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Chapter Eightthe self under someone. Instead of becoming someone, hemust become no one, which quite naturally is a most difficulttask. This is why the self [nafs] makes excuses to avoid thispath. Sometimes, it objects to the innovations and carnal actsof false claimants to shaikhhood [pīrs] and compares it to allthe good work he is doing for Dīn. As a result he is unable toreflect on the necessary and good traits he himself is deprivedof. Such a deception should not entrap a scholar, especiallywhen he knows how much the Qur’an and Sunna emphasisethe importance of humility and the dangers of arrogance. Itis said in Imdād al-Sulūk that the knowledge which takes aperson from humility into arrogance and from obscurity tofame is the same knowledge which the Blessed Prophet ssought refuge from. Despite their knowledge and greatness,our elders viz. Ĥađrat Nānautwī, Ĥađrat Gangohī felt theneed for a shaikh. In fact, even in juridical matters theyfollowed the mujtahid imams. Though it is not impossiblejuristically and rationally to achieve this objective oneself, itis generally difficult in this day and age. However, propriety[adab] and love for the shaikh is absolutely essential for thispath, a love by which one feels desirous of his beloved. Oneof the main elements of love for the shaikh is unconditionalsubmission [inqiyād]. 44To derive full benefit from one’s shaikh, I will only mention oneof the conditions of unconditional submission so that every murīdcan judge for himself if he is truly a murīd or not. The definitionof a murīd is one who is selfless.Imam Ĥađrat Mujjadid Alf-i-Thānī writes in one of his letters,Only those murīds have the ability to derive the full benefitof the path of prophethood and friendship [wilāya] whose44 Complete subservience of the mind and heart to the Sheikh. An oft-quotedexample of this quality is like that of a deceased person in the hands of the onewho washes and prepares him for the grave.73
the ramadan of shaikh muĤ ammud zakariyyĀintellect is subjugated through complete surrender of the selfto their shaikh.For example, if a man is standing in front of the murīd and theshaikh tells the murīd to grab both his hands, the murīd must grabboth his hands. In fact, if the shaikh tells him to grab the third handthe murīd must put his thoughts aside and stretch out his hand tograb the third hand. No one should think this is sufistic talk as theBlessed Prophet s himself taught unconditional submission andevery Śaĥābī g, in accordance with their personal effort, attainedsome degree of this quality. The less unconditional submission onehad, the more deprived he was. Therefore, in one narration by Abū‘Ubaida g in Shamā’il al-Tirmidhī he says,I cooked some food for the Blessed Prophet s. I knew the BlessedProphet s liked shank so I presented him with shank first. TheBlessed Prophet s asked for another and I gave him another. Whenhe asked for another, I said, “Oh Blessed Prophet s, a goat only hastwo shanks.” The Blessed Prophet s replied, “I swear by the Onein whose life is my hands! If you had stayed quiet, the more I askedfor, the more that would have come out from the pot.” 45Ĥađrat narrates the opinion of Manāwī in his commentary [ofShamā’il] that, “In reality, this was a great blessing of Allah u. Ifhe had complete unconditional submission in the Blessed Prophets, pieces of shank would have come out from the pot for as longas he asked, but as he became apprehensive [which was not suitedto the occasion], the special blessing of Allah u was removed.”The channel of the faiđ and divine blessings of Allah u is theshaikh who takes the place of the prophet. Any wavering in themurīd’s unconditional submission or any such thing that appearsas an objection can be cause for the blessings and special bountiesto cease. Therefore, he who takes his knowledge as ignoranceand his personal views as darkness before he arrives at his shaikhs,will take his full share of the shaikh’s faiđ . If he comes to the45 Shamā’il al-Tirmidhī, mā Jā’ fī Idāmi Rasūl Allāh s74
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