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idea vehemently to the extent that he inscribed on his door the<br />
following line: “Glorified is He, Who has neither a companion nor<br />
anyone sitting beside Him on the Throne.” This created a fury<br />
among the people of Baghdad who pelted his house with stones<br />
till his door was covered by them. 552<br />
The Qasidah of Moulana Jamee 553<br />
Moulana Zakariyah mentions in ‘The Virtues of Darood’ 554 , “The<br />
Qasidah 555 of Hazrat Moulana Jamee (a renowned Sufi saint) is in<br />
Persian. “A story has been reported by him related to this<br />
Qasidah that when Moulana Jamee went for Hajj, he intended to<br />
recite this Qasidah at the grave of the Messenger of Allah . The<br />
ruler of Mecca dreamt of the Messenger of Allah , who said to<br />
him, “Do not let him (Moulana Jamee) go to Medina.” The Ruler of<br />
Mecca prohibited Moulana Jamee from leaving for Medina but the<br />
Moulana managed to leave for Medina secretly. The Messenger of<br />
Allah again came in the dream of the ruler of Mecca and said:<br />
“He has started for Medina, Do not let him on his way to<br />
Medina.” Upon this, Moulana Jamee was brought back to Mecca,<br />
and imprisoned. The Messenger of Allah again came in the<br />
dream of the ruler of Mecca, and said, “He is not guilty. He has<br />
552 Tahdhir al-Khawas min Ahadith al-Qussas, p.161 by Jalal al-Din as-<br />
Suyutee (Beirut - 1972). See Criticism of Hadeeth among Muslims<br />
with reference to Sunan Ibn Majah, p.40.<br />
553 Abd al Rehman Jami (d. 898/1492), a mystic, philosopher and<br />
poet, was born in Jam in Khurasan. Besides many works in poetry,<br />
Jami wrote a large commentary on Fusus ‘l-Hikam of Ibn Arabi and a<br />
short one, Naqd an-Nusus, the exposition of the basic doctrines of<br />
Wahdat al-Wajood; Lawai’ih, partly in prose and partly in verse, a work<br />
on theology and an introduction to the lives and teachings of almost<br />
600 Soofis, Nafahat ‘l-Uns. [For his poetry see: A.J.Arberry: Classical<br />
Persian Literature (London, Allen & Unwin, 1958), p.425-50] [Soofism<br />
and Shari’ah, p.149]<br />
554 Fazaail-e-Aamaal, (Eng. Trans.), Virtues of Durood, (Arabic Qasidah<br />
for the Holy Prophet), p.157. (Edt. 1985, Published by Dini Book<br />
Depot - Delhi).<br />
555 (Qasidah) Eulogy, i.e. a speech or writing in praise of a person,<br />
especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person. [The World<br />
Book Dictionary]<br />
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