Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Ramadan 8th Late Night Majlis Khaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki the Spiritual Kingship of Dehli 06032017
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Last time we had this Majlis,
we spoke about
the Tabakah of,
Hajam Muinuddin
and
how he came
to,
India
at the
direction of his sheikh,
Hajar Usman Harwani.
So today,
we wanted to mention
the name of his,
most well renowned Khalifa,
his most well renowned Khalifa, I should say,
from amongst his Khalifa. We had mentioned last
time that there were about 14 or 15
people who he had given his Khalifa to,
and they did great work of spreading and
propagating the deen.
When we say
it's not
the and the rather. It is an Ijazah
that a person should go and teach people
the sacred name of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And that's what,
that's what
the and and and Tasowof not just that
of the
but of all of the Muslims is about.
They should teach people the sacred name of
Allah and instruct them in how to repeat
it again and again, and how to keep
the responsibility and the commandments that come with
carrying the sacred name with you. It's not
about calling people to yourself or to your
personality or to your cult or to your
weird,
group or to dress a certain way or
to speak a certain way,
other than the way that the Rasool
dressed and the way he spoke
and, the way he went about things.
So,
the idea was for the next several Majalas
to,
tell about
the
the the the kind of most famous mashaikh
of the sisila,
who are considered like the heroes of the
Indian subcontinent and Islam in the Indian subcontinent.
So the the the Khalifa from amongst the
the
of the sheikh
that was well most well known and through
whom the the sills are propagated and is
still extent
is,
Hazrat
Sheikh.
There are very few names
names that I I like.
But Bakhtiar is one of them. It's a
Persian name,
which literally means the the the the friend
of destiny
or the lover of destiny,
that a person who has who whose,
fate is so good. It's as if destiny
is their their their their friend.
This is a
sheikh.
As the sheikh is from amongst the, a
kabir of the.
He was,
meaning one who would
make a dua, which was readily accepted.
His lineage,
links through that of the of the prophet
would say
is the grandson. He's the
He's the grandson both of the prophets and
Said Abu Bakr Sadiq because
his father is,
Muhammad Al Bakr, the son of Alizem al
Abidine,
the son of Al Hussein, the son of
Saidna Ali, brother
and whom, and, and
Fatima had the daughter of the prophet
And from his mother's side, his mother is,
his mother is the daughter of Al Qasim
bin Mohammed
bin Abi Bakr. Al
Qasim bin Mohammed bin Abi Bakr,
is the son of Mohammed bin Abi Bakr.
Mohammed bin Abi Bakr and Saida Husayn
and Huma.
Both of them participated in the conquest of
Madain,
which was the imperial capital, the Sasanian Persians.
The Arabic name of the the city was,
Mada'in,
and the Persian name was Tisfoon,
of of the Sasanian imperial capital.
And so when they conquered the their their,
capital,
2 daughters of the royal house were taken
as slaves.
And those 2 sisters were given in the
share in the lot of
of of Sayedna Al Hussein and
Sayedna Mohammed bin Abi Bakr
And,
in that sense also, there's a link between
the the the house of the prophet, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, the house of because
the children of those are then going to
be first cousins because their mothers are sisters.
So,
Jafar Sadiq,
is the the the ancestor of
Hajjakutbuddin
Bakhtiar Kaki.
He was born near the town of Ash.
This town is situated
in modern day Kyrgyzstan.
It is an Uzbek speaking city in Kyrgyzstan.
There's actually a jamats from Ash that came
to Dar es Salaam Masjid,
like, 2 years ago. And so they said
which town they're from. I said, many of
our came from here. So not just one,
not just
but there's also one,
who's from Ash Ash as well.
And it said that is a village near
Ash,
although some people attribute the name to something
else.
He was born in the middle of the
night. However, on account of the abundance of
the Anwar,
of his birth, people had thought the dawn
had broken.
When he was one and a half years
old, his father said, Kamaluddin bin Ahmed,
bin Said Musa
passed away.
And this is something you see with many
of the that their their life pattern follows
a life pattern of the prophet
and that they are
they're they're orphans.
When he was 5 years old,
his mother sent him with a neighbor to
a malaam,
to to a teacher.
Along the way, they met a bazorg, a
a a sheikh and asked,
the sheikh asked, where are you taking this
lad?
He said you can tell a South African
translated the book. So where are you taking
this this lad?
When he was told that the boy was
being taken to the he said, leave him
with me. I shall trust and trust him
to a.
The neighbor left the child with the the
the sheikh who took him to.
The
said to it's the command of the they
should treat this young boy with great care.
The
then left,
Hazut Ustad putting the hand of affection on
the young boy's head said, you're most fortunate
because
has entrusted you to
And he said that when
reached Ash, he was 4 years and 4
months old.
He was brought to Hazrat Sheykh, for, his
ta'alim and deen.
As Hazrat took the slate to write something,
he was informed
by a voice that the academic knowledge of
has been,
entrusted to Qazi Hamiduddin Nagori.
Hazar Sheikh therefore put down the slate, he
then completed the Quran under Qazi Hamiduddin.
This episode is briefly referred to in the
book Ta'alimuddin.
It is written that
the the
the voice of the unseen.
Hadith is the the the the the word
in modern Arabic for a phone.
But that's that's what the literal meaning of
the word hadith is that the voice that
comes from unseen.
It's it's it was written that a voice
from the Hatif,
instructed Qazi Hamiduddin to close his eyes.
Within
moments he himself reached the place where Qutbuddin
was.
Taking the slate he said, oh Qutbuddin, what
should I write?
The boy then said to him,
write
The glory be to, the one who took
his servant by night.
As I said in astonishment asked him about
his knowledge of the Quran.
The boy said I memorized
15 Aqsa by my mother.
Within 4 days he lured the other, 15
Azza under Qazi Hamiduddin.
This by the way, out of all the
other miracles which people might roll their eyes
and say, yeah. That's likely. This actually is
not something that that doesn't happen. I mean,
this happens to this day. Right? The people
memorize the Quran in, like, a miraculously short
amount of time. It's not like every kid
does it, but, like,
I mean, it does happen. It's not unheard
of.
As he approaches Bulul, his maturity, he developed
an intense
desire for the,
oom of the baton of the heart.
He therefore entered into the company of Hajj
Muinuddin.
On the 5th of Rajab, he took Be'a
with, him in the Masjid of Abu Laith.
In the, at the age of 17, the
mantle of caliphate was conferred on him. The
Khalifa meaning that the Ijazah and Tasawwuf from
his Sheikh. He's the verse very first Khalifa
of Khazamuwun ad Din on the instruction of
his Sheikh he took up residence in Delhi.
When Hazrat Putubuddin Bakhtiar Kaki took up residence
in Delhi who would not accept a gift
from anyone.
He remained,
which literally means drowned
in divine contemplation, which made him oblivious to
his surroundings.
During these days, he had no servant to
tend to the needs of the house. Sharafuddin,
a Muslim shop owner was his neighbor. Sometimes
Sharafuddin,
his wife would visit, Hazrat Sheikh's wife.
At times, there was absolutely nothing to eat
in the house. On one such occasion,
Hazrat's wife acquired a very small loan from
the neighbor's wife just sufficient for some food.
One day, this woman said to Hazrat's wife,
if I had not given you the loan,
you would have starved to death. This statement
hurt Hazrat's wife who resolved never to ask
again for a loan.
Sometime thereafter, she informed Hazrat Sheikh of this
incident. After a brief pause, Hazrat said, you
should not borrow anything from this woman.
Pointing to a shelf, Hazrat said, when in
need recite Bismillah and take cake from it
and distribute it to whoever you will.
Thereafter, she would always do so taking from
the shelf and distributing to it Whenever she
placed her hand on the shea shelf,
cake would be present.
For this reason, his title, was so famous.
Is like a word for like a big
piece of bread in
Arabic.
And the
said to Hajjal Muinuddin
that Qutbuddin is Allah's friend and the mantle
of caliphate should be conferred upon him. The
spiritual kingdom or willai of Dili was also
assigned to Qutbuddin by the command of Allah
Ta'ala.
So these types of statements when you read
them in a book, right,
there is something that the Sheikh Zakaria
mentioned
in the Tabakar regarding Hajj Amin
as well.
That all of the all of the things
that the Anbi'a alai muslim enjoyed publicly as
a proof of their nubuah. The oliya enjoy
privately,
but it's not as if to
divulge those things to people.
And so
as a matter of, if somebody claims that
I saw in Kas for in a dream
or something that Allah told me this or
Allah told me that, it's not it's not
wahi.
Even if they are hearing it from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, it bears absolutely no legal,
it bears no legal
or or creedal significance.
And it doesn't bear any significance even for
the person if the experience is genuine for
anyone other than the person who's having it.
It. And the person who's having it themselves
is very interesting. The say this is also
a point of our aqidah that shaitan can
come to you in the form of Allah
Taal, but shaitan can't come to you in
the form of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
But even if someone sees the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam in a dream, whatever he says
has significance only for the person who's hearing
it. And it's not add them to divulge
it to other people or tell other people
about it, except for if you're making mashrah
like I'm trying to interpret this experience. People
have experiences. Sometimes
the the the mashayach, the elder mashayach and
senior mashayach understand what they mean. So you
just to make mashra in order to understand
what does this thing mean. Or so I
saw this and I
said this and that to see the sheikh
will ask questions to see is this actually
a divine experience,
that a person had or is it just,
you know, Shaytan messing with them? What does
the actual meaning of it, etcetera, etcetera?
And so these things,
the,
this is within the the confines of the
people who took the din from these people
that they divulge these stories about it to
one another. It doesn't mean that somebody now
has will have believes that the Masha'iha receiving
wahi or that they're like m b r
or anything like that. Even if a person,
a person is a,
as a matter of creed,
allowed to believe that not believe that any
of these stories are true, and you can't
really reproach them for that. And b,
even if they believe that they're true, they
don't carry any significance that changes the Dean.
And I think that the greatest proof actually
of the without these people is that despite
all of these things, a, they never made
any claim to change the dean, b, they're
the ones who serve the dean the most,
in the first place. And so they share
these,
stories in the context of of that that
these things were all signs to them to
take up the responsibility
of,
of of championing championing and
serving and preserving and propagating Islam.
Once during his stay in Delhi, he went
to Ajmer to stay at his Sheikh Khan
Khan.
The people of Delhi were grieved considerably by
the separation.
After appealing to Hazrat Sheikh Muinuddin, he was
sent back.
Beside his other acts of Ibadah, he would
every night recite the the Salat and Salaam
and the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam 3,000 times.
When he got married, he was unable to
keep up this,
regimen
for about 2 or 3 nights. His servant,
Anis Ahmed,
saw in a dream a beautiful place. A
huge gathering was outside the palace.
He saw a beautiful palace, a huge gathering
was outside the palace, but nobody was entering.
However, there was a a a bazorg, an
elder of short physical stature who was going
in and out. It transpired that the messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was inside the
palace. This Buzurg elder
who was going in and out was
Saidna Abdullah bin Mas'ud radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. He
would carry the messages of the outsiders into
the palace. Anis Ahmed the servant expressed the
desire to visit,
and hence he asked permission to enter. From
the palace it was said you are not
yet worthy of visiting.
However, convey our salaams to and
inform him for 3 days his gift has
not arrived.
Another,
practice of Hazar Sheikh was 100
raka'at of nafil daily
for those of us who are suffering from
thrombosis.
Another Mahmul of Hazar Sheikh was 100,
raka'azas salat daily. He was generally in the
state of istighraq,
or drowned in divine contemplation.
When somebody came to visit him,
he would only become aware of the person's
presence after some time.
He had performed many Karamat or miracles,
his passing from this world.
Once he heard a man reciting the following
couplet in Persian,
those slain by the dagger of of of
Allah's pleasure and submission
are granted a new life every time.
He lapsed into a state of of intoxication
for 4 days and on the 5th day
he died.
Hazar Shamsuddin,
Iltamush, the Sultan of
Delhi, gave him ghusl.
Thereafter,
Hazar Sheik Khalifa Khadja Abu Sa'id,
Tabrizi read out Hazrat's wasia. And his wasia
was written, my janazah salah should be performed
by the person who never committed a haram
act,
with a female,
never missed the sunnah rakaas of Asar and
who never missed the first takbir in the,
in the congregational prayer.
Hearing these conditions, a silence fell on the
crowd. After some time, the Sultan stepped forward
and said, I desired my condition to remain
concealed,
but Hazar Sheikh has exposed it.
And this is, this is a,
this is this is an interesting story. It
says Hazrat Akdas Moana Asraf Ali Tanui
narrated this episode in the following way. Said
Hazrat Sheikh Khadzakutbuddin
Bakhtiar made wasiha
his last instruction stating that his janazah should
be performed by a man who never cast
his gaze on a non Mahur woman his
entire life.
Great people
were present but all were bewildered and said
how will such a person be found.
Finally, when the people lost hope Sultan Iltamush
was constrained to reveal himself.
He said if Hazrat had not instructed, I
would have never exposed myself. However, since the
Sheikh himself has revealed the secret, I have
to say to Allah ta'ala,
I have to say that Allah Ta' has
bestowed this niyama to me. And he conducted
the the janazah of,
of of Sheikh.
So this, Sultan,
he was a
a
a a Mamluk slave king. The
the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt is well known.
And
and waivers
and
sultan Kalawun,
Ashraf Khalil. These were very pious people. They're
basically Turkic slave warriors that
that took over. They seized the state from
from the corrupt,
the corrupt rulers before them, the the descendants
of Sultan Saladin Ayubi who basically brothers of
war with one another
and make take sides with crusaders and do
all kind of nonsense that was weakening the
the the position of the Muslims. So they
overthrew the government, and they set up a
a meritocracy
amongst themselves
by which by through Mashra, the the the
the slave,
the slave soldiers in their ranks, they would
they would put propel forward people not based
on their their lineage, but on their their
competence and their loyalty and their trustworthiness
and and other good characteristics that they had.
So the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt was
was well known.
A lot of people don't know that there
was a similar dynasty,
that happened in in India.
And, this is a story that told me
in the Hanqai in the Majlis much like
this one.
Much like this one in in the sense
that it happened after Taraweeh, but
in many ways, it was unlike this one.
But, the,
he said this that the
didn't enter Delhi as a just like as
a visitor
or or as a person who immigrated.
Rather, he was part of the army that
conquered Delhi from,
from the Mushrikeen.
And the the conquering army was also led
by a a Turkic slave king by the
name of,
Kutbuddin Eibek.
Eibek was like like a really rough riding,
rough, tough,
a warrior.
And,
essentially, he was part of the army of
of Kutwudin Eibek
that that that that conquered Delhi.
And they, like, they ransacked and smashed the
the the the the temples where,
idols were worshiped.
And they actually
made into a a Muslim,
a Muslim city, which is how it remained
until the British sacked it,
in the, reign of Bahadur Shah Zafar,
the last Mughal emperor.
And so the
the first masjid that they built in Delhi
is actually a masjid called Islam,
which means literally the the might of Islam.
And the the the masjid itself is built
by the the hewn
stone blocks that are, that were were were
basically carved out of broken idols.
And they say that the the masjid is
still there, that they say that even some
of the bricks, if you pull them out
and flip them around, you can see the
frescoes or the features of the the idols
that they were made out of from before.
So, you know, it's nice.
Everyone's like, yeah. Well, I follow a tolerant
version of Islam known as Sufism.
Good for you.
You know,
maybe you should use your library card more
often.
I don't know.
I don't know what to say to people
like that, but
you know, someone might say, well, maybe then,
you know, Sufis weren't that tolerant after all.
Look, you know, you worship idols, you're gonna
go to the hellfire. Nabi was sent to
save people from the hellfire.
And this was the the the concern this
is the concern that people had. And if
someone believes that that that, you know, that
there's a way to Allah except for through
his,
then I can understand why a person would
maybe have some objection to this. But there
isn't, and
categorically said that there isn't.
And so,
this is like the stern hand of a
parent rather than the the the vengeance of
of of of warlike people.
And in fact, even
even Khaja Khaja
Morenaudin Chishti,
he was a he was he
the Sufis have
not just because he was the first one
who made this large scale toward Islam,
but also that when,
Ajmer itself was,
was conquered by
I believe.
When Ajmer was conquered by
he also let at age is like something
in his seventies or eighties. He left the
city,
and
he
came back into the city in armor and
in horseback
with the conquering army,
which means what? That there were people that
they believed in the project of Islam. It
wasn't like a part time hobby that they
did on Sundays or whatever. I mean, it
was it was something very serious for them.
And so,
this is this is a sultan,
who was a sultan of Delhi after Kutbuddin
Aybek. Aybek died
playing polo.
Polo, because what is it? You're on horseback,
you have a mallet and you you hit
a ball.
It was basically a war game. It was
a game to train people
for war. You can't constantly just be riding
around, laughing people's heads off. I mean, I
guess they used to do that if you're
like a show gun in Japan and, like,
you can find a common or a criminal
or whatever. You test your sword out on
them. But, you know, as much propaganda and
hype about the violence of Muslims as we
have, we we didn't use to do stuff
like that. So he was essentially playing polo,
and he slipped from his his, horse in
a polo accident and broke his neck.
Uh-uh,
Sultan,
Iltamesh was
a a
a Turkic slave king after him,
and the, the Turks valued piety,
amongst their their their own, commanders as well.
And he was a he was a very
pious he was known to be a very
pious man, a very righteous man. And, he
was a
a disciple of of Hajar and,
Bakhtiar. And he,
he showed exposed his his, we lie to
the people.
Hazrat Sheyaf passed away on 14th
or 24th of Rabiul Awol
in the year 633 or 644 on a
Saturday.
His grave is in the town of Maharoli.
He had many,
The names of 22 appear in the books.
However, the
continued only with 3.
And, Shakhidar Kalandrawi.
Shakhidar Shemsuddin ultimus to Sultan Adili was also
from amongst his famous Khalifa.
Allah
have mercy on him and have mercy on
our our our forefathers,
and and the people who,
worked hard to bring the deen to different
places and transmit the deen. For a person
who's wondering, okay, why I live
in America in 2017
and,
I have a red make America great again
topi,
that I wear. And so what does what
does,
have anything to do with me?
The fact of the matter is that the
Madars in which,
the Hadith of the prophet
was retained and propagated
in India from.
They're all
the Madars of Dili.
Even Darulund Deoband itself, it was essentially a
place where the kind of the the scattered
fragments of the the the scholarly culture of
the city of Delhi were reconstructed.
And
and understanding,
the deen of Allah ta'ala that, even it's,
you know, shattered fragments
are are,
you know, they're they're having an effect on
the world to this day to the point
where you can even study Hadith in Medina.
The sunnah that you get is gonna go
through the Madars of Delhi. None of that
would have happened except for through the conquest
of the city
and through the endowments of the massages that
were were were made at that time. Even
though the Hadith of the prophet will not
come to Delhi for centuries after that. But
the the you know, if you if you
want something, you have to find a way
to pay for it. You have to have
a place to house it. You have to
have some something set up for it. And
that setup was all
due to the the
the the sacrifices of those people who
conquered that place and and set it aside
as a as a a kind of a
safe haven for Islam for as long as
Allah
will.
And so that's something that that
all of us have a debt of gratitude
for, and we have something to be thankful
for whether we know it or not. It
very directly,
it very directly affects all of us. One
of the things, I wanted to share also
is that,
look, you know, Ramadan is a time Allah
Ta'ala has set aside for,
for people to cash in on their their
rewards.
So a couple of people have asked me,
should I read slowly with tafakkur and tadabur
with reflection and pondering over the Quran, or
should I read quick and read as much
as I can?
I said, there's the whole rest of the
year for you to ponder over it. And
this time, read as much as you can.
This is like in the year the analogy
of this in the year is like the
last part of the game show
when the person's running through the obstacle course,
grabbing prizes left and right, and the clock
is ticking.
This is this is what the the,
you know, this is the part of the
year that this is. It's not for anything
else. For those of you who are fortunate
to have free time, please don't waste it.
Please, spend your your days praying in the
masjid and your nights in tarawee and and
spend your time with the Masahif.
If you can still take time off from
your work, take it off.
You know, if you can avoid travel, if
you can avoid any of these things, please
do that. And,
if you can sit in the company of
any of the pious ulama,
you know, you can go to the maslikh
Haddaw with Sheikh Tamim or you can go
to,
you know, the different
programs that are under the supervision of the
like the one that they have in Dar
es Salaam or like the ones that they
have in different places.
Please, do so.
And when you're there, you know, be like
a soldier in the slot of Taraui. Don't
be the one who is cowering behind hiding
behind other people. Be in the front row.
Don't be like the one who turns a
tux tail and runs when things become difficult.
Rather be in the 1st row, keep your
phone resolutely in your pocket or away from
you. And until
the salaam is done with, with with Witter,
you know, as far as you're able to,
don't don't don't don't move from your or
flinch from your your position,
and, you know, make these habits. If you
make them when you're young, especially for the
people who are in high school or college
or whatever, if you make them now when
you're young, then when you're when you're become
older and your heart fills
with experience and with wisdom, your body will
be able to endure the the the the
that
are needed in order for your heart to
open up and and your understanding to to
open up.
If you spend your entire youth,
wasting time,
then when your heart has that capacity to
to open up, your body won't
your body, your habits, all of these things
will will conspire in order to deprive you
of
of of of the prize of enlightenment.
So whatever you can, do it. Even if
right now it seems like you're not benefiting
anything or gaining anything,
trust me, if you're able to stand for
20 rakas of Tarawi without, like, you know,
tucking tail and run,
you already become like,
a great value of Allah in the age
that people don't have enough attention span to
read anything more than a tweet.
It's a great it's a great, benefit that
you'll have. It will benefit you in the
dunya and the akira. It will benefit you
in your school and in your work,
much less in your eternal life. Allah give
all of us dafil. I only appreciate this
now that I have to run around from
place to place and, like, not pray, like,
you know, Juwa and Tarawi and the same
must have twice during Ramadan.
But the best Ramadans I had were those
ones where
where we had the
the ability to focus. And there's a hikmah
for everything with a lot of us. I'm
not complaining. But those of you who have
the ability to
stay steadfast in your places, Inshallah, please do
so and don't don't,
don't waste
while you have it.