\u2014Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani,<\/span><\/p>\n The Lights of Guidance from the Knowledge Oceans<\/span>, Suhba I.4.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”4198.8px” custom_margin=”-41px|auto||auto||” locked=”off” 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” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n His first seclusion by the order of Shaykh `Abdullah Daghestani was in the year 1955, in Sueileh, Jordan. There he spent six months in seclusion. The power and purity of his presence attracted thousands of murids, so that Sueileh and it surrounding villages, Ramta and `Amman became full of the murids of the Shaykhs. Scholars, officials and so many people were attracted to his light and his personality.<\/p>\n When he had only two children, one daughter and one son, he was called by our Grandshaikh, Shaykh `Abdullah ad-Daghestani. He told him, \u201cI have received an order from the Prophet\u00a0 Describing that event, Shaykh Nazim says, \u201cI didn\u2019t ask the Shaykh any questions. I didn\u2019t even go back to my house. I directed my steps immediately to Marja in the downtown. I didn\u2019t think, \u2018I need clothes, I need money, I need provisions.\u2019 When he said, \u2018Go!\u2019 I went. I was drawn to do seclusion with Sayyidina `Abdul Qadir. I went directly to Marja. When I reached the downtown walking I saw a man looking at me. He looked at me and he recognized me. He said, \u2018Shaykh Nazim, where are you going?\u2019 I said, \u2018To Baghdad.\u2019 He was a murid of Grandshaykh. He said, \u2018I am going to Baghdad myself!\u2019 He had at truckload of goods to deliver in Baghdad. So he took me with him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I entered the mosque of Sayyidina `Abdul Qadir Jilani there was a giant man closing the door of the mosque holding it shut. He said, \u2018Shaykh Nazim!\u2019 \u2018Yes,\u2019 I answered. He said, \u2018I am the one assigned to be your servant during your stay here. Come with me.\u2019 I was surprised at this, but in my heart there was no surprise because we know in tariqat that everything is always arranged by the Divine Presence. I followed him as he approached the grave of the Arch-Intercessor (Ghawth al-`Azam<\/em>) and I gave greetings to my great-great-grandfather, Sayyidina \u2018Abdul Qadir Jilani. Then he took me to a room and told me, \u2018Every day I will serve you one bowl of lentil soup with one piece of bread.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI only emerged from my room for the five prayers. Other than that I spent my whole time in that room. I was able to reach such a state that I could recite the whole Qur\u2019an in nine hours. In addition I recited 124,000 Dhikr of the Kalima (la ilaha illallah<\/em>) and 124,000\u00a0 salawat (prayers on the Prophet\u00a0 \u201cOne day I had a vision that Sayyidina `Abdul Qadir Jilani was calling me to his grave and he was saying, \u2018O my son I am waiting for you at my grave. Come!\u2019 Immediately I took a shower, prayed two cycles of prayer and I walked to his grave which was only some few feet from my room. When I got there I began contemplating and I said,\u00a0as-Salam `alayka ya jiddee\u00a0<\/em>(\u2018Peace be upon you O my grandfather\u2019). Immediately I saw him come out of the grave and stand beside me. Behind him was a Great Throne decorated with rare stones. He said to me, \u2018Come with me and sit with me on that throne.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cWe sat like a grandfather with his grandson. He was smiling and saying, \u2018I am happy with you. The station of your Shaykh, `Abdullah al-Fa\u2019iz ad-Daghestani is very high in the Naqshbandi Order. I am your grandfather and I am passing to you now, directly from me, the power that I carry as the Arch-Intercessor and I initiate you now directly into the Qadiri Order.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n When Shaykh Nazim had finished his seclusion and was about to leave, he went to Sayyidina \u2018Abdul Qadir Jilani\u2019s grave to say goodbye. Sayyidina \u2018Abdul Qadir Jilani appeared in the flesh to him and said, \u201cO my son. I am very happy with the states you have reached in the Naqshbandi Order. I am renewing your initiation to me through the Qadiri Order.\u201d Sayyidina `Abdul Qadir Jilani then said, \u201cO my grandson, I am going to give you a token of your visit.\u201d He hugged him and gave him ten coins. Those coins were from the time he was living in, not from our time. Up until today, Shaykh Nazim has kept those coins with him.<\/p>\n Before he left, Shaykh Nazim gave the Shaykh who had served him during the seclusion, his jubba (cloak) as a remembrance. He told him, \u201cI used that cloak during all of my seclusion, either as a mat to sleep on, or as a dress when praying and making dhikr. Keep it and Allah will bless you and Sayyidina Muhammad\u00a0 In 1992, when Shaykh Nazim was visiting Lahore, Pakistan, he visited the tomb of Shaykh `Ali\u00a0 Hujwiri. The Shaykh of the Qadiri Order invited him to his house, and Shaykh Nazim spent the night there. At Fajr time, the Shaykh said, \u201cO my Shaykh, I kept you here tonight to show you a very precious cloak, that we have inherited 27 years ago. It was passed from one great Shaykh of the Qadiri Order to another from Baghdad, and finally it reached us. All our Shaykhs have kept it and preserved it, because it was the personal cloak (jubba<\/em>) of the Ghawth of his time.<\/p>\n \u201cA Turkish Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Order kept seclusion in the mosque and tomb of Sayyidina \u2018Abdul Qadir Jilani. When that Shaykh finished his seclusion he gave the cloak as a present to a Qadiri Shaykh who had served him during his seclusion. That Qadiri Shaykh, before he passed away, ordered his successors to take great care of that cloak, because if anyone wears it, he will be healed of any illness. Any seeker wearing that cloak, in his path to the Divine Presence, will be lifted easily to high states of Vision.\u201d<\/p>\n He opened the closet and revealed the cloak preserved in a glass case. He opened the case and took the jubba<\/em> out. Shaykh Nazim was smiling. The Shaykh asked him, \u201cWhat is it my Shaykh?\u201d Shaykh Nazim said, \u201cThis brings me great happiness. This is the cloak I gave to the Qadiri Shaykh at the conclusion of my khalwat<\/em>.\u201d When the Shaykh heard this he kissed the hand of Shaykh Nazim, asked to renew his initiation in the Qadiri Order and to take initiation in the Naqshbandi Order. Allah takes good care of his saints, wherever they go, by means of his sincere and beloved servants.<\/p>\n Many times Shaykh Nazim was ordered to go into seclusions which varied in length from 40 days to one year. The seclusions also varied in the degree of isolation from outside contact: sometimes there was no contact; sometimes there was the small amount necessitated by performing the daily prayers in congregation; and sometimes more contact was permitted for attendance at circles of gathering for association, lectures or dhikr. He did many seclusions in the city of the Prophet\u00a0 \u201cNo one ever had the privilege of making seclusion with his Shaykh. I had the privilege of making a seclusion in the same room with my Shaykh in Madinah al-Munawwara. It was in an ancient room near the Prophet\u2019s Holy Mosque. It had one door and one window. As soon as I entered the room with my Shaykh, he blocked the window by boarding it up. He gave me authorization to leave the room only for the five daily prayers in the Holy Mosque of the Prophet\u00a0 \u201cI was ordered by my Shaykh to keep the practice,\u00a0Nazar bar Qadam<\/em>, \u2018Watching the Step,\u2019 when I walked to the prayers. By disciplining and controlling the sight, this practice is a means to disconnect oneself from everything except Allah, Almighty and Exalted, and His Prophet\u00a0 \u201cMy Shaykh never slept during that seclusion. For one year I never saw him sleeping. He never touched food. We were given one bowl of lentil soup and one piece of bread each day. He would always give his share to me. He only drank water. He never left that room.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cDay after day and night after night my Shaykh sat reading Qur\u2019an by the light of a lamp, making Dhikr and raising his hands in du\u2019a.<\/em> For hours he would make du`a<\/em> (supplication) and one du`a<\/em> never resembled another. Each one was different from the other and throughout the whole year, he never repeated the same du`a.<\/em> Sometimes I was not able to understand the language he was using in the du`a<\/em> because it was a heavenly language. I could only understand these du`a<\/em>s by means of the visions and inspirations that came to my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t know when night left and day arrived except by the prayers. Grandshaykh `Abdullah never saw the light of day for one whole year, only the light of the candle. I would see the daylight only when I went out for the prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThrough that seclusion I was raised to different levels of spirituality. One day I heard him saying, \u201cO Allah give me the Power of intercession, from the Power of Intercession You have granted Your Prophet\u00a0 \u201cAfter Allah had judged the people, he authorized the Prophet\u00a0 \u201cThese visions continued. One day he told me after I returned from Fajr prayer, \u2018Nazim Effendi, Look!\u2019 Where should I look, up, down, right or left? It came to me look at his heart. As soon as I looked at his heart a great unveiling occurred to me and I saw Sayyidina `Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q) appear in his physical body and tell me, \u2018O my son, your Shaykh is unique. No one like him has ever come before.\u2019 Then he invited Grandshaykh and me to come with him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cImmediately we saw ourselves with Sayyidina `Abdul Khaliq in another place on this earth. He said, Allah, Almighty and Exalted, has ordered me to go to that rock,\u2019 and we were following him to a rock. He said, \u2018Allah has ordered me to hit that rock.\u2019 When he hit the rock an incredibly powerful stream of water came gushing forth from that rock, the like of which I had never seen before. Sayyidina `Abdul Khaliq said, \u2018That water is coming out today and is going to continue to pour out like this until the Judgment Day.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cThen he said, \u2018Allah Almighty has told me that He is creating from every drop of this water an angel of light, which will be praising Him until Judgment Day. And He has ordered me by saying, \u2018O My servant `Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani, your job is to give every angel its name. You cannot use any name twice. You must name each one with a different name and count their praises. You will divide the rewards of their praises among the followers of the Naqshbandi Order. That responsibility is on you.\u2019 Then that vision ended. I was so attracted to Sayyidina `Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani and amazed by his incredible task.\u201d<\/p>\n “Visions continued to pour on me in similar fashion. In the last day of our seclusion, after Fajr prayer, I heard a voice outside the room crying. I heard one great voice and many smaller voices like the voices of many children crying. That crying did not stop, but I was unable to go and see who was crying because I had no permission. The sound of crying kept increasing and continued for hours.<\/p>\n \u201cThen Grandshaykh looked at me and said, \u2018Nazim Effendi, do you know who is crying?\u2019 Though I knew that it was not the cries of human beings, I said, \u2018O my Shaykh, you know better.\u2019 Immediately he told me, \u2018This is Iblas (Satan) and his soldiers. Do you know why they are crying?\u2019 I said, \u2018O my Shaykh, you know better.\u2019 He said, \u2018Satan announced to his devils that two people on this earth have escaped their control.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cThen I saw a vision that Satan and his soldiers were encircled with a heavenly chain that prevented them from reaching my Shaykh and me. That vision ended. Then Grandshaykh said, \u2018Alhamdulillah, the Prophet [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seclusions of Shaykh Nazim al-HaqqaniMay Allah Sanctify His Noble SecretOf the signs of the entering of the light of real belief into the servant\u2019s heart is the servant\u2019s audition of the glorifications of all creatures. The second sign is the opening of the door of wisdom to hear and understand each single glorification. 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\u00a0for you to make seclusion in the mosque of `Abdul Qadir Jilani in Baghdad. Go there and make seclusion for six months.\u201d<\/p>\n) in addition to reading the entire\u00a0Dala\u2019il al-Khayrat<\/em>. Added to that I was regularly reciting 313,000 \u2018Allah Allah\u2019 every day, as well as all the prayers that were assigned to me. Vision after vision appeared to me every day. These visions took me from one state to another until I was Annihilated in the Divine Presence.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0will bless you and all the Masters of this Order will bless you.\u201d The Shaykh took the cloak, kissed it, and wore it. Shaykh Nazim left Baghdad and went back to Damascus, Syria.<\/p>\nSeclusion in Madina<\/h4>\n
. He said,<\/p>\n.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n.\u201d<\/p>\n, to intercede for all human beings on the Day of Judgment to lift them up to be in Your Divine Presence.\u201d As he was saying that I was in a vision experiencing the Judgment Day, and Allah, Almighty and Exalted, was descending on His\u00a0`Arsh<\/em>\u00a0(throne) and judging people. The Prophet\u00a0\u00a0was on the Right Side of the Divine Presence. Grandshaykh was on the right side of the Prophet\u00a0\u00a0and I was on Grandshaykh\u2019s right side.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\u00a0to intercede. When the Prophet\u00a0\u00a0had interceded and finished, he ordered Grandshaykh to give his blessings and to lift the people up with the spiritual power that he had been given. That vision ended as I heard my Shaykh saying, \u2018Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah<\/em>, Nazim Effendi, I got the answer.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0is happy with you and I am happy with you.\u2019 Then he put his hand on my heart and I immediately saw the Prophet\u00a0 and 124,000 prophets, 124,000 Companions, 7007 Naqshbandi Saints, 313 Exalted saints, the five Qutbs<\/em> and the Ghawth<\/em>. All of them were congratulating me and they each poured into my heart their divine knowledge. I inherited from them the secrets of the Naqshbandi Order and the secrets of the 40 other Orders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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