Post by ottoman on Oct 25, 2007 18:19:19 GMT
Sayyid Taha bin Ahmad bin Ibrahim (Quddisa sirruh), one of the great awliya' al-kiram, was a descendant of 'Abdal-Qadir-i Geilani . He was the most perfect successor-deputy (al- Khalifa al-akmal) of Mawlana Diya' ad-din Khalid al-Baghdadi and the treasure of Rabbani (Divine) Knowledge.
His descent continued through his two sons, namely 'Ubaidullah and 'Alauddin, 'Alauddin Effendi is (buried) in the Hizne village of Shamdhinan. His grandson Muhammad Siddiq Effendi married Mariam Hanim after her husband Mustafa Effendi died. Taha Effendi was born from Mariam Hanim. Muhammad Siddiq Effendi, who was one of the sons of this Sayyid Taha Effendi, died in Baghdad while he was Musul Deputy in the Iraqi government. His two other sons Muhammad Salih Daru and Mazhar Effendis who were in Iraq with their properties when the Ottoman Empire was divided, migrated to Turkey in 1400 (1980).
Hadrat Mawlana Khalid, who was the qutb of the thirteenth century of Islam, had been to India (Hindustan) where he had the honor of attending the presence of Ghulam-i 'Ali 'Abdullah ad-Dahlawi, After attaining the virtues (fadl) and perfection (kamalat) proper to and worthy of him, he returned home, Baghdad, to instruct (irshad) human servants of Allahu ta'ala. Since the entire world was illuminated by the anwar (spiritual lights) that radiated from Mawlana's hearts, Sayyid 'Abdullah, who had become a friend of his while they were studying, visited him in Sulaimaniyya and attained perfection at his sohbat and became a Khalifa al-akmal of his. He told Hadrat Mawlana about the extraordinarily high qualities of his nephew Sayyid Taha. Mawlana ordered him to bring his nephew to him during his next visit. Sayyid 'Abdullah took Sayyid Taha to Baghdad; as soon as Hadrat Mawlana saw Sayyid Taha he ordered him to go abruptly to Hadrat 'Abdal-Qadir al-Geilani 's shrine to perform istikhara (divining by dream). Hadrat 'Abd al-Qadir al-Geilani informed him that, though his own way (Tariqa) was great, there remained no experts in it at that time, and that Mawlana was the most perfect guide of his time, and ordered him to go to him at once. Upon this spiritual order, Sayyid Taha worked for two suluks, that is, eighty days, near Mawlana and later went to the town of Barda Sur. When Sayyid 'Abdullah passed away, he emigrated to the town of Nehri and began instructing. For forty-two years he emitted faid to his disciples there. Lovers from everywhere gathered like moths around this source of light.
He would perform his 'ibadat in a small house inherited from his father. At other times he would teach aqli (scientific) and naqli (conveyed) knowledge. He wouldn't associate with aghas (squires), begs and politicians, worldly and political talks would not take place in his presence. He would read (Maktubat) everyday. He would imprint the advice (being kind to everybody to be patient against bad actions and not be revengeful, besides, responding with kindness to respect and help superiors and the government) into hearts. All of his masters throughout 1200 years had always taught this good moral of Islam, they had all been respectful to states and laws. None of them had been heard to have rebelled against the government, nor is there a record of such an ugly event in history books. Some antagonistic and jealous people tried to blemish these blessed person with rebellions attempted against governments by feudalistic lovers of worldly property and reputation who could not benefit from these sources of knowledge and beautiful moral values because they were far from them, and also with others' ignorant, excessive and stupid behaviors after their death, so that a few of these virtuous people were sent to dungeons. However, law and justice proved them to be innocent and they were set free with sincere and earnest apologies and great compensatory rewards to appease their blessed hearts and regain their tawajjuh. Such slanderous arrows, which are often seen in history and story books, were cast on hadrat Sayyid Taha also, and those poor unfortunates tried to stain this sun of knowledge and moral by making up imaginary and ugly slanders. But, since the truth can't be hidden, those fortunate and alert people who saw and understood this son of hidaya (the right way) and were not fooled with such slanders, became lovers and admirers of his and attained comfort, peace and endless bliss by being enlightened with the nur (light) radiating from his blessed heart.
Hadrat Sayyid 'Abdulhakim-i Arwasi's great-grandfather, Sayyid Muhammad, was one of those who came from Van and received faid from this source. Sayyid Taha stayed at Sayyid Muhammad's house when he honored Van, Sibghatullah Effendi, who was Sayyid Muhammad's brother Lutfi's son, came from Hizan to Van and attached himself (intisab) to Sayyid Taha. Later he returned to Hizan, where his father lived, and there he became very famous. With hundreds of his disciples he visited Nehri every year. In one of those visits, he took with him his uncle Molla 'AbdulHamid Effendi's son, Sayyid Fahim, who was very young then. Hadrat Sayyid Fahim asked the owner of the house where they stayed for a night on their way what type of man the Governor of Hakkari was. The host said that he was drunk day and night. Sayyid Fahim thought all night whether it would be right to stay in a country wherein the governor was a drunkard. The following day they came to the village of Rasulan, where Sibghatullah Effendi asked its inhabitants what kind of person the Governor was. They said he was a nice person. Sayyid Fahim joined in at once. "My cousin! He is a drunkard. Why is he said to be a good person?" When they were leaving Baskhal'a for Nehri, Sayyid Muhammad Effendi's said to Sayyid Fahim, on the side, "My dear Fahim! Sayyid Taha, whose presence you will enter is a great personage at the highest degree of wilayat.[44] Don't leave him before you receive faid, before you attain perfection!" When they were departing from Nehri, everybody kissed the hand of Hadrat Sayyid Taha, who stood in front of a mosque. Seeing Sayyid Fahim remain behind, Sibghatullah Effendi came back and asked Hadrat Sayyid Taha to permit Sayyid Fahim to return. He did not permit it, but ordered him to remain there. As soon as the travelers left and while they both were on their feet, he gave an assignment to Sayyid Fahim and began to teach him. On a hot day, he had him repeat all of what he had taught. Sayyid Fahim repeated everything as he was taught, except 'hatt-i tuli' instead of 'hatt-i tulani.' Sayyid Taha corrected him right away. In those days Sayyid Fahim was very young and had not completed his madrasa studies. One day Sayyid Taha was sitting against the wall of a mosque when Sayyid Fahim approached him. He made a sign with his blessed hand for him to come, and Sayyid Fahim came. He said, "You are an intelligent student. You should read Mutawwal.' Sayyid Fahim said, "Sir, I do not have that book. Besides, it is not one of those books that are studied in my country." Sayyid Taha gave him his own book. Hadrat Sayyid Fahim, to complete his education, went to the village of Abiri, Bulanik, Mus, where he studied the whole of Mutawwal in the presence of Molla Rasul. And, in order to attain high degrees of wilayat, he went to Nehri, i.e. Shamdinan, twice a year. During every visit, he was honored with various courteous acts by Sayyid Taha. For example, one day Sayyid Taha was reading Maktubat before a dense crowd in the anteroom of a mosque. Standing at a distance, Sayyid Fahim listened. Hadrat Sayyid Taha raised his head from the book and asked him, "Molla Fahim! Is there a murshid on the earth today?" Sayyid Fahim replied, "The likes of the present murshid has not come!" Upon this reply, Sayyid Taha immediately closed the book and went to his room.
After Sayyid Fahim attained perfection (kamal) and completed qualifications (takmil) and was permitted to instruct others with a khilafat al-mutlaqa (certificate of absolute deputy), he said he was not competent enough for this duty. Sayyid Taha insisted and made him accept it and then ordered him to honor Arwas, where Sayyid Fahim had been born. Sayyid Fahim left, but, while he was climbing the Nehri Mountain, Sayyid Taha called him back to his presence and, showing Sayyid Fahim's old letters in books, said to him, "Weren't these out of your ikhlas and love? Why do you run away from this duty?" Sayyid Fahim, as he had done before, visited Nehri every year even after he had been honored with the khilafat al-mutlaqa.
Hadrat Sayyid Taha passed away in 1269 (1853). One afternoon, he was given two letters as he was sitting among trees. He had his son-in-law 'Abdulahad Effendi read the letters. He remarked, "The time has come for us to leave this world." His son-in-law said, "Oh Sir, what will we do with these letters which came from Damascus?" After reading a Khatm-i khaja[45] that day, Sayyid Taha went to his room, where he lay ill for twelve days. His blessed soul ascended to the Rafiq[46] al-ala during the time of the afternoon salat. Thousands of lovers who heard the cries were shocked. While he was ill, he wanted his brother Shaikh Salih, who was in the town of Barda Sur, to come to Nehri. He ordered his perfect brother (biradar-i akmal), Sayyid Salih, to perform a Khatm-i khaja and tawajjuh. "My brother Salih is a perfect person. Everybody's head is under his wing," he said. Hadrat Sayyid Fahim accepted Shaikh Salih as his Shaikh-i sohbat.[47] Until Shaikh Salih passed away in 1281 (1864), he visited Nehri twice a year and, after Shaikh Salih's departure, he did not give up this custom and honored Nehri twice a year until he himself passed away in 1313 (1895).
Except Sayyid Muhammad Salih, the most influenced disciple of Sayyid Taha-i Hakkari was Sayyid Sibgatullah Arwasi. Following him was Kufrawi Muhammad. Sayyid Sibgatullah was known by such names as "Gaws-ul azam" and "Gaws-i Hizani" among his disciples. He passed away in 1287. Of his disciples. Abdurrahman Tahi Nurshini was known by the names "Ustad-i azam" and "Sayda". Of all his disciples, nineteen were: Fath-ullah Warksanisi, Abdullah Nurshini, molla Rashid Nurshini, Abdulqahhar who was the grandson of allama molla Halil Siridin, Abdulqadir Hizani, sayyid Ibrahim Asirdi, Abdulhakim Farsafi, Ibrahim Ninki, Tahir Abari, Abdulhadi, Abdullah Hurusi, Ibrahim Cukrushi, Halil Cukrushi, Ahmad Tashkasani, Muhammad Sami Erzincani, Mustafa, Sulaiman and Yusuf Bitlisi, Abdurrahman Tahi died in 1304. Ibrahim Cukrushi collected his sayings under the name "Isharat" (signs). It is a very dependable book. Fathullah Warkanisi died in 1317. Of his disciples, Muhammad Ziyauddin Nurshini, son of Abdurrahman-i Tahi, passed away in Bitlis in 1342 (1924). His book "Maktubat" contains a hundred and fourteen letters. The first of his thirteen disciples was Muhammad Alauddin-i Uhini who collected his master's letters. The second is Ahmad Haznawi. Muhammad Mathum, Sayyid Muhammad Sharif Arabkandi and Abdulhakim Effendi of Adiyaman were disciples of his. The latter one died in 1399 (1978). Muhammad Rashid Effendi was his son.
His descent continued through his two sons, namely 'Ubaidullah and 'Alauddin, 'Alauddin Effendi is (buried) in the Hizne village of Shamdhinan. His grandson Muhammad Siddiq Effendi married Mariam Hanim after her husband Mustafa Effendi died. Taha Effendi was born from Mariam Hanim. Muhammad Siddiq Effendi, who was one of the sons of this Sayyid Taha Effendi, died in Baghdad while he was Musul Deputy in the Iraqi government. His two other sons Muhammad Salih Daru and Mazhar Effendis who were in Iraq with their properties when the Ottoman Empire was divided, migrated to Turkey in 1400 (1980).
Hadrat Mawlana Khalid, who was the qutb of the thirteenth century of Islam, had been to India (Hindustan) where he had the honor of attending the presence of Ghulam-i 'Ali 'Abdullah ad-Dahlawi, After attaining the virtues (fadl) and perfection (kamalat) proper to and worthy of him, he returned home, Baghdad, to instruct (irshad) human servants of Allahu ta'ala. Since the entire world was illuminated by the anwar (spiritual lights) that radiated from Mawlana's hearts, Sayyid 'Abdullah, who had become a friend of his while they were studying, visited him in Sulaimaniyya and attained perfection at his sohbat and became a Khalifa al-akmal of his. He told Hadrat Mawlana about the extraordinarily high qualities of his nephew Sayyid Taha. Mawlana ordered him to bring his nephew to him during his next visit. Sayyid 'Abdullah took Sayyid Taha to Baghdad; as soon as Hadrat Mawlana saw Sayyid Taha he ordered him to go abruptly to Hadrat 'Abdal-Qadir al-Geilani 's shrine to perform istikhara (divining by dream). Hadrat 'Abd al-Qadir al-Geilani informed him that, though his own way (Tariqa) was great, there remained no experts in it at that time, and that Mawlana was the most perfect guide of his time, and ordered him to go to him at once. Upon this spiritual order, Sayyid Taha worked for two suluks, that is, eighty days, near Mawlana and later went to the town of Barda Sur. When Sayyid 'Abdullah passed away, he emigrated to the town of Nehri and began instructing. For forty-two years he emitted faid to his disciples there. Lovers from everywhere gathered like moths around this source of light.
He would perform his 'ibadat in a small house inherited from his father. At other times he would teach aqli (scientific) and naqli (conveyed) knowledge. He wouldn't associate with aghas (squires), begs and politicians, worldly and political talks would not take place in his presence. He would read (Maktubat) everyday. He would imprint the advice (being kind to everybody to be patient against bad actions and not be revengeful, besides, responding with kindness to respect and help superiors and the government) into hearts. All of his masters throughout 1200 years had always taught this good moral of Islam, they had all been respectful to states and laws. None of them had been heard to have rebelled against the government, nor is there a record of such an ugly event in history books. Some antagonistic and jealous people tried to blemish these blessed person with rebellions attempted against governments by feudalistic lovers of worldly property and reputation who could not benefit from these sources of knowledge and beautiful moral values because they were far from them, and also with others' ignorant, excessive and stupid behaviors after their death, so that a few of these virtuous people were sent to dungeons. However, law and justice proved them to be innocent and they were set free with sincere and earnest apologies and great compensatory rewards to appease their blessed hearts and regain their tawajjuh. Such slanderous arrows, which are often seen in history and story books, were cast on hadrat Sayyid Taha also, and those poor unfortunates tried to stain this sun of knowledge and moral by making up imaginary and ugly slanders. But, since the truth can't be hidden, those fortunate and alert people who saw and understood this son of hidaya (the right way) and were not fooled with such slanders, became lovers and admirers of his and attained comfort, peace and endless bliss by being enlightened with the nur (light) radiating from his blessed heart.
Hadrat Sayyid 'Abdulhakim-i Arwasi's great-grandfather, Sayyid Muhammad, was one of those who came from Van and received faid from this source. Sayyid Taha stayed at Sayyid Muhammad's house when he honored Van, Sibghatullah Effendi, who was Sayyid Muhammad's brother Lutfi's son, came from Hizan to Van and attached himself (intisab) to Sayyid Taha. Later he returned to Hizan, where his father lived, and there he became very famous. With hundreds of his disciples he visited Nehri every year. In one of those visits, he took with him his uncle Molla 'AbdulHamid Effendi's son, Sayyid Fahim, who was very young then. Hadrat Sayyid Fahim asked the owner of the house where they stayed for a night on their way what type of man the Governor of Hakkari was. The host said that he was drunk day and night. Sayyid Fahim thought all night whether it would be right to stay in a country wherein the governor was a drunkard. The following day they came to the village of Rasulan, where Sibghatullah Effendi asked its inhabitants what kind of person the Governor was. They said he was a nice person. Sayyid Fahim joined in at once. "My cousin! He is a drunkard. Why is he said to be a good person?" When they were leaving Baskhal'a for Nehri, Sayyid Muhammad Effendi's said to Sayyid Fahim, on the side, "My dear Fahim! Sayyid Taha, whose presence you will enter is a great personage at the highest degree of wilayat.[44] Don't leave him before you receive faid, before you attain perfection!" When they were departing from Nehri, everybody kissed the hand of Hadrat Sayyid Taha, who stood in front of a mosque. Seeing Sayyid Fahim remain behind, Sibghatullah Effendi came back and asked Hadrat Sayyid Taha to permit Sayyid Fahim to return. He did not permit it, but ordered him to remain there. As soon as the travelers left and while they both were on their feet, he gave an assignment to Sayyid Fahim and began to teach him. On a hot day, he had him repeat all of what he had taught. Sayyid Fahim repeated everything as he was taught, except 'hatt-i tuli' instead of 'hatt-i tulani.' Sayyid Taha corrected him right away. In those days Sayyid Fahim was very young and had not completed his madrasa studies. One day Sayyid Taha was sitting against the wall of a mosque when Sayyid Fahim approached him. He made a sign with his blessed hand for him to come, and Sayyid Fahim came. He said, "You are an intelligent student. You should read Mutawwal.' Sayyid Fahim said, "Sir, I do not have that book. Besides, it is not one of those books that are studied in my country." Sayyid Taha gave him his own book. Hadrat Sayyid Fahim, to complete his education, went to the village of Abiri, Bulanik, Mus, where he studied the whole of Mutawwal in the presence of Molla Rasul. And, in order to attain high degrees of wilayat, he went to Nehri, i.e. Shamdinan, twice a year. During every visit, he was honored with various courteous acts by Sayyid Taha. For example, one day Sayyid Taha was reading Maktubat before a dense crowd in the anteroom of a mosque. Standing at a distance, Sayyid Fahim listened. Hadrat Sayyid Taha raised his head from the book and asked him, "Molla Fahim! Is there a murshid on the earth today?" Sayyid Fahim replied, "The likes of the present murshid has not come!" Upon this reply, Sayyid Taha immediately closed the book and went to his room.
After Sayyid Fahim attained perfection (kamal) and completed qualifications (takmil) and was permitted to instruct others with a khilafat al-mutlaqa (certificate of absolute deputy), he said he was not competent enough for this duty. Sayyid Taha insisted and made him accept it and then ordered him to honor Arwas, where Sayyid Fahim had been born. Sayyid Fahim left, but, while he was climbing the Nehri Mountain, Sayyid Taha called him back to his presence and, showing Sayyid Fahim's old letters in books, said to him, "Weren't these out of your ikhlas and love? Why do you run away from this duty?" Sayyid Fahim, as he had done before, visited Nehri every year even after he had been honored with the khilafat al-mutlaqa.
Hadrat Sayyid Taha passed away in 1269 (1853). One afternoon, he was given two letters as he was sitting among trees. He had his son-in-law 'Abdulahad Effendi read the letters. He remarked, "The time has come for us to leave this world." His son-in-law said, "Oh Sir, what will we do with these letters which came from Damascus?" After reading a Khatm-i khaja[45] that day, Sayyid Taha went to his room, where he lay ill for twelve days. His blessed soul ascended to the Rafiq[46] al-ala during the time of the afternoon salat. Thousands of lovers who heard the cries were shocked. While he was ill, he wanted his brother Shaikh Salih, who was in the town of Barda Sur, to come to Nehri. He ordered his perfect brother (biradar-i akmal), Sayyid Salih, to perform a Khatm-i khaja and tawajjuh. "My brother Salih is a perfect person. Everybody's head is under his wing," he said. Hadrat Sayyid Fahim accepted Shaikh Salih as his Shaikh-i sohbat.[47] Until Shaikh Salih passed away in 1281 (1864), he visited Nehri twice a year and, after Shaikh Salih's departure, he did not give up this custom and honored Nehri twice a year until he himself passed away in 1313 (1895).
Except Sayyid Muhammad Salih, the most influenced disciple of Sayyid Taha-i Hakkari was Sayyid Sibgatullah Arwasi. Following him was Kufrawi Muhammad. Sayyid Sibgatullah was known by such names as "Gaws-ul azam" and "Gaws-i Hizani" among his disciples. He passed away in 1287. Of his disciples. Abdurrahman Tahi Nurshini was known by the names "Ustad-i azam" and "Sayda". Of all his disciples, nineteen were: Fath-ullah Warksanisi, Abdullah Nurshini, molla Rashid Nurshini, Abdulqahhar who was the grandson of allama molla Halil Siridin, Abdulqadir Hizani, sayyid Ibrahim Asirdi, Abdulhakim Farsafi, Ibrahim Ninki, Tahir Abari, Abdulhadi, Abdullah Hurusi, Ibrahim Cukrushi, Halil Cukrushi, Ahmad Tashkasani, Muhammad Sami Erzincani, Mustafa, Sulaiman and Yusuf Bitlisi, Abdurrahman Tahi died in 1304. Ibrahim Cukrushi collected his sayings under the name "Isharat" (signs). It is a very dependable book. Fathullah Warkanisi died in 1317. Of his disciples, Muhammad Ziyauddin Nurshini, son of Abdurrahman-i Tahi, passed away in Bitlis in 1342 (1924). His book "Maktubat" contains a hundred and fourteen letters. The first of his thirteen disciples was Muhammad Alauddin-i Uhini who collected his master's letters. The second is Ahmad Haznawi. Muhammad Mathum, Sayyid Muhammad Sharif Arabkandi and Abdulhakim Effendi of Adiyaman were disciples of his. The latter one died in 1399 (1978). Muhammad Rashid Effendi was his son.