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