalted, in his Holy Book and in the example of the Prophet (s). The Prophet (s) used to make seclusion in the cave of Hira in the mountains of Makkah, remembering Allah, Almighty and Exalted. It is indicated in the Qur'an, in Surat al-Muzzamil, (73, 8): "So remember the name of thy Lord, and devote thyself to Him with full devotion."

Allama Abu Sacad in his commentary on the explanation of the Qur'an by Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi, volume 8, p. 338, says, "The meaning of this verse is to keep secluding yourself from anyone other than Allah, Almighty and Exalted, remembering Him day and night, by tasbih, tahmid and tahlil, and to disconnect yourself, by all the power you have, and approach Him through the meditative stations such that you will not see anyone except Him, and be away from connections to other than Him through that meditation."

Meditation here rests on seclusion. The proof for this in the Qur'an can be found in the story of Maryam (s), the mother of Jesus (s): "So her Lord accepted her with a gracious acceptance, and caused her to grow an excellent growth, and made Zakariyya (s) her guardian. Whenever Zakariya visited her in her seclusion he found with her provision. He said, 'O Maryam, whence hast thou this?' She replied, 'It is from Allah. Surely, Allah gives to whomsoever He pleases without measure.'" (Ali Imran, 37)

Allah said in the Qur'an, in Surat al-Kahf (ayat 16), mentioning the story of the companions of the cave, they were ordered, "Betake yourself to the Cave: your Lord will shower His mercies on you and dispose of your affair towards comfort and ease."
Similary, seclusion has a proof in the sunnah. Bukhari reports that Ayesha said, "The Prophet loved to make seclusion. And he was secluding himself in the Cave of Hira."
Imam Nawawi, explained the hadith of Ayesha, "To be alone with the one you love is the real seclusion. It is the way of the pious and it is the way of knowers."

He said, in his explanation of Sahih Muslim, "The Prophet (s) said, 'Seclusion was made to be loved by him,' because with it the heart will be empty of all this materialistic life, and it will be in peace. It helps to deepen the meditation on Allah's Divine Presence, and with it his attachments to dunya will decrease, and with it his reverence will increase."
Imam Zuhri said, "I wonder at people, that they have left seclusion. The Prophet (s) was doing some things and then leaving them, yet he never left seclusion until he died."
Abi Jamra said in explanation of this hadith, "The Prophet, when he secluded himself and left people behind and disconnectd himself from this world, received revelation from Jibril in the Cave of Hira. Anyone who will imitate the Prophet in doing seclusion, under the order of his shaikh, will be lifted to the state of sainthood.

"The proof of seclusion is that the Prophet (s), through his seclusion in the Cave of Hira, was lifted up to the state in which he received revelation. During his seclusions the first fruit was true dreams, and from that state he was elevated to the state in which he received revelation, to the state where he could receive revelation from the angel Jibril. Then he was lifted up more and more until he reached, during the Night of Ascension, the Divine Presence, to the station of two bows' length or nearer."

"All these stations were the fruit of his seclusion in the Cave of Hira. We see from this, that if we follow the footsteps of the Prophet (s), we will be lifted from one state to another, until we reach the high states of sainthood, and we will find ourselves in the Divine Presence."

Shaikh 'Abul Qadir said, "From the cave of Hira, where the Prophet (s) used to make seclusion, the light emanated, the dawn shone forth, and sunrise came. The first sparks of the luminescence of Islamic Sufism were struck. Never did the Prophet (s) leave his seclusion, even when he left the cave of Hira. All his life he was making seclusion, in the last ten days of Ramadan every year."

Imam Qastallani, in explaining this hadith, in his book "Rashad us-Sari" vol. 1, p. 62, "Seclusion will put the heart in peace and open in it fountains of wisdom, because it will disconnect the murid from the materialistic life and enable him to remember Allah, Almighty and Exalted. In his seclusion he must also isolate himself and seclude himself from himself, to see only Allah, Almighty and Exalted. At that time only will he receive Unseen Knowledge, and his heart will be a foundation for it."

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani said, in explaining the hadith of 'Ayesha, "The seclusion is emptying the heart of everything except Allah." [Fath al-Bari, v.1, p. 18]

Abul Hasan ash-Shadili said, "There are ten benefits from seclusion:
1. Safety from all misconduct of the tongue, because there is no one to talk to in
seclusion
2. Safety from all misconduct of the eyes, because there is no one to see from human
beings
3. Safety of the heart from all kinds of show, and other like illnesses
4. It will lift you to the state of asceticism
5. It will save you from accompanying evil people
6. It will give you free time to do dhikr
7. It will give you the sweet taste of worship, and prayers and supplication to the Divine
Presence
8. It will give satisfaction and peace to the heart
9. It will keep your ego from falling into bad manners
10.It will give you the time to meditate and make account of yourself, and to make your
goal the Divine Presence.

That is what the Prophet mentioned in his hadith, narrated by Bukhari, in the book of Riqaq. Abu Huraira reported that the Prophet said (s), "There are seven who will be kept under Allah's Shadow, on the Day when there is no shadow other than Allah's Shadow... One of them is a man who makes dhikr in seclusion, and the tears are coming from his eyes."

Explanation of Seclusion by Shaikh 'Abdullah ad-Daghestani

Once a famous French orientalist came to grandshaikh Abdullah Daghestani in Damascus and said, "O my master, I am coming to you after studying the Psalms, the Torah the Bible and the Holy Qur'an. I have studied all kinds of philosophy, all the religions, and many other systems of knowledge. But still, I feel nothing in my heart. I feel no satisfaction. On the contrary, it is as if I were standing on the edge of a cliff and were about to fall. I have become so shaky that I am going from one center to another, seeking what is real. Where can I reach that reality and gain satisfaction in my heart? Where can I find my Lord?"

"I have been everywhere. I have asked famous philosophers, orientalists, people whom I considered saints. I have read everything I could. Yet, when I have asked any scholar a question, I felt as if they were giving me an answer I already knew. They were not giving me anything new. I am confused." "I heard your name and I have finally come to you. After you I am not going anywhere. Will you give me an answer to my question? Whatever you say I will follow and believe. But if you do not give me an answer, I shall remain as I am, confused and uncertain for the rest of my life."

Grandshaikh said, "My son, if you take the seed of an apple or any fruit and leave it there dry, for hundreds of years, it will remain dry. But if you take that seed and put it in a field and plant it, then come back after one month, you will find that a green sprout has come out. If you dig and try to find that seed you will not find it anymore, it has vanished, replaced by something new. If you continue to water that plant it will become a tree and that tree will give fruit. But where is the original seed? It has disappeared. There is no original seed anymore. The seed has become a large tree now, with fruit coming forth, giving people fruit to eat."

"Similarly, if you take an egg and put it under a chicken for 21 days, after exactly twenty-one days that egg disappears and a new chick comes. Something new comes into being. If you look under the chicken you will no longer find the egg there. The egg has vanished. It was the twenty-one days under that chicken that turned it into a new generation."
"Something similar happens with human beings when they are in their mother's womb for about nine months and ten days. Inside that womb they are without any connection to anything outside, alone. Yet after those nine months and ten days of loneliness there will come forth a new generation, a new creation.

My son, in everyone of these three examples there was something that went into seclusion. The seed cut itself off from the material world above the ground and went into seclusion for several weeks, then a new plant emerged. The egg went into seclusion under its mother, with no connection to the material life outside its shell and came out a new generation. The sperm went into seclusion in the egg within the mother's womb for nine months, without connection to the external world of their materialistic life, but after the seclusion it emerged a new generation."

"My son, if you do not enter into seclusion, then never say to yourself, as the seed says to itself, 'I want to cut myself off from the materialistic life of this world and vanish from it for the love of God and for the benefit of other human beings.' For the seed begets fruit. If you do not experience a retreat like this, if you don't cut yourself from the materialistic life, forsake your ego and complete sacrifice and vanish into nothingness to exist only in God, never will you find your ultimate reality, your true self. Never will you be like that tree that gives fruit for people to eat. If you will not be like that egg and sever yourself from materialism, retreating into the shell of seclusion and existing only in the presence of your Lord, meditating, concentrating on Him, worshipping Him in your heart, keeping His Presence always in your heart, never will you find that satisfaction and happiness you seek."

"Why must you imitate that sperm that enters into seclusion for nine months? The mother's womb consists of three layers. This was mentioned 1400 years ago in the Holy Qur'an in Surat az-Zumar, 6;, at a time when no microscopes existed. The Prophet (s) also said, 'The womb of a mother is composed of darknesses, i.e. of layers.' You must enter into this loneliness, severing your bond to everything external, cutting yourself off from the material things of this world, to be alone with your Lord, and thus make connection to your ultimate reality, by fitting that image you wear here to its original in the Divine Presence."

"Never will you know satisfaction, no matter how many books you read, for when you read, you only hear the books. The knowledge they contain is only hearsay knowledge, and not real. Yet in seclusion, you not only hear but you feel. You will not only see, but you will smell. It is then that the eyes of the heart open. My son if you don't enter into seclusion, your heart will never feel the contentment you have been so long seeking."
Immediately the scholar said, "You have given me an answer to my question and a solution to my problem that I have never yet received from anyone. My heart is open. Show me the way." Grandshaikh gave him permission to enter into seclusion in a designated place, cutting himself off from everything. He entered that place an ordinary man, but after one year he left it a saint."

The Raison d'être of Sufism and the Rise of the Naqshbandi Order
Mawlana Syaikh Hisham Kabbani

From its advent, religion was beset with enemies from within and without, who tried to destroy its very foundations and pillars: sometimes through outright atheism but more often through free- thought and corruption. In general, spiritual-minded people today no longer have advisors and teachers who possess the caliber to counsel them and to train them in the teachings of the prophets and saints. Unfortunately, they do not find guides capable of leading them in the teachings of Islam on that high road of morality and ethics that constitute religion's essential character.

On the contrary, today we see cases of would-be scholars (ulema) who are not only unscholarly, but are also ignorant and sometimes even corrupt. Indeed, in many places, they have gotten the upper hand and now prominently occupy seats of religious authority. Sunk in lives of pleasure and good living, they play at the role of guiding and advising and preaching to the Muslim community but in reality they have cast aside the simple lifestyle and regimen of self-denial practiced by the Prophet (s), his Companions (r) and those of the generation immediately succeeding them.

Confronted with this situation, how can we not ask: In which direction is our Umma (Community) headed?

It is true that timely measures could have been taken by communities to prepare good and wise scholars whose unstained lives would have allowed them to function as models and to undertake the mission of reminding the Nation of the Prophet (s) of the message brought forth in the Qur'an and the Sunnah (Way of life of the Prophet (s)). Then, our condition would have been improved and we would have been rewarded and lifted to those stations that Allah ordained for us both in this life and in the Hereafter.

The situation was not always as I have described it. On the contrary, it used to be that this sacred mission, this great service of calling the Umma to remembrance of its proper heritage framed by the Qur'an and set out in the Prophet's Sunnah, was performed by devoted and sincere scholars of spirituality. These individuals, in time, came to be known by the name of safa, a word derived from the Arabic safa'a which means "to purify," because of the assiduousness with which they applied themselves to holding firmly to the Sunnah and employing it to purify their character from all defects in behavior and morality.

The Schools of Purification (tazkiya)

We know for example, that in the first century after the Hijra, renunciation of the world (zuhd) grew as a reaction against worldliness in the society. Derived in principle from the order of Allah to His Righteous Apostle to purify people [Qur'an 2:129, 2:151, 3:164, 9:103, 62:2], the practitioners of this way clove firmly to the Prophetic way of life as it was reflected in the lives of his Companions and their Successors, in the ways they employed to purify their hearts and character from bad manners and to inculcate in their own selves and in those around them the manners and upright moral stature of the Best of Mankind, the Prophet Muhammad (s).

Through slow evolution, this regimen ended up as a school of practical thought and moral action endowed with its own structure of rule and principle. This became the basis used by Sufi scholars to direct people on the Right Path. As a result, the world soon witnessed the development of a variety of schools of purification of the ego (tazkiyat an-nafs). Sufi thought, as it spread everywhere, served as a dynamic force behind the growth and fabric of Islamic education.

This tremendous advance occurred from the first century after the Hijra to the seventh, in parallel with the following developments:

· Development of the bases of fiqh (Law and Jurisprudence), through the Imams (r).
· Development of the bases of caqidah (System of Belief) through al-Ashcari and others;
· Development of the science of hadith (Sayings of the Prophet (s)), resulting in the six
authentic collections and innumerable others;
· Development of the arts of nahu and balagha (Speaking and Writing Arabic).

Tariqat or "path" is a term derived from the hadith of the Prophet (s) ordering his followers to follow his sunna and the sunna of his successors. The meaning of sunna is "path," "way," which is also the meaning of taraqat referred to in the Qur'anic verse, "Had they kept straight on the path (tariqat), We would have made them drink of a most limpid water" [72:16]. Tariqat thus came to be a term applied to groups of individuals belonging to the school of thought pursued by a particular scholar or "shaikh," as such a person was often called.

Though these shaikhs applied different methods in training their followers, the core of each one's program was identical. The situation was not unlike what we find in faculties of medicine and law today. The approach in different faculties may be different, but the body of law, the state of art in medicine remains essentially the same everywhere. When students graduate from these faculties, each student bears the stamp of its character. Yet, none are considered less a lawyer or doctor because their respective affiliations differ.

In a similar way, the student product of a particular shaikh will bear the stamp of that shaikh's teaching and character. Consequently, the names given to various schools of Sufi thought differ according to the names and the perspectives of their founders. This variation manifests itself in a more concrete fashion, in the different supererogatory devotions, known as awrad, ahzab or adhkar, used as the practical methodology of spiritual formation. Such differences, however, have nothing to do with the religious principle. In basic principle, the Sufi schools are essentially the same.

The Sufi regimen under which individuals undertook the path to Allah, was a finely-honed itinerary which charted the course of inward and outward progress in religious faith and practice (din). Following the tradition of the Companions of the Prophet (s) who used to frequent his company named Ahl as-suffa ("the People of the Bench"), the practitioners of this regimen lived a communal life. Their dwelling-places were the mosque-schools (zawaya), border forts (ribat), and guest-houses (khaniqah) where they gathered together on specific occasions dedicated to the traditional festivals of the Islamic calendar (cid). They also gathered on a regular basis in associations for the conveying of knowledge (suhba), assemblies to invoke the names of Allah and recite the adhkar (plural of dhikr, "remembrance") inherited from the Prophetic Tradition, and circles of study in Islamic law. Yet another reason for their gathering was to hear inspired preaching and moral exhortations (wicaz ).

The shaikhs exhorted their students to actively respond to Allah and His Messenger (s), to cleanse their hearts and purify their souls from the lower desires prompted by the ego and to reform erroneous beliefs. All this was accomplished by cleaving to the Prophetic Sunnah. The methods of remembering Allah which they instilled in their students were the very same methods passed down from the Prophet (s). In this way, they propagated upright behavior both through word and deed, while they encouraged the believers to devote themselves to Allah Almighty with their whole hearts. The aim of their endeavor then was nothing less than obtaining Allah's satisfaction and inspiring love for His Prophet (s). In short, what they aimed for was a state where God would be pleased with them even as they were pleased with God.

These shaikhs therefore were the radiant beacons that dispelled darkness from a believer's path as well as the solid cornerstones upon which the Ummah could build the foundations of an ideal society. The ideal here was the spirit of sacrifice and selflessness that characterized their every effort. These values, in time, imbued the entire social fabric of Islam. The guesthouses, for example, were more often than not found in neighborhoods of the poor and economically disadvantaged. Needless to say, for this reason they became remedies for many social ills.

As a result of such teaching and training we find that many students of Sufi shaikhs graduated from their course of studies fully empowered to carry other people's burdens, even as they strove to illumine the way of Truth. Furthermore, through their training and self-discipline they had developed the manifest and decisive will to do so. Genuine scholars and teachers of tariqat leave no stone unturned in conducting their jihad, a word which means both the physical struggle against unbelief and the spiritual struggle against the unseen allurements that trap the soul.

History books are filled with the names of Sufi mujahidin (People Who Struggle) and shuhada (Martyrs) that have devoted their lives to confronting the enemies of the faith and calling mankind to the divine Presence of Allah, as well as calling back those who had deviated form the true path and the Sunnah of the Prophet (s). They accomplished this with wisdom and they were effective. Their names and stories are too numerous to list in the span of a single book, even if it had hundreds of volumes.

It suffices to say that the lives of these Sufi Shaikhs are overwhelming evidence that Sufism, far from encouraging escapism and quietism that impedes social progress, upheld the highest values of social consciousness as well as religious inquiry and science. In fact, they provide adequate testimony to an unremitting jihad and struggle against social injustice and social inaction that took place over the centuries.

The 'Uwaysi' Transmission of Spiritual Knowledge
Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil al Haqqani

Sayyidina Shah Bahaudin Naqshband al-Uwaysi al-Bukhari received the silent dhikr from the spiritual presence (ruhaniyya) of Khwaja Abdul Khaliq Ghujdawani. He did not meet with him physically because there were five shaikhs between them in the Golden Chain. Similarly Sayyidina Abul Hasan al-Kharaqani took spiritual guidance and initiation in the Naqshbandi Order from the spiritual presence of Bayazid Bistami.

In this form of spiritual transmission, the spirits meet in the world called calam al-arwah (the world of spirits) which is beyond calam al-ajsam (the material plane). Whoever takes knowledge through spirituality from a deceased Master in the Naqshbandi Way, is called both Uwaisi and Naqshbandi. That spiritual connection is as powerful and effective as the physical connection.

The sign of the Favor of Allah Almighty and Exalted on his servant is to authorize one of His saints to uplift that servant to the Divine Presence. That is why many saints who came in previous times were guides for those who came after through this spiritual (Uwaysi) connection. It is known that many saints have been under the guidance and training of prophets and other saints that lifted them up.

As we mentioned, Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdwani was raised up by Sayyidina al-Khidr (s), Sayyidina Uways al-Qarani, and the spiritual Presences of Sayyidina cAli and Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. Then Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq raised Shah Naqshband, who also received guidance from Sayyidina Uways al-Qarani, Sayyidina cAli, Sayyidina Abu Bakr, and the Prophet (s). Sayyidina Jacfar as-Sadiq raised up Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami. Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami raised up Sayyidina Abul Hasan al-Kharaqani. Sayyidina Ubaidullah al-Ahrar was raised up by the spiritual connection to Sayyidina Isa (s) and to Shah Naqshband. It is known that Sayyidina Ahmad al-Far'uqi, in addition to the spiritual power he was receiving from Shah Naqshband, was also receiving spiritual support and power from Sayyidina 'Ali (r). Sayyidina Shaikh Sharafuddin ad-Daghestani was raised through spirituality by Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (r) and by Sayiddina Muhammad (s).

Sayyidina Shaikh Abdullah Daghestani was under the spiritual guidance of Sayyidina Uwais al-Qarani (r), of Sayyidina 'Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani, and of Sayyidina Shah Naqshband and sayyidina cAli. Shaikh Nazim received, in addition to the guidance received by Shaikh Abdullah and Shaikh Sharafuddin, additional guidance from Sayyidina Jalaluddin Rumi and sayyidina cAbdulqadir al-Gilani, who were his grandfathers on his father's and his mother's side.

These are the shaikhs of the Naqshbandi Order mentioned by Shaikh 'Abdullah ad-Daghestani, who have, in addition to their physical connection, received the Uwaisi connection. They are known as the Shaikhs of the Two Wings (Dhul Jana ain), meaning that both the physical lineage and the spiritual lineage are combined in them. These saints are only nine in number. Each one represents one of the nine spiritual points on the chest of the human being. Through these points these saints can reach their followers at any time. Because they have the authority of these nine points, they consider all of humankind to be their followers, whether they are aware of their spiritual connection to them or not. Through these points, which are of 'Uwaysi' nature, they can reach and affect any human being, intercede for them, and inspire their hearts in order to direct them to the Divine Love, although they have never met physically.

Shaikh Abdullah ad-Daghestani's Vision of Uwais al-Qarani (r)
Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil al Haqqani

Our grandshaikh 'Abdullah ad-Daghestani said, "After Shaikh Sharafuddin passed, and I was awaiting an opening to emigrate from Turkey, I was in a seclusion in the mosque next to the tomb of my shaikh, praying one night before Fajr. It was a cold and snowy night. I could feel the coldness in my bones. I could hear the quiet falling of the snow on the trees and the howling of wolves in the woods. I heard a voice calling my name, 'Abdullah Effendi.' I looked around but saw no one. Then I heard the voice again calling out, 'Abdullah!' I looked again, but again could not see anyone.

I knew it was the voice of my shaikh. The warmth of that voice energized me, and I ran outside, without even putting on my shoes or my woolen cloak. I saw my shaikh in a brilliant vision, standing on the hill. He called to me and said, 'Abdullah Effendi, come.' I did not even think to put shoes on; I walked on the snow and could feel warmth from the Divine Love emanating from his spirit. As I reached him he said, 'My son, tonight I have been ordered to take you to the presence of Sayyidina Uwais al-Qarani (r) by the order of the Prophet (s).'"

"Then he said, 'My son, take my hand.' I was very happy to take the hand of my shaikh, and as soon as I took his hand I found myself in the association of saints, in the presence of the Prophet (s), and Sayyidina Uwais al-Qarani (r) was sitting there. We entered, and found there were two places left for us to sit. We gave our respect and took our places."
"Then Sayyidina 'Ali (r) stood up and said, 'For the first time we are revealing this secret to the association of saints. Only now have we received the permission from the Prophet for that secret to appear.'"

"I saw present in the gathering the 7,007 Naqshbandi saints, together with the 313 Naqshbandi saints who are on the footsteps of the 313 great messengers, and the grandshaikhs of the Golden Chain. Sayyidina 'Ali said, addressing the association, and especially me, 'When the Prophet (s) was passing away, he called Sayyidina 'Umar and me to his presence and he said, 'After I die, you take the clothes I am wearing when I pass away, as a trust from me to Uwais al-Qarani. You will find Uwais al-Qarani in such and such a place.''"

"Sayyidina 'Ali said, 'While the Prophet (s) lay dying he was sweating a great amount. After he had passed we took those sweat-soaked clothes as a trust. We went as the Prophet (s) had directed us and looked for Uwais al-Qarani. We asked about him but no one knew of him. Then Sayyidina 'Umar said, 'O Ali, we haven't found him and no one here knows of him. We might as well go back.' I said, 'O Umar, that is impossible. If the Prophet (s) said he is here, we must find him. Perhaps he is known by a different name.' Then we began asking, 'Do you know someone who is a shepherd? He takes care of his mother and never leaves her.' Some people said, 'Yes. But his name is not Uwais al-Qarani, his name is 'Abdullah.' Then they showed us where he lived.'"

"'We went to that place and we saw in the distance a man sitting with his back to us. We approached. When we came near, without turning around, he said, 'O 'Ali, O 'Umar, give me my trust.' Immediately we handed him the robe of the Prophet (s). He stood up, kissed the robe, put it on his head, then put it to his heart and said, 'I accept, I accept, I accept.''" "'We wondered why he was kissing the robe and saying these words, because he had never seen the Prophet (s) in all his life. But we were hesistant to ask.'"
"'Then he turned to Sayyidina 'Umar and said to him, 'Ya 'Umar, how many times have you seen the Prophet (s)?' 'Umar was astonished at this question. He said, 'That is a strange question. I spent my whole life in the company of the Prophet.'

Sayyidina Uwais said, 'I am asking for a reason. How many times did you actually see him?' Sayyidina 'Umar said, 'How do you mean? I was with him all the time!' Sayyidina Uwais al-Qarani said, 'Describe him to me.' Sayyidina 'Umar began to describe the Prophet, his eyes, his features, his appearance. Then Sayyidina Uwais said, 'Ya 'Umar, this description is known to everyone, including those who disbelieved in him.'"

"'Then he looked at me and said, 'Ya 'Ali, how many times did you see the Prophet (s)?' I knew what he meant, and I said, 'Ya Uwais, in my life I only saw the Prophet (s) one time.' Sayyidina 'Umar was looking at me in amazement. I said, 'I saw him one time. The Prophet (s) called me and told me, 'Look at me from my navel and above.) I looked and I saw that the Prophet (s) from his navel up filled the universes and the Seven Heavens. From his neck and up, I was unable to see, but it was above the Sidratul Muntaha (Furthermost Limit). Then he told me, 'Look from my navel and down.' I looked and I saw all these universes, all these worlds, stars and planets had disappeared and all that I saw was the Prophet (s), from his waist to his knees filling up that entire space.

And from his knees down to his feet I was unable to see. Then he (s) said, (Look at all of me, from top to bottom.) I looked at him, and the Sidratul Muntaha and all these universes disappeared, and all I saw was Muhammad (s), everywhere. At that time I knew that Muhammad (s) is the Heart of the Divine Presence (al-Haqiqat al-Muhammadiyya).'"

"'Then Sayyidina Uwais looked at me and said, 'You really saw the Prophet (s) one time. And that is why he (s) said about you, 'I am the City of Knowledge and 'Ali is its Door.' Allah has also given this Divine Knowledge to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, as the Prophet (s) mentioned, 'Whatever Allah poured into my heart, I poured into the heart of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq).' "'In this state of wonderment, Sayyidina 'Umar asked Sayyidina Uwais, 'What is the significance of that robe we brought to you?' He said, 'O 'Umar, that is one of the biggest secrets, which will not be revealed to people until the Last Days of his Nation.

While the Prophet (s) was passing away, he was asking for intercession for his Nation.'"
"'Then he said, 'His Nation includes all human beings. And that is why Allah said, 'Say [O Prophet]: O mankind! I am a Messenger to you all from Allah, to Whom belongs the Kingdom of the heavens and the earth.' [7: 158]. The Prophet asked for intercession and Allah gave permission. He was interceding for every individual that Allah created. As he was asking he was sweating, and each drop of sweat represented one human being. He took on the burdens of each person. Until he was satisfied that Allah had forgiven everyone, then he left this world. And the symbols of that forgiveness are the drops of sweat which soaked this robe.'"

"'This robe was given to me because the Prophet (s) wanted to tell me, 'O Uwais, I am passing to you the Divine Knowledge to clean the Nation after they make sins. You must pass that power to your successors, from me to you and from you to them.''"
"And Sayyidina 'Ali said that Sayyidina Uwais al-Qarani said, 'I didn't see the Prophet (s) physically, but in every moment, of every day, I was with him during his life. I received from him every matter of importance for his Nation. I am going to transmit this secret to the many successors and inheritors among Allah's saints. Without a physical connection but through a spiritual connection, they will receive the secret of the cleansing power and revive it in every century, until the Day of Judgment.'"

"Then Sayyidina 'Ali said to the association of saints, but directing his speech to me, 'What is passed to you and to many saints before you is from that Uwaisi power. This is the first time that secret has been revealed, by permission of the Prophet (s).'"
"Then my shaikh said to me, 'O my son, now you can go back to your seclusion.' As soon as he said that, I found myself entering the mosque and feeling the cold again." From time to time, saints experience such inspirations and visions through the spiritual power of their exalted predecessors.

Wa min Allah at Tawfiq

The Saviors Imam Mahdi as & Jesus Christ as

2005-12-29T19:13:00.001-08:00

The Saviors Mehdi & Jesus Christ AS
excerpted from the talk of our beloved Maulana Sheikh Nazim Al Haqqani Al Qubrusi

Muhammad-ul-Mehdi alaihi salaam peace be upon him is a descendant of the Holy Prophet Sayyidena Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam peace be upon him through his daughter Fatima-tu-Zahra and her sons Sayyidena Hassan and Sayyidena Hussein radiyallahu anh may Allah be well pleased with them, in the 40th generation. So he is Sayid- Hassani and Husseini. His parents live near Jeddah.

He was born between 1930 and 1940 in the Wadi Fatima, a green valley on the way from Jeddah to Medina. When he was growing up, miraculous looks started to come out of him. He had such lights. The lookings of people started to come very much on him because his growth was miraculous. He has a spot of ashes on his right cheek, like a star, and his arms reach to his knees.

By the order of the Prophet sws he was taken away from people by the Awliya/saint- Nuqaba, Nujaba, Budala, Autad and Ahyar, whose Imam is Shahabu’din- to a place behind the Mountain of Qaf. Then he was ordered to remain in the empty quarters, the Ruba Qali, a desert between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. No one can go there, because there is quick-sand, moving sands. He is not living with ordinary people now because he has such heavy power that people can’t be able to look to him.

He is living in that desert with His 99 Caliphs- highly spiritual, powerful people. There is a huge cave; its entrance is 40 meters wide. In that cave is the ‘Dome of Happiness’, which has been built by the Angels. No one can approach that cave because it is protected by Jinns/beings of smokeless fire who inhabit the earth with us, who send out electricity that may kill anyone and throw them away. Mehdi a.s. and his Caliphs are there, waiting for and expecting the holy command of Allah Almighty to appear. Sayyidena Mehdi a.s. is the most spiritual person on earth now, and all Awliya are under his command.

When he appears, he will say: "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar..." , three times, in Damascus, and this will be heard from East to West. And the Archangel Gabriel/Jibril a.s. peace be upon him will shout: "Caliphatu’llah! Allah Almighty’s Caliph has just appeared! Join his army, oh believers!" Everything will be clear. S.Mehdi will appear with such a power that all technology will stop...

Each man in his army will be worth an army. 12000 soldiers from five countries of the West (known only to the Awliya) will come. They are always in contact with Divine Powers, which is a sign of real faith. They are steadfast, never turning their face from the Face of Allah Almighty under any circumstances. Armies turn to ashes under their gaze. They are descendants of Sayidina Ali r.a.wa k.A.w may Allah be well pleased with him. When Sayyidena Mehdi says: “Allahu akbar!” they will be ready at the South gate of Damascus, from Amman.

Sayyidena Mehdi is coming as a Saviour before Sayyidena Isa/Jesus Christ alaihi salaam peace be upon them to stop Armageddon, the 3rd World War, with Divine Power, because no one and nothing except Divine Power can stop it. No country will remain neutral in this war. All the bombs are under the control of Jinns, and the Jinn are under the command of Sayyidena Mehdi a.s. So nothing will be by chance; it will be only as much as Allah is asking. Everything is just arranged. There is a group of Saints, the 5 Qutubs/spiritual poles, that look after everything according to the Will of Allah. Nothing on this earth happens by chance or accident. And nothing happens without a reason...

Armageddon is the War between East and West, and it is written that the West will win and the East will vanish. This biggest of all wars is between the believers, followers of Jesus Christ, people who have prepared themselves for the Saviour, and the followers of the Anti-Christ, unbelievers, who are running after this life’s pleasures, following materialistic thoughts, seeking pleasures which their egos are asking for, asking for every freedom. They are people who always come into contact with the devil, falling under his control, and supporting the kingdom of Shaitan. They will be with the Anti-Christ because they are evil in themselves. The devils will carry them to the source of evil and devils: The Anti-Christ .

Mankind is now following satanic teachings, supporting the kingdom of devils on earth, and that is why a storm of fire will come as a punishment, blowing from East to West, North to South. The supporters of the devils will die, but the supporters of the Saviours Sayyidena Mehdi and Sayyidena Isa a.s. peace be upon them will be saved. There is no shelter for cruel people who harm others, or disobedient people who do prohibited things. Therefore everybody must try to prevent his ego from doing bad things and from having bad intentions... There is no shelter for unbelievers; nothing and no one can protect them. There is always the danger that Divine Revenge will reach them, even underground or in the skies... Therefore to believe is the first shelter.

Wrong beliefs are also dangerous. For these people it will be like they have a shield with holes around themselves, so that Divine Revenge arrows may reach them. Therefore another shelter is to believe in the right way. For some people their good character will be a shelter; people with good intentions who are pityful, helpful, just and respectful towards others, loving them. And another shelter is to give charity and to pray and make Sajda/prostration. Allah Almighty is promising to shelter good servants. Everybody must ask how he can be a good one.

Now everything is mixed up; Truth with untruth, goodness with badness, purity with dirtiness. Until the last World War comes, the times will get worse and worse. When Jesus alaihi salaam comes he will put everything in its place, and no one will be able to object... The 21st century will be the century of truth. In the last days so many men will be killed. There will be 40 times more women than men. This is because men are mostly cruel. So many of them will die, and most of the women will stay. And in that War from seven people six will die and one will remain... For those women who don’t have a husband anymore Allah will send people from behind the Mountain of Qaf, so that no one will be alone in that time. When Sayyidena Mehdi alaihi salaam peace be upon him comes, he will bring with him so many people from unknown worlds around this earth- Nuqaba, Nujaba, Budala, Autad and Ahyar...

The world will be empty after that War...everywhere will be open for the believers. According to their Kismet/share, which is written on the ‘Lauh-ul-Mahfuth’, the Preserved Tablet, Sayyidena Mehdi a.s. will show everyone their place... After this big War people will be like a candle ready for the match. Sayyidena Mehdi a.s. will open the seed of faith in their hearts, opening the hearts of the believers who lived through that War. Common people will be dressed sainthood and will be granted miraculous powers and lights from Allah Almighty.

Awliya will be love-springs... People will be perfect servants of Allah, living on prayer and Dhikr, and swimming in love-oceans... Everywhere you will find the Love of the Lord...creatures will take from you that Divine Love. We are created for that. The perfection of creation should appear in those days...No one will be interested in eating or drinking. And if they should ask to eat something, light quality natural food should come from the skies. Everyone will take his share and Dhikr should burn it, so there will be no need for toilets... May Allah make us reach those days... Bi hurmati’l Habib/for the honor of the beloved Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam peace be upon him, Fatiha.

Appearance of Mehdi & Descention of Jesus Christ AS
excerpted from the talk of our beloved Maulana Sheikh Nazim Al Haqqani Al Qubrusi

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim... Sayyidena Mehdi’s first appearance was in Hijaz, in Mekka, on Mount Arafat. That was around 1960. It was a private appearance, only for Saints. 12000 Awliya/saint came and put their hands on his hand, taking Beyat/pledge with him.
Once, when I was passing through Beirut -Lebanon-, on my way to Cyprus, I met a Sheikh from Lebanon, and I was a guest in his house. He asked me: "What news is your Sheikh giving about Mehdi alaihi salaam peace be upon him ?" I told him, that so and so many years ago we were on Arafat with Mehdi a.s. and 12000 Rijalu’llah, Awliya, and that we all took Beyat with Mehdi a.s. I was with Grandsheikh at that time. He took me with him, like a hunter keeps his dog with him. When I said this, the Sheikh from Lebanon said: "You are right. I was in Mekka Mukarama the same year with my Sheikh, and we met a person from Sudan. We asked him: "From where are you coming?", and he told us that he had come from Central Africa: "One year ago I was ordered by the Holy Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam peace be upon him to be here this year to take Beyat with Mehdi a.s. I have been walking on foot for one year, and I have reached here..."

So the Awliya have already taken Beyat with Mehdi a.s. in that year. There is a second kind of Beyat, in dreams, for people who are not prepared to meet Mehdi a.s. physically. And now he is waiting for the order, and then common people will take Beyat with him.
He will appear for all people, according to the Lord’s command, in the Great War, Armageddon... There are one hundred and one hindrances which he must overcome, before he can appear. Ninety-nine of those hindrances have passed. Now only two are remaining..
‘Red coloured people’ have come to Afghanistan. They must also come to Pakistan, and then to Turkey. That is the first sign: Russians coming to Turkey... Huge Russian powers will be at the West of Aleppo. They will come up to the plain of Yarmuq(?) near Aleppo. At the same time the American powers will be in Turkey, in Adana, near the sea. There will be a great slaughter in that plain. The War will last three months and during that War, Mehdi a.s. will appear. It will be in a year of the Hajj-ul-Akbar.

Mehdi a.s. will appear on Hajj, where people will take Beyat from him... From there he goes to Damascus. He will make Tekbir 3 times: "Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar!" With those Tekbirs the problem of technology is going to be finished, and it is going to be the signal for all Muslims to attack the devils...
There are 40 stations on Sayyidena Mehdi's way between Mekka and Damascus... He will come to the gates of Damascus, firstly to a place where the foot-prints of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam peace be upon him and his camel are on a stone... He will enter Damascus, and there the people will take Beyat with him.

Then there are 7 stations on his way from Damascus to Istanbul- Homs, Hama, Trablus, Halep, Konya, Bursa- and in Istanbul he will take out the flag of the Prophet SAW peace be upon him from the Topkapi Palace... But before that, the Padishah will appear and they will meet in Konya, where Mehdi a.s. will put on the sword of the Prophet and his coat, the Amanats/the relic...

After Mehdi has taken out the flag in Istanbul, the Anti Christ will come quickly through Khorasan in Iran, and run to Jerusalem, to go around the whole world from there for 40 days. He is now in chains- imprisoned on an unknown island that no one can approach- because he is saying: "I am your Lord", claiming to be the Lord of mankind, not just a prophet, but the Lord... He cannot move from there. He is Shaitan, the father of all devils. He is giving orders, and he has 30 deputies who are preparing people for his coming... And he is one-eyed...

Muslims are expecting Sayyidena Mehdi a.s. and they are waiting also for Sayyidena Isa/Jesus Christ a.s. to come from the Heavens. Christians are expecting Jesus Christ to come back from the Heavens, too. But the Jews, because they do not believe in Sayyidena Isa and Sayyidena Muhammad sws are still waiting for a Prophet from among themselves to appear...There will be a heavenly announcement: "The enemy of Allah, Dajjal, has appeared. Whoever wants to save himself from him must go to Damascus, Mekka or Medina". So believers will run because Dajjal will be after them. They will run like streams to Damascus, and all believers must be there for 40 days... Dajjal will go around the whole world, but 700 Angels, 700 Jinn/beings made of smokeless fire who inhabit the earth with us, and 700 Awliya from Budala, Nujaba, Nuqaba, Autad and Ahyar will protect Damascus, so he won’t be able to enter.

Damascus is a holy area, the place of the Judgement Day, where twice a day come Nur, Divine Lights, and Mercy. This area covers all that a man can see from the minaret of the Omayyad Mosque, and its Baraka/blessing spreads for a distance of six or seven days’ camel ride in all directions. After 40 days, Jesus alaihi salaam peace be upon him will come down from the Heavens. It will be the time of the Fajr prayer, when he comes down in the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus. He is coming down to a minaret of that Dome in the East, under which Sayyidena Yahya a.s., John the Baptist, is buried. Two Angels will protect him with their wings, and bring him down to earth. He will be wearing a green turban, and he will be shining. He has the most beautiful face, rosy and white. His beard is red, and he is sweating. And he has a sword. When he was on earth, he never touched a sword, but now he is coming as a Saviour, to save people from the hands of the Anti-Christ. His sword is a miraculous sword, a heavenly sword. It can reach any point to where he sends it. The Lord gave it to him...

He is not coming as a Prophet anymore, but as a member of the Ummah/nation of Sayyidena Muhammad sws, following his Shariat. Sayyidena Mehdi a.s. will offer the place to Jesus to be Imam, but Jesus will refuse. Sayyidena Mehdi will lead the prayer once, and after that Jesus will be Imam... And Sayyidena Mehdi a.s. will be with him for 7 years...
Jesus will kill the Anti-Christ, break the crosses, and make clear the truth about himself and his mother Sayyidena Mariam... He will govern the Heavenly Kingdom on earth for 40 years. In his time, all technology will be destroyed, and everyone will be given miraculous powers, so that when you look somewhere and you say: "Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, by Your Divine Permission, oh My Lord, You honoured me to be Your deputy, I ask of You", and if He gives permission, you may put your step from here to there.

After Jesus has killed the Anti-Christ, there will be no more devils and evil in his time...people will live a life like in Paradise, Paradise appearances, Tajallis/visions, will come on them... At that time, the purpose of Allah’s creation will appear.
Isa a.s. will marry and have children. When he is going to die, he will be buried in Medina, in the fourth tomb next to the Holy Prophet, S.Abu Bakr and S.Omar radiyallahu anh may Allah be well pleased with them, that is empty now. Then all believers will die by a sweet scent from Paradise. Everything terrible after that will come to the unbelievers, who will have started to re-appear during Jesus’ time... And the world will come to its end

Wa min Allah at Tawfiq

Ya Sayedena Mahdi {as},His Signs are Here
{1425 Hijri 1+4=5.then 2+5=7 = 57}
{Holy Quran Iron 57.19 }

{57th Name of Rasul is Mahdi }

And those who believe in Allah and His apostles- they are the Sincere (lovers of Truth), and the witnesses (who testify), in the eyes of their Lord: They shall have their Reward and their Light. Iron 57.25 :We sent aforetime our apostles with Clear Signs and
sent down with them the Book and the Balance (of Right and Wrong), that men may stand forth in justice; and We sent down Iron {Mahdi 57}, in which is (material for) mighty war, as well as many benefits for mankind, that Allah may test who it is that will help, Unseen,
Him and His apostles: For Allah is Full of Strength, Exalted in Might (and able to enforce His Will). Laqad arsalna rusulana bialbayyinati waanzalna maAAahumu alkitaba waalmeezana liyaqooma alnnasu bialqisti waanzalna alhadeeda feehi basun shadeedun wamanafiAAu lilnnasi waliyaAAlama Allahu man yansuruhu warusulahu bialghaybi inna Allaha qawiyyun AAazeezun

online At:http://www.muhammadanreality.com/ImamMahdiSignsfortheSavoir.htm

Jesus, Al-Mahdi and Moshaikh (Anti-Christ) AL MAHDI, JESUS and MOSHAIKH the ANTI-CHRIST
Narrated by the late Grand Muhaddith of Morocco Shaykh, Abdullah ben Sadek, Ph.D.
(1914 - 1993) may Allah be pleased with him Translated by Shaykh Ahmad Darwish

This book is divided into four parts. The first part is the translation of the work of the late Grand Muhaddith of Morocco, Shaykh Abdullah ben Sadek, may Allah have mercy upon him, and consists of hadith pertaining to coming of Al Madhi and his circumstances. It also mentions a few hadiths concerning the false Messiah, and Prophet Jesus.

The second part contains hadiths extracted from "The Gardens of Righteousness" by Imam Nawawi in which there are more authentic hadiths pertaining to the arrival of the false Messiah and the second coming of Prophet Jesus, peace be upon him. The third part is a summary written in layman's terms of the preceding hadith however, they should not be used as a substitute for the study of the hadith that are the actual sayings of Prophet
Muhammad, praise and peace be upon him, that have been verified and transmitted verbatim from one generation to the next since his time.

The fourth part consists of questions and answers replied to by Shaykh Abdullah.

Muhaddith Abdullah ben Sadek, a direct descendant of Prophet Muhammad, praise and peace be upon him, was not only the foremost Muhaddith of Africa but one of the top seven scholars in the world on the Science of Hadith, which is the science of the transmission of the sayings and practices of Prophet Muhammad, praise and peace be upon him.At an early age the Muhaddith became a Professor of Hadith at Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, and to his credit several of his former students include Grand Muhaddiths and Islamic officials in many parts of the Islamic world. During his lifetime he wrote over one hundred books on Islam, including an encyclopedia of hadith falsely attributed to Prophet Muhammad. His also originated the Science of the Innovations of the Explanation of the Holy Koran.

Muhaddith Abdullah was born in Tangier, Morocco in 1914 (A.H. 1328).

As a child he learned the Holy Koran by heart and studied the Koranic science of calligraphy. Later, he studied the complete sciences of Malik Jurisprudence and the Explanation of the Holy Koran at Kairouan Mosque in Fez, Morocco. In December, 1931, he
began his studies at Al Azhar Mosque where he took and passed its final examination within the short period of one year after which he was offered a teaching position in the prestigious university of Al Azhar. In 1942 he received his Ph.D. then returned to Tangier where he continued to teach in the Mosque and Center founded by his father up until the time of his death, may Allah be pleased with them. Although Muhaddith Abdullah was a Sunni scholar he was extremely well versed with the Shi'ite doctrine and nominated by the late Imam Yahya of Yemen to revise the Zaydia Encyclopedia of Shi'ite.

TRANSLATOR'S NOTES: 5

The first part of this book was first printed at the beginning of the Iranian Islamic Revolution and was so well received that it was completely sold out in the first week of its publication, in Cairo, Egypt. Until now there has never been such a well documented book in English on the subject of Al Mahdi from the Sunni point of view, which incidentally, with the exception of a few minor issues, is very close to that of the Shi'ite. It was decided to make an abridged translation of this book in the English language for the enlightenment of all English speaking Muslims, and those interested in the return of Jesus, as well as the anti-Christ and the lands of the prophets.

When we refer to the book as having been abridged, we refer to the omission of the chains of narrators with the exception of the Prophet's companions, because this matter is only of real interest to the scholars of the Science of Hadith Terminology to which the
average western reader is unfamiliar. However, these omissions do not detract from the information contained within this book, rather, it simplifies it's reading.

Also omitted in this translation are the false statements which unscrupulous liars tried to attribute to the Holy Prophet, praise and peace be upon him. This has been undertaken so that the reader does not confuse the false with the truth. However, for those who
wish to study these false statements we refer them to the original Arabic version of this book. In the original Arabic version, Muhaddith Abdullah draws the attention of the reader to the falsely attributed statements by using the expression "very weak". In Hadith terminology we are forbidden to use such statements as an argument, or that it has been
reported as being an 'hadith' of the Holy Prophet, praise and peace be upon him.

In the section "The Prophetic Sayings transmitted by Thirty-Three Companions" , the reader will observe that more than thirty-three hadith are mentioned. This is because some of the companions transmitted more than one hadith relating to Al Mahdi, or, that the hadiths have been combined.

PREFACE 5
by Muhaddith Abdullah ben Sadek

Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Veneration and peace be upon our master Muhammad, the honest Prophet. Surely, Allah is pleased with his purified family and his righteous companions - the supporter and migrator. I have written two other books, the first is called: "Establishing the Proof of the Descent of Jesus from Heaven at the End of Time",
and the second: "The Islamic Belief in the Descent of Jesus." Both books have been translated into Urdu but are no longer in print.

The aim of this book is to destroy the false statements made concerning the rejection or denial of the Prophetic statements relating to Al Mahdi, Al Muntazar, the Expected, Guided Leader, by proving these statements to be 'mutawatira1 Whosoever denies these statements is considered to have fallen into the error of innovation and is thereby classified.

I call this book "Al Mahdi Al Muntazar", and Allah is the One who should be asked to benefit the reader through its reading in the way in which He benefited the readers of it's two brother books. Surely, He is near us, and answers supplications.

THE VERACITY OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD'S SAYINGS 5

Unfortunately, there are many people, including some who are knowledgeable, who believe there will be no Mahdi. This is because they are ignorant of the Prophetic sayings prophesying his appearance towards the end of time. I was told by someone, during the course of a meeting in which Al Mahdi was mentioned, that a knowledgeable teacher stated that the Hadiths bearing the news of Al Mahdi were false. I asked that person why he had not questioned their falsehood by asking which authoritative source from the Science of Hadith had judged them false. By Allah, if he had asked these questions the teacher would
not have been able to reply. It is impossible that the Hadiths which have been proved to be 'mutawatira', by Al Hufaz (the highest authorities in Hadith terminology) to be false.

Hafiz2 Abu Hussain Al Abiri said in his book: "The Merits of Imam Al Shaf'i", may Allah be pleased with him: "The news reported via the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, of Al Mahdi was spread far and wide and has been verified as 'mutawatira'. He is from the
family of the Holy Prophet, and when he comes the earth will be filled with justice, and Jesus, upon whom be veneration and peace, will follow him and assist him in the slaying of al masiikh often referred to as ad-dajal - the lying, false messiah, the anti-Christ."3

Al Muhaddith, Idris Al Iraqi Al Hussaini wrote: "The Prophetic sayings concerning Al Mahdi are 'mutawatira' or extremely close, however, the first opinion has been certified by many Al Hufaz4.

Ash-Shawkani said in his book: The Authentic Proof Concerning Transmissions about the Expected Imam, the false Messiah and the Messiah, " ... there are fifty transmitted prophetic sayings concerning Al Mahdi. Amongst them are those classified as authentic,
good and also the amended. There is no doubt that they are all mutawatira." The expression 'mutawatira' can also be applied to Hadiths of a lessor degree according to all the expressions listed in the principle of this science. On account of so many of the companions reporting the same narration it is impossible to say that these statements were generated from themselves and are not from the Holy Prophet because the information contained therein is above their capability.

The King of Bohpal in India, Al Muhaddith Al Kinnawji said in his book: "The Broadcasting of what Happened and what is Going to Happen before the Hour of Judgement, " '... the Prophetic sayings concerning Al Mahdi together with their various narrations are numerous and are classified as being 'mutawatira'. This fact has also been recorded in other references of Hadith and Islamic records such as dictionaries together with their chains of narrations of each transmitter ...' Then he added: 'Some of the Prophetic sayings
concerning Al Mahdi are extremely high in their soundness, some sound, whilst others are lessor in soundness. One must also take into account that throughout each generation his circumstances have always been very well known."

The scholar, Abu Abdullah Jasus said: "The news concerning Al Mahdi has been reported in many hadiths and Al Hafiz As-Sakhawy judged that they had reached the level of mutawatira.
Ash-Shaykh Al Arabi of Fez said: "Every science has been delivered through the authentic news via the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him. That which has been prophesied is a truth to be expected and will, indeed, occur ... and the news of Al Mahdi is transmitted in
numerous narrations so therefore it is powerful."

The scholar Abu Zayd Abdur-Rahman of Fez commented: "There is an abundance of news about Al Mahdi and he will be sent at the end of Time ..."

As-Safarini wrote in his poem describing the articles of belief: "Everything came in the Prophetic text from the true science. There is no deviation amongst them concerning the eloquent seal - Imam Muhammad Al Mahdi and Jesus." Explaining his poems, As-Safarini said: "There are many opinions concerning Al Mahdi -- even the false -- and it has been said that there is no Mahdi except Jesus. The authentic reports followed by truthful people is that Al Mahdi is other than Jesus and that he will come before Jesus descends from the heavens. There are many narrations reaching the degree of 'tawatur' and because of this it became very well known among the scholars of the Sunnah5, so that is was included as being an article of belief."

After this As-Safarini mentioned some of the Hadiths reported by a group of the Prophet's companions and commented: "These have been reported via the companions together with others who are also mentioned in numerous chains of narrations. It has also been mentioned via the second generation of Muslims from which we glean great benefit with the absolute knowledge of him. Therefore, belief in the coming of Al Mahdi is obligatory because it has been confirmed by knowledgeable scholars and listed in the Articles of Faith of the people of the Sunnah."

Amongst those who describe the Prophet's sayings relating to Al Mahdi as 'mutawatira' is the Shaykh of some of our shaykhs, the Imam, the Seal of the Scholars of Hadith in Fez, As-Sayyid Muhammad, son of Jafar Al Kittani. In his book: "Organizing the Scattered Mutawatira Prophetic Sayings" via twenty companions, he reported statements similar to those already stated by the previously mentioned scholars.

He also said: "In his introduction, ibn Khaldun traced the chains of the Prophetic sayings concerning the coming of Al Mahdi according to his knowledge, however, he approached them incorrectly." Accordingly, the scholars criticized him saying that the Prophetic
sayings reported about Al Mahdi are numerous and reach the height of being 'mutawatira.' It is reported in the references of Ahmad, At- Tirmizi, Abu Dawood, ibn Majah, Al Hakim, At-Tabarani, Abi Yal'ly, Al Bazaar and others that they were able to trace them directly to a group of the Prophet's companions." Consequently, the denial of this together with all the above are illegal because the Prophetic sayings support each other and become powerful with witnesses and arguments. The Prophetic sayings pertaining to Al Mahdi either reach the highest degree of soundness, or are determined to be sound, or some are classified as being lessor.

Scholarly witnessing to these statements are numerous, however, it is not our aim to gather them all, neither is it to defeat the opinion of ibn Khaldun, because this has already been dealt with in "The Appearance of the Hidden Delusions from the Sayings of ibn
Khaldun" by my brother As-Sayyid Ahmad. This book defeats all ibn Khaldun's criticisms word-by-word, in a way that leaves no room for anyone else to add to it.

Our aim is that we mention the Prophetic sayings relating to Al Mahdi with their references as reported by the scholars of this Science of Hadith, together with their chains of narrations with an examination of these chains that sustain the proof of their degree of soundness according to the indisputable regulations of the Science of Hadith with its high principles thus making it 'tawatur' clear to everyone.

Al Mahdi is mentioned in the Prophetic Sayings reported by thirty- three of the companions they are:

1. Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib
2. Imam Hussain ibn Ali
3. Al Abbas ibn Al Muttalib
4. Ibn Abbas
5. Ammar ibn Yasir
6. Abi Sa'id Al Khudri
7. Abdullah ibn Masood
8. Lady Ummu Salamah, Mother of the Believers, may Allah be pleased with her
9. Thawban
10. Abdullah ibn Al Harth
11. Anas ibn Malik
12. Uthman ibn Affan
15. Hudhayfah ibn Al Yamam
16. Jabir ibn Majid As-Sadafi
17. Abu Ayyub Al Ansari
18. Kyrrah Al Muzani
19. Lady Ummu Habibah, Mother of the Believers, may Allah be pleased with her
20. Abi Umamah Al Bahily
21. Abdullah ibn Amru ibn Al As
22. Tamim Ad-Dari
23. Lady Ayesha, Mother of the Believers, may Allah be pleased with her
24. Abdu Rahman ibn Awf
25. Abdullah ibn Omar ibn Al Khattab
26. Talha ibn Ubaydillah
27. Ali Al Hilali
28. Imran ibn Hasan
29. Amru ibn Murrah Al Juhani
30. Awf ibn Malik
31. Abi A Tafil
32. A man from the companions
33. Kays ibn Jabir via his father, via his grandfather.

Al Mahdi has also been mentioned in the Prophetic sayings reported by five of the friends of the companions: 5

1. Sa'id ibn Al Musayyab
2. Al Hasan Al Basri - student of Imam Ali
3. Kitadah
4. Shahr ibn Hawshab
5. Mumar

Christian's Messiah vs Unbelievers's Moshiakh

It is important for the reader to know that many Arabic and Hebrew words are very close in pronunciation. At this point we would like to draw the attention of the reader to an important issue: The Arabic word "Masiih" = the Messiah. The Arabic word "Masiikh" = the false messiah, which is equivalent in pronunciation to the Hebrew word "Moshiakh" = the Messiah. However, when the Arabic language is compared to the Hebrew, it is found that the Arabic letter 's' is equal to that of the Hebrew 'sh', as in the Arabic word 'Salaam' and the Hebrew word 'Shalom'. The Unbelievers await the coming of the 'Moshiakh' to lead them, therefore one understands the Unbelievers will follow the false messiah, and once again reject Jesus who is the true Messiah.

INDEX

Part 1 - Authentic Sayings of Prophet Muhammad, {S}concerning Al Mahdi narrated by thirty-three Companions and five of their Companions Al Mahdi's Lineage. 5

Physical appearance and characteristics
The state of the world before his advent
The stern trial
Al Mahdi and Jerusalem
Distribution of wealth
The certainty of his appearance
The importance of following Al Mahdi
The return of justice
Unification of Muslims
Warning
Children of Lady Fatima
When and where Al Mahdi is give allegiance
The Black Banners
The government of Al Mahdi
Constantinople and the mountain of Al Daylam
The emergence of the false messiah
Dwellers of Paradise
An army from the direction of Iraq
The coming of Prophet Jesus
The tyranny of kings
Description of Al Mahdi
The worst creation of Allah
Battles
Caliphs, princes, kings and tyrants
Al Hasan and Al Hussain
When the desert swallows the army
When Medina shakes thrice
When pilgrims are robbed
The hidden treasures of Antioch
Pure musked children
The march against Al Mahdi
The facial description of Al Mahdi
The Youth from Tamimi
The Trial
Some of the Prophet's last words to Lady Fatima, peace be upon them
Seventy-three sects of Muslims
The purified soul

The Narrations of Five Friends of the Companions
Black Banners
Time of Al Mahdi's appearance

The Narrations of Imam Ali {as}and several companions of the Holy Prophet, praise and peace be upon him.

Master in Paradise, Al Harth, Arrival of Al Mahdi
Four trials
Anxiousness for Al Mahdi
The Gate of Istakhr
Ar Rufaka and Al Abdal
Trials
Al Talakan
The birth place of Al Mahdi
The Black Banners
The false messiah
Slaying of Muslims in Kufa
The sign of the coming of Al Mahdi Hasan
Murder on the pilgrimage
Shuayb, the son of Salih
As-Sufyani and Kufa
Four people from the House
When Constantinople is opened
Prophet Jesus and Al Mahdi
The eclipse of the sun and moon during Ramadan
Upon finding Al Mahdi
The Black Banners
The Black Banners in Kufa
A youth with a thin, yellowish beard
The battle in Medina
The death of As-Sufyani
The children of Lady Fatima, peace be upon her
As-Sufyani
The marked Banner
Personality of Al Mahdi
Humility of Al Mahdi
Disbelief in Allah
Al Rukn and Al Makam
Safety after the trial
The four thousand men of Shuayb, son of Salih
Abundant Wealth
When a man sleeps as a believer and wakes as an unbeliever
Justice
Muhammad, the son of Ajlan

PART 2: Quotations of Prophet Muhammad, {s} concerning the coming of the anti-christ, then Prophet Jesus and the events at the end of the world :

Description and deeds of the anti-Christ, Water and fire of the anti-Christ, The events surrounding the end of time, The protection of Mecca and Media, The seventy thousand Unbelieverss from Isfahan, The fear of the anti-Christ, The mischief of the anti-Christ
The tortures of the anti-Christ, The provisions of the anti-Christ, The mark of the anti-Christ, When Paradise appears to be Hell, Description anti-Christ's eye, The tree of the Unbelievers, When a mountain of gold appears in the river Euphrates, Abandonment of Medina
Scarcity of men

PART 3: A summary of the preceding hadiths in layman's terms Conditions before the advent of Al Mahdi :

Al Mahdi's lineage, name and physical description His place of birth, his appearance and allegiance, The enemy of Al Mahdi, Al Mahdi's army, troops and battles, The appearance of the anti-Christ, Prophet Jesus, the true Messiah, peace be upon him, The description of the false Messiah, the anti-Christ, The affairs of the anti-Christ, The time of Truth

PART 1
Authentic Sayings of Prophet Muhammad, praise and peace be upon him, concerning Al Mahdi narrated by thirty-three of his Companions and five of their Companions

Al Mahdi's Lineage, Physical Appearance and Characteristics: Prophet Muhammad, praise and peace be upon him, said : "Al Mahdi is (descended) from me. His forehead will be radiant, and his nose prominent. He will fill the earth with both fairness and justice just as it will have been filled by oppression and injustice,and he will govern for seven years."
"... so a man will come to him saying:'O Mahdi, give me, give me!" So he will fill his clothes with as much as he can carry."

The State of the World before his Advent:

The Hour will not occur until the ground has been filled with injustice and transgressions.
Then, a man from the Family of my House will come and fill it with fairness and justice
just as it was filled by harm and oppression." "At the end of my nation Al Mahdi will come
for whom Allah will send rain so that the earth produces its plants. He will give wealth equally; cattle will increase and the nation will be great. He will live for seven or eight." " ... so a man from my pure musked children will govern for seven or nine ... "

A Stern Trial

"At the end of Time a stern trial from their governor will come upon my nation -never before will they have heard of a trial such as it. The wide earth will shrink before them
and the earth will become full of oppression and injustice so that believers find no refuge from harm. So, Allah, the Mighty, the Purified will send a man from my pure musked descendants who will fill the earth with fairness and justice, just as it was filled by oppression and injustice. The inhabitants of Heaven and Earth will be pleased with him.
The earth will not withhold any of its seed -- all will be produced. Nor will the Heaven withhold any of its showers except that Allah pours it upon them in abundance. And he will live among them seven, eight or nine years; the dead will wish for life because of that!
Allah, the Mighty, the Glorified will give the inhabitants of the earth from His Goodness."
"At the end of Time, a Caliph will come who distributes wealth without count."

AL MAHDI AND JERUSALEM

"A man from my nation will come who speaks with my Sunnah and Allah, the Mighty, the Glorified will send showers of rain from the heavens so that the earth will produce its blessing. Through him the earth will be filled with fairness and justice just as it had been filled by oppression and injustice. He will govern this nation for seven years, and go to Jerusalem." "I bear good tidings for you concerning Al Mahdi. He will be sent when people differ and the earth quakes!"

Distribution of Wealth

"He will fill the earth with fairness and justice just as it had been filled by oppression and injustice. The inhabitants of the heavens and earth will be pleased with him. He will distribute wealth equally." At this point a companion asked what 'equally' meant so the Prophet {S}eplied: "Equally, between the people, and Allah will fill the hearts
of the nation of Muhammad with richness and his justice will satisfy them until he sends a messenger saying: 'Who is in need of wealth?' None except one man will stand and say, 'Me'.
So he will say: 'Go to the treasurer and tell him that Al Mahdi orders you to give me wealth.' So the treasurer will say to him: 'Fill with your hands!' And he will put it in his clothing then tie it. Then he will become contrite and say: 'I was the most greedy among the nation of Muhammad, and he will attempt to return it but it will not be accepted,
and it will be said to him: 'We do not accept what we have given.' And so he (Al Mahdi) will remain seven, eight or nine years -- then, there is no goodness left in life nor yet in living after him. The preceding narrations were reported by Abi Said Al Khudri in the
reference of Abi Dawood, Al Hakim, At-Tirmizi, Ahmad, ibn Hibban, Muslim, Al Tabarani (in his middle dictionary), Al Barudi and Abu Nuaym in his forty Hadith concerning Al Mahdi.

The Certainty of his Appearance:

"Even if there remained only one day left to be lived Allah will prolong that day until He sends a man from me8 His name is like my name, and his father's name is like my father's name. He will fill the earth with fairness and justice just as it was filled by oppression and injustice." "The days will not end and life will not vanish until the Arabs are governed by a man from the Family of my House -- his name is the same as mine."

The Importance of Following Al Mahdi

Ibn Masood reported: "We went to the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him,
and he came out with good news and happiness was easily recognizable upon his face.
When we asked him about a matter he would tell us about it, and we were never silent about anything until he spoke of it, until a party from the Bani Hashim passed by amongst whom were Al Hasan and Al Hussain, peace be upon them. When he saw them he hugged them with tears in his eyes, so we asked: 'O Messenger of Allah' we see something has changed your face which distresses us.' Thereupon he replied: 'We are a Family of a House for whom Allah has chosen the Hereafter rather than the present. After me my family will be refugees, driven out of countries until the Black Banners are raised in the east.

They will ask for the truth but they will not be given it, so they will ask again for it,
and they will not be given it , so they will fight and be given victory. Those of you or your descendants who live during that time go to the Imam of the Family of my house even if you have to crawl over ice to him. Indeed, they are banners of guidance. They will deliver it to a man from the Family of my House his name is the same as my name, and the name of his father is the same as my father, and he will fill the ground with fairness and justice." This hadith is in found in the references of Abu Dawood, Al Hakim, At-Tirmizi, Ibn Hibban, Ibn Majhah, Au Ash-Shaykh, Ibn Adiy, Abu Dhabi, Ibn Asakir and Abu Nuaym.

Return of Justice

Prophet Muhammad, praise and peace be upon him, said: "If only one day in life remains,
Allah will send a man from the Family of my House. He will fill the earth with justice
just as it has been filled by injustice." "Al Mahdi is from the family of the House
Allah will 'yuslihu' him in a night."

Unification of Muslims

"He is from us as Allah opened with us, so He will close, and with us they will be saved from polytheism. And with us Allah arbitrates between the hearts after open hostility
as He arbitrates between their hearts after the hostility of polytheism." Ali asked: 'Are they believers or unbelievers?' He answered: "Some are on trial and others are unbelievers.

Warning:

"At the end of Time there will be a trial in which people will be sorted in a way similar to that in which gold is sorted from metal." "So do not rebuke the people of Syria but rebuke the evil people among them because amongst them is Al Abdal. A flood is about to be sent down upon the people of Syria which will disperse their groups in such a way that if foxes attacked they would be beaten. At that time a man from the Family of my House will come under three banners; between twelve and fifteen thousand and their password is -'Die, die.' Then, there will come seven banners and under each will be one man seeking the kingdom. Allah will kill all of them and restore unity and favors upon the hearts of Muslims, and those who were far come close."

The preceding hadith was reported by Imam Ali in the references of Ahmad, Abu Dawood, Ibn Majah and At-Tabarani. Children of Lady Fatima, may Allah be pleased with her and them
"Al Mahdi is from my pure musked descendants from the children of Fatima10" "Yes, he is the truth, and he is from the children of Fatima."

When and Where Al Mahdi is given Allegiance

"Differences will occur after the death of a caliph and a man from the people of Medina will escape to Mecca. Then, some of the people of Mecca will come to him and drag him out against his desire11 and give him their allegiance between Ar-Rukn and Al Makam. An army will be sent against him from Syria that will be swallowed up in Al Bayda - desert
between Mecca and Medina. When people see this the Abdal of Syria will come to him
as well as a group of people from Iraq and pledge their allegiance between Ar-Rukn and Al Makam. Then a man from the Koraysh will come whose cousins are from Kalb, and he will send an army to them that will overcome them and this will become known as the Battle of Kalb.
Whosoever does not witness the spoils of war from Kalb is lost! And he (Al Mahdi) will distribute wealth and practice the Sunnah of their Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, with the people. And Islam will spread throughout the earth. He will remain seven years then die, and the believers will pray14 for him."

This hadith was reported by Lady Ummu Salamah, wife of the Prophet, Mother of the Believers, may Allah be pleased with her, and is found in the references of Abu Dawood, Ibn Majah, Al Hakim, Ibn Hibban and At-Tabarani.

The Black Banners

"Before your treasure, three will kill each other all of them are sons of a different caliph but none will be the recipient. Then the Black Banners will appear from the East
and they will kill you in a way that has never before been done by a nation."
Thawban, a companion said: 'Then he said something that I do not remember by heart'
then continued to say that the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, said: "If you see him give him your allegiance, even if you have to crawl over ice, because surely he is the Caliph of Allah, Al Mahdi. If you see the Black Banners coming from Khurasan go to them
immediately, even if you must crawl over ice, because indeed amongst them is the Caliph, Al Mahdi." "The Black Banners15 will come to you from the East, their hearts are like iron.
Whosoever hears about them let them go crawling -- even over ice!"

The preceding Hadith was reported by Thawban and is found in the references of Ibn Majah, Al Busiri, Al Hakim, Ahmad, Nuaym, Ad- Daylami, Al Hasan, son of Sufyan, and Abu Nuaym.

The Government of Al Mahdi:

"People will come from the east and will establish the government for Al Mahdi." Reported by Abdullah son of Al Harth and is found in the references of Ibn Majah and At-Tabarani in his middle dictionary. "If only one night remains in the world, a man will come from the House of the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, who will govern it."

"Al Mahdi will be in my nation for at least seven (years) or eight or ten, and my nation will enjoy favors which it has never enjoyed before. The heavens will send an abundance of rain, the earth will not store any seed, rather it will yield all its fruits. There will be a surplus of wealth but a man will stand up and say: 'O give me,' so he will be told 'Take.'" "The Hour will not occur until a man from the Family of my House comes. He will beat them until they return to the truth." It was asked: "How long will he govern?'
Whereupon he answered "Five plus two."

Constantinople/Istanbul and the Mountain of Al-Daylam

"If there only remains but one day left in the world, Allah will prolong it until a man from my house governs. He will open Constantinople and the Mountain of Al-Daylam." "A man named As-Sufyani will come from the center of Damascus. The majority of his followers will be from the tribe of Kalb. He will kill until he rips women open and kills children. So the tribe of Kays will rise up in retaliation and he will slaughter all of them! Then a man from the Family of my House will come in Al Hirrah and the news will reach As-Sufyani.
Then he will send his army but it will suffer defeat. As-Sufyani will march with his followers to him until they reach a desert and the ground will swallow them up. None will be saved except the one bearing the news."

The Emergence of the False Messiah

"The Romans will surround a leader from my pure musked children. His name will be the same as mine. They will fight each other at a place called Al Imak and one third, or thereabouts, of the Muslims will be killed. They will fight again on another day and again one third or thereabouts of the Muslims will be killed. On the third day they will fight again and the Romans will be defeated. And they will remain there until they open Constantinople. It is whilst they are distributing the spoils of war that a messenger will come informing them that the false messiah is in their home town with their children."
Reported by Abu Hurayrah in the reference of Ibn Hibban, At-Tirmizi, Abuya'li, at Tabarani, Al Bazaar, Abu Nuaym and Al Hakim.

Dwellers of Paradise

"We are the children of Abd Al Muttalib, the Masters of the Dwellers of Paradise myself, Hamza, Ali, Jafar, Al Hasan, Al Hussain and Al Mahdi." An Army from the Direction of Iraq 5
When the Holy Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, slept in the house of Lady Ummu Salamah he awoke saying: "There is no movement or power except from Allah." "What makes you say that?" asked Lady Umm Salamah. He replied: "Because an army will come from the direction of Iraq to seize a man from Al Medina whom Allah protects. When they reach the desert in the direction of Dhi Hulayfah the ground will swallow them up. Those that are on top cannot reach those beneath, and those beneath cannot reach those on top up until the Day of Judgement. Their motivations are different." Lady Umm Salamah then asked: "O Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, how is it that they will be swallowed up although their motives are different?" He replied: "Among them are those that have been coerced to join." This Hadith was reported by Anas and is found in the references of
Ibn Majah, Al Busiri and Al Bazaar. "At the end of my nation a Caliph will scatter wealth without count." When the second narrator, Abi Nadrah, was asked if this referred to Caliph Omar Abdul Aziz, he replied: "No".

The Coming of Prophet Jesus, peace be upon him

"Jesus, the son of Mary, peace be upon him, will descend when the prince is Al Mahdi
and Al Mahdi will say to Jesus: 'Come, lead us in prayer.' But he will decline saying:
'You are princes over each other which is the Favor of Allah to this nation.'" A group from my nation will keep fighting for the truth until Jesus, the son of Mary descends at dawn in the Mosque of Jerusalem.

He will approach Al Mahdi who will say: 'O Prophet of Allah, come, lead us in prayer.'
But he will decline saying: 'This nation has princes over each other.'" The two preceding Hadiths were reported by Jabir, son of Abdullah, and are found in the references of Muslim, Abu Nuaym, Abu Amru Ad-Dani and Al Bazaar. "If only one day remains in the world,
Allah will send a man with a name like mine. His manners will be likened to my manners."