who enters combat for religion\u2019s sake
<\/span>and whose efforts are totally for God.
He discerns correct from incorrect
and truth from falsehood.<\/span>
But, he first struggles with himself
and rectifies his own character traits.
As the Prophet said, \u2018Begin with your own self!<\/span><\/p>\n
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He was the Inheritor of the Knowledge of Prophets in his time, the Imam of Qutbs, and the Advisor of the Kingdom of Guidance. He quenched his spiritual thirst by drinking from the fountain of Heavenly Knowledge and he reached a stage of Annihilation at the age of thirty. He was the summit of Ascetic Saints. He was addressed by the Heavenly Kingdom as the Khalif of this Kingdom on Earth. In his person were combined the both knowledges, and he acquired and grasped all the benefit of the Tariqat and\u00a0 Haqiqat. He became the center of all Heavenly Inspirations and Revelations. He was a Secret from Allah\u2019s Secrets and a Miracle from Allah\u2019s Miracles. He was the Unique Banner of the Knowledge of Spirituality and the Knowledge of the Pen. He was like the Pole Star giving direction and illuminating the way for the people of his time. He revived dead hearts and he wore the cloak of the great saints. He didn\u2019t leave an atom in this world unsupported by his spiritual power.<\/p>\n
He was born in Sughur, a village in Daghestan on the 3rd of Rajab, Wednesday, in 1207 H\/1789 AD.<\/p>\n
He stood on the throne of the Qutb<\/em> for forty years. His fame spread everywhere. He trained his followers and lifted them by means of his spiritual power. If anyone appeared in his presence, even for one hour, he was raised to the State of Hearing and the State of Vision. He said, \u201cI do not depend on the effort of the murid, but I depend on the light that Allah has given to me for that murid. I raise him by means of that light, because I know that it is not possible for a person to reach the State of Unveiling by his own effort alone. That is the meaning of the invocation of the Prophet\u00a0 The following are among his sayings:<\/p>\n \u201cAllah has provided every servant with his provision. Whoever does not acquire knowledge of the daily provision that Allah has granted him, will be considered ignorant in Our Tariqat.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThose who achieve the Reality of this Tariqat<\/em> are very few. With the power of that Reality one can reach all the saints in this world, and with the Divine Power conferred when you attain the Reality of this Tariqat<\/em>, you can reach all angels, one by one.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe spiritual light that Allah gives to you on your way in this Order is the Beacon that lights the Way to His Divine Presence without fear.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIn this tariqat<\/em>, to distinguish other than Allah is unbelief.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Sufi is the one who has left the world behind, the Hereafter behind, the Divine Presence behind and who subsists in Him Alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Abu Ahmad as-Sughuri spent most of his life in seclusion. He liked seclusion, he liked to be away from people. For that reason he was quite happy when he was put under house arrest by the Russians, which happened to him many times.<\/p>\n \u201cOne day I was in my seclusion and the room was filled with a beautiful scent. I didn\u2019t raise my eyes, but kept meditating in my seclusion. Then a spiritual sword, shining with more light than that of the sun, descended toward my head. I was wondering what it was that I felt descending on me. A vision appeared to me in which the Prophet\u00a0 \u201cOne time I entered the presence of my Shaykh, Sayyidina Jamaluddin al-Ghumuqi al-Husayni. He said, \u2018My son, you have attained the highest state of the Muhammadan Perfection.\u2019 I said, \u2018O my Shaykh, I would like to reach the lineage of your state.\u2019 As soon as I said that, I saw him disappearing from his place and appearing in me, and I saw myself disappearing and appearing in his place and with his form.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n He was granted miraculous powers unprecedented among the saints. Of the Unveiling of the hidden in this Universe, and of his grant from the Divine Spiritual Knowledge of the states of people after their death, the extent was so boundless and vast that no book can encompass its description.<\/p>\n He often prayed Fajr (Dawn) prayer with the same ablution of `Isha (Night) prayer, indicating that he hadn\u2019t slept.<\/p>\n One time as he was traveling with his family, they found themselves without water in the desert on the way to Hijaz. His family was very thirsty. He told his servant, \u2018Go and get some water.\u2019 He said, \u201cO my Shaykh, how will I find water in this desert?\u201d He asked the people in their caravan if anyone had water, but no one did and all their waterskins were dry. The Shaykh then took an empty waterskin and went off into the desert for ten minutes. When he returned the skin was full and with it he quenched his family\u2019s thirst and that of the people of the caravan. Then he filled all the water bags of the caravan from that one bag, and returned to his family with it still full as if it had never been used.<\/p>\n He said,<\/p>\n \u201cI achieved the three levels of sainthood: Annihilation (Fana<\/em>\u2018), Subsistence (Baqa<\/em>\u2018), and Spiritual Knowledge (Ma`rifa<\/em>). I received these from the presence of the Light of the Prophet, Sayyidina Muhammad\u00a0 \u201cPride never entered the heart of a person but that his mind decreased to the degree that the pride had increased in his heart.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDifficulties might touch a believer, but they would not affect the one who makes Dhikr.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n He was the reviver of the Shari`a and\u00a0 Tariqa in his time and he attracted thousands and thousands of people back to Islam and to the Naqshbandi Tariqat.<\/p>\n In Daghestan he was considered both a spiritual Shaykh, carrying the teachings of the Naqshbandi Order, and, at the same time, a great warrior, like Imam Shamil, because he fought the Russians. He was the main religious authority after Sayyid Jamaluddin\u2019s departure. The Russian Army took him prisoner many times. One such time when they took him prisoner, they put him in a carriage to take him away. All the people of his village came to bid him farewell. They were crying as if they were losing their hearts. He sat in the carriage quietly searching the crowd for someone. The man who was driving the carriage, whipped the horses to get them to me but they wouldn\u2019t move. Sayyidina Abu Ahmad as-Sughuri said, \u201cWhy are you beating the horses?\u201d He said, \u201cI am beating the horses to make them move.\u201d He said, \u201cThey are not going to move, until I give the order for them to move. They are under my command. And I am waiting for someone.\u201d<\/p>\n They sat like that for several hours, until a man came running through the crowd. He was a Russian officer. Sayyidina Abu Ahmad asked him, \u201cAre you not the son of my friend Ahmad? Why are you in the Russian Army? You are Daghestani. You must not be with their army while they are killing Muslims.\u201d Then he told him, \u201cYou have to leave them and to listen to us.\u201d He said, \u201cYes, my Shaykh, I will listen to you.\u201d He said, \u201cOf course you will listen to us, because even the wild animals in the forest listen to us when we go there to make dhikr. Even these horses listen to us and will not move except by our orders. Your father is a great Shaykh and I say you must leave them. You are going to be saint. O my son, don\u2019t leave the people of exoteric knowledge and don\u2019t leave the people of esoteric knowledge. Look at that cemetery and don\u2019t forget the one day you and I are going to be buried there.\u201d Immediately that young officer took off his uniform and took initiation from the Shaykh. The army soldiers took him prisoner as well. Then Sayyidina Abu Ahmad as-Sughuri said, \u201cNow you have permission to move,\u201d and the horses began to move.<\/p>\n Allah and The Prophet\u00a0 They asked him, \u201cYou are not working, the Russians are against you and you are fighting, how is it that your house is always full with provision? He said, \u201cAnyone who is struggling in the way of God, Allah will provide for him. And that is what Allah said in Qur\u2019an,\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Every time that Zakariyya entered her chamber, he found her supplied with sustenance<\/em>\u201d [3:37].<\/p>\n He died in Sughur on the 17th of Rabi\u2019ul-Awwal in the year 1299\/1882 CE. at the age of 93.<\/p>\n Many years after he had passed away his daughter saw him in a dream. He told her, \u201cO my daughter, the stone of my grave has fallen down and is laying on my chest, pressing on me and hurting me.\u201d The next day his daughter went to the Shaykhs of the city and told them that dream. She told the dream to everyone she met. The people believed the dream and went quickly to open up the grave. They found that the stone which covered his body had fallen down, and the walls of the grave had tumbled in around him. They found his body clean and unchanged. His shroud was still white, as if he had just been buried that same day.<\/p>\n They removed his body, redug the grave and replaced his body. Everyone was surprised and astonished at how he had come to her in the dream and told her about the situation in the grave. More surprising though, was the perfect condition of his body. After seeing this, they all took baycah with his successor, Sayyidina Abu Muhammad al-Madani.<\/p>\n Sayyidina Abu Ahmad as-Sughuri had two khalifs<\/em>: Abu Muhammad al-Madani<\/a> and Shaykh Sharafuddin ad-Daghestani<\/a>. 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, \u2018O Allah, do not leave me to my ego for the blink of an eye.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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enveloped me with his spirit, and I entered in him and I saw myself in him.\u201d<\/p>\nFrom His Miraculous Power<\/h4>\n
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It is said that when he was young, he used to see the name of Allah written in light between heaven and earth. That generated in him great modesty and humbleness. No one was able to take a photograph of him. When anyone tried, the camera would break apart. Whenever they tried to draw his likeness on paper the pen would not write, or the next day the picture would disappear. He said, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be known in this world after I die, because I don\u2019t wish for myself any form of existence.\u201d<\/p>\nFrom His Sayings<\/h4>\n
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, and I received the Three States of Perfection and the Seven Realities from my teacher, Sayyidina Jamaluddin al-Ghumuqi al-Husayni.<\/p>\nHis Jihad<\/h4>\n
His Jihad<\/h4>\n
\u00a0loved him for his sincerity and loyalty. His Shaykh was very happy with him, and his village cherished him. Each time he was released from imprisonment, his house filled with provision and guests.<\/p>\nHis Passing<\/h4>\n