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<\/a><\/h2>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capture.png” title_text=”Capture” align_tablet=”” align_phone=”center” align_last_edited=”on|phone” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/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_image src=”https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MackinawIsland1993-2.jpg” title_text=”MackinawIsland1993 (2)” _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” height=”422px” max_height=”483px” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
My heart has become able to wear all forms: [\/et_pb_text][\/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=”4.18.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Nunito Sans||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”16px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Salman al-Farsi\u00a0 He came from a highly respected Zoroastrian family from a town near Ispahan. One day while passing by a church, he was attracted by the voices of men praying. Drawn by their worship, he ventured in and found it better than the religion of his upbringing. On learning that the religion originated in Syria, he left home, against his father\u2019s wishes, went to Syria and associated himself with a succession of Christian anchorites. He came to know from them the coming of the last Prophet\u00a0 In Ibn Ishaq\u2019s\u00a0Sirat Rasul Allah<\/em>, we find the following in Salman\u2019s account to the Prophet\u00a0 \u201c`Asim ibn `Umar ibn Qatada said that he was told that Salman the Persian told the Prophet\u00a0 In one of the Prophet\u2019s\u00a0 Salman reported that the Prophet\u00a0 At-Tabari recounts that in the year 16 A.H. the Muslim army turned to the Persian front. In order to confront the Persian king at one point the Muslim army found itself on the opposite bank of the great Tigris River. The commander of the army, Sa`<\/sup>d Ibn Abi Waqqas, following a dream, ordered the entire army to plunge into the rushing river. Many people were afraid and hung back. Sa`<\/sup>d, with Salman by his side, prayed first: \u201cMay Allah grant us victory and defeat His enemy.\u201d Then Salman prayed: \u201cIslam generates good fortune. By Allah, crossing rivers has become as easy for the Muslims as crossing deserts. By Him in whose hand lies Salman\u2019s soul, may the soldiers emerge from the water in the same numbers in which they entered it.\u201d Sa`d and Salman then plunged into the Tigris. It is reported that the river was covered with horses and men. The horses swam and when they tired the river floor seemed to rise up and support them until they regained their breath. To some it seemed that the horses rode effortlessly on the waves. They emerged on the other bank, as Salman had prayed, having lost nothing from their equipment but one tin cup, and no one having drowned.<\/p>\n They went on to take the Persian capital. Salman acted as spokesman and said to the conquered Persians: \u201cI have the same origin as you. I shall be compassionate toward you. You have three options. You may embrace Islam, then you will be our brethren and you will have the same privileges and obligations as we. Or you may pay the\u00a0Jizyah<\/i>\u00a0tax and we will govern you fairly. Or we will declare war on you.\u201d The Persians, having witnessed the miraculous crossing of the Muslim army, accepted the second alternative.<\/p>\n Salman al-Farsi was eventually appointed governor of that region. He was the commander of 30,000 Muslim troops. Yet, he was very humble. He lived from his own manual labor. He did not own a house, but instead rested under the shade of trees. He used to say that he was surprised to observe so many people spending all their life for the lower world, without a thought for the inevitable death which will take them from the world one day.<\/p>\n Salman was a very strict and just man. Among some spoils which were distributed one day was cloth out of which each companion had one piece of clothing cut. One day `Umar\u00a0 At night Salman\u00a0 Bukhai relates two hadiths which show the Prophet\u2019s\u00a0 Abu Huraira relates:<\/p>\n While we were sitting with the Holy Prophet\u00a0 Abu Juhayfa relates:<\/p>\n The Prophet\u00a0 Nimrod starved out two lions, and then released them to devour God\u2019s bosom friend, Abraham. But when the lions reached him and by God\u2019s leave, they stood before him in reverence, and they both lovingly licked him all over and prostrated themselves at his feet.<\/p>\n Abi al-Bakhtari narrated that Salman al-Farsi\u00a0 Sulaiman al-Teemi narrated that Salman al-Farsi\u00a0 If a man spends his entire night freeing slaves from bondage and another man spends his night reading the Quran and invoking the remembrance of God (dhikr<\/em>), the second man would be in a higher state.<\/p>\n
A pasture for gazelles, a monastery for monks,<\/em>
A temple for idols, the Ka`<\/sup>ba of the pilgrims,<\/em>
The tablets of Torah, the Book of Qur\u2019an.<\/em>
I profess the religion of Love.<\/em>
Whatever direction its mount may take,<\/em>
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\u00a0is known as the Imam, the Flag of Flags, the Inheritor of Islam, the Wise Judge, the Knowledgeable Scholar, and One of the House of the Prophet\u00a0![\"salla\"](\"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/salla.gif\")
. These were all titles the Prophet\u00a0\u00a0gave him. He stood fast in the face of extreme difficulties and hardships to carry the Light of Lights and to spread the secrets of hearts to lift people from darkness to light. He was a noble companion of the Prophet\u00a0. He reported sixty of his sayings.<\/p>\n\u00a0and the signs accompanying his advent. He then traveled to Hijaz where he was seized, sold into slavery, and taken to Madina, where he eventually met the Prophet\u00a0. When he found in the Prophet\u00a0\u00a0the fulfillment of all the signs of which he had been informed by his Christian teachers, he affirmed the testification of faith \u2013\u00a0Shahada<\/i>. Servitude prevented Salman from being at the battles of Badr and Uhud. The Apostle\u00a0\u00a0helped him gain his release from slavery by planting with his own hand three hundred palm trees and giving him a large piece of gold. Once a free man he took part in every subsequent battle with the Prophet\u00a0.<\/p>\n\u00a0of his journey in search of the true religion:<\/p>\n\u00a0that his master in \u2018Ammuriya told him to go to a certain place in Syria where there was a man who lived between two thickets. Every year as he used to go from one to the other, the sick used to stand in his way and everyone he prayed for was healed. He said, \u2018Ask him about this religion which you seek, for he can tell you of it.\u2019 So I went on until I came to the place I had been told of, and I found that people had gathered there with their sick until he came out to them that night passing from one thicket to the other. The people came to him with their sick and everyone he prayed for was healed. They prevented me from getting to him so that I could not approach him until he entered the thicket he was making for, but I took hold of his shoulder. He asked me who I was as he turned to me and I said, \u2018God have mercy on you, tell me about the Hanafiya, the religion of Abraham.\u2019\u00a0 He replied, \u2018You are asking about something men do not inquire of today; the time has come near when a prophet will be sent with this religion from the people of the\u00a0Haram<\/em>. Go to him, for he will bring you to it.\u2019\u00a0 Then he went into the thicket. The Prophet said to Salman, \u2018If you have told me the truth, you met Jesus the son of Mary.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0battles called\u00a0al-Ahzab<\/i>\u00a0or\u00a0al-Khandaq<\/i>\u00a0Salman advised the Prophet to dig trenches around Madinah in defense of the city, a suggestion which the Prophet\u00a0\u00a0happily accepted. He then went ahead and helped the digging with his own hands. During this excavation, Salman struck upon a rock which he was unable to break. The Prophet\u00a0\u00a0took an axe and hit it. The first strike brought forth a spark. He then hit it a second time and brought forth a second spark. He then struck for the third time and brought forth a third spark. He then asked Salman\u00a0, \u201d O Salman, did you see those sparks?\u201d Salman replied, \u201cYes, O Prophet, indeed I did.\u201d The Prophet\u00a0\u00a0said, \u201cThe first spark gave me a vision in which Allah has opened Yemen for me. With the second spark, Allah opened Sham and al-Maghreb (the West). And with the third one, Allah opened for me the East.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0said: \u201cNothing but supplication averts the decree, and nothing but righteousness increases life,\u201d and \u201cYour Lord is munificent and generous, and is ashamed to turn away empty the hands of a servant when he raises them to him.\u201d Tirmidhi transmitted them.<\/p>\n got up to speak and said: \u201cLower your voices so that I may hear you.\u201d He was wearing two pieces of that cloth. Salman said, \u201cBy God, we will not hear you, because you prefer yourself to your people.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cHow is that?\u201d asked Umar. He said: \u201cYou are wearing two pieces of cloth and everyone else is wearing only one.\u201d `Umar called out: \u201cO Abdullah!\u201d No one answered him. He said again, \u201cO Abdullah ibn `Umar!\u201d Abdullah, his son called out: \u201cAt your service!\u201d `Umar said, \u201cI ask you by God, don\u2019t you say that the second piece is yours?\u201d Abdullah said \u201cYes.\u201d Salman said: \u201cNow we shall hear you.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0would begin to pray. If he got tired, he would start making\u00a0dhikr<\/em>\u00a0by tongue. When his tongue would get tired, he would contemplate and meditate on Allah\u2019s power and greatness in creation. He would then say to himself, \u201cO my ego, you took your rest, now get up and pray.\u201d Then he would make\u00a0dhikr<\/em>\u00a0again, then meditate, and so forth all night long.<\/p>\n\u00a0consideration for Salman:<\/p>\n, Surat al-Jumu`<\/sup>a was revealed to him. When the Prophet\u00a0\u00a0recited the verse, \u201cAnd He (Allah) has sent him (Muhammad) also to others (than the Arabs)\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/i>[62:3] I said, \u201cWho are they, O Allah\u2019s Apostle?\u201d The Prophet\u00a0\u00a0did not reply till I repeated my question thrice. At that time Salman al-Farisi was with us. Allah\u2019s Apostle put his hand on Salman, saying: \u201cIf faith were at ath-Thurayya (the Pleiades, very distant stars), even then some men from these people (i.e. Salman\u2019s folk) would attain it.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0made a bond of brotherhood between Salman and Abu ad-Darda al-Ansari\u00a0. Salman paid a visit to Abu ad-Darda\u2019 and found Um ad-Darda\u2019 (his wife) dressed in shabby clothes. He asked her why she was in that state. She said, \u201cYour brother Abu ad-Darda\u2019 is not interested in the luxuries of this world.\u201d In the meantime Abu ad-Darda\u2019 came and prepared a meal for Salman. Salman requested Abu ad-Darda\u2019 to eat with him, but Abu ad-Darda\u2019 said, \u201cI am fasting.\u201d Salman said, \u201cI am not going to eat unless you eat.\u201d So Abu ad-Darda\u2019 ate with Salman. When it was night and a part of the night has passed, Abu ad-Darda\u2019 got up (to offer the night prayer), but Salman told him to sleep and Abu ad-Darda slept. After some time Abu ad-Darda\u2019 again got up but Salman told him to sleep. When it was the last hours of the night, Salman told him to get up then, and both of them offered the prayer. Salman told Abu ad-Darda\u2019, \u201cYour Lord has a right on you, your soul has a right on you, and your family has a right on you. Abu ad-Darda\u2019 came to the Prophet\u00a0\u00a0and narrated the whole story. The Prophet\u00a0\u00a0said, \u201cSalman has spoken the truth.\u201d<\/p>\nFrom His Sayings<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Sulaiman al-Teemi\u00a0\u00a0 narrated that Salman al-Farsi\u00a0\u00a0 said:<\/p>\n\u00a0had a female servant of Persian descent and he once spoke to her in her Persian tongue saying, \u201cProstrate yourself even once before God.\u201d She replied with disdain, \u201cI do not prostrate to anyone!\u201d Someone asked Salman, \u201cO Abu Abd Allah, what would she benefit from a single prostration?\u201d Salman replied, \u201cEach link is an important part of a chain, and perhaps should this woman accept to offer a single prostration before God Almighty, then this may lead her to regularly engage in offering the five times prayers. In fact, one who has a share in the blessings of Islam is not equal to someone who has naught of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0said:<\/p>\nHis Passing<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n