Khwaja Ruknuddin's 3 question to Khwaja Azizan

[Fana fi Shaykh]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

JAZZALLAHU ANNA SAYYEDINA MUHAMMADAN MA HUWA AHLAHU

MANAM SAGHE DARBARE JILANI

One day, Shaikh Rukn ad-Din Radi Allahu anhu sent a dervish to put three questions to the venerable Khwaja 'Azizan 'Ali Ramitani Radi Allahu anhu :

First question: Like you, we try not to fall short in service to the people. You do not take too much trouble in providing food and drink. You give whatever is available. As for ourselves, we go to great lengths in hospitality. We always look for something extra and exert ourselves to the utmost, yet people approve of you and complain about us. What explanation can there be?

Answer: There are many who provide service as a favour, in exchange for gratitude, but few are they who consider it a favour to be allowed to serve. Strive to feel gratitude for the opportunity to serve, till nobody complains about you any more.

Second question: We have heard it said that you received your training from Khidr (peace be upon him). How could that be?

Answer: There are true lovers among the servants of Allah (Glorious and Exalted is He), and Khidr is their ardent lover.

Third question: We have heard that you engage in publicly audible remembrance [dhikr jahri], instead of silent remembrance [dhikr khafi]. How can this be?

Answer: We have also heard that you perform the remembrance in secret. Since we have come to hear of it, yours cannot be secret remembrance after all. Surely the purpose of secret remembrance is that nothing should be known about it! Whether you engage in secret remembrance or in publicly audible remembrance, the two are equal. It can even be said that being famous for secret remembrance is closer to hypocritical ostentation.

On the subject of audible remembrance, he gave this reply to a prominent religious scholar: "There is a Prophetic tradition [hadith], accepted by all the religious scholars, commanding a man in the throes of death to pronounce the affirmation of Divine Oneness [Tawhid] in a loud voice. Since every breath breathed by the dervish can be considered his last breath, it is necessary to seek this wisdom in our publicly audible remembrance."

AAFTABE NAQSHBANDIYA TAABINDABAD

[PBUH]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

jazakallah for the waqia shah sahib,

does the nakshbandi tariqa approve of loud zikr or silent zikr or both because i always either forget or hear different views of people?

[Fana fi Shaykh]

May 14, 2008 23:51:43 GMT PBUH said:

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

jazakallah for the waqia shah sahib,

does the nakshbandi tariqa approve of loud zikr or silent zikr or both because i always either forget or hear different views of people?

Silsilah Aaliya Naqshbandiya approved of Silent Zikr but there were few buzurg's who approved of loud Zikr.

JazakAllahu Khayrun

Aaftabe Naqshbandiya Taabindabad

[Ashiq e Rasool]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

ASALATU WASALAMU ALAYKA YA RASULLALLAH Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam

A very knowledgable post shared Shah Sahib, I have learned something new here.

[Haideri-Qalander]

May 15, 2008 10:58:38 GMT Ashiq e Rasool said:

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

ASALATU WASALAMU ALAYKA YA RASULLALLAH Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam

A very knowledgable post shared Shah Sahib, I have learned something new here.

me too.

Jazakallah

[king786]

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu


EXCELLENT POST - JAZAKALLAH KHAIR

[Muhib-e-Ahle-Baith]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

ASALATU WASALAMU ALAYKA YA RASULLALLAH Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam

subhanallah great post,.

jazakallah shah sahib

[Slave of Ahle-Baith]

Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

ASALATU WASALAMU ALAYKA YA RASULLALLAH Salla Allahu ta'ala 'alayhi wa Sallam

subhanallah excellent post.

Jazakallahu Khayr