I see an umbrella of light above your head and I see Angels all around you. After saying these words, she disappeared and was never to be seen again. Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra states that during his life he had encountered various attacks from Shaytaan and his partners.
Through the assistance of Almighty Allah he was always victorious over Shaytaan. Almighty Allah always protected him from this even when his nafs would try and force him into certain desires. Stand firm and challenge them. Our help is with you. Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra states that when he used to hear this, then he would stand firmly and challenge the Shayateen and become victorious over them. He says that once Shaytaan came to him in a very ugly form and with a foul odour emanating from that cursed presence.
You have exhausted my students and me in our attempts to mislead you. Leave here at once. A Hand came from the Unseen and hit Shaytaan on his head with such force that it caused him to sink into the ground.
While this was happening, a veiled person on a white horse appeared and gave a sword in my hand. The moment I took the sword in my hand, Shaytaan turned and began to run. I saw him sitting on the ground putting sand on his head. Go away. I am always asking protection from you in Allah.
After gaining in-depth academic and spiritual knowledge, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra was not only the most pious and knowledgeable personality, but he was a guiding light to the misguided and a firm mountain when it came to speaking against that which was incorrect.
My father, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra once told me that he was one day making Mujahida in the jungle when he began to feel very thirsty. Suddenly, a cloud appeared above him and drops of cold rainwater fell over him. He drank and quenched his thirst, as this was the Mercy of Allah. He said that after some time another cloud appeared over him giving out light so powerful that the ends of the sky became lit up with its brightness.
I am your Creator. I have made everything Halaal for you. You have been saved because of your knowledge and piety otherwise I have misled many Mystics, with this trap. Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra usually visited the secluded fields of Karkh which were located on one side of Baghdad.
This was an ideal place for prayers and devotional practices. Here, the Sheikh spent his time in prayer and devotional exercises. It was here that Shaytaan attempted to fool the Sheikh, but to no avail.
He would sit in an old tower called Burj-Ajami in the outskirts of Baghdad where he would make Ibadah and engross himself in the Zikr of Almighty Allah. Once while seated here, he entered into a deep spiritual condition in which the following incident took place. The Sheikh narrates:. While sitting in the tower outside Baghdad, I once entered into a deep spiritual condition in which I made a vow with Almighty Allah that I will not eat or drink anything unless somebody puts a morsel of food or a drop of water into my mouth with their own hands.
After taking this oath, forty days had passed without me eating or drinking anything. After forty days, a stranger arrived with some curry and bread. He placed it in front of me and left. Due to intense hunger, my nafs wanted to have the food, but my soul stopped me and reminded me of my vow to Allah. With his spiritual strength, he heard the noise from inside my stomach. What is this noise? In my mind, I said that I would not go until I am made to do so. Was my saying not sufficient for you that Hazrat Khidr Alaihis Salaam had to command you to come to my house?
During this period, I proceeded to the ruins of the palace of Aiwan Kasra in search of fruit or something permitted. There I found 70 saints already searching for some food. Having seen this, I returned to Baghdad. On my way I met a person who gave me some money and revealed that it was sent by my mother. I took the money and went straight to those 70 saints whom I had previously seen.
I kept a little with me and distributed the rest among them. With the rest of the money that I had kept, I purchased some food and shared it with the poor and hungry. Although he had gained many blessings from both these personalities, he had not yet pledged his spiritual allegiance to a spiritual guide Peer-o-Murshid. Finally, the time had come and according to the Will of Almighty Allah, he presented himself in the court of Sheikh Abu Saeed Al-Mukharrami ra and became his disciple Mureed thus joining his Halqa and spiritual order.
Sheikh Abu Saeed ra showed much love and attention to this unique disciple and blessed him with gems of spiritualism and mysticism. The Khirqa Saintly Garb that was bestowed upon the great Saint had been handed down from generation to generation.
Before his return, he saw in a vision that he was walking along a street in Baghdad, where a sick and emaciated man lying on the roadside greeted him. When the Sheikh answered the salutation, the man asked him to help him to sit up. On the Saint's giving him the help asked for, the man sat up and began to grow miraculously big in stature. Seeing the Saint frightened at the phenomenon, the stranger allayed his fear saying, "I am the religion of your grandfather.
I became diseased and miserable, but God has revived me through your help. This event fore-shadowed the future career of the Sheikh in terms of reviving the religion of Islam. Falsehood and cults were beginning to spread at an alarming rate. The respect for knowledge and for the people of knowledge was wearing thin in the hearts of the people of Baghdad. It was a time of great deterioration in the following of the Sunnah.
It was a time when there was a dire need for a Reformer of the ways of the people and a Reviver of the true Faith. He entered the arena at this time of corruption and conflict and within a short space of time; he once again turned the blessed city of Baghdad into the center of learning and spiritualism. On returning to Baghdad from his spiritual journey Sheikh Abdul Qadir ra faced a tribulation which was overcome with majestic wisdom.
Many of the Islamic elite of Baghdad were perturbed by the return of Sheikh Abdul Qadir ra who, due to his great reputation and spiritual status, had amassed a large following of disciples.
The scholars gathered and devised a way by which they could send a clear message to Sheikh Abdul Qadir indicating their displeasure at his presence in Baghdad. They ordered a large vessel be filled to the brim and sent it to the quarters of Sheikh Abdul Qadir ra. The container represented Baghdad and the water represented the scholars in Baghdad. With an ingenious stroke of wisdom and demonstrating his extraordinary powers, the Sheikh plucked a rose which he placed on top of the water.
As it has been stated earlier, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra had come to Baghdad when it was a city full of corruption and misled persons. It was a very testing time for Muslims all over the world, since the Crusades had begun, where the entire Christian world was bent on destroying the Muslim Empire. The same day after Zuhr prayer, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra mounted the pulpit and addressed the people with a sermon.
The audience was entranced by his words. When Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra spoke he was prompted by the Grace of Allah causing the miraculous and revolutionary impact of his words. Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra usually delivered lectures thrice a week - on Wednesday evenings, Fridays and on Sunday mornings.
This blessed practice continued for forty years, from AH. At first, he began delivering lectures and teaching people in the Madrassa. The people of Baghdad and neighbouring cities began flocking to the lectures of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra in such great numbers that the Madrassa became too small for these gatherings.
There would often be no place inside the Madrassa, forcing people to sit out on the streets to listen to his lectures and advice. In AH a few houses around the Madrassa were purchased and incorporated to make the Madrassa bigger. After some time, even this proved to be too small.
The Mimbar of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra was then carried and placed in a massive open area Eid Gaah where more than 70, people would present themselves in each of his lectures. In each of his gatherings, there would be four people recording his lectures in writing and two Qaaris, who recited the Holy Quran. His lectures became so famous in a very short space of time that it attracted people from all parts of the world, thus making Baghdad Shareef the centre of learning and spiritualism once again.
His lectures were full of knowledge and wisdom. They were so influential and powerful that listeners would go into spiritual ecstasy.
Some of them would tear their clothes. Others would fall unconscious. On various occasions, even non-Muslims came to his lectures. After listening to his lectures they would find that they could not refute anything he said and they would willingly accept Islam. In addition to the ordinary members of the public, Rijaal-ul-Ghaib and Jinns also frequented his blessed gatherings.
It was a training school for the young, a place to repent for the sinful, a place of guidance for the misguided, and a bank of spiritualism for the spiritually bankrupt. His voice was very stern and sharp. One of the miracles of his Majlis was that each and every person sitting there heard him alike, even though in those times, there was no means of voice amplification, such as microphones and the like.
All the great scholars agree that during that era the majority of the people in Baghdad repented from their wrongs at the hands of the great Saint and also became his disciples.
When they were requested to explain their acceptance of Islam, they said that they heard of the religion of Islam and that their hearts were pleased with this Deen but they had been in search of a true servant of Allah who would, by looking at them, dispel the darkness of their hearts. When the thirteen Christians received this message from the Unseen, they travelled to Baghdad and accepted Islam on the hands of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra.
I am a citizen of Yemen and for many years I lived in seclusion as a Christian Monk. For some time now, I have realised the truth of Islam, but after looking at the ways of the present Muslims, I delayed my acceptance of Islam and made a vow that I will accept Islam on the hands of a person who is the most pious amongst people. Go to Baqhdad and accept Islam on his hands. At the present moment, there is none on this earth that is more pious and firm on religion than he is, and there is none more exalted than him in this time.
His words were kind but firm. He was not swayed by the power or status of anyone. If they were wrong, he did not hesitate to correct them in his Majlis or anywhere else. He feared none but Allah and made those who were in his Majlis aware of this. Who then is the true slave of Allah? Keep your hand on my hand so that you may distance yourself from this mundane world and run towards your Creator. His gatherings were frequented by thousands of ordinary people, learned scholars and great Saints.
It has been stated in authentic sources that during his lectures there would be approximately four hundred scribes who recorded his lectures in writing.
Two such lectures, which were then recorded, are being presented below for your perusal. Besides giving sermons, every day in the morning and afternoon the Sheikh gave lessons in Quran Tafsir, Hadith, principles of Islamic law and other allied subjects. After midday prayers he was seen issuing fatwas or verdicts on legal questions presented to him from all parts of the world.
Every evening before Maghrib prayers, he would distribute bread among the poor. After the evening prayers it was his habit to sit for dinner because usually he fasted during the day throughout the year. Before every such meal it was his practice to have it proclaimed that anybody who needed food in the neighbourhood could come and join him.
Up until AH, at age of fifty-one, he never thought of marriage. He even regarded it as a sort of impediment in the path of spiritual efforts.
Once someone asked Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra why he had made Nikah in his unique and elevated spiritual condition. The great Ghawth ra replied:. It is on this basis that I have made Nikah. I was, in reality, afraid of making Nikah, for this reason that my time may be lost in other things rather than in the love of my Creator, but when the time came, then My Creator blessed me with four wives, and each one of them loved me dearly.
Due to his true and pure intention of Nikah, he never found any time lost from his Ibadah and from his services to the Deen even after marriage.
When my mother would enter a dark place, it would immediately become bright. Once my father Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani ra entered one such place where my mother was, and on his entrance, the light caused by her presence disappeared. It has disappeared in my light. From this day onwards, when my mother entered a dark place, then her light was like that of the full moon. He had forty-nine children; twenty-seven sons and twenty-two daughters. Many of his sons became famous for their education and learning, and they and their descendants spread Islam in other parts of the world:.
When the Sheikh was suffering from illness, his son Abdul Wahab asked him: "Give me a parting admonition on which I should act after you have left this world. Fear Almighty Allah. Fear none but Allah. Always turn towards Him. Ask all your wishes from Allah. Do not turn to any besides Allah. Do not have faith in any but in Allah. Remain firm on Tauheed belief in One Allah.
There is no salvation without Tauheed. When the heart becomes linked with Allah then nothing else seems to look good to him. I have reached the level of True Love. It is a domain where worldly love has no place. Move away from me. Right now, you seem to be before me, but in reality you are not the only ones here. With the exception of yourselves, there are other creations of Allah here as well.
Give enough space for them. Show respect to them. Give way. This is now a place of exalted pardon and forgiveness. Do not crowd this place. May Allah forgive us all and may He bestow His Mercy upon us. It is stated that he replied to their greetings for a full twenty-four hours. It was for this reason that I was sent. Always be gentle. Thus, you should not think of anyone equal to me, or think of me equal to any other. It is further reported that his son, Sheikh Abdul Aziz ra asked him about his disease.
On this he said:. Surely no one, neither any man nor any jinn, nor any angel knows or understands my disease. The knowledge of God is not diminished by the command of God.
The command changes but the knowledge does not change. The command may be abrogated but not knowledge. God causes to pass away and establishes what He pleases, and with Him is the basis of the Book:. It has also been reported that his son Sheikh Abdul Jabbar ra asked him: "Which part of your body gives you pain?
All my organs are hurting me except my heart. There is no pain there, for it is with Allah Almighty and Glorious is He. Glory be to Him Who exults in His omnipotence, and subdues His servants with death. There is none worthy of worship but Allah. It has been reported that such a large number of people had gathered for his funeral procession that his family members had to bury him during the night.
The day was the 11th of Rabi' al-Thani. This date is commemorated by his admirers up to this day and is known as Giarwin Sharif in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent. The tomb was in a small room of the school but part of the building was transformed into a mosque that has been expanding over the years. A marvellous dome was built on the winter prayer room. It has been repainted from time to time. In , it was extensively restored; the blue dome was renewed and other domes, decorated with Qashani, were built close to the white dome.
This mausoleum is considered one of the largest holy places in Iraq, with its numerous internal and external additions. It has a big esplanade and a "musalla" place of prayer capable of welcoming 1, persons. It is surrounded by a building on two levels consisting of 66 modern, furnished rooms, serving as residences for the sheikhs. Read More. Jump to: navigation , search. Share Article. Main article: Famous Caravan Incident. Shakir: Surely with difficulty is ease. With difficulty is surely ease.
Qur'an Yusuf Ali: Invite all to the Way of thy Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching; and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best, who have strayed from His Path, and who receive guidance. Yusuf Ali: He cannot be questioned for His acts, but they will be questioned for theirs. O Peaceful Nafs turn to God being satisfied and giving satisfaction.
Be careful before meeting death. When the heart is perfected all your conditions become perfect. Good men abstain themselves from the world and conquer it by fear of God and piety.
My satisfaction with Taqdir fate has led me to God. Make piety your weapon and make Tawhid Unification of God contemplation. Piety and sincerity in seclusion and beseeching God's help your army.
When you get the ability assign this world to your Nafs, the Nafs, the next world to your heart and the Lord to your soul. Be constant in fear of God and his worship. Do not fear anyone else nor expect anything from any one. Save yourself - Fear God, fear God and fear God. Three things are indispensable for a believer in all conditions of life.
He should keep those commandments of God: he should abstain from the forbidden things; and he should be pleased with the decree of Providence.
Then He will give you death in your will and desires, and when you are dead in your will and desires it will be said to you: "May God have mercy on you" and He will restore you to a new life. When you are in a particular condition do not wish for another condition either higher or lower. Thus, when you arc at the palace gate of the King do not wish for an entrance into the palace unless you are made to enter it by compulsion and not of your own accord.
Wealth is your servant and you are the servant of the Lord. Then know that God is every day in a new state of glory, in chancing and altering and raising and lowering people. Trials and calamities strengthen the heart and certainty and establish the faith and patience and weaken the animal-self and its desires. Be aware of sin in all its form in all your organs of body and in your heart.
Do not run away from God for He will overtake you. Do you not know that for every occurrence of event there is an appointed time and for every calamity there is a point of consummation? Make your life after death your capital money and your wordily life its profit. Spend your time first of all in acquiring your life after death. There is no spiritual stale nor any spiritual station but has fear and hope attached to it. These two are like two wings of a bird but for which no flight can be perfect.
And this is true of every state and station. With this much of difference that every state has its corresponding fear and hope.
The worldly life is a cultivation ground of the life hereafter; and the good deeds of the Prophets and Awliya after the performance of commandments and prohibitions consist in patience and pleasure and reconcilement in the midst of trial. In everything there is an attribute from the attributes of God and every name is a sign one of his names. So surely you are between His names and His attributes and works, inwardly through His power and outwardly through His wisdom.
He is manifest in His attributes and concealed in His person. His person is concealed in His attributes and His attributes are concealed in His works And He has revealed His knowledge through His will and He has expressed His will in movements. And He has concealed His skill and His workmanship through His wilt. So He is hidden in His invisibility and He is manifest in His wisdom and power. There is nothing like even a likeness of Him and He is hearing and seeing. And a dervish is he who is indifferent to everything besides God.
All the parts of my body are ailing excepting my heart which has no pain in it and it is sound with God. Human consciousness is divided into three conditions raising upward in the scale of evolution: Nafs al-Ammara i. Nafs al-Lawwama, i. Nafs al-Mutma'inna, i. Do not will anything which is not the will of God.
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Side by side he also carry on delivering sermons and made many publications. His lectures were full of knowledge and wisdom. They were so influential and powerful that listeners would go into spiritual ecstasy. Some of them would tear their clothes. Others would fall unconscious. On various occasions, even non-Muslims came to his lectures. After listening to his lectures they would find that they could not refute anything he said and they would willingly accept Islam.
In addition to the ordinary members of the public, Rijaal-ul-Ghaib and Jinns also frequented his blessed gatherings. It was a training school for the young, a place to repent for the sinful, a place of guidance for the misguided, and a bank of spiritualism for the spiritually bankrupt. He was matchless scholarly personality of his time. He had a strong hold on the knowledge of Fiqh, Hadees, Quranic commentary, Arabic grammar, literature and other fields of knowledge.
He also had excellent manners and was very affectionate with his students. He used to send food and oil to light lamp from his home to the students of his madrassah. People used to repent from sins in his gathering and there was no any of his gathering in which someone did not repented his sins and became a true Muslim.
When he advised people then they listen him carefully and obey him. He advised people to do good deeds and avoid from bad. He used to address the rulers of his time in a very brave manner and called them towards the right path. The great scholars, Islamic jurisprudent and mufti of his time were astonished on his excellent skills of writing fatwa.
He gave the easy and nice answers of very difficult questions about Islamic rulings. He was very renowned for his fatawa in Iraq and people used to contact him for fatawa. He addressed the scholars and advised them not to go in the company of rich and rulers.
His will for sacrifice for others and selflessness was very high and he used to give his things of use to others if they also need these. He was averted from worldly people and worldly wealth.
He always helped the poor and needy people. He liked to sit with old age people and treat softly with the baggers. He respected elder and was kind to children. He liked to say Salam first and spent a long period of time with guests and students. He would ignore their mistakes. He mostly spoke in Arabic language. However he also spoke and wrote in Persian as he was a non Arab. His talk was a river of endless knowledge. His books will continue to guide people towards the right path forever.
Futuh al-Ghaib Revelations of the Unseen - 78 discourses, fairly short and to the point but very powerful. Generally it is found at the end of the hand copied Arabic manuscripts of Fath ar-Rabbani.
These five volumes, written by the Sheikh, at the request of one of his murids, is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of Islam, both the inward and the outward. Answers to Various Important Questions - Contains many concise answers to very important questions regarding a variety of topics.
Special Prayers - Contains many special invocations taught to us by the Sheikh for their special blessings. He died on 9 Rabi ul akhir Hijri.
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