The most distinguished Naqshbandi Way is a school of thought and practice that stood in the vanguard of those groups which disseminated truth and fought against evil and injustice, especially in Central Asia and India in the past, in China and the Soviet Union in modern times, and in Europe and North America today. Naqshbandi shaykhs who took up political, social, educational and spiritual roles in their communities, acting according to the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet
The most distinguished Naqshbandi Order is the way of the Companions of the
Prophet and those who follow them. This Way consists of continuous worship in
every action, both external and internal, with complete and perfect discipline
according to the Sunnah of the Prophet It consists in maintaining the highest
level of conduct and leaving absolutely all innovations and all free interpretations
in public customs and private behavior. It consists in keeping awareness of
the Presence of God, Almighty and Exalted, on the way to self-effacement and
complete experience of the Divine Presence. It is the Way of complete reflection
of the highest degree of perfection. It is the Way of sanctifying the self by
means of the most difficult struggle, the struggle against the self. It begins
where the other orders end, in the attraction of complete Divine Love, which
was granted to the first friend of the Prophet, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq(
).