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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