SALAM AY UMMATH YE MUHAMMADIAH (Salla Allahu Ta'ala 'Alayhi Wa Sallam) ASSALAM U WALAIKUM
BISMILLAH IRRAHMAN IRRAHIM
THE ROSE OF BAGHDAD SHAREEFAL-GHAWTH AL-A'ZAM SULTAN AL-AWLIYA' SAYYADUNA 'ASH-SHAYKH MUHIYI'D-DIN 'ABD AL-QADIR AL-JILANI AL-HASSANI AL-HUSAAYNI (RADI ALLAHU TA'ALA 'ANHU) ‘’SOME NATURES HAVE A SPIRITUAL AFFINITY WITH OTHERS. IN THIS WAY MY SOUL HAS AN AFFINITY WITH THE SOUL OF SYED ABDUL QADIR JILANI AND I HAVE BEEN MADE AWARE OF IT THROUGH CLEAR SPIRITUAL VISIONS. ABOUT THIRTY YEARS BACK ONE NIGHT ALLAH INFORMED ME THAT HE HAD CHOSEN ME FOR HIS OWN. BY A STRANGE COINCIDENCE AN OLD WOMAN WHO WAS ABOUT EIGHTY YEARS OF AGE SAW A DREAM THE SAME NIGHT AND RELATED IT TO ME THE NEXT MORNING THAT SHE HAD SEEN SYED ABDUL QADIR JILANI (MAY ALLAH BE PLEASED WITH HIM) IN HER DREAM. HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY ANOTHER EMINENT PERSONAGE BOTH WEARING GREEN DRESSES. THE SECOND PERSON WAS SOMEWHAT YOUNGER THAN SYED ABDUL QADIR. FIRST THEY OFFERED PRAYER IN OUR JUM'A MASJID AND THEN THEY EMERGED INTO THE COURTYARD OF THE MOSQUE. THE WOMAN STOOD NEAR THEM AND PRESENTLY A BRIGHT STAR APPEARED IN THE EAST. SYED ABDUL QADIR WAS VERY HAPPY AT ITS APPEARANCE AND ADDRESSING IT GREETED IT WITH: PEACE BE ON YOU. HIS COMPANION ALSO OFFERED THE GREETING OF PEACE. THAT STAR WAS MY SELF. SHE SAW THIS IN THE LATTER PART OF THE NIGHT. AS HAS BEEN SAID: A BELIEVER SEE VISIONS HIM-SELF AND VISIONS ABOUT HIM ARE VOUCHSAFED TO OTHERS”
HERE THE PROMISED MESSIAH (AS) TALKS OF THE MAGNIFICENT FRIEND AND LOVER OF ALLAH (SWT) HADHRAT SAYYED MUHYIDIN ABU MOHAMMAD ABDUL QADIR AL-JILANI (RA). ANYONE WHO HASTHE FORTUNE TO COME ACROSS THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR JILANI (RA) WILL BE IN NO DOUBT AS TO WHY THE SOUL OF THE PROMISED MESSIAH (AS) HAD SUCH A CLOSE AFFINITY WITH THAT OF SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR (RA). HIS EVERY POUR YEARNED TO SERVE ALLAH (SWT) AND HE IS INDEED TO BE COUNTED FROM AMONGST THE GREATEST OF THE AWLIYAA ALLAH (FRIENDS OF ALLAH). COMMENTING ON HIS COMPLETE SUBSERVIENCE TO THE WILL OF ALLAH (SWT), HADHRAT KHALIFATUL MASIH II (RA) WRITES
‘’HAZRAT ABDUL QADIR JILANI IN ONE OF HIS BOOKS SAYS: ‘‘THERE IS A TIME WHEN I DO NOT EAT UNTIL ALLAH IS PLEASED TO SAY: ABDUL QADIR, GET UP AND EAT FOR MY SAKE, OR WEAR THESE ROBES TO PLEASE ME.’ IT IS MEN LIKE HIM WHO WOULD DO EVEN THEIR DAILY CHORES ONLY WHEN ALLAH WANTS THEM TO; OF COURSE, NOT FOR THEIR OWN SAKE BUT FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH, FOR WHATEVER THEY DO, THEY DO IT TO PLEASE HIM.’’
BOTH THE PROMISED MESSIAH (AS) AND SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR AL-JILANI WERE CONSUMED WITH THE LOVE OF THE HOLY PROPHET SALLAHU ALAHI WASLAM AND IT IS THE GREAT BLESSING OF ALLAH (SWT) THAT BOTH OF THESE GREAT CHAMPIONS OF HUMANITY SHARED BOTH A SPIRITUAL AND BLOOD AFFINITY. FOR THEY ARE RELATED TO EACH OTHER THROUGH THE LINE OF THE HOLY PROPHET’S SALLAHU ALAHI WASLAM BELOVED DAUGHTER, AMMI SAYYEDA OF THE WOMEN OF THE WORLDS, AMMI SYEDA HADHRAT FATIMA AZ-ZAHRA (RA).
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION, THIS GREAT PERSONAGE OF ISLAM, SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR (RA) WAS BORN IN 470 A.H. (1077-78 C.E.) AND OF PERSIAN DESCENT (COMING FROM THE AREA OF JILAN). ONE OF HIS MANY TITLES (KUNYA) IS ‘AL-HASANI WAL HUSSEINI’ BECAUSE HE WAS BLESSED WITH DIRECT LINEAGE TO THE HOLY PROPHET SALLAHU ALAHI WASLAM THROUGH HIS FATHER HADHRAT ABU SALEH ZANGI DOST (RA) WHO WAS A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF IMAM HASSAN (RA); AND ALSO THROUGH HIS MOTHER HADHRAT BIBI UMMUL KHAIR FATIMA (RA) WHO WAS A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF IMAM HUSSEIN (RA).
THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING THE BLESSED MARRIAGE OF HADHRAT ABU SALEH (RA) AND HADHRAT BIBI UMMUL KHAIR (RA) WERE QUITE MIRACULOUS TO SAY THE LEAST. IT IS SAID THAT ONE DAY HADHRAT ABU SALEH (RA), WHO WAS RENOWNED FOR HIS GREAT PIETY, WAS WALKING ALONG A RIVERBANK WHEN HE CAME ACROSS AN APPLE WHICH HE PICKED UP AND ATE. UPON REFLECTION, HE BECAME EXTREMELY WORRIED AS HE FEARED THAT IN EATING THE APPLE HE MAY HAVE TAKEN SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT RIGHTFULLY HIS TO TAKE. PERHAPS HIS WORRY WAS IGNITED BY THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT INVOLVING THE HOLY PROPHET SALLAHU ALAHI WASLAM
THE PROPHET SALLAHU ALAHI WASLAM PASSED A DATE FALLEN ON THE WAY AND SAID, ‘’WERE I NOT AFRAID THAT IT MAY BE FROM A SADAQA (CHARITABLE GIFTS), I WOULD HAVE EATEN IT.’’
!!!!SUBHAN ALLAH, MASHA ALLAH, ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!IN ORDER TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION HE SEARCHED FOR THE OWNER OF THE APPLE UNTIL HE CAMETO A GARDEN FILLED WITH APPLES WHICH WAS OWNED BY A MAN CALLED HADHRAT ABDULLAH SAWMAI AZ-ZAHID (RA). HADHRAT ABU SALEH (RA) OFFERED HIS SINCERE APOLOGY WHICH HADHRAT ABDULLAH (RA) SAID HE WOULD ACCEPT ON THE CONDITION THAT HADHRAT ABU SALEH(RA) SPENT SOME TIME MAINTAINING HIS GARDEN. HADHRAT ABU SALEH (RA) AGREED AND OBEDIENTLY TENDED TO THE UPKEEP OF THE GARDEN. AFTER SOME TIME HAD PASSED HADHRATABU SALEH (RA) WAS RELEASED FROM HIS OBLIGATION BUT WITH THE FINAL CONDITION THAT HE SHOULD MARRY THE DAUGHTER OF HADHRAT ABDULLAH (RA) WHO WAS SAID TO BE BLIND, DEAF, AND HANDICAPPED IN BOTH THE ARMS AND LEGS. WITH GREAT OBEDIENCE AND HUMILITY HADHRAT ABU SALEH (RA) ACCEPTED THIS CONDITION AND MARRIED THE DAUGHTER OF HADHRAT ABDULLAH (RA). ON THE WEDDING NIGHT HE MET HIS NEW WIFE FOR THE FIRST TIME AND FOUND THAT THE LADY IN FRONT OF HIM WAS BLESSED WITH GREAT BEAUTY AND SEEMED VERY ABLE BODIED. HER APPEARANCE WAS SO FAR FROM THE DESCRIPTION HE HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN GIVEN THAT HE IMMEDIATELY EXITED THINKING THAT HE HAD ENTERED THE WRONG ROOM. HADHRATABDULLAH (RA) APPROACHED HIM AND EXPLAINED, TO THE ASTONISHMENT OF HADHRAT ABUSALEH (RA), THAT HIS ORIGINAL WORDS WERE FAR FROM A DECEPTION SAYING,
’O PRINCE, THIS IS YOUR WIFE AND WHATEVER I HAD SAID ABOUT HER IS TRUE. SHE IS BLIND IN THAT SHE HAS NEVER LIFTED HER EYES TOWARDS A NON-MAHRAM (NON-MARRIAGEABLE RELATIVE). SHE IS DEAF IN THAT SHE HAS NEVER HEARD ANYTHING AGAINST THE SHARIAH. SHE IS HANDICAPPED IN THE HAND IN THAT SHE HAS NEVER TOUCHED ANYTHING AGAINST THE SHARIAH WITH THEM, AND SHE IS HANDICAPPED IN THE LEGS IN THAT SHE HAS NEVER STEPPED OUT OF THE HOUSE AGAINST THE SHARIAH.’’
IT WAS UNDER THESE MOST BLESSED AND HEART WARMING CIRCUMSTANCES THAT HADHRAT ABUSALEH (RA) AL-HASANI AND HADHRAT BIBI UMMUL KHAIR FATIMA (RA) AL-HUSSEINI MARRIED.THESE WERE THE RIGHTEOUS PARENTS OF A SON CALLED HADHRAT ABDUL QADIR AL-JILANI (RA)AND IT WAS FROM THEIR HOME THAT ALLAH (SWT) GAVE THE BLESSING OF WILAYAH (SAINTHOOD)AND MUJADIDIYYAH (REFORMER SHIP). HE WAS THUS BLESSED WITH A PIOUS UPBRINGING AND AT THE AGE OF 18 EMBARKED UPON A GREAT SPIRITUAL JOURNEY LASTING SOME SEVENTY-ONE YEARS WHICH SAW HIM ELEVATED TO THE LOFTY STATION OF MUJADADIYYAT AND PERHAPS EVEN BEYOND. ONE DAY HE CAME TO HIS MOTHER AND TOLD HER THAT HE WANTED TO GO TO BAGHDAD TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE. ON SEEING HOW INTENT HE WAS SHE BEGAN TO WEEP AND BROUGHT HIM FORTY GOLD COINS WHICH SHE SEWED INTO A POCKET IN THE ARMPIT OF HIS JACKET. ON SETTING OFF FROM HIS HOME TOWN FOR BAGHDAD HIS BLESSED MOTHER GAVE HIM THE FOLLOWING ADVICE,
1. OBEY ALLAH SUBHAN WATHALA COMMANDMENTS
2. ABSTAIN FROM FORBIDDEN THINGS
3. BE ALWAYS PLEASED WITH THE DECREE OF PROVIDENCE
4. ALWAYS BE TRUTHFUL
A CLOSE STUDY OF THE REMAINING SEVENTY-ONE YEARS OF HIS MIRACULOUS LIFE IS TESTAMENT TO THE FACT THAT HE NEVER LOST SIGHT OF HIS MOTHER’S TREASURED ADVICE AND ALWAYS REMAINED STEADFAST TO HER LOVING WORDS OF WISDOM. THIS IS ANOTHER SIGN OF HIS COMPLETE OBEDIENCE TO ALLAH (SWT) FOR SURELY HE (SWT) HAS INSTRUCTED MANKIND,
[31:15]‘’AND WE HAVE ENJOINED ON MAN TO BE GOOD TO HIS PARENTS - HIS MOTHER BEARS HIM IN WEAKNESS UPON WEAKNESS, AND HIS WEANING TAKES TWO YEARS - AND SAID, 'GIVE THANKS TO ME AND THY PARENTS. UNTO ME IS THE FINAL RETURN’’
A FAMOUS INCIDENT WHICH ILLUSTRATES HIS OBEDIENCE TO HIS MOTHER OCCURRED SHORTLY AFTER HIM LEAVING FOR BAGHDAD WHEN HIS CARAVAN (QAFILA) WAS ATTACKED BY A SIXTY MAN BAND OF HIGHWAYMEN. THEY DEMANDED EACH MEMBER OF THE QAFILA TO HAND OVER ANY VALUABLES THEY HAD ON THEIR PERSON. UNKNOWN TO THEM SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR (RA) WAS CARRYING THE FORTY GOLD COINS WHICH HIS MOTHER HAD SOWN TO THE INSIDE OF THE GARMENT HE WAS WEARING FOR SAFEKEEPING. SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR (RA) REFUSED TO DISOBEY HIS MOTHER’S NOBLE INSTRUCTION NOT TO LIE AND WHEN ONE OF THE BANDITS ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ANY VALUABLES HE VOLUNTEERED THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE COINS BUT THE BANDIT DID NOT BELIEVE HIM. A SECOND BANDIT THEN ASKED SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR (RA) THE SAME QUESTION AND HE AGAIN SAID THAT FORTY GOLD COINS WERE IN HIS JACKET BUT THE SECOND BANDIT ALSO DIDN’T BELIEVE HIM.
WHEN THE LEADER OF THE ROBBERS HEARD OF WHAT SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR (RA) HAD SAID HE ORDERED THAT THE STITCHING BE UNDONE AND TO HIS UTTER ASTONISHMENT THE COINS WERE THERE. THIS GREAT ACT OF HONESTY REDUCED THE LEADER OF THE ROBBERS TO A GREAT STATE OF HUMILITY AND HE ASKED SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR (RA), ‘WHEN YOUR MONEY WAS SAFE, WHAT COMPELLED YOU TO INSIST THAT YOU HAD IT AND SAY WHERE IT WAS HIDDEN’, TO WHICH THE GREAT SHEIKH REPLIED, ‘I MUST TELL THE TRUTH UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AS I PROMISED TO MY MOTHER’
THE LEADER WAS REDUCED TO TEARS AND IN THE SPIRIT OF REPENTANCE HE SAID, ‘I RENEGED ON MY PROMISE TO THE ONE WHO CREATED ME. I STOLE AND KILLED. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ME?’ BEFORE THE GREAT SHEIKH COULD REPLY THE OTHER HIGHWAYMEN, FILLED WITH THE FEAR OF ALLAH (SWT), INTERJECTED AND UTTERED THE MOST UNPREDICTABLE WORDS, ‘YOU HAVE BEEN OUR LEADER ALL THESE YEARS IN SINNING. NOW ALSO BE OUR LEADER IN REPENTING’. THE HIGHWAYMEN THEN TOOK THE HANDOFF SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR AL-JILANI (RA) AND OFFERED THEIR BAY’AH (PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE) AND SOUGHT THE REPENTANCE OF ALMIGHTY ALLAH (SWT). IT IS HERE NECESSARY TO PAUSE FOR A MOMENT AND REFLECT UPON A BEAUTIFUL OBSERVATION. TOWARDS THE END OF THE LIFE OF SHEIKH ABDUL QADIR (RA) SAINTS AND GREAT FRIENDS OF ALLAH (SWT) WOULD FLOCK TOWARDS HIM IN HOARDS SO AS TO OFFER THEIR BAY’AH AT HIS HAND YET THE FIRST PEOPLE TO OFFER THEIR BAY’AH AT HIS BLESSED HAND WERE SIXTY THIEVES AND KILLERS. INDEED ALMIGHTY ALLAH’S (SWT) MERCY KNOWS NO LIMIT.
GLORY BE TO ALLAH, AS MANY TIMES AS THE NUMBER OF HIS CREATURES; GLORY BE TO ALLAH TO THE EXTENT OF HIS BEING’S PLEASURE; GLORY BE TO ALLAH EQUAL TO THE WEIGHT OF HIS THROWN; GLORY BE TO ALLAH EQUAL TO THE INK THAT MAY BE IS RECORDING THE WORDS (FOR HIS PRAISE)’
YAH UMMATH YE MUHAMMADIAH (SALLAHU ALAHI WASALAM), EVERY TIME I ASKED MY FRIENDS A QUESTION THAT WHAT IS THE BASE OF ISLAM. EVERY ONE SAYS ABOUT THE FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM. BUT NO ONE SAYS THE CORRECT WORD UNTIL NOW.
ACTUALLY WHAT I FEEL, THE BASE OF THE ISLAM IS THIS. WHAT I MENTION BELOW.
AS OUR BELOVED AND OUR MASTERS FOLLOWED AND TEACH US. TODAY ARE WE FOLLOWING?
(‘WHEN YOUR MONEY WAS SAFE, WHAT COMPELLED YOU TO INSIST THAT YOU HAD IT AND SAY WHERE IT WAS HIDDEN’, TO WHICH THE GREAT SHEIKH REPLIED, ‘I MUST TELL THE TRUTH UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AS I PROMISED TO MY MOTHER’ )
!!! TRUTH IS THE BASE OF ISLAM, TRUTH IS THE BASE OF IMAAN, TRUTH IS THE BASE OF LOVE, TRUTH IS THE BASE OF UNITY, TRUTH IS THE BASE OF THE CREATION.!!!
!!! A SIMPLE WORD, CREATE EVERY THING. WHAT A WORD !!!
!!! TRUTH IS ALLAH SUBHAN WATHA ALLA !!!
!!!!SUBHAN ALLAH, MASHA ALLAH, ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!
IT WILLS CONTINUE INSHA ALLAH……….
KHAIRUL RABUL ALAMEEN
BADSHAH KHAN
