I weep and he makes me happy.
I become sober and He makes me drunk.
I am rescued and He drowns me.
One time He befriends me,
another time He lifts me.
Another time He fights me
until I become angry.
One time I am playful with Him,
one time I accompany Him,
Another time I avoid Him,
another time I speak to Him.
If you say He is happy you
will find Him angry,
Or if you say He is obligated,
you will find He decides<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
-Abdul Karim Jili<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n He was the Wisest Scholar of his time, Adorned with the Arts of Science, dressed in the Robes of Piety and Patience, enlightened with the Essence of Certainty and supported with the Firmness of Faith. He knew Truth from Falsehood. He was Unsurpassed in Eloquence and Clarification. He was a Master of This Way and the First in this Association (Jama`at<\/em>). He was the Champion of the Knowers and the Signpost for the Seekers.<\/p>\n His speeches were exemplary and exquisite in their eloquence. His proofs and examples were metaphors that clarified elevated concepts to make them accessible to the people. All were overwhelmed by his eloquence. If he passed through a city in Daghestan, the people would line the streets to see him. Writers used to attend his association for the sake of his eloquent literary language, jurists for his legal rulings, philosophers for his logic, speakers for his clarity, and Sufis for his Manifestation of the Truth.<\/p>\n He was born in Kulal, a district of Shirwan, south of Daghestan, on the 1st of Muharram, a Monday, in the year 1201 H.\/1786 C.E.<\/p>\n He was tall and very fair. His beard was of mixed color, black and white. His eyes were black. His voice was high-pitched.<\/p>\n He was one of the Pious, Prayerful Jurists. He followed and taught the Shafi`i School. He memorized Shafi`i\u2019s \u201cKitab ul-Umm<\/em>\u201d (The Mother of Books). He was able to give judicial decisions (fatawa<\/em>) at the age of twenty years. He was respected by all in his city. He received his first teachings in Tasawwuf from his family.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cOur Way is controlled by the Qur\u2019an and the Sunnah.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI have met, from the Naqshbandi Order, four types of saints, and of each type, thirty exemplars; but in the end I chose to follow Shaykh Isma`il ash-Shirwani.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAllah didn\u2019t send anything to this Earth except as a lesson for His servants to learn from.\u201d<\/p>\n They asked him, \u201cWho is the Knower?\u201d He answered, \u201cThe Knower is the one who knows your secret without your speaking.\u201d<\/p>\n He said, \u201cWe didn\u2019t take Sufism through speeches and flashy words or by saying, \u2018Our shaikh said this and our shaikh said that.\u2019 We took Sufism by being hungry and leaving dunya behind and by disconnecting ourselves from everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n He was asked, \u201cWhat is the difference between the Seeker (murid<\/em>) and the Sought (murad<\/em>)?\u201d He replied, \u201cThe Seeker is the one who acquired knowledge through his activities and his learning. The Sought is the one who receives knowledge through revelation and inspiration. The seekers move and walk, but the Sought flies, and what a great difference between the one who walks and the one who flies.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSincerity between Allah and His Servants is not witnessed by anyone, neither the angels to write it, nor the devil to corrupt it, nor desire to destroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEven the Trustworthy (Siddiq<\/em>) changes his opinion more than forty times during a single night, although he is Trustworthy. The Witness (al-Mushahid<\/em>) is firm in his view for forty years.\u201d<\/p>\n The one who is in the \u201cState of Witnessing\u201d of the Divine Presence, sees Reality. He will achieve the three stages of witnessing: Knowledge of Certainty (`ilm al-yaqin<\/em>); Vision of Certainty (`ayn al-yaqin<\/em>); Reality of Certainty (haqq al-yaqin<\/em>). The knowledge that he attains will be received directly from the Divine Presence, which never changes. Therefore the People of Witnessing are firm in their decisions, which come from Reality and not from the opinion of the mind.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cA person cannot be called a wise servant until nothing appears in him that Allah dislikes.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Naqshbandi Sufi Order is based on four characteristics of behavior: -don\u2019t speak except when asked; -don\u2019t eat except when weak with hunger; -don\u2019t sleep except when overcome by fatigue; -and don\u2019t keep quiet when you are in His Presence (i.e. ask incessantly from Allah).\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe purity of the heart depends on the purity of the Dhikr and the Dhikr\u2019s purity depends on the absence of any hidden shirk<\/em> (worshipping Allah with another).\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe speech of Prophet\u00a0 \u201cThe way of the Sufis to Allah is by struggle against their selves.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe State of Unique and Sincere Oneness is reached when the servant goes back from the End to the Beginning, and he becomes as he was before he existed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe knowledge of Oneness (tawhid<\/em>) has been veiled from the eyes of the External Scholars since long ago. They can only talk about its outer shape.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat causes the heart to feel happiness and peace when it hears a beautiful sound? It is a consequence of Allah\u2019s having spoken to the spirits when they were atoms in His Presence and having asked them, \u2018Am I not Your Lord?\u2019 The sweetness of His Speech became imprinted on them. Thus in this world, whenever the heart hears anything of Dhikr<\/em> or music, it experiences happiness and peace, because these are a reflection of that sweetness.\u201d<\/p>\n For twenty years he did not eat except once a week. His daily practice of remembrance (wird<\/em>) consisted of 350 rak`ats<\/em> of prayer.<\/p>\n Shaykh Ahmad al-Kawkasi said, \u201cOne time I was travelling from the city across the forest to another city on important business. On my way snow was falling heavily, and a great wind was blowing. Then the snowfall cleared, and in its stead rain poured down, making all the roads like rivers. I had no choice but to pass through that forest. I entered the forest as night was approaching and got lost in the middle. The skies were pouring rain, night was overtaking me, the flood was increasing, and I didn\u2019t know where to go. I came to a river running through the woods. The flood made that river like an ocean, full of waves. The bridge over it was wrecked, but I had to cross. The river was raging, rising higher and higher, until it reached up to my legs, and then reached up the legs of my horse. I feared drowning for myself and my horse. I raised my hands and asked my Lord, \u201cO Allah, help me in this difficulty.\u201d Immediately I heard a voice behind me saying, \u201cO Ahmad, why are you calling me and bringing me from my house?\u201d I looked and I saw Shaykh Khas Muhammad behind me, but he was huge. He said, \u201cHold my hand and cross the river with me.\u201d I felt fear. He said, \u201cWhen you are with Us you must not feel fear.\u201d Then we crossed the river. He walked on the river, and I was walking with him on the water. We crossed to the other side. He said, \u201cNow you are safe,\u201d and he disappeared. When I reached my destination and went to the mosque, I saw him sitting there. I asked him, \u201cHow did you come?\u201d He said, \u201cO Ahmad, for Us there are no boundaries. We can be anywhere and everywhere at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n Benningsen and Wimbush describe the influence of Shaykh Isma`il ash-Shirwani \u0642 and his khalifs<\/em> in Daghestan thus: \u201cThe Naqshbandiya tariqat was to play a very important role in Caucasian history. Iron discipline, total dedication to its ideals, and the strict hierarchy on which it was based explain the epic resistance of the Caucasian mountaineers to Russian conquest \u2013 -a resistance that lasted from 1824 to 1855\u2013 in which not only all the leaders of the movement but also the local authorities (na\u2019ibs<\/em>) and the majority of the fighters were Naqshbandis. It can be said that the nearly fifty-year-long Caucasian wars made an important contribution to the material and moral ruin of the Tsarist empire and hastened the downfall of the Russian monarchy. \u201cThe brotherhood achieved another deep and long-lasting result: it transformed the half-pagan mountaineers into strict orthodox Muslims, and introduced Islam into the animist areas of upper Chechnia and among the Circassian tribes of the western Caucasus.\u201d\u2026 \u201cThe subsequent massive migration of the Caucasian Muslims to Turkey did not destroy the Naqshbandiyya in Daghestan and Chechnia; its roots had spread too wide and too deep.\u201d<\/p>\n Khas Muhammad died on the 3rd of Ramadan, a Sunday, in the year 1260 H. \/ 1844 C.E. while returning to Daghestan from pilgrimage to Makkah. He was buried in Damascus. He passed the authority of the Tariqat to his successor, Sayyiddina ash-Shaikh Muhammad Effendi al-Yaraghi \u0642<\/a>, according to the will of their common shaykh, Sayyidina Isma`il ash-Shirwani \u0642.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Khas Muhammad ash-Shirwani \u0642 I weep and he makes me happy.I become sober and He makes me drunk.I am rescued and He drowns me.One time He befriends me,another time He lifts me.Another time He fights meuntil I become angry.One time I am playful with Him,one time I accompany Him,Another time I avoid Him,another time I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":363,"menu_order":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4631","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4631\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}From His Sayings<\/h3>\n
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\u00a0is from the Divine Presence and the speech of Sufis is from Witnessing (mushahada<\/em>).\u201d<\/p>\nAbout His Miracles<\/h3>\n
His Jihad<\/h3>\n