Post by Fana fi Shaykh on Sept 21, 2006 16:22:08 GMT
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
JAZZALLAHU ANNA MUHAMMADAM MA HUWA AHLAHU
Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu
Khwaja Baayazeed Bustami Radi Allahu anhu and his disciple
There was a certain ascetic who was one of the great saints of Bestam. He had his own followers and admirers, and at the same time he was never absent from the circle of Baayazeed. He listened to all his discourses, and sat with his companions.
One day he remarked to Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu, “Master, today is thirty years that I have been keeping constant fast. By night too I pray, so that I never sleep at all. Yet I discover no trace in myself of this knowledge of which you speak. For all that I believe in this knowledge, and I love this preaching.”
“If for three hundred years,” said Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu, “you fast by day and pray by night, you will never realize one atom of this discourse.”
“Why?” asked the disciple.
“Because you are veiled by your own self,” Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu replied.
“What is the remedy for this?” the man asked.
“You will never accept it,” answered Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu.
“I will so,” said the man. “Tell me, so that I may do as you prescribe.”
“Very well,” said Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu. “This very hour go and shave your beard and hair. Take off these clothes you are wearing, and tie a loincloth of goat’s wool about your waist. Hang a bag of nuts round your neck, then go to the marketplace. Collect all the children you can, and tell them, ‘I will give a nut to everyone who slaps me.’ Go round all the city in the same way; especially go everywhere people know you. That is your cure.”
“Glory be to God! There is no god but God,” cried the disciple on hearing these words.
“If an infidel uttered that formula, he would become a believer,” remarked Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu. “By uttering the same formula you have become a polytheist.”
“How so?” demanded the disciple.
“Because you counted yourself too grand to be able to do as I have said,” replied Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu. “So you have become a polytheist. You used this formula to express your own importance, not to glorify God.”
“This I cannot do,” the man protested. “Give me other directions.”
“The remedy is what I have said,” Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu declared.
“I cannot do it,” the man repeated.
“Did I not say that you would not do it, that you would never obey me?” said Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu.
[glow=red,2,300]SILSILAH AALIYA NAQSHBANDIYA ZINDABAD[/glow]
JAZZALLAHU ANNA MUHAMMADAM MA HUWA AHLAHU
Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu
Khwaja Baayazeed Bustami Radi Allahu anhu and his disciple
There was a certain ascetic who was one of the great saints of Bestam. He had his own followers and admirers, and at the same time he was never absent from the circle of Baayazeed. He listened to all his discourses, and sat with his companions.
One day he remarked to Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu, “Master, today is thirty years that I have been keeping constant fast. By night too I pray, so that I never sleep at all. Yet I discover no trace in myself of this knowledge of which you speak. For all that I believe in this knowledge, and I love this preaching.”
“If for three hundred years,” said Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu, “you fast by day and pray by night, you will never realize one atom of this discourse.”
“Why?” asked the disciple.
“Because you are veiled by your own self,” Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu replied.
“What is the remedy for this?” the man asked.
“You will never accept it,” answered Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu.
“I will so,” said the man. “Tell me, so that I may do as you prescribe.”
“Very well,” said Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu. “This very hour go and shave your beard and hair. Take off these clothes you are wearing, and tie a loincloth of goat’s wool about your waist. Hang a bag of nuts round your neck, then go to the marketplace. Collect all the children you can, and tell them, ‘I will give a nut to everyone who slaps me.’ Go round all the city in the same way; especially go everywhere people know you. That is your cure.”
“Glory be to God! There is no god but God,” cried the disciple on hearing these words.
“If an infidel uttered that formula, he would become a believer,” remarked Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu. “By uttering the same formula you have become a polytheist.”
“How so?” demanded the disciple.
“Because you counted yourself too grand to be able to do as I have said,” replied Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu. “So you have become a polytheist. You used this formula to express your own importance, not to glorify God.”
“This I cannot do,” the man protested. “Give me other directions.”
“The remedy is what I have said,” Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu declared.
“I cannot do it,” the man repeated.
“Did I not say that you would not do it, that you would never obey me?” said Baayazeed Radi Allahu anhu.
[glow=red,2,300]SILSILAH AALIYA NAQSHBANDIYA ZINDABAD[/glow]
