`Abdul Khaliq,<\/a>\u00a0could assume his destined station.<\/p>\nImam Bukhari relates in the\u00a0Book of Prophets<\/i>\u00a0that the Prophet\u00a0![\"salla\"](\"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/salla.gif\")
\u00a0said, \u201cAl-Khidr (\u2018the Green Man\u2019) was so named because he sat on a barren white land once, after which it turned luxuriantly green with vegetation.\u201d<\/p>\n
The important role of Khidr as the\u00a0murshid<\/i>\u00a0(initiator) of saints may be illustrated by the importance of his role as the murshid of prophets, particularly of the Prophet Musa\u00a0. Moses was a highly powerful prophet, one of the five greatest ones whom Allah sent to this world: Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, Peace and blessings be upon them. Yet despite Moses\u2019 elevated knowledge, Allah caused him to be in need of Khidr, even though Khidr was not a prophet. This is to teach us, as Allah said in the Holy Qur\u2019an, that\u00a0\u201cAbove every knower there is a greater knower\u201d<\/i>\u00a0(Yusuf, 76).<\/p>\n
The story of Moses\u2019 encounter with Khidr is related in Surat al-Kahf (65-82) and goes thus: Moses and his servant found one of Allah\u2019s servants whom Allah had honored uniquely and had taught knowledge from His Own Presence. Moses said to him, \u201cI would like to accompany you.\u201d He answered him: \u201cYou cannot bear to accompany me.\u201d Moses was surprised and insisted he was able to do so. Khidr said: \u201cYou cannot, but if you do, do not ask about what I am doing no matter what you see me do. On that condition alone you may follow; but if you wish to ask questions, don\u2019t follow me.\u201d This meant that Khidr was going to do something that Moses would not understand, although he was the Messenger of a great religion. He was in need of Khidr to teach him something.<\/p>\n
They took a boat and crossed the Tiberias River in Palestine. When they had reached the middle of the river, Khidr made a hole in the boat in order for it to sink. Moses was unable to keep silent, saying: \u201cWhy are you doing this childish act? Those people gave you the boat, are you now scuttling it?\u201d Khidr replied: \u201cDid I not tell you you would be unable to keep company with me?\u201d Moses had not yet understood, even though he was a prophet and could read hearts, that there was something taking place that he did not know. They continued and found a young boy. As soon as they saw him, Khidr killed him. Moses said: \u201cWhat are you doing? You sank a boat, and now you kill a child? This is against all laws!\u201d Again Khidr said: \u201cDid I not tell you you could not keep company with me? The third time you ask me, we will part ways.\u201d Then they reached a city where they asked for food. No one gave them any food, and they threw them out. On their way, they found a wall on the verge of collapse. Khidr rebuilt that wall and made it straight. Moses asked: \u201cWhy are you doing this? No one accepted us as their guests in this city, and yet you are building their wall for them?\u201d Khidr said: \u201cThis is the point where we separate, for you did not understand the wisdom of what I am doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cO Moses, what we do is what Allah tells us to do. First I caused this boat to sink because there is a tyrant who is seizing every boat from the poor people on this side of the city. In order for these people not to lose their boat, I made it sink. That tyrant is going to die tomorrow, and tomorrow they can retrieve their boat and use it safely. I killed the child because Allah did not want that child to cause his parents, who believe in you, to leave and run away from your religion. Allah will give them better children than him. I built the wall which belonged to a man who was in life very generous to the poor. When he passed away, he left a treasure buried under the wall for his two orphans. Were that wall to come down, people would see the treasure and take it. I restored it in order for the two children to receive their treasure later. You did not understand God\u2019s wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was Moses who, with all the honor bestowed on him by God, found himself ignorant before Khidr. How can we, who know so little in comparison to Moses, consider ourselves knowledgeable if Moses himself, with all his knowledge in the Divine Presence, was unable to understand certain things? This is a lesson in humility for human beings, and particularly for scholars and religious leaders: \u201cYour knowledge is not worth mentioning. There are others more and highly more knowledgeable than you. As high or deep as you travel into knowledge, there is deeper depth and higher height than where you stand.\u201d<\/p>\n
That is why, when someone sits to give advice, he must sit with complete humbleness and complete respect for the listener. He cannot consider himself higher than them, otherwise that light will never reach their hearts. That is also why each is in need of a guide, as was shown by the Guide of guides himself, the Prophet\u00a0, when he took Jibril\u00a0\u00a0as a guide for Revelation, and when he took a guide in traveling to Madina.<\/p>\n
This is how Ibn `Arabi (q) in\u00a0Fusus\u00a0 al-hikam<\/i>\u00a0explains the three acts of Khidr\u00a0\u00a0witnessed by Musa\u00a0:<\/h6>\n
Moses was tested \u201cby many ordeals<\/em>\u201d (20:40), the first of which was the murder of the Egyptian (28:15), an act which he committed by Divine impulsion and with the approbation of God deep inside him, without however, his perceiving it; nevertheless, he felt no affliction in his soul for having killed the Egyptian, although he himself was not acquitted until he had received a Divine revelation on the subject. For all prophets are interiorly preserved from sin without their being conscious of it, even before they are warned by inspiration. It is for that reason that Khidr showed him the putting to death of the boy, an action for which Moses reproached him, without remembering his murder of the Egyptian, upon which Khidr said to him: \u201dI have not done it of my own initiative,\u201c recalling thus to Moses the state in which he, the latter, found himself when he did not yet know that he was essentially preserved from all action contrary to the Divine Order.
He showed him also the perforation of the boat, apparently made to destroy the people, but which has, however, the hidden sense of saving them from the hand of a \u201cviolent man.\u201d He showed this to him as an analogy to the ark that hid Moses when he was thrown into the Nile. According to appearances his act was equally to destroy him, but according to the hidden sense, it was to save him. Again his mother had done that for fear of the \u201cviolent man,\u201d in this case Pharaoh, so that he would not cruelly kill the child.
Moses \u00a0arrived then at Madian. There he met the two girls and for them drew water from the well, without asking from them a salary. Then he \u201cwithdrew to the shade<\/em>,\u201d that is to the Divine shadow, and said: \u201cO my Lord! Truly am I in need of any good that Thou dost send me!<\/em>\u201d (28:24) He attributed, then, to God alone the essence of the good that he did and qualified himself as poor towards God. It was for that reason that Khidr reconstructed before him the crumbling wall without asking a salary for his work, for which Moses reprimanded him, until Khidr reminded him of his action of drawing water without asking for reward, and other things, too, of which there is no mention in the Quran. The Prophet regretted that Moses did not keep quiet and did not remain with Khidr\u00a0, so that God could tell him more of their actions.<\/p>\nAccording to Ibn Arabi, Khidr said to Sahl at-Tustari:
God created the Light of Muhammad \u00a0from His Light. This Light stayed before God for 100,000 years. God directed His Gaze upon it 70,000 times every day and night, adding to it a new light from His Light every time. Then, from that Light, He created all creations.<\/p>\n
When the Prophet left this world and condolence came, they heard a voice from the corner of the house saying, \u201cPeace, God\u2019s mercy and blessings be upon you, members of the Family of the Prophet !\u201d It was Khidr .<\/p>\n
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Abul Abbas, al-Khidr Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.The Prophet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0said, \u2018In this Way, you have no more faithful companions than your works.\u2019How can these works and this earning in the way of righteousness be accomplished without a master, O father?Can you practice the meanest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":363,"menu_order":10,"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-910","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naqshbandi.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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