Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Ramadan 23rd Late Night Majlis TazkirayiMashayikhiChisht Khaja Abu Ishaq and Abu Ahmad Chishti 06182017
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Today, we will read from
the
Tasgera Mashayachisht
from one of the
biographies of the
middle
age of
the silsilla.
That's after the Mutakad Amin,
but
before the later mashaikh
about Hajjah Abu Ishaq
also Al Mullaqab Bishami
He was the first of the
mashaikh
of the tariqa
that were actually from the city of Chisht,
which is in modern day Afghanistan
near the city of Herat.
And he,
the silosla will stay in this relatively obscure
backwater
of the Ummah
for several generations and several weeks.
The idea being that
the Fadhu of Allah Ta'ala
doesn't require
a shaykh to be super well known or
rich or wealthy or famous or
any of these things that sometimes this thing
is a secret that is between the slave
and between the lord
and Allah will show it to people at
times, and he will keep it a secret
for himself at times.
His title was Sharafuddin
or Sharafuddin.
He was
an an embodiment of the outward and the
inward sciences.
He was born in the town of Chisht,
and he was a great zahid, meaning that
he did without from this world.
He would eat only after 7 days, and
he would say that the pleasure and taste
obtainable and hunger are not experienced in other
things.
He also said
that hunger is the of the
the the people who are travelers toward Allah,
subhanahu wa ta'ala. That the Mi'raj of the
fuqara is what? It's hunger.
When he contemplated
to
take the spiritual path, he made Istikhara for
40 days in succession.
Then he heard a voice saying, if you
seek to seek to reach your destination,
go to the sheikh mumshad
Din Wari, who's the the sheikh who's above
him in the Silsula.
The name Chishtiyyah for our Silsula gained recognition
from his time.
After him, there are 4,
one after the other who are also from
Chisht. It is for this reason that the
name Chishtia
attained fame.
When his sheikh, Hajjal Mumshad, asked his name,
he replied Abu Ishaq Shami.
The sheikh said from this
day forward, you'll be known as Abu Ishaq
Chishti because the people of Chishti will acquire
guidance from you and your sisilah will be
known as Chishti until the yomukriyama.
His Qara'mat and miracles are peculiarly
significant.
Whoever had the good fortune of sitting in
his majlis would not again commit sins,
And this is something that happens. There are
certain people from the ahlulah.
Their kafiyyah is different than the kafiyyah of
other people. There are certain people from the
ahlulah
by their their their condition,
that Allah gave their heart and that Allah
gave to their spirit.
The person who sits with them loses
loses, loses the
pleasure or the
enjoyment of sin,
and it drops away. And Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala make us all good fortune
people of good fortune that we get to
see such people.
This is one of the the kind of
the the the curses of the age that
we live in
is that that the people who are like
that in the Ummah,
unfortunately, not only do we not go to
them, oftentimes we end up harming them and
abusing them. And so Allah will protect his
oliya from the harm and the abuse of
the public so they become hidden,
and then nobody can come talk to them.
Nobody can come speak to them. In the
old days, people used
to honor
the masha'ith and the.
Now we,
I guess,
we we fill out complaint forms to the
board because something, you know, that that somebody
said doesn't
conform to whatever
weird other ideas that we have or whatever.
But, there are people like this.
Give the give their to us. If you
ever find someone like that, their their company
is,
something that that that makes
sin lose its enjoyment or
that makes ibada and
the obedience of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, seem
attractive to you. Please cherish those people because,
they're the greatest of Allah's treasure.
His Qara'at are peculiarly significant, and I recognize
that sometimes we read
about the strange miracles of the saints, but
these types of things impress me more than
flying in the air and turning rocks into
gold. That if you find somebody,
who whose company
makes a person leave sin,
this
is something that's more
precious than turning things into gold. If you
need gold, you can always go buy it
from the jewelry. Whether you can turn a
stone into gold or not, you can always
go buy the gold from the jeweler.
But
being able to give up sin, this is
something that people strive their entire lives and
oftentimes fail in.
Sick people entering his mej list would be
cured.
When he contemplated going on a journey, a
100 or 200 people would accompany him,
and he would be able to travel miraculously
to his destination with his entourage.
Once during a drought, the king came to
Hajab was Haq and requested him to make
dua.
The Sheikh
cast his tawad johar spiritual concentration
down, and the rain came.
When the king came the next day again
with some need of his, Khaja Abu's haq
wept.
The king asked the reason for his grief,
and the sheikh replied,
the frequency of the king's visits put me
in fear that I've committed some sin. Hence,
the association with the affluent has increased so
much,
resulting in a corresponding
decrease
in my association with the poor.
I fear that suddenly my end come in
the company of the wealthy and not with
the mesakin.
It's a story worth repeating because it seems
to be
completely the opposite
and the the the complete, like, upside down
inverse of what we consider to be successful
even amongst Uleman, Mashiach, and
and and and.
So once during a drought, the king came
to
and asked him to make dua.
Hazrat cast his and the rain came. He
cast a spiritual concentration,
and the rain came down.
When the king came again the next day
with some need of his, Khaja Wuzhak wept.
The king asked for the reason for his
grief.
He replied,
the frequency of the king's visits put me
in
fear that I've committed some sin. Hence, the
association with the affluent has increased so much
resulting in a corresponding decrease in my association
with the poor.
I fear that suddenly my end comes in
the company of the wealthy and not with
the masekeen.
He passed away on the 14th of Rabi'uthani
or Rabi'uthani
in the year 329
Hijra.
His grave is in Aqah, which is on
the borders of Sham. His Khulafahar,
Haja Ahmed Abu Abdal,
Chishti, Haja Abu Muhammad, Haja Tajuddin and others.
The first one namely Haja Abu Abdal will
be
now discussed.
Khaja Abu Ahmed Abdal Chishti.
So if the Sufis referred to you as
Abu Abdal, then
that means that that means that that you
must be good Masha'Allah.
His his his lakab or his his title
was
the power of the deen.
By birth, he was Hassan I Sayed, meaning
he was a, from the he was a
descendant of Sayed al Hassan
His father's name was
Sultan
Farsanafa.
He was born in Shishta on 6th of
Ramadan in 260 after Hijra. His outward appearance
and handsomeness were incomparable.
His face glistened so much that it would
not be an exaggeration to say that it
lit up the darkness. He was well known
for his his beauty.
Haja Abu's Hawk would often visit Sultan
Farsanafah
one day when he told
Sultan's sister that you will be having a
nephew,
take good care of your brother. Do not
permit a doubtful morsel of food to enter
into his mouth.
Accordingly, she went to great lengths to ensure
that this was the case.
Finally, Abu Ahmed was born during the reign
of the Abbasi Khalifa
From the age of 7, he started to
frequent the measures of Hajj Abu's Haqq.
And this is this is a good lesson
for us as well.
Rasoolullah
it says hadith that you should play with
the children until they're 7 and then teach
them adab meaning through strictness and discipline, teach
them good manners
from the age of 7 to 14, and
then you should be a good companion and
a counsel for them from the age of
14 through 21.
And we completely take the sunnah methodology and
flip it on its head. So we have
little kids and we're completely making them
get stressed out with all sorts of schooling
that they're developmentally.
Some of them are prepared for and some
of them aren't. And it just causes psychiatric
trauma to them for learning.
Whereas they should we should take it easy
on them when they're young.
Then in the age 7 through 14, we
indulge them in all sorts of stupid things.
I swear if anybody is listening to this,
if you buy a smartphone for your children,
you're a moron and you should have your
kids taken away from you
and, will ask you about what you're doing.
Literally, it's like throwing the kid a dime
rock, of crack and say, well, I want
him to be exposed to the world so
he can make his own
decisions for for himself or for herself. It's
complete
nonsense. So you see right here that
frequently the frequently frequenting
the
from the age of 7. Undoubtedly, he picked
up good morals and good, manners from his
parents,
But,
and, you know, obviously, he's not perfect, so
he's gonna go to the of the sheikh,
and the the people trust their,
trust their children to the to the the
to the Lordly of the of the and,
they they send them for their talbiya with
them
And, the kid from that age is now
going to be sitting in the majlis of
of of of the and learning the adab
of Allah's wilyah, of how to be a
friend of Allah ta'ala.
Obviously, he's going to turn into himself into
a wali of Allah
I wish that we would do that instead
of,
you know, trying to make up for our
lack of parenting by sending kids to Chuck
E. Cheese and buying them iPads.
He acquired both the Ullum Zahiri and Batania
from Khaja Abu Haw.
He was both a student in knowledge
as well as his disciple in the spiritual
path.
Khaja Abu Saqq,
the the previous sheikh that we spoke of.
At the age of 16,
Khaja Abu Ahmed, after completing his pursuit of
academic knowledge, formally took the discipleship of Khaja
Abu Ishaq.
According to some accounts, he took the discipleship
at the age of 13.
Once while with his father on a hunting
trip, he lost his way in a mountain
range. He was left alone. And despite
in spite of his efforts, he could not
find the road. After trudging at considerable distance,
he suddenly saw Khaja Abu Ishaq sitting with
40 of the oliya
standing in his presence.
Abu Ahmed fell at the feet of his
Sheikh, Haja Abu Ishaq and then remained with
him thereafter.
A few days after, it was discovered that
Abu Ahmed was with Haja Abu Ishaq on
a certain mountain.
The king sent people to bring him back.
Although they tried to persuade him to return
home, he refused.
As a result of the spiritual transformation he
underwent,
he chose the rigorous and austere life on
the mountain after extreme mujahada and struggle against
his own self and his own ego for
8 years. He acquired the mantle of caliphate
and successorship from his Sheikh.
It is said that for 30 years, he
never slept on a bed.
By a gaze of Khaja Abu Ahmed, the
man could be
transformed into a person that that miracles would
be seen at his hands. And we talked
about this from before
that when people say this about the oliya
of Allah ta'ala, the thing is we don't
meet people like this over here because we
spend our time in the mall and in
conferences.
There are people in the Ummah like this
that by them looking at you and by
you looking at them,
something happens inside which is a spiritual transaction.
It's more than than what the mind can
understand. And the proof for this is that
what the highest Maqam of a person after
nubuwa and this ummah is the Sahaba of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and that's all
predicated on a gaze.
And after that the highest maqam that someone
can have is what is being a tabiri
after that being a tabari tabari. The salaf
themselves it was the exchange of
spiritual,
of spiritual benefit that happened just in gazes
with one another. Those were the days that
the gazes were a means of spiritual
progress
whereas nowadays the gaze falls on the Haram
and it's
a source of spiritual destruction.
So we read these things, and we cannot
relate to them. We wonder what do they
mean. They have a meaning. Trust me. Rest
assured, they have a meaning.
By a gaze of Hajj Abu Ahmed, the
man could be
seen. His father was the owner of a
liquor store which stocked vintage wines.
And for those of us that that think
that pious people were born that way, people
who attain piety do so after great struggle,
and nobody nobody, you know, nobody's born with
a spiritual silver spoon in their mouth.
Even those who are, they also have to
go through struggles.
Remember that they also have to go through
struggles. Who is the martyr of Karbala Seidin
Husayn
who was born into the house of Nabuwa?
Look at how much difficulty he had to
go through. Nobody gets it for free.
His father was the owner of a liquor
store which stocked vintage wines.
During Hazrat Abu Ahmed's childhood, he once went
into the store.
He closed the door and broke the liquor
vats. His father was informed of the destruction
being wrought on his expensive wines. Since he
could not enter the locked premises, he climbed
on the roof and from there shouted furious
threats in a bid to prevent the child
from further destruction.
Abu Ahmed ignored the threats.
His father, in desperation, hurled a large stone
which remained suspended in midair. His father was
amazed realizing his error. He repented at the
hands of his child and gave up to
his liquor store.
This may be one of the very few
times in the history of Islam that someone's
parents actually listened to what they had to
say. So these are miracles of the Sufis.
The stone stone in the mid air thing,
I can believe that this part is like
really something that I have difficulty believing. So
don't think that this is gonna you're gonna
go home and tell your father about stuff
he's doing that's wrong, and he's gonna believe
you. Okay? The stone in the air thing
might happen. This thing is probably not gonna
happen. These are only, like, the very rare
miracle that miracles
at the hands of his.
These things may not happen for you, just
just to let you know about that. And
once he journeyed through an area occupied only
by the Kfar, there is no Muslim living
in the surroundings.
This particular community of Kufar was extremely hostile
toward the Muslims. If a Muslim ventured into
their settlement, it was their practice to torture
and set the Muslim alight.
Although they assaulted Khaja Abu Ahmed, they did
not have the courage to set him on
fire.
The Sheikh told them not to worry as
he himself would fall into the fire. A
fire had already been prepared, throwing his Musallah
onto the fire, his his his prayer rug
onto the fire. He entered it. As Khadija
entered, the fire instantaneously
died out. The kuffar and their amazement began
to venerate him. 100 accepted Islam on this
occasion.
It was his regular practice to complete 1
Quran
during the day and 2 during the night.
Although he was unaware by the way, people
think these things are exaggerations.
In Mauritania, there are people who finish the
Quran,
at least daily, if not more than that.
Even,
Sheikh Zakaria who wrote this book, he said
that his father used to when he was
a kid, his father used to,
after prayer, you'd lock the doors of the
house and see you're not allowed to come
back into the house until you finish reciting
the Quran. So he said, I would climb
up onto the roof and just recite. Before
the time, I would be back inside the
house.
And these are these are people he passed
away. Hazrat Sheikh passed away
in in 1981. So there are many living
people who met him before. And there are
people who have these practices. It's you know,
just because you and I are stuck at,
you know,
whatever in our own memorization, it doesn't mean
that they're that the whole Ummah is like
that.
Although he was aware of spiritual mysteries, he
would not divulge them.
According to the claim of the oliya of
his time, he was he was a, meaning
he was the prime amongst the amongst the
and amongst the saints. He would not accept
gifts from people, and he abstained from delicious
food and fine garments.
His death was on the 3rd of, Jamad
al Uhra in the year
355 Hijra.
His grave is in
amongst his Khulafar, Khulafar, Khulafar, Khulafar, Abu Muhammad
and Khaja Khuda Banda, meaning the slave of
God. Inshallah, at some other time, hopefully, we'll
get the,
the the tawfiq of hearing about
Haja Abu Mohammed and Haja
Mujud Chishti, Haja
Abu Youssef bin Saman and Hasseini and Chishti
and and other mashaikh that were from the
the city of Chish Shari Zandani and Usman
Harwani.
Allah
have mercy on all of them and give
us all the entire Ummat Sayid Muhammad
from their fuyud and from the fuyud of
those people like them in the other lands
of Islam.
The baraka
of wilayah, of sainthood
and the Anwar of the Prophet
were distributed through all the lands of the
Muslims. Don't think that why is this guy
only talking about the from 1 tariqa or
from 1
land or from one place or from one
area. People like this Allah
divided them through the earth and wherever people
made the dhikr of Allah ta'ala and sacrificed
for Allah's sake, made mujahada
and struggled in his way, he sent these
people to all of those places
for benefit, Insha'Allah, wherever they are, whatever their
fuiyos and the benefits Allah gave to the
Ummah through them. Allah Ta'ala not deprive any
of us
from any of them.