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| ABOUT THE MOST DISTINGUISHED NAQSHBANDI WAY |
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T he most distinguished Naqshbandi Way is a school of thought and practice that stood in the vanguard of those groups which disseminated truth and fought against evil and injustice, especially in Central Asia and India in the past, in China and the Soviet Union in modern times, and in Europe and North America today. Naqshbandi shaykhs who took up political, social, educational and spiritual roles in their communities, acting according to the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet The
most distinguished Naqshbandi Order is the way of the Companions of the
Prophet and those who follow them. This Way consists of continuous worship
in every action, both external and internal, with complete and perfect
discipline according to the Sunnah of the Prophet It consists in maintaining
the highest level of conduct and leaving absolutely all innovations and all
free interpretations in public customs and private behavior. It consists in
keeping awareness of the Presence of God, Almighty and Exalted, on the way
to self-effacement and complete experience of the Divine Presence. It is the
Way of complete reflection of the highest degree of perfection. It is the
Way of sanctifying the self by means of the most difficult struggle, the
struggle against the self. It begins where the other orders end, in the
attraction of complete Divine Love, which was granted to the first friend of
the Prophet, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq(
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