Praise be to Allah.. all praisers failed to praise Him on their own, so they truly praised Him by acknowledgement of their failure to do so. None of them could enumerate tributes of Him. However, He praised Himself as He is, for He is the secret treasure and the divinity manifest, which exhibits through His name “The Beneficent One” Who is firmly established over His Throne. And perpetual inseparable prayers and blessings from Allah and His angels  to our master, maulana Muhammed– that are obligatory duty of the believers, to answer His command (SWT), and acknowledge their inability to show full gratitude – with whom Allah has sealed revelation and prophethood, and made us incapable of knowing his rank (saaw) …
May Allah –SWT- be pleased with our masters, the righteous people of Allah, and the wives of the prophet, who are the mothers of all the believers, and our master Ibrahim Ad-Desouki Al-Quraishi Al-Muhammadi , son of Abi- El Magd, the possessor of the majestic grand miracles, by whom Allah has opened the locked-up hearts, and deaf ears. He conferred to his followers indescribable gifts. He was born in the night of fasting or no fasting doubt, so that Allah may erase the people’s confusion by him, and affirm certainty. Our master saidi Ibrahim fasted in his cradle, and fulfilled his covenant. He is the possessor of sainthood, revelations and inspirations. He is the sea of (resources) and blessings, ,groom of the kingdom, the tongue of the presences, the well born and Shareef, the evidence of the denomination and religion, the pearl of the knowers’ crown, the port of those who  arrive, and Allah’s pretext over the disbelievers…
It does not depreciate Sufism if it is attributed to “people of the bench” (Ar: Ahlu-Suffah), nor will it be decorated if it is attributed to wearing wool. And attributing it to “Sophia” to mean wisdom will not disgrace it …
But if Sufism is attributed to selection, purity, revealing, talking, and annihilation in existence, these are its specific arena. Some of the Sufis have thought that the word “Sufi” goes beyond being a name, to become a passive verb in the past tense, as when you say “the patient was cured”, or “the wrongdoer was forgiven”.  Likewise, we say the man has become a “sufi” meaning he is selected by Allah , i.e. Allah has shown him, revealed to him and chose to give him special secrets. Therefore, the sufi deserves to be one of Allah’s special elite people. The sufis do not add something new to the religion, and do not omit anything of it. Further, they don’t argue with it, as religion becomes victorious over anyone who argue regarding it, because it’s a solid structure. They walked its path gently and carefully, avoiding to wade in its sea. They rode the  ships of  Divine permission, as our master Rasul Allah (saaws) is the captain and shipmaster “O Prophet! surely We have sent you as a witness, and as a bearer of good news and as a warner. And as a summoner unto Allah by His permission, and as a lamp that gives light.” (Al-Ahzab: 45-46). They loved Allah and followed rasul Allah (saaws), so Allah loved them, “Say (O Muhammad to mankind): “If you do love Allah, Follow me: Allah will love you and forgive you your sins: For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Ali I’mran: 31). He who thinks he can add anything to the religion, is in delusion, and Allah –SWT- will restrain him by saying in the Quran ” This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favor on you and chosen for you Islam as a religion.” (Al-Maeda:3). It’s like someone who proclaimed himself a Supreme God. Allah –SWT- has given tools to the sufis to explore jewels, marvels and wonders of religion, so people are puzzled about what they hear of them, because they were not familiar with it. It is not reasonable to say about someone who discovers some mysteries of the universe, that he added it! It would be like saying of someone who drilled oil from the ground, he added to it. Or he who extracts gold, copper or iron, and the diver who digs out pearls and coral from the sea, we don’t say they added to the earth or sea.
To be continued later….

A’qidaty paper, issue no. 927- October 5, 2010.

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