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Muhammad Baha’uddin Shah Naqshband ق

কচ্ছপ-ঘুঘু ভোরবেলা তার বিলাপ গায়, এবং কাঁদে।
আমার অশ্রু তার ঘুম ব্যাহত করে এবং তার অশ্রু আমার বিরক্ত.
যখন সে এবং আমি অভিযোগ করি, আমরা একে অপরকে বুঝতে পারি না।
কিন্তু আমি তার দুঃখ জানি এবং সে আমার কথা জানে।

~~Abul-Hasan an-Nuri

He is an Ocean of Knowledge that has no shore. Its waves were woven with the pearls of Heavenly Knowledge. He cleansed humanity with his Ocean of Innocence and Piety. He quenched the thirst of souls with the water of his spiritual Support. The whole world, including its oceans and continents, were within his grasp. He is a star decorated with the crown of Guidance. He sanctified all human souls without exception with his holy breath. He adorned even the remotest corner with the secrets of মুহাম্মাদুর রাসূলুল্লাহ সাল্লা. His light penetrated every dark lair of ignorance. His outstanding proofs cast away the least whisper of doubt from the hearts of humanity. His powerful miracles brought life to hearts after their deaths and provided souls with their provision for the spiritual realm. He was nursed in the Station of the Arch-Intercessor when he was a child in the cradle. He sipped the nectar of Unseen Knowledge from the cup of Reality. If Muhammad সাল্লা were not the last of the Prophets সাল্লা, he would have been a prophet. All Praise to Allah for sending such a Reviver of Religion (mujaddid). He uplifted the hearts of humanity causing them to soar in the sky of spirituality. He made kings to stand at his door. He spread his guidance from North to South and from East to West. He left no one without heavenly support–even the wild animals in jungles. He is the greatest Ghawth, Arch-intercessor, the Sultan of Saints, the Necklace of all the spiritual Pearls that were bestowed on this world by the Divine Presence. By the light of his guidance Allah caused the good to be the best and transformed evil into goodness.

He is the Master of this Tariqat and the Shaikh of the Golden Chain and the Best of those who carried this lineage from the Khwajagan.

He was born in the month of Muharram, in 717 H./1317 CE, in the village of Qasr al-’Arifan near Bukhara. Allah granted him miraculous powers in his childhood. He had been taught about the secret of this tariqat by his first teacher, Sayyid Muhammad Baba As-Samasi (q). Then he was given the secret and the mastery of the Order by his shaikh, Sayyid Amir al-Kulal (q). He was also Uwaysi in his connection to the Prophet, as he was raised in the spiritual presence of Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q), who preceded him by 200 years.

The Beginning of His Guidance and the Guidance of His Beginning

Shah Naqshband (q) was eighteen years of age when he was sent by his grandfather to the village of Samas to serve the Shaikh of the Tariqat, Muhamad Baba as-Samasi (q), who had asked for him. From the beginning of his companionship with the Shaikh, he perceived within himself countless blessings and the urge for great sincerity and devotion. Of his youth he relates:

I would arise early, three hours before Fajr prayer, take ablution, and after making Sunnah prayers, I would go into prostration, supplicating God with the following prayer: “O my Lord, give me the power to carry the difficulties and the pain of Your Love.” Then I would pray Fajr with the Shaikh. On his way out one day he looked at me and said, as if he had been with me when I made that supplication, “O my son, you have to change the method of your supplication. Instead say, ‘O Allah, grant your pleasure to this weak servant.’ God doesn’t like His servants to be in difficulties. Although God in His Wisdom might give some difficulties to His servants to test them, the servant must not ask to be in difficulties. This would not be respectful to your Lord.

When Shaikh Muhammad Baba as-Samasi died, my grandfather took me to Bukhara and I married there. I lived in Qasr al-’Arifan, which was God’s special care to me because I was near to Sayyid Amir Kulal. I stayed in his service, and he told me that Shaikh Muhammad Baba as-Samasi had told him a long time before that, ‘I will not be happy with you if you will not take good care of him.’ One day, I was sitting with a friend in seclusion, and the Heavens opened and a grand vision came to me and I heard a voice saying, ‘Is it not enough for you to leave everyone and to come to Our Presence Alone?’ This voice reduced me to a state of trembling, causing me to run away from that house. I ran to a river where I threw myself. I washed my clothes and prayed two rakats in a way that I had never prayed before, feeling as if I was praying in the Divine Presence. Everything was opened to my heart in a state of Unveiling (kashf). The entire universe disappeared and I was not aware of anything other than praying in His Presence.

I had been asked, in the beginning of my state of Attraction, ‘Why are you going to enter on this Path?’ I answered, ‘In order that whatever I say and whatever I want will happen.’ I was answered, ‘That will not be. Whatever We say and whatever We want is what will happen.’ And I said, ‘I cannot do that. I must be permitted to say and to do whatever I like, or I don’t want this Way.’ Then I received the answer, ‘No, it is whatever We want to be said and whatever We want to be done that must be said and done.’ And I said again, ‘Whatever I say and whatever I do is what must be.’ Then I was left alone for fifteen days, until I was overwhelmed with a tremendous depression. Then I heard a voice, ‘O Baha’uddin, whatever you want, We will grant.’ I was overjoyed. I said, ‘I want to be given a Path (tariqat) that will lead anyone who travels on it straight to the Divine Presence.’ And I experienced a great vision and heard a voice saying, ‘You are granted what you have asked.

His Progress and Struggle on the Way

He relates:

One time I was in a state of Attraction and in a state of absent-mindedness, moving from here to there, not aware of what I was doing. My feet were torn and bleeding from thorns when darkness fell. I felt myself attracted to the house of my shaikh, Sayyid Amir Kulal. It was a pitch black night with no moon nor stars showing. The air was very cold and I had nothing on but an old leather cloak. When I arrived at his house, I found him sitting with his friends. When he saw me he told his followers, ‘Take him out, I don’t want him in my house.’ They put me out and I felt that my ego was trying to overcome me and that it was taking over my heart and my feelings, trying to poison my trust in my shaikh. At that point Allah’s Divine Care and His Mercy were my only support in carrying this humiliation in the Cause of Allah and the Cause of my shaikh. I said to my ego, ‘I am not allowing you to poison my trust in my shaikh.’ I felt so tired and so depressed that I put the state of humbleness at the door of pride, placed my head on the threshold of the door of my teacher, and took an oath that I would not remove it until he accepted me again. The snow was beginning to fall and the frigid air was penetrating my bones, causing me to tremble in the dark night. There was not even the warmth of the moon to comfort me. I remained in that state until I froze. But the love that was inside my heart, the love for the Divine and the love for the door of the Divine, my shaikh, kept me warm.

Dawn came and my shaikh stepped out of his door without seeing me physically. He put his foot on my head, which was still on his threshold. On sensing my head, he immediately withdrew his foot, took me inside his house and said to me, ‘O my son you have been dressed with the dress of Happiness. You have been dressed with the dress of Divine Love. You have been dressed with a dress that neither myself nor my shaikh has been dressed with. Allah is happy with you. The Prophet সাল্লা is happy with you. All the shaikhs of the Golden Chain are happy with you…’ Then with great care and delicacy he pulled the thorns from my feet and washed my wounds. At the same time he poured into my heart such knowledge that I never experienced before. This opened for me a vision in which I saw myself entering into the secret of MUHAMMADUN RASULULLAH সাল্লা. I saw myself entering into the secret of the verse which is the Haqiqa Muhammadiyya (Reality of Muhammad). This led me to enter the secret of LA ILAHA ILLA’LLAH which is the secret of wahdaniyyah (Uniqueness of God). This then led me to enter the secrets of Allah’s Names and Attributes which are expressed by the secret of ahadiyya (Oneness of God). Those states cannot be put into words, but can only known through taste which is experienced in the heart.

In the beginning of my travel on the Way, I used to wander at night from one place to another in the suburbs of Bukhara. By myself in the darkness of the night, especially in the wintertime, I visited the cemeteries to take a lesson from the dead. One night I was led to visit the grave of Shaikh Ahmad al-Ajgharawa and to read al-Fatiha for him. When I arrived, I found two men, whom I had never met before, waiting for me with a horse. They put me on the horse and they tied two swords on my belt. They directed the horse to the grave of Shaikh Mazdakhin. When we arrived, we all dismounted and entered the tomb and mosque of the shaikh. I sat facing the কিবলা, meditating and connecting my heart to the heart of that shaikh.

During this meditation a vision was opened to me and I saw the wall facing কিবলা come tumbling down. A huge throne appeared. A gigantic man, whom no words can describe, was sitting on that throne. I felt that I knew him. Wherever I turned my face in this universe I saw that man. Around him was a large crowd in which were my shaikhs, Shaikh Muhammad Baba as-Samasi and Sayyid Amir Kulal. Then I felt afraid of the gigantic man while at the same time I felt love for him. I had fear of his exalted presence and love for his beauty and attraction. I said to myself, ‘Who is that great man?’ I heard a voice among the people in the crowd saying, ‘This great man who nurtured you on your spiritual path is your shaikh. He was looking at your soul when it was still an atom in the Divine Presence. You have been under his training. He is Shaikh Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q) and the crowd you are seeing are the খলিফ who carry his great secret, the secret of the Golden Chain.’ Then the shaikh began to point to each shaikh and say, ‘This is Shaikh Ahmad; this is Kabir al-Awliya; this is ‘Arif Riwakri; this is shaikh Ali Ramitani; this is your shaikh, Muhammad Baba as-Samasi, who in his life gave you his cloak. Do you know him?’ I said, ‘Yes.

Then he said to me, ‘That cloak which he gave you such a long time ago is still in your house, and with its blessing Allah has removed from your life many afflictions.’ Then another voice came and said, ‘The Shaikh who is on the Throne is going to teach you something you need while traveling on this way.’ I asked if they would allow me to shake hands with him. They allowed this and took the veil away and I took his hand. Then he began to tell me about sulook (wayfaring), its beginning, middle and end. He said, ‘You have to adjust the wick of your self in order that the light of the unseen can be strengthened in you and its secrets can be seen. You have to show constancy and you have to be firm in the Divine Law (Shari`a) of the Prophet সাল্লা in all your states. You have to “order the right and forbid the wrong” [3:110, 114] and keep to the highest standard of the শরীয়া, and leave the dispensations of ease, and throw away innovation in all its forms, and make your Qiblah the Prophet’s সাল্লা Narrations (Hadith). You have to investigate his  life (sirah) and the sirah of His Companions, and to urge people to follow and to read the Qur’an both day and night, and to do the prayers with all their superogatory worship (নওয়াফিল). Do not ignore even the smallest thing from what the Prophet সাল্লা has shown us of deeds and good works.

As soon as Abdul Khaliq finished, his খলিফ told me, ‘In order to be assured of the certainty of this vision, he is sending you a sign. Tomorrow go and visit Mawlana Shamsuddin al-Ambikuti, who will be judging between two people. Tell him that the Turk is right and the Saqqa is wrong. Say to him, ‘You are trying to help the Saqqa, but you are mistaken. Correct yourself and help the Turk.’ If the Saqqa denies what you say, and the judge continues in helping the Saqqa, tell him, ‘I have two proofs. The first requires you to tell the Saqqa, ‘O Saqqa, you are thirsty.’ He will know what that thirst means. As for the second proof, you must tell the Saqqa, ‘You have slept in adultery with a woman and she became pregnant, and you have had the baby she was carrying aborted, and you buried the baby under the grapevines.’ On your way to Mawlana Shamsuddin, take with you three dry raisins and pass by your shaikh, Sayyid Amir al-Kulal. On your way to him you will find a shaikh who will give you a loaf of bread. Take the bread and don’t speak with him. Continue until you meet a caravan. A wrestler will approach you. Advise and reproach him. He is going to repent and become one of your followers. Wear your qalansuwa (hat) and take the cloak of ‘Azizan to Sayyid Amir Kulal.’

After that they moved me and the vision ended. I came back to myself. The next day I went to my house and I asked my family about the cloak that had been mentioned in the vision. They brought it to me and told me, ‘It has been sitting there for a long time.’ When I saw the cloak a state of internal crying overcame me. I took the cloak and went to the village of Ambikata, in the suburbs of Bukhara, to the mosque of Mawlana Shamsuddin. I prayed Fajr with him and then I told him about the sign which astonished him. As-Saqqa was present and he denied that the Turk was right. Then I told him about the proofs. He accepted the first and he denied the second. Then I asked the people in the masjid to go to the grapevine which was near the masjid. They did and found the child who was buried there. The Saqqa came crying and apologized for what he had done, but it was over. Mawlana Shamsuddin and the others in the mosque were in a great state of astonishment.

I prepared to travel the next day to the city of Naskh and had with me the three dry grapes. Mawlana Shamsuddin tried to detain me by telling me, ‘I am seeing in you the pain of longing for us and the burning desire to reach the Divine. Your healing is in Our Hands.’ I answered him, ‘O my shaikh, I am the son of someone else and I am his follower. Even if you offer to nurse me from the breast of the highest station, I cannot take it, except from the one to whom I gave my life and from whom I took my initiation.’ Then he kept quiet and permitted me to travel.

I moved as I had been instructed until I met the shaikh and he gave me a loaf of bread. I didn’t speak with him. I took the loaf from him, as I had been ordered. Then I met a caravan. They asked me where I was coming from. I said, ‘Ambikata.’ They asked me when I had left. I said, ‘At sunrise.’ They were surprised and said, ‘That village is miles away and crossing that distance would take you a long time. We left that village last night and you left at sunrise and yet you have reached us.’ I continued on until I met a horseman. He asked me ‘Who are you? I am afraid of you!’ I told him, ‘I am the one on whose hand will be your repentance.’ He dismounted his horse, showing complete humbleness to me and repented and threw away all the wine that he was carrying. He accompanied me to my Shaikh, Sayyid Amir Kulal. When I saw him I gave him the cloak.

He kept silent for some time and then he said, ‘This is the cloak of ‘Azizan. I was informed last night that you would be bringing it to me, and I have been ordered to keep it in ten different layers of covering.’ Then he ordered me to enter his private room. He taught me and placed in my heart the silent dhikr. He ordered me to keep that dhikr day and night. As I had been ordered in the vision of Shaikh ‘Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani to keep to the difficult way, I kept that silent dhikr which is the highest form of dhikr. In addition, I used to attend the associations of the external scholars to learn the Sciences of Divine Law (sharia) and the Traditions of the Prophet সাল্লা (Hadith), and to learn about the character of the Prophet সাল্লা and his Sahaba. I did as the vision told me, and this resulted in a big change in my life. All that Shaikh Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani taught me in that vision bore its blessed fruits in my life. His spirit was always accompanying me and teaching me.


On Loud and Silent Dhikr

It is mentioned in the book al-Bahjat as-Saniyya that from the time of Mahmoud al-Faghnawi to the time of Sayyid Amir al-Kulal they kept the way of loud dhikr when in association and silent dhikr when alone. However, when Shah Bahaudin Naqshband received his secret, he kept only the silent dhikr. Even in the associations of Sayid Amir Kulal, when they began to do the loud dhkir, he used to leave and go to his room to do silent dhikr. This was making the murids somewhat upset: although his shaikh was doing the loud dhikr, he was doing the silent dhikr. Yet he stood in the service of his shaikh all his life.

One day, as Shah Baha’uddin and all the followers of Sayyid Amir Kulal were taking a rest from building a new mosque, Sayyid Amir Kulal said, “Whoever was keeping bad thoughts about my son Baha’uddin was wrong. Allah has given him a secret that no one was given before. Even I was unable to know it.” And he told him, “O my son, I have fulfilled the will and advice of Shaikh Muhammad Baba as-Samasi when he ordered me to raise you and nurse you in my way of training until you surpassed me. This I have done, and you have capacity to continue higher and higher. So, my dear son, I am now giving you complete permission to go wherever you like and to obtain knowledge from whomever you find.”


Subsequent Sheikhs

তিনি বললেনঃ

One time I followed Mawlana ‘Arif ad-Dik Karrani for seven years. Then I followed Mawlana Kuthum Shaikh for many years. One night I slept in the presence of my shaikh and I saw the Shaikh al-Hakim ‘Attar, who was one of the famous shaikhs of the Turks, telling something to a dervish named Khalil Ghirani. When I awoke the picture of that dervish stayed in my mind. I had a pious grandmother to whom I mentioned the dream. She told me, ‘O my son, you are also going to follow many Turkish shaikhs.’ So I looked in my travels for Turkish shaikhs and I never forgot the picture of that one dervish. Then one day in my own country of Bukhara, I saw a dervish, and I recognized him as the one in my dream. I asked him his name and he told me, ‘I am Kahlil Ghirani.’ I had to leave him, but I felt terrible to do so. At Maghrib time someone knocked at my door. I answered and a stranger told me, ‘Darwish Khalil Ghirani is waiting for you.’ I was so surprised. How had that person found me? I took a gift and went with him. When I reached his presence I began to tell him the dream. He said, ‘No need to tell me that dream, I know it already.’ This moved my heart to be more attached to him. In his company new unseen knowledge was opened to my heart. He was always looking after me, praising me, and lifting me up. The people of Transoxiana put him as a king over them. I continued to keep his company, even in his time of Sultanate, and my heart grew in love for him more and more and his heart lifted me ever higher in knowledge. He taught me how to be in the service of the shaikh. I stayed in his company six years. In his presence and in my seclusion I kept my connection with him.

In the beginning of my Travel on this Way, I met a lover of Allah and he told me, ‘it seems as if you are from Us.’ I told him, ‘I hope you are from Us and I hope to be a friend to you.’ One time he asked me, ‘how do you treat your self?’ I said to him, ‘If I find something I thank Allah and if not I am patient.’ He smiled and said, ‘This is easy. The way for you is to burden your ego and to test it. If it loses food for one week, you must be able to keep it from disobeying you.’ I was very happy with his answer and I asked his support. He ordered me to help the needy and to serve the weak and to motivate the heart of the brokenhearted. He rdered me to keep humbleness and humility and tolerance. I kept his orders and I spent many days of my life in that manner. Then he ordered me to take care of animals, to cure their sicknesses, to clean their wounds, and to assist them in finding their provision. I kept on that way until I reached the state that if I saw an animal in the street, I would stop and make way for it.

Then he ordered me to look after the dogs of this Association with Truthfulness and Humility, and to ask them for support. He told me, ‘Because of your service to one of them you will reach great happiness.’ I took that order in the hope that I would find one dog and through service to him I would find that happiness. One day I was in the association of one of them and I felt a great state of happiness overcome me. I began crying in front of him until he fell on his back and raised his forepaws to the skies. I heard a very sad voice emanating from him and so I raised my hands in supplication and began to say ‘amin’ in support of him until he became silent. What then opened for me was a vision which brought me to a state in which I felt that I was part of every human being and part of every creation on this earth.


After Wearing the Cloak

তিনি বললেনঃ

One day I was in my garden in Qasr al-Arifan (where his mosque and tomb are located), wearing the cloak of Azizan and around me were my followers. I was suddenly overwhelmed by the Heavenly Attractions and Blessings, and I felt I was being dressed and adorned with His Attributes. I trembled in a way that I had never experienced before, and I couldn’t remain standing. I stood facing the Qiblah and I entered into a great vision in which I saw the True Annihilation. I found myself completely annihilated and I didn’t see any existence except my Lord’s. Then I saw myself coming out from His Divine Presence reflected through the Mirror of মুহাম্মাদুন রাসুলুল্লাহ, in the image of a star in an ocean of Light without beginning or end. My external life ended and I saw only the meaning of LA ILAHA ILLA ‘LLAH MUHAMMADUN RASULULLAH. This led me to the meaning of the essence of the name ‘Allah,’ which led me to the Absolute Unseen, which is the essence of the Name huwa (“He”). When I entered that ocean my heart stopped pumping and all my life ended, putting me in a state of death. My soul left my body and all those around thought I had died and were crying. Then after six hours I was ordered to return to my body. I perceived my soul slowly re-entering my body and the vision ended.

To deny your existence and to neglect and disregard your ego is the currency of this Order. In this state I entered into every level of existence, which made me a part of all creations and which developed in me a certainty that everyone is better than me. I saw that everyone provides a benefit and that only I give no benefit. One day a surprising state came upon me. I heard the Divine Voice saying, ‘Ask whatever you like from Us.’ So I said, with humility, ‘O Allah, grant me one drop of Your Oceans of Mercy and Blessings.’ The answer came, ‘You are asking from Our Great Generosity for only one drop?’ This was like a tremendous slap on my face and the sting of it lasted on my cheek for days. Then one day I said, ‘O Allah grant me from Your Oceans of Mercy and Blessings the Power to carry it.’ At that moment a vision was opened to me wherein I was seated on a throne and that throne was over an ocean of mercy. And a voice said to me, ‘This ocean of mercy is for you. Give it to My servants.’ I was receiving secrets from every side, especially from Uwais al-Qarani, who greatly influenced me to depart from all worldly matters and to attach myself exclusively to spiritual matters. I did this by firmly keeping the shari`ah and the orders of the Prophet সাল্লা, until I began spreading the Unseen Knowledge and the Granted Secrets from the Unique Oneness that no one before had ever shared.

 

The Miracles of His Sayings and the Sayings of His Miracles

On the Differences Among Imams

In an assembly of great scholars in Baghdad he was asked about the differences in the sayings of the four khalifs of the Holy Prophet radiya. He said:

One time as-Siddiq radiya said, ‘I never saw anything except that Allah was before it,’ and Umar al-Faruq radiya said, ‘I never saw anything except that Allah was behind it.’ And ‘Uthman radiya said, ‘I never saw anything except that Allah was next to it,’ and ‘Ali radiya said, ‘I never saw anything except that Allah was within it.’” He commented that, “The differences in these sayings was based on the differences in the circumstances at the times they were spoken and not on differences in belief or understanding.

On Traveling in the Path

তিনি বললেনঃ

What is behind the meaning of the Prophet’s radiya narration, ‘Part of faith is to remove what is harmful from the Way’? What he meant by ‘the harmful’ is the ego, and what he meant by ‘the Way’ is the Way of God, as He said to Bayazid al-Bistami, ‘leave your ego and come to Us.

He was asked one time, “What is meant by Traveling the Path?” He said, “The details in spiritual knowledge.” They asked him, “What are the ‘details in spiritual knowledge?’ He said, “The one who knows and accepts what he knows will be raised from the state of evidence and proof to the state of vision.”

তিনি বলেন,

Whoever asks to be in the Way of God has asked for the way of affliction. It was narrated by the Prophet সাল্লা, 'যে আমাকে ভালোবাসে আমি তাকে বোঝাব।' এক ব্যক্তি নবীজীর কাছে এলেন সাল্লা এবং বললেন, 'হে নবী আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি' এবং রাসূল সা সাল্লা বললেন, 'তাহলে নিজেকে গরীব হওয়ার জন্য প্রস্তুত কর।' আরেকবার এক ব্যক্তি নবীজীর কাছে এলেন সাল্লা এবং বললেন, 'হে নবী আমি আল্লাহকে ভালোবাসি' এবং নবী বললেন, 'তাহলে নিজেকে কষ্টের জন্য প্রস্তুত কর।

তার উত্তরসূরি আলাউদ্দিন আল-আত্তার দ্বারা জানা যায় যে শাহ নকশবন্দ যখন নতুন জামাকাপড় পেতেন তখন তিনি সেগুলি অন্য কাউকে পরানোর জন্য দিতেন এবং ব্যবহার করার পরে তিনি সেগুলি ফেরত নিতেন।

তিনি একটি আয়াত তেলাওয়াত করলেনঃ

সবাই ভালো চায়,
কিন্তু কেউ স্বর্গারোহণ পায়নি,
ভালোবাসা ছাড়া
যিনি ভাল সৃষ্টি করেছেন।

 

তিনি বললেনঃ

যে নিজেকে পছন্দ করে, তাকে অবশ্যই নিজেকে অস্বীকার করতে হবে, এবং যে নিজেকে ছাড়া অন্যকে চায় সে বাস্তবে কেবল নিজেকেই চায়।


আধ্যাত্মিক প্রশিক্ষণের উপর

তিনি বলেন,

তিনটি উপায় রয়েছে যা জ্ঞাতারা তাদের জ্ঞানে পৌঁছায়:

1. মুরাকাবা - মনন

2. মুশাহাদা - দৃষ্টি

3. মুহাসাবা - হিসাব

মনন অবস্থায় সাধক সৃষ্টকে ভুলে যায় এবং কেবল স্রষ্টাকে স্মরণ করে।

দৃষ্টির রাজ্যে অদৃশ্য থেকে অনুপ্রেরণা অন্বেষণকারীর হৃদয়ে আসে দুটি অবস্থার সাথে: সংকোচন এবং প্রসারণ। সংকোচন অবস্থায় দৃষ্টি মহিমান্বিত এবং প্রসারিত অবস্থায় দৃষ্টি সৌন্দর্যের।

হিসাব-নিকাশের অবস্থায় অন্বেষণকারী প্রতিটি ঘন্টার মূল্যায়ন করে যেটি কেটে গেছে: তিনি কি ঈশ্বরের কাছে সম্পূর্ণ উপস্থিতিতে ছিলেন নাকি বিশ্বের সাথে সম্পূর্ণ উপস্থিতিতে ছিলেন?

তিনি বললেনঃ

এইভাবে অন্বেষণকারীকে মন্দ ফিসফিসানি এবং অহংকার প্ররোচনা প্রত্যাখ্যান করতে ব্যস্ত থাকতে হবে। তারা তার কাছে পৌঁছানোর আগেই সে তাদের প্রত্যাখ্যান করতে পারে; অথবা তারা তার কাছে পৌঁছানোর পরে কিন্তু তারা তাকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ করার আগেই সে তাদের প্রত্যাখ্যান করতে পারে। অন্য একজন অন্বেষণকারী, তবে, তারা তার কাছে না পৌঁছানো এবং তাকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ না করা পর্যন্ত তাদের প্রত্যাখ্যান করতে পারে না। সে কোন ফল পেতে পারে না, কারণ তখন হৃদয় থেকে ফিসফিস বের করা অসম্ভব।


আধ্যাত্মিক স্টেশনে

তিনি একবার বলেছিলেন:

ঈশ্বরের লোকেরা গোপন কাজ এবং হৃদয়ের ফিসফিসকে কীভাবে দেখে? তিনি বলেন, “আল্লাহ তাদেরকে যে দৃষ্টি দান করেছেন তার নূর দ্বারা, যেমন পবিত্র হাদিসে উল্লেখ আছে, 'মুমিনের দৃষ্টি থেকে সাবধান, কারণ সে আল্লাহর নূরের সাথে দেখে।

তাকে অলৌকিক ক্ষমতা দেখানোর বিষয়ে জিজ্ঞাসা করা হয়েছিল। তিনি বললেনঃ

আমরা এখনও আমাদের এবং আমাদের চারপাশে এই সমস্ত পাপ নিয়ে এই পৃথিবীতে হাঁটছি তার চেয়ে আপনি আর কী অলৌকিক শক্তি চান।

তাকে জিজ্ঞাসা করা হয়েছিল, "আবৃত্তিকারী কে এবং জুনায়েদের উক্তিতে কে সূফী, 'পুস্তক পাঠকারীদের থেকে নিজেকে বিচ্ছিন্ন কর এবং সূফীদের সঙ্গী হও'।"

তিনি বললেনঃ

তিলাওয়াতকারী সেই ব্যক্তি যে শব্দ ও নাম নিয়ে ব্যস্ত, আর সূফী সেই ব্যক্তি যে নামের সারমর্ম নিয়ে ব্যস্ত।

তিনি সতর্ক করেছেন:

কোন মুরীদ, শায়খ বা কেউ যদি এমন কোন অবস্থার কথা বলে যা সে অর্জিত হয়নি, আল্লাহ তাকে সেই অবস্থায় পৌঁছাতে নিষেধ করবেন।

তিনি বললেনঃ

প্রত্যেক শাইখের আয়নার দুটি দিক থাকে। কিন্তু আমাদের আয়নার ছয়টি দিক আছে।

তিনি বললেনঃ

পবিত্র হাদিস দ্বারা যা বোঝানো হয়েছে, 'যে আমাকে স্মরণ করে আমি তার সাথে আছি', এটি একটি সুস্পষ্ট প্রমাণ এবং একটি প্রমাণ যা অন্তরের লোকেরা তাকে সর্বদা স্মরণ করে। আর অপর বাণী রাসূল সা সাল্লা ঈশ্বরের পক্ষে কথা বলা, আস-সাওমু লি ('রোজা আমার জন্য') একটি নিশ্চিতকরণ যে প্রকৃত উপবাস হল ঈশ্বর ব্যতীত অন্য সমস্ত কিছু থেকে উপবাস করা।


আধ্যাত্মিক দারিদ্র্যের উপর

তাকে জিজ্ঞেস করা হল, "কেন তাদের আল-ফুকারা (গরীব) বলা হয়?"

তিনি বললেনঃ

কারণ তারা গরীব, কিন্তু তাদের দোয়া করার দরকার নেই। ঠিক যেমন হযরত ইব্রাহিম আ সাল্লা, যখন তাকে আগুনে নিক্ষেপ করা হলো এবং জিবরীল (আঃ) এসে তাকে জিজ্ঞেস করলেন, 'তোমার কি কোন সাহায্যের দরকার আছে?', উত্তরে বললেন, 'আমার জিজ্ঞাসা করার কোন প্রয়োজন নেই, তিনি আমার অবস্থা সম্পর্কে ভালো জানেন।

তিনি বললেনঃ

দারিদ্র্য ধ্বংসের একটি চিহ্ন এবং অস্তিত্বের বৈশিষ্ট্যগুলি মুছে ফেলার।

তিনি একবার বলেছিলেন:

গরীব কে?" কেউ তাকে উত্তর দেয়নি। তিনি বলেছিলেন, “গরীব সেই ব্যক্তি যার ভিতর সর্বদা সংগ্রামে থাকে এবং যার বাহ্য সর্বদা শান্তিতে থাকে।


একজনের শেখের সাথে যথাযথ আচরণের উপর

তিনি বললেনঃ

অনুসারীর জন্য আবশ্যক, যদি সে তার শায়খের কিছু কথা বা কাজ সম্পর্কে বিভ্রান্ত হয় এবং তার কারণগুলি বুঝতে অক্ষম হয়, ধৈর্য ধারণ করা এবং তা বহন করা এবং সন্দেহজনক না হওয়া। তিনি যদি একজন শিক্ষানবিস হন, তবে তিনি জিজ্ঞাসা করতে পারেন; কিন্তু যদি সে একজন মুরিদ হয়, তবে তার জিজ্ঞাসা করার কোন কারণ নেই এবং সে এখনও যা বোঝে না তার জন্য ধৈর্য ধরে থাকা উচিত।

তিনি বললেনঃ

নিজের থেকে বের না হওয়া পর্যন্ত আল্লাহর মানুষের ভালোবাসায় পৌঁছানো অসম্ভব।

তিনি বললেনঃ

আমাদের পথে আচারের তিনটি বিভাগ রয়েছে (আদব):

1. সর্বশক্তিমান ও মহিমান্বিত আল্লাহর সাথে উত্তম আচরণের জন্য মুরিদকে তার ইবাদতে বাহ্যিক ও অভ্যন্তরীণভাবে নিখুঁত হতে হবে, যা নিষিদ্ধ করা হয়েছে এবং যা আদেশ করা হয়েছে তা থেকে দূরে থাকবে এবং আল্লাহ ব্যতীত যা কিছু আছে তা ত্যাগ করবে।

2. নবী মুহাম্মদের সাথে উত্তম আচরণ সাল্লা মুরিদদের রাজ্যে উড়তে হবে ইন কুনতুম তুহিব্বুন আল্লাহ ফা-ত-তাবিউনী ('আল্লাহকে ভালোবাসতে চাইলে আমাকে অনুসরণ করো') [৩:৩১]। তাকে অনুসরণ করতে হবে নবীর সকল অবস্থা। তাকে অবশ্যই জানতে হবে যে নবী হলেন ঈশ্বর এবং তাঁর সৃষ্টির মধ্যে সেতু এবং এই মহাবিশ্বের সবকিছুই তাঁর উচ্চ আদেশের অধীনে।

3. শাইখদের সাথে ভালো ব্যবহার প্রত্যেক সাধকের জন্য আবশ্যক। শাইখগণ নবীর পদাঙ্ক অনুসরণের কারণ ও মাধ্যম সাল্লা. তাদের উপস্থিতিতে বা অনুপস্থিতিতে শায়খের আদেশ পালন করা সাধকের জন্য কর্তব্য।

একবার আমার এক অনুসারী আমাকে সালাম দিল। আমি তাকে সাড়া দেইনি, যদিও কেউ আপনাকে সালাম দিলে উত্তর দেওয়া সুন্নাতের শর্ত। এটি আমার অনুসারীকে বিরক্ত করেছিল। আমি তার পরে একজনকে ক্ষমা প্রার্থনার জন্য পাঠিয়েছিলাম, তাকে বলেছিলাম, 'সেই সময়, যখন আপনি আমাকে অভিবাদন করেছিলেন, তখন আমার মন, আমার হৃদয়, আমার আত্মা, আমার দেহ, আমার আত্মা সম্পূর্ণরূপে ঐশ্বরিক উপস্থিতিতে হারিয়ে গিয়েছিল, আল্লাহ যা বলছেন তা শুনছিলাম। আমার কাছে এটি আমাকে ঈশ্বরের বক্তৃতায় এতটাই মগ্ন করে তুলেছিল যে আমি কারও কাছে সাড়া দিতে অক্ষম ছিলাম।


ইনটেনশনের উপর

তিনি বলেন,

উদ্দেশ্যগুলিকে সংশোধন করা খুবই গুরুত্বপূর্ণ, কারণ উদ্দেশ্যগুলি অদেখা জগত থেকে আসে, বস্তুগত জগতের নয়।" “সেই কারণে,” তিনি বলেন, “ইবনে সিরীন (স্বপ্নের ব্যাখ্যার বইয়ের লেখক) হাসান আল-বাসরীর জানাজায় নামাজ পড়েননি। তিনি বললেন, আমি কিভাবে নামায পড়ব যখন আমার নিয়ত এখনো আমার কাছে পৌঁছায়নি আমাকে অদৃশ্যের সাথে সংযোগ করার জন্য?

তিনি চালিয়ে যান:

অভিপ্রায় (নিয়াহ) খুবই গুরুত্বপূর্ণ, কারণ এটি তিনটি অক্ষর নিয়ে গঠিত: Nun, যা প্রতিনিধিত্ব করে নূরুল্লাহ, ঈশ্বরের আলো; হ্যাঁ, যা ইয়াদুল্লাহকে প্রতিনিধিত্ব করে, ঈশ্বরের হাত; এবং ha, যা প্রতিনিধিত্ব করে হিদায়াতুল্লাহ, আল্লাহর নির্দেশনা। দ নিয়াহ আত্মার হাওয়া হয়.


সাধুদের কর্তব্য সম্পর্কে

তিনি বলেন,

আল্লাহ আমাকে বস্তুবাদী জীবন ধ্বংস করার জন্য সৃষ্টি করেছেন কিন্তু মানুষ চায় আমি তাদের বস্তুবাদী জীবন গড়ি।

তিনি বলেন,

ঈশ্বরের লোকেরা তাদের কাছ থেকে শেখার জন্য সৃষ্টির জন্য সৃষ্টির ভার বহন করে। আল্লাহ তার ওলীদের অন্তরের দিকে তার আলো দিয়ে দেখেন, এবং যে কেউ সেই সাধকের চারপাশে থাকবে সে সেই আলোর বরকত পাবে।

শায়খকে তার অবস্থা জানতে হবে মুরিদ তিনটি বিভাগে: অতীতে; তাকে বড় করার জন্য বর্তমান এবং ভবিষ্যতে।

যে আমাদের দ্বারা দীক্ষিত এবং আমাদের অনুসরণ করে এবং আমাদের ভালবাসে, সে কাছে হোক বা দূরে, সে যেখানেই হোক না কেন, যদিও সে প্রাচ্যে এবং আমরা পশ্চিমে, আমরা ভালবাসার স্রোত থেকে লালন করি এবং তাকে তার আলোতে আলো দান করি। দৈনন্দিন জীবন


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আল-আযীজানের উপস্থিতি থেকে যিকিরের দুটি পদ্ধতি রয়েছে: নীরব এবং শ্রবণযোগ্য। আমি নীরব পছন্দ করেছি কারণ এটি শক্তিশালী এবং আরও পরামর্শযোগ্য।

যেভাবে এটি ব্যবহার করছে তাকে প্রভাবিত করার জন্য যিকিরের অনুমতি অবশ্যই পারফেক্ট একজনকে দিতে হবে, যেমন একজন তীরন্দাজের মাস্টারের তীর একজন সাধারণ ব্যক্তির ধনুক থেকে নিক্ষিপ্ত তীর থেকে উত্তম।

 

তিনি শেখ আবদুল খালিকের (ক) আটটিতে তিনটি মূলনীতি যোগ করেছেন:

9. সময়ের সচেতনতা (“উকুফ জামানি")

এর অর্থ হল একজনের সংযম পর্যবেক্ষণ করা এবং গাফিলতির প্রবণতা পরীক্ষা করা। সাধককে অবশ্যই জানতে হবে যে সে আধ্যাত্মিক পরিপক্কতার দিকে এগিয়ে যাওয়ার জন্য কতটা সময় ব্যয় করেছে এবং স্বর্গীয় উপস্থিতির দিকে তার যাত্রায় সে কোন জায়গায় পৌঁছেছে তা অবশ্যই চিনতে হবে।

সাধককে তার সর্বাত্মক প্রচেষ্টায় উন্নতি করতে হবে। তাকে অবশ্যই তার সমস্ত সময় ব্যয় করতে হবে তার এক এবং একমাত্র লক্ষ্য ঈশ্বরীয় প্রেম এবং ঐশ্বরিক উপস্থিতির স্টেশনে আগমন। তাকে অবশ্যই সচেতন হতে হবে যে তার সমস্ত প্রচেষ্টা এবং তার সমস্ত কর্মের মধ্যে আল্লাহ ক্ষুদ্রতম বিবরণকে প্রত্যক্ষ করেন।

অন্বেষণকারীকে প্রতিদিন এবং প্রতি রাতে তার ক্রিয়াকলাপ এবং তার উদ্দেশ্যগুলির একটি হিসাব করতে হবে এবং প্রতিটি ঘন্টা, প্রতিটি সেকেন্ড এবং প্রতিটি মুহূর্ত তার কর্ম বিশ্লেষণ করতে হবে। যদি তারা ভাল হয়, তিনি এর জন্য ঈশ্বরকে ধন্যবাদ দেন। যদি তারা খারাপ হয়, তাকে অবশ্যই অনুতপ্ত হতে হবে এবং আল্লাহর কাছে ক্ষমা চাইতে হবে।

ইয়াকুব আল-চারকি বলেছেন যে তার শায়খ আলাউদ্দীন আল-আত্তার বলেছেন, "বিষণ্ণ অবস্থায় আপনাকে অবশ্যই পাঠ করতে হবে। ইস্তিগফার (ক্ষমা চাওয়া) অত্যধিক, এবং উল্লসিত অবস্থায়, আল্লাহর অত্যধিক প্রশংসা।" এবং তিনি বলেন, “এই দুটি অবস্থা বিবেচনা করা, সংকোচন এবং প্রসারণ, এর অর্থ উকুফ জামানি"

শাহ নকশবন্দ (কঃ) সেই অবস্থার ব্যাখ্যা দিয়ে বলেছেন, “তোমাকে নিজের সম্পর্কে সচেতন হতে হবে। আপনি যদি অনুসরণ করতেন শরীয়ত তাহলে তোমাকে আল্লাহর শুকরিয়া আদায় করতে হবে, নইলে ক্ষমা চাইতে হবে।"

এই অবস্থায় অন্বেষণকারীর জন্য যা গুরুত্বপূর্ণ তা হল ক্ষুদ্রতম সময়কালকে নিরাপদ রাখা। জীবনের প্রতিটি মুহুর্তে তাকে তার নিজের উপর পাহারা দিতে হবে এবং বিচার করতে হবে যে সে আল্লাহর উপস্থিতিতে ছিল নাকি সে তার অহংকার উপস্থিতিতে ছিল কিনা।

শাহ নকশবন্দ (কঃ) বলেছেন, "আপনি প্রতিটি মুহূর্ত কীভাবে কাটান তা আপনাকে মূল্যায়ন করতে হবে: উপস্থিতি বা অবহেলায়।"


10. সংখ্যার সচেতনতা (“উকুফ `আদাদি")

এর অর্থ হল যে তিলাওয়াত করছে সেই সাধক dhikr নিঃশব্দে জড়িত পুনরাবৃত্তির সঠিক সংখ্যা পর্যবেক্ষণ করতে হবে dhikr হৃদয়ের যিকিরের হিসাব রাখা নিজের খাতির জন্য নয়, বরং হৃদয়কে খারাপ চিন্তা থেকে রক্ষা করার জন্য এবং যত তাড়াতাড়ি শায়খের দ্বারা নির্ধারিত পুনরাবৃত্তি অর্জনের প্রচেষ্টায় আরও মনোনিবেশ করার জন্য। সম্ভব

গণনার মাধ্যমে যিকিরের স্তম্ভ হল সেই যিকিরে যাকে উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে তার উপস্থিতিতে হৃদয়কে নিয়ে আসা এবং একে একে গণনা চালিয়ে যাওয়া, যাতে এই উপলব্ধির দিকে মনোযোগ দেওয়া যায় যে প্রত্যেকেরই সেই ব্যক্তির প্রয়োজন। নিদর্শন দেখা যাচ্ছে প্রতিটি সৃষ্টিতে।

শাহ নকশবন্দ (কঃ) বলেন, “যিকরে সংখ্যা পালন স্বর্গীয় জ্ঞান অর্জনের প্রথম ধাপ। (ইলম উল-লাদুন্নী)" এর মানে হল যে গণনা একজনকে চিনতে পারে যে শুধুমাত্র একজনই জীবনের জন্য প্রয়োজনীয়। সমস্ত গাণিতিক সমীকরণ এক নম্বরের প্রয়োজন। সমস্ত সৃষ্টি একমাত্র একজনেরই প্রয়োজন।


11. হার্টের সচেতনতা (“উকুফ ক্বলবী")

এর অর্থ হল অন্বেষণকারীর হৃদয়কে ঐশ্বরিক উপস্থিতির দিকে পরিচালিত করা, যেখানে সে তার প্রিয়জন ছাড়া অন্য কাউকে দেখতে পাবে না। এর অর্থ হল সমস্ত রাজ্যে তাঁর প্রকাশ অনুভব করা। উবায়দুল্লাহ আল-আহরার বলেন, "হৃদয়ের সচেতনতার অবস্থা হল ঐশ্বরিক উপস্থিতিতে এমনভাবে উপস্থিত থাকা যে আপনি তাকে ছাড়া অন্য কারো দিকে তাকাতে পারবেন না।"

এই ধরনের একটি রাজ্যে একটি স্থান কেন্দ্রীভূত ধিকর হৃদয়ের ভিতরে কারণ এটি শক্তির কেন্দ্র। সমস্ত চিন্তা এবং অনুপ্রেরণা, ভাল এবং মন্দ, অনুভব করা হয় এবং একের পর এক প্রদর্শিত হয়, প্রদক্ষিণ করে এবং পরিবর্তিত হয়, আলো এবং অন্ধকারের মধ্যে, ধ্রুব বিপ্লবে, হৃদয়ের ভিতরে। হৃৎপিণ্ডের সেই অশান্তি নিয়ন্ত্রণ ও কমানোর জন্য যিকির করা প্রয়োজন।


এর অর্থ মুহাম্মদের জাতি সাল্লা

তিনি বলেন,

যখন রাসূল সা সাল্লা বললেন, 'আমার জাতির অংশ জাহান্নামের জন্য নির্ধারিত ইব্রাহিমের অংশের মতোই নমরূদের আগুনের জন্য নির্ধারিত', তিনি তার জাতির জন্য নাজাতের সুসংবাদ দিচ্ছিলেন যেভাবে আল্লাহ ইব্রাহিমের জন্য নাজাত লিখে রেখেছিলেন। সাল্লাইয়া নারু কুনি বরদান ওয়া সালামান আলা ইব্রাহিম ('হে আগুন, ইব্রাহিমের জন্য শীতল ও নিরাপদ হও') [21:69] এর কারণ হল রাসূল সা সাল্লা বলেছেন, 'আমার জাতি কখনই ভুলের উপর একমত হবে না,' এই দৃঢ়তার সাথে যে উম্মাহ কখনই অন্যায়কে মেনে নেবে না এবং এইভাবে আল্লাহ মুহাম্মদের জাতিকে রক্ষা করবেন। সাল্লা আগুন থেকে

শায়খ আহমদ ফারুকী বলেন, শাহ নকশবন্দ বলেছেন:

মুহাম্মদের জাতি সাল্লা নবীর পরে যারা আসবে তাদের অন্তর্ভুক্ত সাল্লা. এটি তিন প্রকারের সমন্বয়ে গঠিত:

1. উম্মাতু-দ-দাওয়াহ: একেবারে নবীজীর পরে যারা এসেছেন সাল্লা এবং সহজভাবে তার বার্তা শুনতে. যে রাসূল সা সাল্লা ব্যতিক্রম ছাড়া সকল মানুষের কাছে এসেছে তা কোরানের অনেক আয়াত থেকে স্পষ্ট; অধিকন্তু, তাঁর সম্প্রদায় হল অন্য সকল সম্প্রদায়ের উপর মধ্যপন্থী সাক্ষী এবং নবী সাল্লা অন্যান্য সম্প্রদায় এবং তাদের নিজ নিজ সাক্ষী সহ সকলের উপরে একজন সাক্ষী।

2. উম্মাতুল ইজাবা: যারা বার্তা গ্রহণ করেছে।

3. উম্মাতুল মুতাবাআ: যারা বাণী গ্রহণ করেছে এবং নবীর পদাঙ্ক অনুসরণ করেছে সাল্লা.

নবী সম্প্রদায়ের এই সমস্ত শ্রেণী সংরক্ষণ করা হয়। যদি তারা তাদের কর্ম দ্বারা না উদ্ধার হয়, তাহলে তারা নবীর সুপারিশ দ্বারা রক্ষা করা হয় সাল্লা, তার উক্তি অনুসারে, “আমার সুপারিশ আমার সম্প্রদায়ের বড় পাপীদের কাছ থেকে।

ঐশ্বরিক উপস্থিতি পৌঁছানোর উপর

তিনি বললেনঃ

হাদীস দ্বারা কি বুঝানো হয়েছে রাসূল সা সাল্লাআস-সালাতু মিরাজ উল-মুমিন ("প্রার্থনা হল মুমিনের আরোহন"), প্রকৃত প্রার্থনার স্তরগুলির একটি সুস্পষ্ট ইঙ্গিত, যেখানে উপাসক ঐশ্বরিক উপস্থিতিতে আরোহণ করে এবং তার মধ্যে বিস্ময়, শ্রদ্ধা, আনুগত্য এবং নম্রতা প্রকাশ পায়, যেমন তার হৃদয় তার প্রার্থনার মাধ্যমে চিন্তার অবস্থায় পৌঁছায়। এটি তাকে ঐশ্বরিক রহস্যের দর্শনে নিয়ে যাবে। এটাই ছিল মহানবী (সা.) এর বর্ণনা সাল্লা প্রার্থনা জীবন-ইতিহাসে রাসূল সা সাল্লাবলা হয়, যখন রাসূল সা সাল্লা সেই অবস্থায় পৌঁছে যাবেন, এমনকি শহরের বাইরের লোকেরাও তার বুক থেকে মৌমাছির গুনগুনের মতো শব্দ শুনতে পেত।

বুখারার জনৈক পণ্ডিত তাকে জিজ্ঞেস করলেন, একজন উপাসক কীভাবে তার প্রার্থনায় আল্লাহর কাছে পৌঁছাতে পারে? তিনি উত্তর দিলেন, "আপনার ভ্রুকুটির পরিশ্রমের ঘাম খেয়ে এবং আপনার নামাজের ভিতরে এবং আপনার নামাজের বাইরে, প্রতিটি অযুতে এবং আপনার জীবনের প্রতিটি মুহুর্তে মহান আল্লাহকে স্মরণ করার মাধ্যমে।"


শাইখ সালাহ, তাঁর দাস, বর্ণনা করেছেন: "শাহ নকশবন্দ তার অনুসারীদেরকে একবার বলেছিলেন, 'আল্লাহ ব্যতীত অন্যের সাথে আপনার হৃদয়ের যে কোনও সংযোগ সন্ধানকারীর জন্য সবচেয়ে বড় পর্দা', তারপরে তিনি কবিতার এই আয়াতটি আবৃত্তি করেছিলেন:

ঈশ্বর ব্যতীত অন্যের সাথে সংযোগ
সবচেয়ে শক্তিশালী পর্দা,
এবং এটি দিয়ে করতে হবে,
হল ওপেনিং অফ অ্যাটেনমেন্ট।

তিনি এই আয়াতটি পাঠ করার সাথে সাথেই আমার হৃদয়ে এলো যে তিনি বিশ্বাসের মধ্যে সংযোগের কথা বলছেন। (ইমান) এবং ইসলাম. তিনি আমার দিকে তাকিয়ে হেসে বললেন, 'হাল্লাজ কি বলেছিল তা কি তুমি শোননি? "আমি ঈশ্বরের ধর্মকে প্রত্যাখ্যান করেছি, এবং প্রত্যাখ্যান আমার জন্য বাধ্যতামূলক যদিও তা মুসলমানদের কাছে জঘন্য।" হে শায়খ সালাহ, আপনার হৃদয়ে কি এসেছে—যে সংযোগটি বিশ্বাসের সাথে এবং islam – is not the important point. What is important is Real Faith, and Real Faith for the People of the Truth is to make the heart deny anything and everything other than God. That is what made Hallaj say, “I denied your religion and denial is obligatory on me, although that is hideous to Muslims.” His heart wanted nothing except Allah.”

“Hallaj, of course, was not denying his faith in Islam, but was emphasizing the attachment of his heart to God Alone. If Hallaj was not accepting anything except Allah, how could one say that he was actually denying the religion of God? His testimony of the reality of his Witnessing encompassed and made as child’s-play the ordinary witnessing of the common Muslim.”

Shaikh Salah continued, saying, Shah Naqshband said, “The people of God do not admire what they are doing; they act only out of the love of God.”

Shah Naqshband said:

Rabi’a al-’Adawiyya said, ‘O Allah I didn’t worship seeking the reward of Your Paradise nor fearing your punishment, but I am worshipping You for Your Love alone.’ If your worship is for saving yourself or for gaining some reward for yourself, it is a hidden shirk, because you have associated something with Allah, either the reward or the punishment. This is what Hallaj meant.

 

Shaykh Arslan ad-Dismashqi said, as Shah Naqshband reported:

O God, Your religion is nothing but hidden polytheism and to disbelieve in it is obligatory on every true servant. The people of religion do not worship You, but are only worshipping to attain Paradise or to escape from Hell. They worship these two as idols, and that is the worst idolatry. You have said, “Whoever disbelieves in idols and believes in God has grasped the Firm Handhold.” (2:256) To disbelieve in those idols and to believe in You is obligatory on the people of Truth.

Shaykh Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili, one of the greatest Sufi shaykhs, was asked by his shaykh, “O my son, with what are you going to meet your Lord?” He said, “I am coming to Him with my poverty.” His shaykh replied:

O my son, do not ever repeat this again. This is the biggest idol, because you are still coming to Him with something. Free yourself of everything and then come to Him. The people of laws and external knowledge hold fast to their deeds, and on that basis, they establish the concept of reward and punishment. If they are good, they find good, and if they are bad, they find bad; what benefits the servant is his deeds and what harms him is his deeds. To the People of the Way, this is the hidden polytheism, because one is associating something with God. Although this is an obligation to do (good deeds), yet the heart must not be attached to those deeds. They should only be done for His sake and for His love, without expectation of anything in return.


On the Naqshbandi Way

Shah Naqshband (q) said:

Our Way is very rare and very precious. It is the `urwati-l-wuthqa (“Firm Handhold”), the way of keeping firm and steadfast in the footsteps of the Prophet সাল্লা and of his Companions. They brought me to this Way from the door of Favors, because at its beginning and at its end, I witnessed nothing but the Favors of God. In this Way great doors of Heavenly Knowledge will be opened up to the seeker who follows in the footsteps of the Prophet সাল্লা.

To follow the Sunnah of the Prophet  is the most important means by which the door will be opened to you. He said, “Whoever is not coming to our Way, his religion is in danger.” He was asked, “How does someone come to Your Way?” He replied, “By following the Sunnah of the Prophet "

তিনি বললেনঃ

We have carried in this Way humiliation, and in return Allah has blessed us with His Honor.

Some people said about him that he was sometimes arrogant. He said, “We are proud because of Him, because He is our Lord, giving us His Support!”

তিনি বললেনঃ

To reach the Secrets of Oneness is sometimes possible, but to reach the Secrets of Spiritual Knowledge (ma`rifat) is extremely difficult.

 

তিনি বললেনঃ

Spiritual Knowledge is like water, it takes the color and shape of the cup. Allah’s Knowledge is so great, that however much we take, it is like a drop of a huge ocean. It like a vast garden, however much we have cut it is as if we had cut but one flower.


His Attitude Towards Food

Shah Naqshband was, may Allah sanctify his soul, in the highest states of the denial of desire for this world. He followed the way of piety, especially in the act of eating. He took all kinds of precautions in regard to his food. He would only eat from the barley he had grown himself. He would harvest it, grind it, make the dough, knead it and bake it himself. All the scholars and seekers of his time made their way to his house, in order to eat from his table and to partake the blessings of his food.

He reached such a perfection of austerity that in winter, he only put old and worn carpets on the floor of his house, which gave no protection from the bitter cold. In summer he put very thin woven mats on the ground. He loved the poor and the needy. He urged his followers to earn money through lawful means, that is, by the sweat of their brows. He urged them to spend that money on the poor. He cooked for the poor and invited them to his table. He served them with his own holy hands and urged them to remain always in the Presence of Allah, Almighty and Exalted. If anyone of them put a bite of food in his mouth in a heedless way, he would inform them, through his state of vision, what they had done and urge them to keep remembrance of Allah while eating.

He taught that:

One of the most important doors to the Presence of Allah is to eat with Awareness. The food gives the body strength, and to eat with consciousness gives the body purity.

One time he was invited to a city by the name of Ghaziat where one of his followers had prepared a dinner for him. When they sat for dinner he didn’t eat. His host was surprised. Shah Naqshband said, “O my son, I am wondering how you prepared this food. From the time you kneaded the dough and cooked it, until you served it, you were in a state of anger. The food is mixed with that anger. If we eat that food, shaytan will find a way to enter through it and to spread his evil throughout our bodies.”

One time he was invited to the city of Herat by its king, King Hussain. King Hussain was very happy at the visit of Shah Naqshband and threw a great feast for him. He invited all his ministers, the shaikhs of his kingdom and all his noblemen. He said, “Eat from this food. It is pure food, which I made from the pure earnings which I inherited from my father.” Everyone ate except Shah Naqshband, prompting the Shaikh ul-Islam of that time, Qutb ad-din, to ask, “O our Shaikh, why are you not eating?” Shah Naqshband said, “I have a judge to whom I go for counsel. I asked him and that judge told me, ‘O my son, about this food there are two possibilities. If this food is not হালাল (lawful) and you do not eat, when you are questioned you may say I came to the table of the king but I did not eat. Then you are safe because you did not eat. But if you eat and you are asked, then what are you going to say? Then you are not safe.’ At that time, Qutb ad-Din was so overcome by these words that he began to shake. He had to ask the King’s permission to stop eating. Then the King was very confused and asked, “What shall we do with all this food?” Shah Naqshband said, “If there is any doubt about the purity of the food it is better to send it to the poor. Their need will make it হালাল for them. If as you say, it is হালাল , then there is more blessing in giving it as charity to those who need than in feasting those who do not.”

He used to fast most of his days. If a guest came to him and he had something to offer him, he would sit with him, break his fast and eat. He told his followers that the Companions of the Prophet  used to do the same. Shaikh Abul Hasan al-Kharqani (q) said in his book, The Principles of the Way and the Principles of Reaching Reality, “Keep harmony with friends, but not in sinning. This means that if you were fasting and someone came to you as a friend, you must sit with him and eat with him in order to keep proper company with him. One of the principles of fasting, or of any worship, is to conceal what one is doing. If one reveals it, for example by saying to the guest, ‘I am fasting,’ then pride may enter and ruin the fast. This is the reason behind the principle.”

One day he was given a cooked fish as a gift. There were in his presence many poor people, among them a very pious boy who was fasting. Shah Naqshband gave the fish to the poor and told them, “Sit and eat,” and he told the boy who was fasting, “Sit and eat.” The boy refused. He told him again, “Break your fast and eat,” but he refused. He asked him, “What if I give you one of my days of Ramadan? Will you sit and eat?” Again he refused. He told him, “What if I give you my whole Ramadan?” Still he refused. He said, “Bayazid al-Bistami was once burdened with a person similar to you.” After that the boy was seen running after the worldly life, never fasting and never worshipping.

The incident to which Shah Naqshband (q) was referring occurred one day when Shaikh Abu Turab an-Naqshabi (q) visited Bayazid al-Bistami (q). His servant offered him food. Abu Turab said to the servant, “Come and sit with me and eat.” The servant said, “No. I am fasting.” He said, “Eat, and Allah will give you the reward of fasting for one year.” He refused. He said, “Come and eat, I will pray to Allah that he give you the reward of two years of fasting.” Then Hadrat Bayazid said, “Leave him. He has been dropped from Allah’s care.” Later his life degenerated and he became a thief.


His Miracles and Generosity

Shah Naqshband’s state is beyond description and the extent of his knowledge cannot be described. One of the greatest miracles was his very existence. He often hid his actions in order not to display miraculous power. Many of his miracles, however, were recorded.

Shah Naqshband, may Allah bless his soul, said:

One day I went out with Muhammad Zahid (q) to the desert. He was a truthful murid and we had a pickaxe with which we were digging. As we were working with the pick we were discussing such deep states of knowledge that we threw aside the pick and entered deeper into spiritual knowledge. We were going deeper and deeper until the conversation led us to the nature of Worship. He asked me, ‘O my shaikh, to what limit does worship reach?’ I said, ‘Worship reaches such perfection that the worshipper can say to someone ‘die,’ and that person will die.’ Without thinking I pointed at Muhammad Zahid. Immediately he fell down dead. He was in the state of death from sunrise until the midday. It was very hot. I was very anxious because his body was deteriorating from the excessive heat. I pulled him under the shade of a tree and I sat there contemplating the matter. As I was contemplating, an inspiration came to my heart from the Divine Presence telling me to say to him, ‘Ya Muhammad, Be Alive!’ I said it to him three times. In response, his soul slowly began to enter his body, and life slowly began to return to him. He gradually returned to his original state. I went to my shaikh and told him what had happened. He said, ‘O my son, Allah gave you a secret that he has given to no one else.

 

Shaikh Alauddin al-‘Attar (q) said:

One time the king of Transoxiana, Sultan Abdullah Kazgan, came to Bukhara. He decided to go hunting around Bukhara and many people accompanied him. Shah Baha’uddin Naqshband (q) was in a nearby village. When the people went out hunting, Shah Naqshband went to the top of a hill and sat there. While sitting there, it came to his heart that Allah gave much honor to saints. Because of that honor, all kings of this world should bow to them. That thought hadn’t yet passed from his heart before a horseman with a crown on his head, like a king, came into his presence and dismounted from his horse. With great humility he greeted Shah Naqshband and stood in his presence in the most polite manner. He bowed to the shaikh but the shaikh did not look at him. He kept him standing one hour. Finally, Shah Naqshband looked up and said, ‘What are you doing here?’ He said, ‘I am the king, Sultan Kazgan. I was out hunting, and I smelled a very beautiful smell. I followed it here and I found you sitting in the midst of a powerful light.’ His very thought, ‘All kings of this world should bow to the saints,’ had instantly become reality. That is how Allah honors the thoughts of his saints.

 

One of his followers who was serving him in the city of Merv reported:

One day I wished to go see my family in Bukhara, having received news that my brother Shamsuddin had died. I needed to take permission from my shaikh to go. I spoke with Amir Hussain, the Prince of Herat, to ask permission on my behalf to Shah Naqshband. On their way back from Jum’ah prayer, Amir Hussain told him about the death of my brother and that I wanted permission to go to my family. He said, ‘No it is impossible. How can you say he is dead when I can see him alive. More than that, I can even smell his smell. I am going to bring him here now.’ He had hardly finished his words before my brother appeared. He aproached the shaikh, kissed his hand and greeted Amir Hussain. I hugged my brother and there was great happiness among us.

Shaikh Shah Naqshband was once sitting in a large association in Bukhara speaking about the Unveiling of the State of Vision. He said, ‘My best friend, Mawla ‘Arif, who is in Khwarazm, (400 miles from Bukhara) has left Khwarazm for the government building, and he reached the station of the horse-carriages. When he reached that station he stayed there for a moment and now he is going back to his house in Khwarazm. He is not continuing on to Saray. This is how a saint can see in his station of gnosis.’ Everyone was surprised at this story but we all knew that he was a great saint, so we recorded the time and the day. One day Mawla ‘Arif came from Khwarazm to Bukhara and we told him about that incident. He was very surprised and he said, ‘In truth, that is exactly what happened.’

 

Shaikh Alauddin al-`Attar (q) said:

Some scholars from Bukhara traveled to ‘Iraq with some followers of Shah Naqshband (q) when they reached the city of Simnan. They heard that there was a blessed man named Sayyid Mahmoud, who was a murid of the shaikh. They went to visit his house and asked him, “How did you become connected with the shaikh?” He said, “One night I saw the Prophet সাল্লা in a dream, sitting in a very nice place, and beside him sat a man of majestic appearance. I said to the Prophet সাল্লা, with complete respect and humbleness, ‘Ya Rasulallah, I was not honored to be your companion in your lifetime. What can I do in my lifetime that will approximate that honor?’ He told me, ‘O my son, if you want to be honored by being our friend and to sit with us and be blessed, you have to follow my son, Shah Baha’uddin Naqshband.’ I then asked, ‘Who is Shah Bahaudin Naqshband?’ He said to me, ‘Do you see that person sitting next to me? This is the one. Keep company with him.’ I had never seen him before. When I awoke I wrote his name and his description in a book that I have in my library. Much time passed after that dream, until one day, while I was standing in a shop, I saw a man with a luminous and majestic appearance come into the shop and sit on a chair. When I saw him, I remembered the dream and what had happened in it. Immediately I asked him if he would honor me by coming to my house and staying with me. He accepted and began to walk in front of me while I followed. I was shy to walk in front of him, even to lead the way to my house. He did not look at me once, but took the path directly to my house. I was about to say, ‘This is my house,’ when he said, ‘This is your house.’ He walked inside and went straight to my special room. He said, ‘This is your room.’ He went into the closet and he took one book from among hundreds of books. He gave me the book and asked me, ‘What did you write in this?’ What I had written was what I had seen in the dream. Immediately a state of unconsciousness overtook me and I fainted from the light that poured into my heart. When I awoke I asked him if he would accept me. He was Shah Baha’uddan Naqshband.”

Muhammad Zahid said: 

In the beginning of my travelling on the Path I was sitting beside him one day, in the spring season. A craving for watermelon entered my heart. He looked at me and said, ‘Muhammad Zahid, go to that river near us and bring us what you see and we will eat it.’ Immediately I went to the river. The water was very cold. I reached into it and found a watermelon under the water, very fresh, as if it had just been cut from the vine. I was very happy and I took the watermelon and said, ‘O my shaikh accept me.

Shaikh Muhammad Zahid (q) was reported that one of his followers was going to visit him. Before the visit, he asked Shaikh Shadi, one of the senior murids, to advise him. “He said to me, ‘O my brother, when you go to visit the shaikh or when you are sitting in the presence of the shaikh, be careful not to place your legs so that your feet face him.’ As soon as I left Ghaziut on my way to Qasr al-’Arifan, I found a tree and lay down under it with my legs extended. Unfortunately an animal came and bit me on the leg. Later I fell back asleep in pain, and as I was sleeping again an animal bit me. Suddenly I realized that I had made a big mistake, I had extended my feet in the direction of the shaikh. I immediately repented and the animal biting me left.”

One time he was pushed to show miraculous power in order to defend one of his successors in Bukhara, Shaikh Muhammad Parsa. This occurred at the time when Shaikh Muhammad Shamsuddin al-Jazari came to Samarkand, in the time of King Mirza Aleg Beg, to determine the correctness of the chains of transmission in Narrations of the Prophetic Traditions. Some of the jealous and corrupt scholars had complained that Shaikh Muhammad Parsa was giving narrations of hadith whose chains of transmission were not known. They told Shamsuddin, “If you try to correct that problem, Allah will give you a great reward.” Shaikh Muhammad Shamsuddin asked the Sultan to order Shaikh Muhammad Parsa to appear. The Shaikh al-Islam of Bukhara, Husamuddin an-Nahawi, was there, along with many scholars and imams from the area.

Shah Naqshband (q) came with Muhammad Parsa (q) to the meeting. Then Shaikh Husamuddin asked Muhammad Parsa about a hadith. Muhammad Parsa narrated the hadith along with its chain of transmission. Shaikh Muhammad al-Jazari said, “There is no error in the hadith, but the chain is incorrect.” Upon hearing this the jealous scholars were happy. They asked Muhammad Parsa to give another chain for the hadith. He did, and it was again said that it was not correct. They asked for another chain, and he gave it and still they found fault with it.

Shah Naqshband interfered, because he knew that whatever chain he gave they would say it was incorrect. He inspired Muhammad Parsa to direct a question to Shaikh Husamuddin and say to him, “You are the Shaikh ul-Islam and the mufti. From what you have learned of external knowledge and শরীয়াহ and the knowledge of hadith, what do you say about such and such narrator?” Shaikh Husamuddin said, “We accept that person and we base much of our knowledge of hadith on his narrations, and his book is accepted by us, and his lineage is one that all scholars accept, and there is no argument on that matter.” Muhammad Parsa said, “The book of that person that you are accepting is in your house in your library, between such and such books. It contains 500 pages and its color is such and such, and the cover looks like such and such, and the hadith you rejected is written by that person on page such and such.”

Shaikh Husamuddin was confused and doubts came to his heart, because he did not remember seeing such a book in his library. Everyone was surprised that the shaikh would know about the book while the owner didn’t know about it. There was no alternative except to send someone to check. The hadith was found as Muhammad Parsa mentioned. When the king heard about this story, the scholars who brought the charges were humiliated, and Shah Naqshband and Muhammad Parsa were raised up.


His State Upon Leaving This World

Shaikh Ali Damman, one of the servants of the Shaikh, said,”The shaikh ordered me to dig his grave. When I finished it came to my heart, ‘Who is going to be his successor?’ He raised his head from the pillow and said to me, ‘O my son, don’t forget what I said to you when we were on our way to the Hijaz. Whoever wants to follow me must follow Shaikh Muhammad Parsa (q) and Shaikh Alauddin Attar (q).’

তার শেষ দিনগুলোতে তিনি তার ঘরেই থাকতেন। লোকেরা তাকে দেখতে তীর্থযাত্রা করেছিল এবং তিনি তাদের উপদেশ দিতেন। যখন তিনি তার চূড়ান্ত অসুস্থতায় প্রবেশ করেন তখন তিনি নিজেকে তার ঘরে বন্দী করে রাখেন। তার অনুসারীরা ঢেউয়ের পর ঢেউ তাকে দেখতে শুরু করে এবং তিনি তাদের প্রত্যেককে তাদের প্রয়োজনীয় পরামর্শ দেন। এক পর্যায়ে তিনি তাদেরকে সূরা ইয়া সিন পড়ার নির্দেশ দেন। অতঃপর যখন তারা সূরা শেষ করল, তখন তিনি আল্লাহর দিকে হাত উঠালেন। তিনি তখন ডান আঙুল উঁচিয়ে বলতেন শাহাদা. শেষ হওয়ার সাথে সাথে তার আত্মা আল্লাহর কাছে ফিরে গেল।

তিনি ৭৯১ হিজরি (১৩৮৮ খ্রিস্টাব্দের ৩রা রবিউল আউয়াল) সোমবার রাতে ইন্তেকাল করেন। তার অনুরোধ অনুযায়ী তাকে তার বাগানে দাফন করা হয়। বুখারার পরবর্তী রাজারা তার স্কুল ও মসজিদের যত্ন নেন, তাদের সম্প্রসারণ করেন এবং তাদের ধর্মীয় অনুদান বৃদ্ধি করেন। (আওকাফ).

আবদুল ওয়াহহাব আশ-শারানী, রহ কুতুব তাঁর সময়ের (আধ্যাত্মিক মেরু) বলেছেন, “শাইখকে যখন তাঁর কবরে দাফন করা হয়েছিল, তখন তাঁর জন্য জান্নাতের একটি জানালা খুলে দেওয়া হয়েছিল, যা তাঁর কবরকে স্বর্গ থেকে জান্নাতে পরিণত করেছিল। দুটি সুন্দর আধ্যাত্মিক সত্তা তাঁর উপস্থিতিতে প্রবেশ করে তাঁকে অভিবাদন জানিয়ে বললেন, 'আল্লাহ আমাদের সৃষ্টি করার সময় থেকে এখন পর্যন্ত আমরা আপনার সেবা করার জন্য এই মুহূর্তটির জন্য অপেক্ষা করেছি।' তিনি এই দুই আধ্যাত্মিক প্রাণীকে বললেন, 'আমি তাঁকে ছাড়া অন্য কিছুর দিকে তাকাই না। তোমাকে আমার দরকার নেই কিন্তু আমার প্রভুকে দরকার।'

শাহ নকশবন্দ (ক) অনেক উত্তরসূরি রেখে গেছেন, যাদের মধ্যে সবচেয়ে সম্মানিত ছিলেন শাইখ মুহাম্মাদ বিন মুহাম্মাদ আলাউদ্দিন আল-খোয়ারজমি আল-বুখারি আল-আত্তার এবং শায়খ মুহাম্মাদ বিন মুহাম্মদ বিন মাহমুদ আল-হাফিজি, যিনি মুহাম্মদ পারসা নামে পরিচিত, এর লেখক রিসালা কুদসিয়া. এটা প্রথম যে শাহ নকশবন্দ গোল্ডেন চেইন এর গোপন উপর পাস.