Post by ali0009 on Oct 10, 2009 6:56:10 GMT
Hazrat Junaid Bhagdadi Radi Allahu anhu And Search for Hazrat Bahlool Radi Allahu anhu
Shaykh Junayd Baghdadi Radi Allahu anhu went for a walk out of Baghdad. His students followed him. The Shaykh asked how Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu was.
They answered, "He is a crazy person, what do you need from him?"
"Bring me to him because I have a need for him."
The students searched for Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu and found him in the desert. They took Shaykh Junayd Radi Allahu anhu to him.
When Shaykh Junayd Radi Allahu anhu went near Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu , he saw Bahlul in a state of perturbation with a brick under his head.
The Shaykh greeted him.
Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu answered and asked, "Who are you?"
"I am Junayd Baghdadi."
Bahlul asked, "Are you Abul Qasim?"
"Yes!" replied the Shaykh.
Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu asked again "Are you Shaykh Baghdadi who gives people spiritual instructions?"
"Yes!" Then Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu asked "Do you even know how to eat?"
"Yes! I say Bismillah (In the Name of Allah). I eat from in front of me, I take small bites, put them in the right side of my mouth, and slowly chew. I don't stare at others' bites. I remember Allah while eating. For whatever morsel I eat, I say Alhamdulillah (Praise be to Allah). I wash my hands before and after eating."
Bahul Radi Allahu anhu stood up, shook his garment on the Shaykh, and said, "You want to be the spiritual teacher of the world but you don't even know how to eat." Saying this, he walked away.
The Shaykh's students said, "O Shaykh! He is a crazy person."
The Shaykh's replied, "He is such a lunatic who is intelligent in his words. Listen to the correct statements from him."
Saying this he went after Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu, saying, "I have a need for Bahlul."
When Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu reached a deserted building he sat down. Junayd came near him.
Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu asked, "Who are you?"
"Shaykh Baghdadi who doesn't even know how to eat."
"You don't know how to eat, but do you know how to talk?"
"Yes."
"How do you talk?"
"I talk in moderation and to the point. I don't speak unoccasionally or too much. I speak so the listeners can understand. I call the world's people towards Allah and the Prophet. I don't talk so much that the people would get bored. I care about the deepness of inner and outer knowledge."
Then he described whatever was connected with manners and etiquette.
Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu said, "Forget about eating, you don't know how to talk either."
He stood up, shook his garment on the Shaykh and walked away.
The students said, "O Shaykh! You saw, he is a crazy person. What do you expect from a lunatic!"
Shaykh said, "I have a need for him. You do not know."
Again he went after Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu until he reached him.
Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu asked, "What do you want from me? You who don't know the manners of eating and speaking, do you know how to sleep?"
"Yes, I know."
"How do you sleep?" Bahlul asked.
"When I am finished with Solat-e-Isha' and reciting supplications, I don my sleepwear."
Then he described the manners of sleeping which were transmitted to him by the learned people of religion.
Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu then said: "I understand that you do not know how to sleep either."
He wanted to get up, but Junayd Radi Allahu anhu caught hold of his garment and said, "O Bahlul! I don't know; so for the sake of Allah teach me."
Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu said "You claimed knowledge and said you knew so I was avoiding you. Now that you confessed your lack of knowledge I will teach you."
"Know that whatever you described is secondary."
"The truth behind eating meals is that you eat lawful morsels. If you eat forbidden food likewise, with one hundred manners, it won't benefit you, but will be the reason for blackening the heart."
"May Allah grant you great reward." remarked the Sheikh.
Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu continued, "The heart must be pure, and have good intentions before you begin to talk. And your conversation must be to please Allah. If it is for any worldly or useless work, then however you express yourself, it will become a calamity for you. That is why silence and quietude would be best."
"Whatever you said about sleeping is also of secondary importance.The truth of it is that your heart should be free of enmity, jealousy, and hate. Your heart should not be greedy for this world or its wealth, and remember Allah when going to sleep."
Sheikh Junayd Radi Allahu anhu then kissed Bahlul's Radi Allahu anhu hand and prayed for him.
The students who saw this incident, and had thought that Hazrat Bahlul Radi Allahu anhu was crazy, forgot their actions and started a new life.
