Category: Wonders

Date: Beginning of 2013 Location: Shadab Nagar – Bangalore – Karnataka I was waiting before the dawn prayer for a phone call from Medina when I dozed off. I saw in my dream a man from Medina present to me an extremely beautiful frame made of gold. It contained a board made of thin wood and covered by a green cloth. The following text was written on two lines and on part of a third line on the cloth: From Muḥammad the Messenger of Allah to my son, my beloved, and my spirit, Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Karīm ʿAbd al-Qādir. There were…

Date: 10/10/2012 Location: Saraipalya – Bangalore – Karnataka A car broke down in front of the door to the fenced land of the takya. Three men got out and started looking at the flag of the takya while I was looking at them. I later learned that one of them was a businessman, the second an engineer, and the third a professor of Sufism whose name was Ḥaidar ʿAlī. They came in and asked about the place, so I explained that it was a takya of Ṭarīqa ʿAliyya Qādiriyya Kasnazāniyya, whose Master is Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan al-Ḥusseinī (May Allah sanctify…

Date: 27/5/2015 Location: Jaipur A mufti to whom I had given the pledge invited me to a school called “Ḥanafiyya Madrasa,” which taught the memorization of the Qur’an. He asked me not to speak about the Ṭarīqa because of the mentality of the people at the school. After I met the students, one of them asked me from a paper of questions that he was holding: How can you say that the Prophet (ṣallā Allah ʿalaihi wa sallam) is a light when Allah says in the Qur’an: “Say: ‘I am only a human like you’” (18.110)? I criticized his understanding…

Date: 20/5/2015 Location: Salempur – Delhi A group of twelve men gathered at my house. The group consisted of three scholars, two muezzins, and seven trustees. They had some questions, and they started with standard sceptical ones. One of them then asked about celebrating the birthday of the Prophet (ṣallā Allah ʿalaihi wa sallam), arguing that it is prohibited. Ḥaḍrat Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan put in my heart something that made me and the others laugh. I asked that person: “Do I know you?” He replied in the negative. I asked him: “How many children do you have?” He replied: “I…

Date: 2014 Location: Kanaka Nagar – Bangalore – Karnataka When one day I came back from a preaching journey, I found three young families waiting for me. I greeted them and entered the house. They followed me to salute me by kissing my hand, but I apologized as I was exhausted. At times I leave at dawn, and, at times I walk for two or three days in each preaching journey. I sat on my chair while they sat in a semi-circle. I had bowed my head, in contemplation of my Shaikh, when I felt the presence of a table…

Date: 27/11/2013 Location: Raichur – Karnataka After preaching to a gathering, a person called Kalīmullah Khan came to me with a disabled person. I felt uncomfortable as soon as I saw him, so I started asking for madad from ḥaḍrat Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan. He asked in Arabic about my name, so I answered: “ʿImād ad-Ddīn, a caliph of Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan.” He then showed me his ID. He was a retired sergeant who currently ran a large property agency in Raichur, but was originally from Chennai. He also said that he was a member of a national committee. He said:…

Date: 14/10/2012 Location: Bangarapet – Kolar – Karnataka I went to a village seventy kilometres from Bangalore and then to another village where I gave the pledge to forty-five people. Among them there was a man who recounted the following: I have seen our Master al-Gaylānī in my dreams three times. Every time he would say: “Join my family,” I would reply: “How do I do that, O my Master, the Greatest Ghawth?” He would reply: “Give me your hand.”[1] I would then wake up. When you said today: “Give me your hand” and then I started reciting the pledge,…

Date: 11/9/2013 Location: Kausar Nagar – Bangalore – Karnataka Caliph Rafīq Ahmad, who is one of the active dervishes, contacted me to say that he was bringing two Muslim men who wanted to take the pledge. I waited for them in the house of caliph ʿAbd al-Bashīr, where I live on the upper floor. Suddenly, while I was sitting, ḥaḍrat Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan let me see that one of the two men was filthy. I stood up and said loudly: “Rafīq Ahmad, this man is filthy, so why do you bring him to me? Take him away from me.” I…

Date: 2/1/2013 Location: Tamil Nadu I went to an area that was largely Muslim, but its people had a poor understanding and practice of Islam. I gathered people in the house of one of the dervishes. Twelve veiled women came to see me. I felt uncomfortable so I asked for madad from the Shaikh. After the sermon, I said to them: “My sisters, which one of you is the most truthful?” There was no reply. I said: “If I mentioned to you a fact would you believe it?” They replied in the affirmative. I said: “Without a sense of embarrassment?”…

Date: 8/12/2012 Location: Tamil Nadu I decided to go to preach in a certain village, but before going there, my chest was so strained that I could hardly breathe, although I had not stopped performing the dhikrs and invocations of madad that the Shaikh had instructed me to. I even considered postponing the trip to the village. I and all twenty-two men with me were in the middle of a spiritual exercise. I said to the person who prepares the food for our visit that I would only have bread and cucumber because I was coming to preach, not to…

Date: 17/10/2012 Location: Kausar Nagar – Bangalore – Karnataka I went out on a preaching journey in which I gave the pledge to fifteen people. After returning home, I found a man of around eighty years old waiting for me. He had a very long beard and carried a staff. I greeted him and went into my house, but he followed me. He said in Urdu: “I am a Shaikh from Ṭarīqa Qādiriyya Chishtiyya, and I am a caliph of Ṭarīqa Suhrwardiyya. I have come to you because I have heard you have things we do not have. One of…

Date: 1/12/2013 Location: Sudhapur – Bangalore – Karnataka I gave the pledge to fifty-one people, including some whose Shaikh had died. When I asked one of them if he wanted to take the pledge, this is what he said: By Allah, for a year now I have been asking everyday Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Gaylānī that I take a Qādirī[1] pledge from a Ghawth or a deputy of a Ghawth. I used to think that my previous Shaikh was one of the Poles (Quṭbs).[2] I have seen blessings from him, even if little, but they are nevertheless blessings as he was…

Date: 25/10/2012 Location: Saraipalya – Bangalore – Karnataka I was visited by a poor Muslim man who sells coconut water. After exchanging greetings, he asked me: “Why are you sitting here?” I replied: “This is my house, so it is me who should ask you about what has brought you here!” He smiled and said: “You are wise.” I returned the compliment: “It is rather you who are generous.” The man then brought four or five coconuts from his trolley, prepared them for drinking, and gave me one and the others to dervishes that were with me. I then invited…

Date: 12/10/2012 Location: Saraipalya – Bangalore – Karnataka I went to the land of the takya in the company of two people, a driver and a dervish who helped me with my needs. I sat looking at the place and thinking: “O Shaikh Muḥammad! I am sad today, and I do not know why. Deep sorrow has set in on my heart. Every day I hear news that hurts my heart. Now I am on your land, in your takya, so do you accept that I am alone?” I was thinking of what I was going to tell the Shaikh…

Date: 23/11/2014 Location: Saraipalya – Bangalore – Karnataka A dervish who had taken the pledge of Ṭarīqa Kasnazāniyya several years before my arrival in India came to the takya. He recounted the following karāma which occurred to him in either 2005 or 2006: I had a stroke about sixteen or seventeen years ago. At the time, an English doctor treated me, and I achieved eighty per cent recovery. I was left with partial paralysis of the face, as my mouth remained permanently twisted toward the right side. This prevented me from speaking properly. For example, I could not pronounce the…

Date: 2014 Location: Bangalore – Karnataka I was visited by a girl who had previously had chikungunya.[1] Symptoms of this disease include high fever, joint pain, and rash. The doctor had told her that all the symptoms would go away when she recovered. But while the fever and joint pain had disappeared, the rash was still there after three months. One of the dervishes of the Ṭarīqa, whose name is Fairūz, advised the girl to see me about her illness. When I saw her, I introduced myself as a caliph of ḥaḍrat Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan. I also told her that…

Date: 2014 Location: Sulaymaniyah – Iraq / Kausar Nagar – Bangalore – Karnataka I was in Sulaymaniyah to have a hernia operation when dervishes from Kausar Nagar in the city of Bangalore in India rang me. The distance between Sulaymaniyah and Bangalore is over four thousand kilometres. They told me about a boy who had dengue fever, who was in the Apollo hospital, and asked me to pray for him using the dhikr that the Shaikh had granted me permission to read. I asked them to prepare a glass of water and put the mobile phone on top of the…

Date: 28/9/2013 Location: Tumkur – Karnataka A man came to me and said: “I will not leave this door until you promise me that I will be cured of my disease.” One of his kidneys had failed and both of his legs down to the feet were swollen. I found myself in a state I could not understand, but I cried a lot and begged ḥaḍrat Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan. I said to the man: “You will be cured, Allah willing, by the blessing of the Shaikh.” The man had been told by the doctors not to drink more than one…

Date: 8/9/2013 Location: Kausar Nagar – Bangalore – Karnataka A few days ago, someone suffering from jaw cancer came to me. I gave him the pledge and sand from the shrine of ḥaḍrat Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Shah al-Kasnazān. I asked him to mix the sand with water and use it as a gargle and come back after a week. Ḥaḍrat Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazan had told me that the blessing of this sand makes it suitable to treat any illness. I did not have the opportunity to see the patient again, as he lives elsewhere, but I heard that he recovered.…

Date: 31/12/2012 Location: Saraipalya – Bangalore – Karnataka A Hindu man came to see me. His injured left hand was causing him a lot of pain. He said: “I will donate this money with my left hand, and if it heals then I will donate more and take the pledge.” I gave him the pledge and he made a two thousand rupees donation to the takya with his injured hand. As soon as he moved his hand back after handing the money to me, it fully recovered. He then donated another three thousand rupees with his right hand and embraced…