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His Life<\/strong><\/h4>\nBayazid\u2019s grandfather was a Zoroastrian from Persia. Bayazid made a detailed study of the statutes of Islamic law\u00a0(shari`<\/sup>a)<\/i>\u00a0and practiced a strict regimen of self-denial\u00a0(zuhd)<\/i>. All his life he was assiduous in the practice of his religious obligations and in observing voluntary worship.<\/p>\nHe urged his students\u00a0(murids)<\/i>\u00a0to put their affairs in the hands of Allah and he encouraged them to accept sincerely the pure doctrine of\u00a0tawhid<\/i>\u00a0(the Oneness of God). This doctrine consisted of five essentials: to keep the obligations according to the Qur\u2019an and Sunnah, to always speak the truth, to keep the heart free from hatred, to avoid forbidden food and to shun innovations\u00a0(bid`<\/sup>a)<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/a>His Sayings<\/strong><\/h4>\nOne of his sayings was, \u201cI have come to know Allah through Allah, and I have come to know what is other than Allah with the light of Allah.\u201d He said, \u201cAllah has granted his servants favors for the purpose of bringing them closer to Him. Instead they are fascinated with the favors and are drifting farther from Him.\u201d And he said, praying to Allah, \u201cO Allah, You have created this creation without their knowledge and You have placed on them a trust without their will. If You don\u2019t help them who will help them?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bayazid said the ultimate goal of the Sufi is to experience the vision of Allah in the Hereafter. To that effect he said, \u201cThere are special servants of Allah who, if Allah veiled Himself from their sight in Paradise, would implore Him to take them out of Paradise just as the inhabitants of the Fire implore Him to release them from Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said about Allah\u2019s love for His servant, \u201cIf Allah loves His servant He will grant three attributes that are the proofs of His Love: generosity like the generosity of the ocean, and favor like the favor of the Sun in its giving of light, and modesty like the modesty of the Earth. The true lover never considers any affliction too great and never decreases his worship because of his pure faith.\u201d<\/p>\n
A man asked Bayazid, \u201cShow me a deed by which I will approach my Lord.\u201d He said, \u201cLove the friends of Allah in order that they will love you. Love his saints until they love you. Because Allah looks at the hearts of His saints and He will see your name engraved in the heart of His saints and He will forgive you.\u201d For this reason, the Naqshbandi followers have been elevated by their love for their shaikhs. This love lifts them to a station of continuous pleasure and continuous presence in the heart of their beloved.<\/p>\n
Many Muslim scholars in his time, and many after his time, said that Bayazid al-Bistami was the first one to spread the Reality of Annihilation\u00a0(fana\u2019)<\/i>. Even that strictest of scholars, Ibn Taymiyya, who came in the 7th Century A.H., admired Bayazid for this and considered him to be one of his masters. Ibn Taymiyya said about him, \u201cThere are two categories of\u00a0fana<\/i>\u2018: one is for the perfect Prophets and saints, and one is for seekers from among the saints and pious people(saliheen)<\/i>. Bayazid al-Bistami is from the first category of those who experience fana\u2019, which means the complete renunciation of anything other than God. He accepts none except God. He worships none except Him, and he asks from none except Him.\u201d He continues, quoting Bayazid saying, \u201cI want not to want except what He wants.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was reported about Bayazid that he said, \u201cI divorced the lower world thrice in order that I could not return to it and I moved to my Lord alone, without anyone, and I called on Him alone for help by saying, \u2018O Allah, O Allah, no one remains for me except You.\u2019 At that time I came to know the sincerity of my supplication in my heart and the reality of the helplessness of my ego. Immediately the acceptance of that supplication was perceived by my heart. This opened to me a vision that I was no longer in existence and I vanished completely from myself into His self. And He brought up all that I had divorced before in front of me, and dressed me with light and with His attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bayazid said, \u201cPraise to Me, for My greatest Glory!\u201d And he continued saying, \u201cI set forth on an ocean when the [earlier] prophets were still by the shore.\u201d And he said, \u201cO My Lord, Your obedience to me is greater than my obedience to You.\u201d This means, \u201cO God, You are granting my request and I have yet to obey You.\u201d<\/p>\n
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You have to have a good guide. If you get a bad teacher he will teach you badness. If you get a good teacher he will teach you good things. So what did we learn from our teachers?<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/strong>He said, \u201cI made four mistakes in my preliminary steps in this way: I thought that I remember Him and I know Him and I love Him and I seek Him, but when I reached Him I saw that His remembering of me preceded my remembrance of Him, and His knowledge about me preceded my knowledge of Him and His love towards me was more ancient than my love towards Him, and He sought me in order that I would begin to seek Him.\u201d<\/h4>\nAdh-Dhahabi quoted him in many great matters, among which were \u201cPraise to Me, for My greatest Glory!\u201d and \u201cThere is nothing in this robe I am wearing except Allah.\u201d Adh-Dhahabi\u2019s teacher Ibn Taymiyya explained, \u201cHe didn\u2019t see himself as existing any longer, but only saw the existence of Allah, due to his self-denial.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adh-Dhahabi further relates, \u201cHe said, O Allah, what is your Fire? It is nothing. Let me be the one person to go into your Fire and everyone else will be saved. And what is your Paradise? It is a toy for children. And who are those unbelievers who you want to torture? They are your servants. Forgive them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ibn Hajar said, in reference to Bayazid\u2019s famous utterances, \u201cAllah knows the secret and Allah knows the heart. Whatever Aba Yazid spoke from the Knowledge of Realities the people of his time did not understand. They condemned him and exiled him seven times from his city. Every time he was exiled, terrible afflictions would strike the city until the people would call him back, pledge allegiance to him, and accept him as a real saint.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attar and Arusi relate that Bayazid said, when he was exiled from his city, \u201cO Blessed city, whose refuse is Bayazid!\u201d<\/p>\n
One time Bayazid said, \u201cAllah the Most Just called me into His Presence and said to me, \u2018O Bayazid how did you arrive in My Presence?\u2019 I replied, \u2018Through\u00a0zuhd<\/i>, by renouncing the world.\u2019 He said, \u2018The value of the lower world is like the wing of a mosquito. What kind of renunciation have you come with?\u2019 I said, \u2018O Allah, forgive me.\u2019 Then I said, \u2018O Allah, I came to you through\u00a0tawakkul<\/i>, by dependence on You.\u2019 Then He said, \u2018Did I ever betray the trust which I promised you?\u2019 I said, \u2018O Allah forgive me.\u2019 Then I said, \u2018O Allah, I came to you through You.\u2019 At that time Allah said, \u2018Now We accept you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cI stood with the pious and I didn\u2019t find any progress with them. I stood with the warriors in the cause and I didn\u2019t find a single step of progress with them. I stood with those who pray excessively and those who fast excessively and I didn\u2019t make a footstep of progress. Then I said, \u2018O Allah, what is the way to You?\u2019 and Allah said, \u2018Leave yourself and come.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Ibrahim Khawwas said, \u201cThe way that Allah showed to him, with the most delicate word and the simplest explanation, was to \u2018leave your self-interest in the two worlds, the dunya and the Hereafter, leave everything other than Me behind.\u2019 That is the best and easiest way to come to Allah Almighty and Exalted, the most perfect and highest state of affirming Oneness, not to accept anything or anyone except Allah the Most High.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the followers of Dhul Nun al-Misri was following Bayazid. Bayazid asked him, \u201cWho do you want?\u201d He replied, \u201cI want Bayazid.\u201d He said, \u201cO my son, Bayazid is wanting Bayazid for forty years and is still not finding him.\u201d That disciple of Dhul Nun then went to him and narrated this incident to him. On hearing it Dhul Nun fainted. He explained later saying, \u201cMy master Bayazid has lost himself in Allah\u2019s love. That causes him to try to find himself again.\u201d<\/p>\n
They asked him, \u201cTeach us about how you reached true Reality.\u201d He said, \u201cBy training myself, by seclusion.\u201d They said, \u201cHow?\u201d He said, \u201cI called my self to accept Allah Almighty and Exalted, and it resisted. I took an oath that I would not drink water and I would not taste sleep until I brought my self under my control.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also said, \u201cO Allah! it is not strange that I love You because I am a weak servant, but it is strange that You love me when You are the King of Kings.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cFor thirty years, when I wanted to remember Allah and do dhikr I used to wash my tongue and my mouth for His glorification.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cAs long as the servant thinks that there is among the Muslims someone lower than himself, that servant still has pride.\u201d<\/p>\n
They asked him, \u201cDescribe your day and describe your night.\u201d He said, \u201cI don\u2019t have a day and I don\u2019t have a night, because day and night are for those who have characteristics of creation. I have shed my self the way the snake sheds its skin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of Sufism Bayazid said: \u201cIt it to give up rest and to accept suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of the obligation to follow a guide, he said: \u201cWho does not have a sheikh, his sheikh is Satan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of seeking God he said, \u201cHunger is a rain cloud. If a servant becomes hungry, Allah will shower his heart with wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of his intercession he said, \u201cIf Allah will give me permission to intercede for all the people of my time I will not be proud, because I am only interceding for a piece of clay,\u201d and \u201cIf Allah gave me permission for intercession, first I would intercede for those who harmed me and those who denied me.\u201d<\/p>\n
To a young man who wanted a piece of his old cloak for\u00a0baraka<\/i>\u00a0(blessing), Bayazid said: \u201cShould you take all Bayazid\u2019s skin and wear it as yours, it would avail you nothing unless you followed his example.\u201d<\/p>\n
They said to him, \u201cThe key for Paradise is \u2018La ilaha ill-Allah<\/i>\u2018 (witnessing that there is no god except Allah).\u201d He said, \u201cIt is true, but a key is for opening a lock; and the key of such witnessing can only operate under the following conditions:<\/p>\n
1) a tongue which doesn\u2019t lie nor backbite;
2) a heart without betrayal;
3) a stomach without\u00a0h aram or doubtful provision;
4) deeds without desire or innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cThe ego or self always looks at the world and the\u00a0ruh\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0(spirit) always looks at the next life and\u00a0ma`rifat<\/i>\u00a0(spiritual knowledge) always looks at Allah Almighty and Exalted. He whose self defeats him is from those who are destroyed, and he whose spirit is victorious over his self, he is of the pious, and he whose spiritual knowledge overcomes his self, he is of the God-conscious.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ad-Dailami said, \u201cOne time I asked `Abdur Rahman bin Yahya about the state of trust in Allah (tawakkul<\/em>). He said, \u201cIf you put your hand in the mouth of a lion, don\u2019t be afraid of other than Allah.\u201d I went in my heart to visit and ask Bayazid about this matter. I knocked and I heard from inside, \u201cWasn\u2019t what `Abdur Rahman said to you enough? You came only to ask, and not with the intention of visiting me.\u201d I understood and I came again another time one year later, knocking at his door. This time he answered, \u201cWelcome my son, this time you came to me as a visitor and not as a questioner.\u201d<\/p>\nThey asked him \u201cWhen does a man become a man?\u201d He said, \u201cWhen he knows the mistakes of his self and he busies himself in correcting them.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cI was twelve years the blacksmith of my self, and five years the polisher of the mirror of my heart, and for one year I was looking in that mirror and I saw on my belly the girdle of unbelief. I tried hard to cut it and I spent twelve years in that effort. Then I looked in that mirror and I saw inside my body that girdle. I spent five years cutting it. Then I spent one year looking at what I had done. And Allah opened for me the vision of all creations. And I saw all of them dead. And I prayed four\u00a0takbiras<\/i>\u00a0of\u00a0janaza<\/i>\u00a0(funeral prayer) over them.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said one time: \u201cIf the Throne and what is around it and what is in it were placed in the corner of the heart of a Knower, they would be lost completely inside it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of Bayazid\u2019s state, al-`Abbas ibn Hamza related the following: \u201cI prayed behind Bayazid the Dhuhr prayer, and when he raised his hands to say \u2018Allahu Akbar\u2019 he was unable to pronounce the words, in fear of Allah\u2019s Holy Name, and his entire body was trembling and the sound of bones breaking came from him; I was seized by fear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Munawi relates that one day, Bayazid attended the class of a\u00a0faqih<\/i>\u00a0(jurisprudent) who was explaining the laws of inheritance: \u201cWhen a man dies and leaves such-and-such, his son will have such-and-such, etc.\u201d Bayazid exclaimed: \u201cO\u00a0faqih<\/i>, O\u00a0faqih<\/i>! What would you say of a man who died leaving nothing but God?\u201d People began to cry, and Bayazid continued: \u201cThe slave possesses nothing; when he dies, he leaves nothing but his own master. He is such as Allah created him in the beginning.\u201d And he recited:\u00a0\u201cYou shall return to us alone, as we created you the first time\u201d<\/i>\u00a0[6:94].<\/p>\n
Sahl at-Tustari sent a letter to Bayazid which read: \u201cHere is a man who drank a drink which leaves him forever refreshed.\u201d Bayazid replied: \u201cHere is a man who has drunk all existences, but whose mouth is dry and burn with thirst.\u201d<\/p>\n
His Death<\/strong><\/h4>\nWhen Bayazid died, he was over seventy years old. Before he died, someone asked him his age. He said: \u201cI am four years old. For seventy years I was veiled. I got rid of my veils only four years ago.\u201d The 39th Sheikh of the Golden Chain, Sultan al-Awliya Sheikh `Abdullah Daghestani, referred to this saying in his encounter with Khidr \u00a0![\"salla\"](\"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/salla.gif\")
, who told him, as he was pointing to the graves of some great scholars in a Muslim cemetery: \u201cThis one is three years old; that one, seven; that one, twelve.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Tayfur Abu Yazid al-Bistami His Life Bayazid\u2019s grandfather was a Zoroastrian from Persia. Bayazid made a detailed study of the statutes of Islamic law\u00a0(shari`a)\u00a0and practiced a strict regimen of self-denial\u00a0(zuhd). All his life he was assiduous in the practice of his religious obligations and in observing voluntary worship. He urged his students\u00a0(murids)\u00a0to put their affairs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":363,"menu_order":6,"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-859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/859\/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=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
He urged his students\u00a0(murids)<\/i>\u00a0to put their affairs in the hands of Allah and he encouraged them to accept sincerely the pure doctrine of\u00a0tawhid<\/i>\u00a0(the Oneness of God). This doctrine consisted of five essentials: to keep the obligations according to the Qur\u2019an and Sunnah, to always speak the truth, to keep the heart free from hatred, to avoid forbidden food and to shun innovations\u00a0(bid`<\/sup>a)<\/i>.<\/p>\n One of his sayings was, \u201cI have come to know Allah through Allah, and I have come to know what is other than Allah with the light of Allah.\u201d He said, \u201cAllah has granted his servants favors for the purpose of bringing them closer to Him. Instead they are fascinated with the favors and are drifting farther from Him.\u201d And he said, praying to Allah, \u201cO Allah, You have created this creation without their knowledge and You have placed on them a trust without their will. If You don\u2019t help them who will help them?\u201d<\/p>\n Bayazid said the ultimate goal of the Sufi is to experience the vision of Allah in the Hereafter. To that effect he said, \u201cThere are special servants of Allah who, if Allah veiled Himself from their sight in Paradise, would implore Him to take them out of Paradise just as the inhabitants of the Fire implore Him to release them from Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n He said about Allah\u2019s love for His servant, \u201cIf Allah loves His servant He will grant three attributes that are the proofs of His Love: generosity like the generosity of the ocean, and favor like the favor of the Sun in its giving of light, and modesty like the modesty of the Earth. The true lover never considers any affliction too great and never decreases his worship because of his pure faith.\u201d<\/p>\n A man asked Bayazid, \u201cShow me a deed by which I will approach my Lord.\u201d He said, \u201cLove the friends of Allah in order that they will love you. Love his saints until they love you. Because Allah looks at the hearts of His saints and He will see your name engraved in the heart of His saints and He will forgive you.\u201d For this reason, the Naqshbandi followers have been elevated by their love for their shaikhs. This love lifts them to a station of continuous pleasure and continuous presence in the heart of their beloved.<\/p>\n Many Muslim scholars in his time, and many after his time, said that Bayazid al-Bistami was the first one to spread the Reality of Annihilation\u00a0(fana\u2019)<\/i>. Even that strictest of scholars, Ibn Taymiyya, who came in the 7th Century A.H., admired Bayazid for this and considered him to be one of his masters. Ibn Taymiyya said about him, \u201cThere are two categories of\u00a0fana<\/i>\u2018: one is for the perfect Prophets and saints, and one is for seekers from among the saints and pious people(saliheen)<\/i>. Bayazid al-Bistami is from the first category of those who experience fana\u2019, which means the complete renunciation of anything other than God. He accepts none except God. He worships none except Him, and he asks from none except Him.\u201d He continues, quoting Bayazid saying, \u201cI want not to want except what He wants.\u201d<\/p>\n It was reported about Bayazid that he said, \u201cI divorced the lower world thrice in order that I could not return to it and I moved to my Lord alone, without anyone, and I called on Him alone for help by saying, \u2018O Allah, O Allah, no one remains for me except You.\u2019 At that time I came to know the sincerity of my supplication in my heart and the reality of the helplessness of my ego. Immediately the acceptance of that supplication was perceived by my heart. This opened to me a vision that I was no longer in existence and I vanished completely from myself into His self. And He brought up all that I had divorced before in front of me, and dressed me with light and with His attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n Bayazid said, \u201cPraise to Me, for My greatest Glory!\u201d And he continued saying, \u201cI set forth on an ocean when the [earlier] prophets were still by the shore.\u201d And he said, \u201cO My Lord, Your obedience to me is greater than my obedience to You.\u201d This means, \u201cO God, You are granting my request and I have yet to obey You.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SNK.khutba.11.24.2023.Sultan-al-Arifeen-Bayazid-and-the-dog.mp4″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_video][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_blurb title=”Shaykh Nour Mohamad Kabbani: Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami (q) speaks with a dog” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”align-items:center;” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Adh-Dhahabi quoted him in many great matters, among which were \u201cPraise to Me, for My greatest Glory!\u201d and \u201cThere is nothing in this robe I am wearing except Allah.\u201d Adh-Dhahabi\u2019s teacher Ibn Taymiyya explained, \u201cHe didn\u2019t see himself as existing any longer, but only saw the existence of Allah, due to his self-denial.\u201d<\/p>\n Adh-Dhahabi further relates, \u201cHe said, O Allah, what is your Fire? It is nothing. Let me be the one person to go into your Fire and everyone else will be saved. And what is your Paradise? It is a toy for children. And who are those unbelievers who you want to torture? They are your servants. Forgive them.\u201d<\/p>\n Ibn Hajar said, in reference to Bayazid\u2019s famous utterances, \u201cAllah knows the secret and Allah knows the heart. Whatever Aba Yazid spoke from the Knowledge of Realities the people of his time did not understand. They condemned him and exiled him seven times from his city. Every time he was exiled, terrible afflictions would strike the city until the people would call him back, pledge allegiance to him, and accept him as a real saint.\u201d<\/p>\n Attar and Arusi relate that Bayazid said, when he was exiled from his city, \u201cO Blessed city, whose refuse is Bayazid!\u201d<\/p>\n One time Bayazid said, \u201cAllah the Most Just called me into His Presence and said to me, \u2018O Bayazid how did you arrive in My Presence?\u2019 I replied, \u2018Through\u00a0zuhd<\/i>, by renouncing the world.\u2019 He said, \u2018The value of the lower world is like the wing of a mosquito. What kind of renunciation have you come with?\u2019 I said, \u2018O Allah, forgive me.\u2019 Then I said, \u2018O Allah, I came to you through\u00a0tawakkul<\/i>, by dependence on You.\u2019 Then He said, \u2018Did I ever betray the trust which I promised you?\u2019 I said, \u2018O Allah forgive me.\u2019 Then I said, \u2018O Allah, I came to you through You.\u2019 At that time Allah said, \u2018Now We accept you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n He said, \u201cI stood with the pious and I didn\u2019t find any progress with them. I stood with the warriors in the cause and I didn\u2019t find a single step of progress with them. I stood with those who pray excessively and those who fast excessively and I didn\u2019t make a footstep of progress. Then I said, \u2018O Allah, what is the way to You?\u2019 and Allah said, \u2018Leave yourself and come.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Ibrahim Khawwas said, \u201cThe way that Allah showed to him, with the most delicate word and the simplest explanation, was to \u2018leave your self-interest in the two worlds, the dunya and the Hereafter, leave everything other than Me behind.\u2019 That is the best and easiest way to come to Allah Almighty and Exalted, the most perfect and highest state of affirming Oneness, not to accept anything or anyone except Allah the Most High.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the followers of Dhul Nun al-Misri was following Bayazid. Bayazid asked him, \u201cWho do you want?\u201d He replied, \u201cI want Bayazid.\u201d He said, \u201cO my son, Bayazid is wanting Bayazid for forty years and is still not finding him.\u201d That disciple of Dhul Nun then went to him and narrated this incident to him. On hearing it Dhul Nun fainted. He explained later saying, \u201cMy master Bayazid has lost himself in Allah\u2019s love. That causes him to try to find himself again.\u201d<\/p>\n They asked him, \u201cTeach us about how you reached true Reality.\u201d He said, \u201cBy training myself, by seclusion.\u201d They said, \u201cHow?\u201d He said, \u201cI called my self to accept Allah Almighty and Exalted, and it resisted. I took an oath that I would not drink water and I would not taste sleep until I brought my self under my control.\u201d<\/p>\n He also said, \u201cO Allah! it is not strange that I love You because I am a weak servant, but it is strange that You love me when You are the King of Kings.\u201d<\/p>\n He said, \u201cFor thirty years, when I wanted to remember Allah and do dhikr I used to wash my tongue and my mouth for His glorification.\u201d<\/p>\n He said, \u201cAs long as the servant thinks that there is among the Muslims someone lower than himself, that servant still has pride.\u201d<\/p>\n They asked him, \u201cDescribe your day and describe your night.\u201d He said, \u201cI don\u2019t have a day and I don\u2019t have a night, because day and night are for those who have characteristics of creation. I have shed my self the way the snake sheds its skin.\u201d<\/p>\n Of Sufism Bayazid said: \u201cIt it to give up rest and to accept suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n Of the obligation to follow a guide, he said: \u201cWho does not have a sheikh, his sheikh is Satan.\u201d<\/p>\n Of seeking God he said, \u201cHunger is a rain cloud. If a servant becomes hungry, Allah will shower his heart with wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n Of his intercession he said, \u201cIf Allah will give me permission to intercede for all the people of my time I will not be proud, because I am only interceding for a piece of clay,\u201d and \u201cIf Allah gave me permission for intercession, first I would intercede for those who harmed me and those who denied me.\u201d<\/p>\n To a young man who wanted a piece of his old cloak for\u00a0baraka<\/i>\u00a0(blessing), Bayazid said: \u201cShould you take all Bayazid\u2019s skin and wear it as yours, it would avail you nothing unless you followed his example.\u201d<\/p>\n They said to him, \u201cThe key for Paradise is \u2018La ilaha ill-Allah<\/i>\u2018 (witnessing that there is no god except Allah).\u201d He said, \u201cIt is true, but a key is for opening a lock; and the key of such witnessing can only operate under the following conditions:<\/p>\n 1) a tongue which doesn\u2019t lie nor backbite; He said, \u201cThe ego or self always looks at the world and the\u00a0ruh\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0(spirit) always looks at the next life and\u00a0ma`rifat<\/i>\u00a0(spiritual knowledge) always looks at Allah Almighty and Exalted. He whose self defeats him is from those who are destroyed, and he whose spirit is victorious over his self, he is of the pious, and he whose spiritual knowledge overcomes his self, he is of the God-conscious.\u201d<\/p>\n Ad-Dailami said, \u201cOne time I asked `Abdur Rahman bin Yahya about the state of trust in Allah (tawakkul<\/em>). He said, \u201cIf you put your hand in the mouth of a lion, don\u2019t be afraid of other than Allah.\u201d I went in my heart to visit and ask Bayazid about this matter. I knocked and I heard from inside, \u201cWasn\u2019t what `Abdur Rahman said to you enough? You came only to ask, and not with the intention of visiting me.\u201d I understood and I came again another time one year later, knocking at his door. This time he answered, \u201cWelcome my son, this time you came to me as a visitor and not as a questioner.\u201d<\/p>\n They asked him \u201cWhen does a man become a man?\u201d He said, \u201cWhen he knows the mistakes of his self and he busies himself in correcting them.\u201d<\/p>\n He said, \u201cI was twelve years the blacksmith of my self, and five years the polisher of the mirror of my heart, and for one year I was looking in that mirror and I saw on my belly the girdle of unbelief. I tried hard to cut it and I spent twelve years in that effort. Then I looked in that mirror and I saw inside my body that girdle. I spent five years cutting it. Then I spent one year looking at what I had done. And Allah opened for me the vision of all creations. And I saw all of them dead. And I prayed four\u00a0takbiras<\/i>\u00a0of\u00a0janaza<\/i>\u00a0(funeral prayer) over them.\u201d<\/p>\n He said one time: \u201cIf the Throne and what is around it and what is in it were placed in the corner of the heart of a Knower, they would be lost completely inside it.\u201d<\/p>\n Of Bayazid\u2019s state, al-`Abbas ibn Hamza related the following: \u201cI prayed behind Bayazid the Dhuhr prayer, and when he raised his hands to say \u2018Allahu Akbar\u2019 he was unable to pronounce the words, in fear of Allah\u2019s Holy Name, and his entire body was trembling and the sound of bones breaking came from him; I was seized by fear.\u201d<\/p>\n Munawi relates that one day, Bayazid attended the class of a\u00a0faqih<\/i>\u00a0(jurisprudent) who was explaining the laws of inheritance: \u201cWhen a man dies and leaves such-and-such, his son will have such-and-such, etc.\u201d Bayazid exclaimed: \u201cO\u00a0faqih<\/i>, O\u00a0faqih<\/i>! What would you say of a man who died leaving nothing but God?\u201d People began to cry, and Bayazid continued: \u201cThe slave possesses nothing; when he dies, he leaves nothing but his own master. He is such as Allah created him in the beginning.\u201d And he recited:\u00a0\u201cYou shall return to us alone, as we created you the first time\u201d<\/i>\u00a0[6:94].<\/p>\n Sahl at-Tustari sent a letter to Bayazid which read: \u201cHere is a man who drank a drink which leaves him forever refreshed.\u201d Bayazid replied: \u201cHere is a man who has drunk all existences, but whose mouth is dry and burn with thirst.\u201d<\/p>\n When Bayazid died, he was over seventy years old. Before he died, someone asked him his age. He said: \u201cI am four years old. For seventy years I was veiled. I got rid of my veils only four years ago.\u201d The 39th Sheikh of the Golden Chain, Sultan al-Awliya Sheikh `Abdullah Daghestani, referred to this saying in his encounter with Khidr \u00a0 [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tayfur Abu Yazid al-Bistami His Life Bayazid\u2019s grandfather was a Zoroastrian from Persia. Bayazid made a detailed study of the statutes of Islamic law\u00a0(shari`a)\u00a0and practiced a strict regimen of self-denial\u00a0(zuhd). All his life he was assiduous in the practice of his religious obligations and in observing voluntary worship. He urged his students\u00a0(murids)\u00a0to put their affairs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":363,"menu_order":6,"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-859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/859\/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=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>His Sayings<\/strong><\/h4>\n
You have to have a good guide. If you get a bad teacher he will teach you badness. If you get a good teacher he will teach you good things. So what did we learn from our teachers?<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/strong>He said, \u201cI made four mistakes in my preliminary steps in this way: I thought that I remember Him and I know Him and I love Him and I seek Him, but when I reached Him I saw that His remembering of me preceded my remembrance of Him, and His knowledge about me preceded my knowledge of Him and His love towards me was more ancient than my love towards Him, and He sought me in order that I would begin to seek Him.\u201d<\/h4>\n
2) a heart without betrayal;
3) a stomach without\u00a0h aram or doubtful provision;
4) deeds without desire or innovation.\u201d<\/p>\nHis Death<\/strong><\/h4>\n
, who told him, as he was pointing to the graves of some great scholars in a Muslim cemetery: \u201cThis one is three years old; that one, seven; that one, twelve.\u201d<\/p>\n