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#46 [Permalink] Posted on 24th March 2010 19:49

Aameen.........hope its encouraged you and sister in islam (and other readers)toward the path of sulook. May Allah ta'ala accept all our efforts

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#47 [Permalink] Posted on 25th March 2010 09:08

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If i have its only through the fadl of Allah subhaanahu wata'ala .....and the barakah of my Murshid, Shaykh Muhammad Saleem Dhorat (hafizahullah)!

salam sister...now please dont get me wrong,i am just curious in asking you,you said and the barakah of my murshid.

Now i was wondering no one apart from you told me to find a shayak,i have been told to if you want to know detailed hadiths find a alima in that field or regarding Quran find some one in that field so you can understand better understanding of quran and hadith,and the way of sunnah.....now i dont know if its the whispers of the satan that's making me doubt a shayak,saying cant reply or depend on a shayak,its bida,that's the thoughts that are creeping in my mind..maybe you can help me on that.

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#48 [Permalink] Posted on 25th March 2010 11:48

ummi taalib..yes inshallah but i cant just do bai'ah with any sheikh thats there..sister-in-islam i think ummi taalib means the barakah Allah has bestowed on the sheikh which his mureeds are also benefiting from.

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#49 [Permalink] Posted on 25th March 2010 11:57

Wa 'alaykumus salaam WW sister in islam.
Actually not quite sure what you are asking....

Are you asking about what i said...."and the Barakah of my murshid"?
In which case would it be wrong to associate special blessings to the close friends of Allah?

OR

Are you asking about the thoughts which have occured to you and which you term "whispers"?
In which case Shaytaan is ever ready to stop people from trying to better themselves and he should be ignored.

As for your comment, "no one apart from you told me to find a shayak"......
well, there are four known authentic silsilas with chains of shuyookh (plural of shaykh) going up to the the Sahaba and all the famous, big name people of the past we read about are connected to them (Muhammad Zakariyya, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Ibraaheem Adham, Fuzail bin Ayaz, Junayn Baghdadi, Hasan Basri...only to name a few). As for the present, thousands of people like me are connected to these chains through people like my Shaykh and others like Shaykh Zulfiqar, Mufti Taqi Uthmani, Shaykh Riyadhul Haqq etc.
So there must be something in it???

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#50 [Permalink] Posted on 25th March 2010 21:09

I would like to recommend a brilliant book which explains firstly, the need for Tasawwuf and Tasawwuf in the Qur'an and Hadith. Thereafter there are chapters on the Bay'ah itself i.e. the need for a Shaykh and the blamewrothy/praisworthy charachter traits and much more......

"The Path to Perfection" an anthology of the spiritual teachings of Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanwi....by Shaykh Masihullah Khan (White Thread Press)

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#51 [Permalink] Posted on 29th March 2010 21:33

Scholars on Sufism (Tasawwuf)

The following quotations of the scholars of Shariah regarding the precedence of the knowledge and science of Tasawwuf (Purification of the Self).

Imam Abu Hanifa (85 H. - 150 H)"If it were not for two years, I would have perished." He said, "for two years I accompanied Sayyidina Ja'far as-Sadiq and I acquired the spiritual knowledge that made me a gnostic in the Way."[Ad-Durr al-Mukhtar, vol 1. p. 43]

Imam Malik (95 H. - 179 H.)"whoever studies Jurisprudence [tafaqaha] and didn't study Sufism [tasawwaf] will be corrupted; and whoever studied Sufism and didn't study Jurisprudence will become a heretic; and whoever combined both will reach the Truth."['Ali al-Adawi , vol. 2, p 195.]

Imam Shafi'i (150 - 205 AH.)"I accompanied the Sufi people and I received from them three knowledges: ...how to speak; how to treat people with leniency and a soft heart... and they... guided me in the ways of Sufism."[Kashf al-Khafa, 'Ajluni, vol. 1, p 341.]

Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (164 - 241 AH.)"O my son, you have to sit with the People of Sufism, because they are like a fountain of knowledge and they keep the Remembrance of Allah in their hearts. they are the ascetics and they have the most spiritual power."[Tanwir al-Qulub p. 405]

Imam Ghazzali (450 - 505 AH.)"I knew verily that Sufis are the seekers in Allah's Way, and their conduct is the best conduct, and their way is the best way, and their manners are the most sanctified. They have cleaned their hearts from other than Allah and they have made them as pathways for rivers to run receiving knowledge of the Divine Presence."[al-Munqidh, p. 131].

Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi (544 - 606 AH)"The way of Sufis for seeking Knowledge, is to disconnect themselves from this worldly life, and they keep themselves constantly busy with Dhikrullah, in all their actions and behaviors."['Itiqadaat Furaq al-Muslimeen, p. 72, 73]

Imam Nawawi (620 - 676 AH.)"The specifications of the Way of the Sufis are ... to keep the Presence of Allah in your heart in public and in private; to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) ... to be happy with what Allah gave you..."[in his Letters, (Maqasid at-tawhid), p. 20]

Ibn Taymiyya (661 - 728 AH)"Tasawwuf has realities and states of experience which they talk about in their science. Some of it is that the Sufi is that one who purifies himself from anything which distracts him from the remembrance of Allah and who will be so filled up with knowledge of the heart and knowledge of the mind to the point that the value of gold and stones will be the same to him. And Tasawwuf is safeguarding the precious meanings and leaving behind the call to fame and vanity in order to reach the state of Truthfulness, because the best of humans after the prophets are the Siddiqeen, as Allah mentioned them in the verse:"(And all who obey Allah and the Apostle) are in the company of those on whom is the grace of Allah: of the prophets, the sincere lovers of truth, the martyrs and the righteous; Ah! what a beautiful fellowship." (an-Nisa', 69,70)

"...some people criticised Sufiyya and Tasawwuf and they said they were innovators, out of the Sunnah, but the truth is they are striving in Allah's obedience [mujtahidin fi ta'at-illahi], as others of Allah's People strove in Allah's obedience. So from them you will find the Foremost in Nearness by virtue of his striving [as-saabiq ul-muqarrab bi hasab ijtihadihi]. And some of them are from the People of the Right hand [Ahl al-Yameen mentioned in Qur'an in Sura Waqi'ah], but slower in their progress.... And this is the origin of Tasawwuf. And after that origin, it has been spread and [tasha'abat wa tanawa'at] has its main line and its branches.[Majmu'a Fatawa Ibn Taymiyya al-Kubra, Vol. 11, Book of Tasawwuf, p. 497].

"The miracles of saints are absolutely true and correct, by the acceptance of all Muslim scholars. And the Qur'an has pointed to it in different places, and the Hadith of the Prophet (s) has mentioned it, and whoever denies the miraculous power of saints are only people who are innovators and their followers." [al-Mukhtasar al-Fatawa, page 603]. Ibn Taymiyya says, "what is considered as a miracle for a saint is that sometimes the saint might hear something that others do not hear and they might see something that others do not see, while not in a sleeping state, but in a wakened state of vision. And he can know something that others cannot know, through revelation or inspiration."[Majmu'a Fatawi Ibn Taymiyya, Vol. 11, p. 314].

Ibn Khaldun (733 - 808 AH.)"The way of the Sufis is the way of the Salaf, the preceding Scholars between the Sahaba and Tabi'een of those who followed good guidance..."[Muqaddimat ibn al-Khaldun, p. 328]

Tajuddin as-Subki (727 - 771 AH.)"May Allah praise them [the Sufis] and greet them and may Allah cause us to be with them in Paradise. Too many things havebeen said about them and too many ignorant people have said things which are not related to them. And the truth is that those people left the world and were busy with worship. ...They are the People of Allah, whose supplications and prayer Allah accepts and by means of whom Allah supports human beings"[Mu'eed an-Na'am p. 190, the chapter entitled Tasawwuf]

Jalaluddin as-Suyuti (849 - 911 AH.)"At-Tasawwuf in itself is the best and most honorable knowledge. It explains how to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) and to put aside innovation."[Ta'yid al-Haqiqat al-'Aliyya,p 57]

Ibn Qayyim (691 - 751 AH.)"We can witness the greatness of the People of Sufism, in the eyes of the earliest generations of Muslims by what has been mentioned by Sufyan ath-Thawri (d. 161 AH), one of the greatest imams of the second century and one of the foremost legal scholars. He said, "If it had not been for Abu Hisham as-Sufi (d. 115) I would never have perceived the action of the subtlest forms of hypocrisy in the self... Among the best of people is the Sufi learned in jurisprudence."[Manazil as-Sa'ireen.]

Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab (1115 - 1201 AH.)"My father Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab and I do not deny or criticize the science of Sufism, but on the contrary we support it, because it purifies the external and the internal of the hidden sins, which are related to the heart and to the outward form. Even though the individual might externally be on the right way, internally he might be on the wrong way. Sufism is necessary to correct it."[ad-Dia'at mukathaffa did ash-shaykh ibn Abdul Wahhab, p. 85]

Ibn 'Abidin (1198 - 1252 AH.)"The Seekers in this Sufi Way don't hear except from the Divine Presence and they don't love any but Him. If they remember Him they cry, and if they thank Him they are happy; ... May Allah bless them."[Risa'il Ibn 'Abidin p. 172 & 173]

Muhammad 'Abduh (1265 - 1323 AH.)"Tasawwuf appeared in the first century of Islam and it received a tremendous honor. It purified the self and straightened the conduct and gave knowledge to people from the Wisdom and Secrets of the Divine Presence."[Majallat al-Muslim, 6th ed. 1378 H, p. 24].

Maulana Abul Hasan 'Ali an-Nadawi (1331 AH b.)"These Sufis were initiating people on Oneness and sincerity in following the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) and to repent from their sins and to be away from every disobedience of Allah 'Azza wa Jall. Their guides were encouraging them to move in the way of perfect Love to Allah 'Azza wa Jall.

"...In Calcutta India, everyday more than 1000 people were taking initiation into Sufism. "...by the influence of these Sufi people, thousands and thousands and hundreds of thousands in India found their Lord and reached a state of Perfection through the Islamic religion."[Muslims in India, p. 140-146]

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#52 [Permalink] Posted on 30th March 2010 09:37

Masha Allah! all the proof we need to accept Tasawwuf as part of a Deen

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#53 [Permalink] Posted on 30th March 2010 12:10

coming back to reading a good book,i also love and read
An exposition of the hearts,by imam Muhammad Ghazzali.
A great book and excellent lessons for all.

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#54 [Permalink] Posted on 27th April 2010 08:52

Post appeared today on www.shaykh.org (words of Shaykh Muhammad Saleem Dhorat). In few words he has described the need for a Shaykh....

Tazkiyah is Performed by Allah Ta'ala Tuesday, April 27, 2010

by Dr Muhammad Ibn Saeed

"Tazkiyah is performed by Allah ta'ala. If you come with sincerity then Allah ta'ala will make the Shaykh the means by making him say or do something that will provide the spiritual cure you are looking for."

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#55 [Permalink] Posted on 27th April 2010 12:43

sister-in-islam wrote:

To be very honest sis ummi,in Birmingham the majority are baralvi,so finding a sheikh is hard,besides i dont even know any sheikh apart from barelvi sheikh.maybe there are few Alh hadith sheikh,but thats about it,you get few circles but that's only women.and as for your shaikh,well his bit far off,i dont travel much

Shaykh (Maulana) Bahauddin Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi is in Aston, He is a deoandi.

Evidence of Tassawuff in the Qur'aan:

فَأَلۡهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقۡوَٮٰهَا (٨) قَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ مَن زَكَّٮٰهَا (٩) وَقَدۡ خَابَ مَن دَسَّٮٰهَا

[[91:8] then inspired it with its (instincts of) evil and piety,
[91:9] success is really attained by him who purifies it,
[91:10] and failure is really suffered by him who polLutes it.

Evidence of Tassawuff in the Hadeeth:

ثم ‏ ‏قال حدثني ‏ ‏أبي ‏ ‏عمر بن الخطاب ‏ ‏قال ‏ ‏بينما نحن عند رسول الله ‏ ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ ‏ذات يوم إذ طلع علينا رجل شديد بياض الثياب شديد سواد الشعر لا يرى عليه أثر السفر ولا يعرفه منا أحد حتى جلس إلى النبي ‏ ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ ‏فأسند ركبتيه إلى ركبتيه ووضع كفيه على فخذيه وقال يا ‏ ‏محمد ‏ ‏أخبرني عن الإسلام فقال رسول الله ‏ ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ ‏الإسلام أن تشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأن ‏ ‏محمدا رسول الله ‏ ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ ‏وتقيم الصلاة وتؤتي الزكاة وتصوم رمضان وتحج ‏ ‏البيت ‏ ‏إن استطعت إليه سبيلا قال صدقت قال فعجبنا له يسأله ويصدقه قال فأخبرني عن الإيمان قال أن تؤمن بالله وملائكته وكتبه ورسله واليوم الآخر وتؤمن بالقدر خيره وشره قال صدقت قال فأخبرني عن الإحسان قال أن تعبد الله كأنك تراه فإن لم تكن تراه فإنه يراك قال فأخبرني عن الساعة قال ما المسئول عنها بأعلم من السائل قال فأخبرني عن ‏ ‏أمارتها ‏ ‏قال أن تلد الأمة ‏ ‏ربتها ‏ ‏وأن ‏ ‏ترى الحفاة العراة ‏ ‏العالة ‏ ‏رعاء الشاء ‏ ‏يتطاولون ‏ ‏في البنيان قال ثم انطلق فلبثت ‏ ‏مليا ‏ ‏ثم قال لي يا ‏ ‏عمر ‏ ‏أتدري من السائل قلت الله ورسوله أعلم قال فإنه ‏ ‏جبريل ‏ ‏أتاكم يعلمكم دينكم ‏

He further said: My father, Umar ibn al-Khattab, told me: One day we were sitting in the company of Allah's Apostle (peace be upon him) when there appeared before us a man dressed in pure white clothes, his hair extraordinarily black. There were no signs of travel on him. None amongst us recognized him. At last he sat with the Apostle (peace be upon him) He knelt before him placed his palms on his thighs and said: Muhammad, inform me about al-Islam. The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Al-Islam implies that you testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and you establish prayer, pay Zakat, observe the fast of Ramadan, and perform pilgrimage to the (House) if you are solvent enough (to bear the expense of) the journey. He (the inquirer) said: You have told the truth. He (Umar ibn al-Khattab) said: It amazed us that he would put the question and then he would himself verify the truth. He (the inquirer) said: Inform me about Iman (faith). He (the Holy Prophet) replied: That you affirm your faith in Allah, in His angels, in His Books, in His Apostles, in the Day of Judgment, and you affirm your faith in the Divine Decree about good and evil. He (the inquirer) said: You have told the truth. He (the inquirer) again said: Inform me about al-Ihsan (performance of good deeds). He (the Holy Prophet) said: That you worship Allah as if you are seeing Him, for though you don't see Him, He, verily, sees you. He (the enquirer) again said: Inform me about the hour (of the Doom). He (the Holy Prophet) remarked: One who is asked knows no more than the one who is inquiring (about it). He (the inquirer) said: Tell me some of its indications. He (the Holy Prophet) said: That the slave-girl will give birth to her mistress and master, that you will find barefooted, destitute goat-herds vying with one another in the construction of magnificent buildings. He (the narrator, Umar ibn al-Khattab) said: Then he (the inquirer) went on his way but I stayed with him (the Holy Prophet) for a long while. He then, said to me: Umar, do you know who this inquirer was? I replied: Allah and His Apostle knows best. He (the Holy Prophet) remarked: He was Gabriel (the angel). He came to you in order to instruct you in matters of religion. [Muslim]

Evidence of Tassawuff amongst Salaf:

Read The Sunnah Way of the Sufis (Risala al-Mustarshidin) written by Imam al-Muhasibi (165-243 AH) so he (RA) was the Salaf!

Here is the original Arabic book:

ibnayyub.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/risala-al-muhasibi.pdf

This is a brilliant book for new people.

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#56 [Permalink] Posted on 27th April 2010 14:03

The word sufi scares me,the only Sufi's i know are baralvi,so i think anyone who is a Sufi he is brelvi.

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#57 [Permalink] Posted on 27th April 2010 14:56

sister-in-islam wrote:

The word sufi scares me,the only Sufi's i know are baralvi,so i think anyone who is a Sufi he is brelvi.

How about the word Musalli because Barelwees also pray Salah? :-) How about the word Haji because Barelwees also do Hajj?

Just kidding.

The word "Sufi" is not present in the Qur'aan and the Sunnah and the words used are "Ihsaan" see the Hadeeth posted earlier it is also present in the Qur'aan

And the other word used is Tazkiyah which is used over and over in the Qur'aan:

رَبَّنَا وَٱبۡعَثۡ فِيهِمۡ رَسُولاً۬ مِّنۡہُمۡ يَتۡلُواْ عَلَيۡہِمۡ ءَايَـٰتِكَ وَيُعَلِّمُهُمُ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبَ وَٱلۡحِكۡمَةَ وَيُزَكِّيہِمۡ‌ۚ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلۡحَكِيمُ

[2:129] And, our Lord, raise in their midst a Messenger from among them, who should recite to them Your verses, and teach them the Book and the wisdom, and cleanse them of all impurities. Indeed You, and You alone, are the All-Mighty, the All-Wise...

The entire Muslim Ummah (including Salafees) accept Ihsan/Tazkiyah/Tassawuff. The dispute is about Tareeqas i.e. Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi, Chishti, Qadri etc.

Tareeqa is basicaly a set method of acheiving purification of the soul with underpinnings in the Qur'aan and Sunnah and learnt from experience.

Tassawuff = Qur'aan/Sunnah

Anything outside of Qur'aan/Sunnah isn't Tassawuff its misguidence and heresy.

P.S: We are working on the word "Tassawuff" and how it came about so be patient with us.

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#58 [Permalink] Posted on 28th April 2010 23:13

sister-in-islam wrote:

The word sufi scares me,the only Sufi's i know are baralvi,so i think anyone who is a Sufi he is brelvi.

Here is Tasawuff and its evidence from the Qur'aan and Sunnah

http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?54725-Tell-me-more-about-tawwasuf&p=449438&viewfull=1#post449438

Please check and let us know what you think.

Jazakullah Khairun

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#59 [Permalink] Posted on 23rd June 2014 19:04

Assalaamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu:

I do not have a shaykh (not bayah) in tasawwuf though I am searching. One thing that has put me off is communication. On the one hand, it is really difficult to figure out who to communicate through (for people like me who do not have a mahram or a willing mahram to sign off on communications and want to be extra careful - I want to be sure I am communicating through a wife or sister, not through some other man nor directly with the shaykh). On the other hand, I can not tell if my communications actually make it to the shaykh or not - replies seem quite generic. Also, in one instance I was given certain things to do but I have not been able to do them consistently... no communications have followed nor do I feel comfortable writing again since I have failed in consistency with what was given. Am I wrong in thinking that the shaykh will listen to (or read communications from) the individual and reply accordingly - no matter how 'fresh' the person is, regardless of whether they can or can't follow a lesson?

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