Nor, if I am flooded with joy, to abandon myself to it;<\/span>
For I am not of those who, for the loss of one thing, are consoled<\/span>
By another; I wish nothing less than the All.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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He is the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Ghawth<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Arch-Intercessor) of the Famous Saints and the Blessing of the Scholars of Islam. He is the Dawn and the Light of both the East and the West. He is the Master of the Kingdom of Guidance. He grew up in the house of his uncle who taught him the best manners, educated him in spiritual and religious knowledge, and nursed him from the fount of morality and ethics. He quenched his thirst with the Heavenly Realities and Unseen Knowledge, until his heart became a House of Revelation, as Allah said in the Holy\u00a0 Hadith, \u201cNeither my heaven nor my earth could contain Me, but the heart of my Believing Servant contained Me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He was known in his time as Darwish Wali. He grasped all kinds of understandings of the Religion and he was able to erase the mischief and the misguidance of many of the false teachers of his time. He revived languishing hearts and he mended broken hearts, until he became the blessing of his time and the Human Essence of Guidance. He had many followers throughout the country. His house and his mosque were filled with visitors asking and seeking his guidance.<\/p>\n One time after an association he had just held with him and other\u00a0<\/span>murids<\/em>, Shaykh Muhammad az-Zahid told him to go up a certain hill at some distance and wait for him there. The Shaykh told him he would be coming later. Darwish Muhammad was so obedient to his Shaykh that he surrendered his will to him completely. His conduct was perfect. He went and waited for the Shaykh to come, without using his mind to ask: \u201chow shall I go there, what shall I do when I get there, etc.\u201d He moved immediately. He arrived and began to wait. The time for afternoon prayers came and the Shaykh did not show up. Then the sun set. His ego was telling him, \u201cYour Shaykh isn\u2019t coming; you have to go back. Maybe the Shaykh forgot.\u201d His truthful belief, however, told him: \u201cO Darwish Muhammad, believe in your Shaykh and believe that he is certainly coming, as he said. You have to wait.\u201d<\/p>\n How was Darwish Muhammad\u2019s heart to believe his ego when his heart was being lifted up to be with his Shaykh? He braced up and waited. Night came and it was very cold on the hill. He was freezing. He spent all night awake and his only source of warmth was his\u00a0<\/span>dhikr<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>\u201cla ilaha illa’ Llah\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Dawn came and the Shaykh had still not shown up. He was hungry and started looking for something to eat. He found some fruit trees, ate, and kept waiting for the Shaykh. The day went, and then the next day. He was again in a big struggle with his ego, but he kept thinking: \u201cIf my Shaykh is a real Shaykh, he knows what he is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n A week went and then a month. The Shaykh was not coming. The only distraction Darwish Muhammad had from waiting was\u00a0<\/span>dhikrullah<\/em>, and his daily prayers were his only other activity. He kept on only until the power of his\u00a0<\/span>dhikr<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>made the animals come and sit around him to make\u00a0<\/span>dhikr<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>with him. He realized that this miraculous power had come to him from his Shaykh.<\/p>\n Winter came and the Shaykh didn\u2019t come. It began to snow. It was extremely cold and there was no more food. He began to cut the bark of the trees and feed himself on the moisture inside, and from roots and whatever green leaves he could find. Deer came to him and he began to milk the ewes. This was another miracle which appeared to him. The ewe did not move when he milked her, and another came. He was being lifted up to higher and higher spiritual levels, and his teacher was sending him spiritual knowledge through these miracles and visions. Khidr\u00a0<\/span> The Shaykh laughed and said: \u201cCome with me.\u201d At that moment he poured to him the secret and the power of this Golden Chain of the Naqshbandi order that he had in his heart. He then ordered him to be the Shaykh of the\u00a0<\/span>murids<\/em>. Darwish Muhammad remained in his Shaykh\u2019s service until Shaykh Muhammad az-Zahid passed away.<\/p>\n![\"salla\"](\"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/salla.gif\")
\u201d He said, \u201cWhat if something had happened to me?\u201d Darwish Muhammad said, \u201cO my Shaykh, if I had not stayed here and waited for you and obeyed, you would have never come to me by permission of the Prophet\u00a0\u201d Darwish Muhammad had detected in his heart that his Shaykh was coming by the order of the Prophet\u00a0.<\/p>\n