Dars e Imam-Seal Of Saints
“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem””Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)
Imam Abu Naeem (Radi Allahu ta’ala Anhu) , in his book
“Hilyaat-ul-Awliya”, narrates from Hadrat Saeed (Radi Allahu ta’ala Anhu) ,
that: “By Allah, Hameed Taweel, and myself were burying Hadrat Thabit Nibhaani
(Radi Allahu ta’ala Anhu) . As we were setting the final rocks, one rock
accidentally fell into the grave. As I peeped into the grave, I saw Hadrat
Thabit Nibhaani (Radi Allahu ta’ala Anhu) was about to perform salaah, and he
was imploring to Allah in the following manner: ‘O Allah! You have given certain of your creation the permission to
perform their salaah within the grave. Give me also this same permission.’It
was indeed beyond the mercy of Allah to refuse him.” Hadrat Thabit Nibhaani (Radi Allahu ta’ala Anhu) was a Taba’ee
(Ones that saw the Sahaaba after the demise of the Most Beloved Prophet ﷺ.
The words walî, plural awliyâ’ and walâya are all of Qur’anic origin with the
root wly meaning: to be close, to be a friend, to govern. It appears in the Qur’an al-Kareem in
different forms over 200 times. For those in the community (ummah) who
unwittingly deny the science of tasawwuf (spiritual excellence) or neglect the
believer’s inner jihâd (spiritual struggle) restrict the understanding of the
‘friends of Allah’ as being ‘pious worshippers’, which is what every believer
should be. But what are their qualities
and favours and what is their function in the ummah?
‘Seal of the Saints;
Prophethood and Sainthood in the doctrine of Hadrat Ibn`Arabi,’ (Radi Allahu
ta’ala anhu) – At first, Allah is the
Lord and Protector (walî) of man; man is the one being tested as he is
searching for meaning in life, for fulfillment and purpose. When the
believer understands and accepts that
truth, light and meaning derive from Allah and His Beloved Messenger ﷺ, he will
turn away from the distractions of the lower world (dunyâ), the
favours of other than God and will turn to Allah in everything he intends and
does, because:“He (Allah, may His
Majesty be exalted) is their Friend (walî) and they are His friends (awliyâ’).”
famous Hadith (qudsi) where Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta’ala) through
the mouth of His Beloved Messenger ﷺ states why they shall
have no fear nor sorrow:
“Allah said, ‘I will declare war against him who shows hostility to
a pious worshipper (walî) of Mine. And the
most beloved things with which My slave comes nearer to Me, is what I have
enjoined (frad) upon him; and My slave keeps on coming closer to Me
through performing nawâfil (praying or
doing extra deeds besides what is obligatory) till I love him, so I become his sense of hearing with which he
hears, and his sense of sight
with which he sees, and his hand
with which he grips, and his leg
with which he walks; and if he
asks Me, I will give him, and if he asks My protection (Refuge), I will protect
him; (i.e. give him My Refuge) and 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.” Narrated by Abu Huraira (Radi Allahu ta’ala anhu)
in Bukhari, vol8, Hadith 509
“It has been given to the awliyâ’ by Allah in advance to enjoy His dhikr and to have access to His
proximity. The life of their body is that of earthly beings and the life of
their spirit is that of heavenly beings.” Abu Sa`id al-Kharrâz in
Sulami’s Tabaqât
Abu Nu`aym quotes this saying:“The servants whom God loves best
are the pious and the hidden. When they are away no one misses them, and
when they are present they are ignored. They are the imâms of good guidance and
the torches of knowledge.” Suyuti, al-Fahr al-kabir, refers it to Abu
Nu`aym’s Hilyat-ul awliyâ’.
Al-Qushayri defined the walî as:“One
whose obedience attains permanence without interference of sin; whom Allah
Most High preserves and guards, in permanent fashion, from the failures of sin through the power of acts of
obedience.”
In Ibn `Abidin, Rasa’il (2:277)
Walâya does not involve spectacular
manifestations and no walî would strive for those either. Far from it – the awliyâ are concealed as described
in the words of Abû Yazîd al-Bistâmî (Radi Allahu ta’ala anhu) in a way that
the “saint of Allah has no feature by
which he is distinguised, nor any name by which he can be named.” As ‘Imâms of good guidance and the torches of
knowledge’ their function is very important. In this respect, Ibn`Arabi’s
(Radi Allahu ta’ala anhu)says that walâya
is ‘the shadow of the prophetic function,’ just as the prophetic function is
‘the shadow of the divine function.’
Ibn al-Jawzi said:“The Friends of Allah and the Righteous are the very
purpose of all that exists (al-awliya wa al-salihun hum al-maqsud min al-kawn),
they are those who learned and
practiced with the reality of knowledge… Those who practice what they
know, do with little in the world, seek
the next world, remain ready to leave from one to the other with wakeful
eyes and good provision, as opposed to those renowned purely for their
knowledge.”Ibn al-Jawzi’s, Sifat al-safwa (Beirut ed. 1989/1409) p. 13, 17.
Affiliation with the Awliya:
‘Umar ibn Sa‘eed Al-Futi said:Know that the Connection with the People of Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta’ala) and to be close
to them, is to be connected with Allah al-Kareem and standing in His
Presence. Because they are the Means to
the Mercy of Allah in this Life and in the Here-After. And from their
hands descend Blessings from the Merciful to all those who are deprived
(mahrumeen) and they are the Mediators
between us and Allah. And if it were not for them, nothing of this world
would exist. Allah said, “Oh you who
believe, if you help Allah, Allah will help you.” [47/7] And At-Tirmidhi
narrated from a Hadith Qudsi, “ If you
Honour my Awliya, I will Honour You.”
Niyyat =kaifiyat e qalb
Amaal/deeds =duniya knows that
Niyyat =Allah knows it.
When I want to talk to allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)
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