Category: Shaikhs

Sayings of Shaikh Muhammad al-Muhammad al-Kasnazan

Sayings of Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad al-Kasnazan Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad al-Kasnazān has delivered thousands of lectures to countless people. These are a few quotations: The Prophet (PBUH) is light from Allah. He is the door to Allah. He is the city of the divine knowledge, and the door to the city is Imam ʿAlī. Ṭarīqa is the way of the Prophet (PBUH). It is the bayʿa (pledge) and covenant that connects us to it. The Shaikhs have Ṭarīqa so that you can overcome the existing veils. There are seventy veils, one after another, which surround you. You have to penetrate those veils to reach out to Allah, but…

Karamas of Shaikh Muhammad al-Muhammad al-Kasnazan

Karāmas of Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad al-Kasnazan Like his predecessors, the spiritual blessings of Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad al‑Kasnazān has manifested itself in numerous karāmas. These include curing medically incurable diseases, such as cancer, and intervening spiritually to rescue people from dangerous and life‑threatening situations. These are a few of these wonders: The Shaikhs of Tarīqa Kasnazāniyya have also given permission to their dervishes to perform dangerous feats under the spiritual protection of the Shaikhs. These feats include the insertion of sharp objects, such as skewers, spikes and spits, into various parts of the body. The dervish does not suffer pain, bleeding…

Sayings of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karim al-Kasnazan

Sayings of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kasnazan These are some of the words of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kasnazan: This world has a smooth feel, sharp teeth, and poisonous tongue. Our capital in it is worship as stated in this verse: وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ “I have not created the jinn and the human beings but to worship Me” (51.56). The impact of the vocal dhikr on the heart is like the hammer’s on the bent iron, whereas the impact of the silent dhikr is like that of a light piece of wood on the iron. On the necessity of fulfilling one’s duties in…

Karamas of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karim al-Kasnazan

Karāmas of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Kasnazan Like his predecessors whose nearness to Allah made them sources of blessings wherever they went, Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm performed numerous karāmas including the following: One day Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm was coming out of his room when he saw a wealthy feudal landlord carried by his family to the takya. The family of the sick man told the Shaikh that their patient was diagnosed with terminal cancer and the doctors had given up on him. The Shaikh immediately said that the patient had no cancer and that he had poison which has been in his…

Sayings of Shaikh Hussein al-Kasnazan

Sayings of Shaikh Hussein al-Kasnazan These are some of the wise words of Shaikh Hussein al-Kasnazan: Our Ṭarīqa is based on the Qur’an and the Sunna, having love for the truth, self‑discipline, truthfulness, being patient with hard circumstances and afflictions, fulfilling the promise, avoiding drawing satisfaction from the calamities of Muslims, not hurting your neighbour, responding to the offence with charity, showing mercy towards orphans, giving clothing to the naked, feeding the hungry, dressing the poor, strengthening the weak and avoiding wronging others. O seeker! Distance yourself from loving this world for loving it ruins the worshipper as heat ruins honey. O my dervish!…

Karamas of Shaikh Hussein al-Kasnazan

Karāmas of Shaikh Hussein al-Kasnazan Shaikh Ḥussein al-Kasnazan performed numerous karāmas that attest to his nearness to Allah. These are some of them : Most people used to clearly hear around Shaikh Ḥussein voices of jinn remembering Allah aloud. When asked about them, Shaikh Ḥussein said that those were Muslim Sufi jinn. A man from Istanbul, Turkey, was ill and had visited doctors in several European countries without success. One night, this man saw in a visionary dream a man telling him: “Come to Kirpchina in Iraq, and when you follow our Ṭarīqa you will be cured.” The man decided to…

Biography of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Kasnazan

Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al‑Kasnazan, who is the son of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Shāh al‑Kasnazan, was born in 1867 CE. He taught people the manners of the Prophet (PBUH) and renewed the light of Islam. The Shaikh was known for his patience, generosity, and care for the orphans, obeying the divine commandment: “ِAs for the orphan, do not oppress” (93.9). He remained in Iran and continued his mission of serving Islam until he left this world.

Sayings of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Kasnazan

Sayings of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Kasnazan These are some of the words of wisdom of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al‑Kasnazan: O seeker! Put on a clean, clear shirt of repentance. Anyone who does not follow Sharīʿa and Ṭarīqa with chastity is not one of our dervishes. Our dervish has to adhere to Sharīʿa, Ṭarīqa, renunciation, and pious restraint, and has to avoid greediness. He who restrains his anger and forgives that who wrongs and hurts him Allah promotes him to the ranks of the men of Allah. If you wanted to backbite someone, then backbite your parents for they are more deserving…

Karamas of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qadir al-Kasnazan

Karāmas of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Kasnazan Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir was known as a “Shaikh whose life was full of karāmas. Karāmas were observed wherever he was,” as his grandson Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad al‑Kasnazan describes him. Through the nemerous  karāmas of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir, many sinners repented. Here are some of the karāmas of this great Sufi Master:  An unjust feudal landlord once wronged a descendant of the Prophet (PBUH). The victim went to Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir and complained about the injustice. The Shaikh said to him: “Allah gives respite but never neglects anything. You stay here with us and we will pass on your complaint…

Sayings of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karim Shah al-Kasnazan

Sayings of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Shāh al-Kasnazan Here are some sayings of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Shāh al Kasnazan: O my son! This world is an illusion and everything in it is ephemeral. The cares of the children of this world are their shares in this world, while the cares of the children of the hereafter are their shares in the hereafter. Avoid laying untrue claims. Whatever you eat disappears and what you put on wears off, yet what you do, whether good or evil, you will meet [in the hereafter). Heading toward Allah is a decreed matter and departing the loved…

Karamas of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karim Shah al-Kasnazan

Karāmas of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Shāh al-Kasnazan One aspect of the spirituality of this great Sufi Master is his numerous Karāmas. Here are some of them: One day Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Shāh al‑Kasnazan was sitting during a Sufi gathering, he noticed a bird of prey attacking a small sparrow. The Shaikh raised his hand and said to the sparrow: “Come to me, I will protect you.” The small sparrow flew into the hand of the Shaikh for safety. One of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Shāh al‑Kasnazan’s ascetic followers asked to be granted a visionary dream in which he would see Prophet…

Sayings of Shaikh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Gaylani

Sayings of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Gaylānī Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir was a prolific lecturer and author, having delivered countless sermons and authored tens books. These are only a few of his wise words on a variety of topics from lectures he gave at his school in Baghdad: Good Behavior in the Company of Shaikhs: O young man! When you come into my presence, give up your appreciation for your deeds and self-admiration. Come in with nothing, as one who is bankrupt. If you have high regard for your deeds and yourself you will be astonished at what I am talking about and you will hate me…

Karamas of Shaikh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Gaylani

Karāmas of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Gaylānī The karāmas that are associated with Shaikh ʿAbd al Qādir al Gaylānī are numerous and are well recorded in the many biographical works that have been written on him and other historical sources. We mention here only a few of them: One day Shaikh ʿAbd al Qādir al Gaylānī was talking to a gathering in his school when it started to rain so some of the audience left the place. Shaikh ʿAbd al Qādir then raised his head toward the sky and said: ‘So I gather [people] but you disperse them?’ The rain immediately stopped falling…

Biography of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib

Imām ʿAlī [karrama Allah wajhah] is the only person to be born inside the Kaʿba, in Macca. He was born in 599 CE. Imām ʿAlī’s mother named him “Ḥaydara” which means “lion”. But it was Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH) himself who gave him his most known name. He held the newborn high and said “ʿAlī” which means “high”. About thirty years later, during the conquest of Khaibar, the Prophet (PBUH) conferred on Imām ʿAlī another of his famous titles, “al-Karrār” which means “the attacker.”
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