Bismillahi Rahmani raheem, assalamu alaikum.
I recently received an email in response to my letter “Interesting Job Offer” in which the person made some horrific accusations, the point is the lesson that came from all of this so I wont repeat the correspondence.
The person belonged to the group the email was aimed at and most likely he was one of their Jasus. I have been waiting for this event to occur for well over sixth months now, that is how long ago Allah informed me of when my enemies would show their faces more clearly. They picked a sap from among themselves told him some stories to manipulate him and directed him at me all because they wanted to see what will happen if they attacked one of Allah’s people, while avoiding any repercussions to them.
The prophet (saws) said “Every statement has its reality” so be careful what you say or speak out loud, for his words Allah will punish him the Mala’ikah will make him spiritually blind and the people who sent him will stay watching him until this occurs but they knew well before hand he would get hurt, then they will avoid me because of it…But they didn’t get away without consequences like they planned.
One accusation I will mention because it is worth going into, which is the point of this email, after saying some foul things he asked accusingly what Islamic university did you go to (so why do call your self shaykh).
I have addressed this in the past but people come and go so you have to repeat yourself, their are many kinds of Shuyukh in Islam.
A simple question, which Islamic university teaches tassawwuf, not which university has classes but which university this is its focus….The answer is none they are all universities focused on the madhhabs, Fiqh/Law, you have to join a tariqah and sit with its scholars to know actual tassawwuf through your own practice and expreinces.
I am not a Shaykh of Fiqh, I don’t answer fiqh questions or try to, I am a shaykh of Tassawwuf and I earned that the same way many of Islam’s Awliyah earned it, spiritually and by Allah teaching me and initiating me into the Naqshbandi silsila.
Here is the list of scholars in the Naqshbandi silsila (keep in mind this is probably Islam’s largest Tariqah);
- Prophet Muhammad ibn Abd Allah (Sallah Llahu Alayhi Wa sallam)
- Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, (radiya-l-Lahu`anhu)
- Salman al-Farsi, (radiya-l-Lahu`anhu)
- Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr (qaddasa-l-Lahu sirrah)
- Jafar as-Sadiq, (alayhi-s-salam)
- Tayfur Abu Yazid al-Bistami, (radiya-l-Lahu`anhu)
- Abul Hassan Ali al-Kharqani, (qaddasa-l-Lahu sirrah)
- Abu Ali al-Farmadi, (qaddasa-l-Lahu sirrah)
- Abu Yaqub Yusuf al-Hamadani, (qaddasa-l-Lahu sirrah)
- Abul Abbas, al-Khidr, (alayhi-s-salam)
- Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani, (qaddasa-l-Lahu sirrah)
This continues until we reach number 40 which are the shuykh in our time, notice number 10 in the silsila, this is al Khidr who Allah mentions in the Quran, between 9 and 11 there is a large gap of time and Al Khidr is the only link between them. This is because many of the scholars in this chain received their education spiritually, and it was al Khidr who initiated them into the Tariqa, not a university or a shaykh of their time.
So which Sufi universities did they go to? Or maybe you should say as long as you are a shaykh of Fiqh it is ok to call yourself a shaykh of Tassawuf.
This is part of our deen and our history, do people think that Allah sent the prophet (saws) 1400 years ago then sat down for 1400 years doing nothing and helping no one ?
This is Jahaliyah and Allah addresses it in the Quran;
“ittaqullah wa yu`allimukumullah” (“Be aware of Allah, and Allah Himself will teach you” 2:282)
“Those who strive hard in Us, We shall most surely guide them in our Ways” (29:69)
The prophet (saws) said; “man `amila bi ma `alima warrathahullahu `ilma ma lam ya`lam (“Whoso acts upon what he knows, Allah will make him inherit a knowledge that he did not have”
(Narrated from Anas by Abu Nu`aym, Hilyat al-awliya’ 10:15. Cited in the Commentaries of Suyuti, al-Durr al-manthur (1:372) and Qurtubi (13:364), also by al-Hafiz al-Zabidi in his Ithaf al-sada al-muttaqin 1:403. Shawkani included it in his collection of inauthentic hadiths (al-Fawa’id p. 289), however, al-Qari considers it authentic in his similar collection al-Asrar al-marfu`a p. 325.)
Our master Bayazid al-Bistami (Number 6 in the list above) cited this hadith in response to some “Salafi” types in his time who were asking him: “From where and from whom did you get this knowledge which you claim to have?”
Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani one of Islams major saints refers to the knowledge and power that result from it in Discourse 16 of Futuh al-ghayb:
“And fear Allah and He will teach you, then He will invest you with the power of controlling the universe with a clear permission which will have no obscurity in it… and He has done this with many of His Prophets and awliya and people especially favored from among the children of Adam”.
“One with whom was knowledge of the Scripture said: I will bring it thee (Her throne O Sulayman) before thy gaze returneth unto thee”… (27:40) This is Prophet Sulayman’s scribe Asif ibn Barkhya according to the Tafsir Ibn `Abbas and the majority of the scholars.
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَالَ مَنْ عَادَى لِي وَلِيًّا فَقَدْ آذَنْتُهُ بِالْحَرْبِ وَمَا تَقَرَّبَ إِلَيَّ عَبْدِي بِشَيْءٍ أَحَبَّ إِلَيَّ مِمَّا افْتَرَضْتُ عَلَيْهِ وَمَا يَزَالُ عَبْدِي يَتَقَرَّبُ إِلَيَّ بِالنَّوَافِلِ حَتَّى أُحِبَّهُ فَإِذَا أَحْبَبْتُهُ كُنْتُ سَمْعَهُ الَّذِي يَسْمَعُ بِهِ وَبَصَرَهُ الَّذِي يُبْصِرُ بِهِ وَيَدَهُ الَّتِي يَبْطِشُ بِهَا وَرِجْلَهُ الَّتِي يَمْشِي بِهَا وَإِنْ سَأَلَنِي لَأُعْطِيَنَّهُ وَلَئِنْ اسْتَعَاذَنِي لَأُعِيذَنَّهُ وَمَا تَرَدَّدْتُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ أَنَا فَاعِلُهُ تَرَدُّدِي عَنْ نَفْسِ الْمُؤْمِنِ يَكْرَهُ الْمَوْتَ وَأَنَا أَكْرَهُ مَسَاءَتَهُ
Allah Almighty said: Whoever shows hostility to a friend of mine, then I have declared war upon him. My servant does not grow closer to me with anything more beloved to me than the duties I have imposed upon him. My servant continues to draw near me with extra works until I love him. When I love him, I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hands with which he strikes, and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask something from me, I would surely give it to him. If he were to ask me for refuge, I would surely grant it to him. I do not hesitate to do anything as I hesitate to take the soul of the believer, for he hates death and I hate to disappoint him. (Sahih Bukhari 6137)
“To receive such knowledge is called a karama [gift] for the saint and a mu`jiza [act that disables opposition] for the Prophet. The process of receiving it is similarly differentiated: as wahy [revelation] for the latter and ilham [inspiration], ru’ya [vision], kashf [disclosure], firasa [piercing sight], mubashshira [glad tidings from Allah], mukashafa [disclosure], mushahada [mutual vision], or mukhataba [divine conversation] for the former. Shaykh `Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani said in Discourse 9 of his Futuh al-ghayb”:
When the Prophet finished his prayer, he turned to face the people and said: “O people! Listen to this, understand it, and know it. Allah has servants who are neither Prophets nor martyrs and whom the Prophets and martyrs yearn to be like, due to their seat and proximity in relation to Allah.”
One of the beduin Arabs who came from among the most isolated of people twisted his hand at the Prophet and said: “O Messenger of Allah! People from humankind who are neither Prophets nor martyrs and yet the Prophets and the martyrs yearn to be like them due to their seat and proximity in relation to Allah?! Describe them for us!”
The Prophet’s face showed delight at the Beduin’s question and he said:
“They are of the strangers from this and that place. They frequent this or that tribe without belonging to them. They do not have family connections among themselves. They love one another for Allah’s sake. They are of pure intent towards one another. On the Day of Resurrection Allah will place for them pedestals of light upon which He will make them sit, and He will turn their faces and clothes into light. On the Day of Resurrection, the people will be terrified but not those. They are Allah’s Friends upon whom fear comes not, nor do they grieve.” (Musnad Ahmad)
The Prophet (saws) said: “In the nations before you were people who were spoken to (muhaddathun, by the Angels) though they were not prophets. If there is anyone in my Community (today), it is `Umar ibn Khattab”.
This is so common in Islam that scholars have given this a technical name, these people are called Uwaysi, after the contemporary of the prophet Uways al Qarni (ra) who Allah taught everything about the prophet (saws) in Yemen because he couldn’t visit him (saws).
Allah taught this Ummah about all of this through him (ra), that Allah would be teaching people Himself who could not find pure teachers.
In our time every Islamic university on earth is a fitnah, most scholars warn about them publicly, so don’t be surprised when you find Allah is Himself teaching His people.
The prophet (saws) gave us the most famous example of all of this in Islam’s 1400 year history and every single Muslim on earth knows it, but they don’t know how to understand it;
Ali Ibn Abi Talib (ra), narrated that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, “The Mahdi is from us, the people of the (Prophet’s) Household. Allah will rectify him in one night (this more accurately reads “Allah shall fit him (with spiritual authority) in one night”).” (Ahmad).
Meaning Allah will elevate him spiritually in one night and bestow upon Him (ra) his silsila, his spiritual authority like many of the Awliyah before him who received it in one night, Imam Mahdi (as) like many of the Awliyah will be Uwaysi, a person who is taught by spiritual means.
One famous recent example is Abd al-Azīz al-Dabbāgh of fez (1090–1132/1679–1719) . “Al-Dabbāgh shied away from official religious studies but, having reached illumination and met with the Prophet Muḥammad, he was able to explain any obscurities in the Qurʾān, ḥadīths and sayings of earlier Sufis.”
This has happened to me and countless other Shuyukh in Islam’s history, exactly like it will happen to Imam Mahdi (ra), Allah raised me and them in a single night through the prophet Muhammad (saws), here is my account of it;
https://ghayb.com/2017/11/journey-t…
Shaykh Rami Al Rifai.