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In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful the Most Beneficent Hazret Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (may Allah be well pleased with him) is one of the Grand Masters of Tasawwuf (Sufism/Islamic Spirituality).  His works like "Al Futuhat Al Makkiyya and Fusus Al Hikam" are renowned masterpiece in the knowledge of Sufism. Hazret Shaykh Ibn Arabi is known as "Shaykh Al Akbar" which means the greatest Shaykh (Spiritual knower of Allah the Mighty and Sublime).  The teachings of Hazret Ibn Arabi (Radiyallahu Anhu) illuminate the hearts of the seekers and disciples in the gnosis of God , and explores the hidden knowledge of Tawhid (Islamic monotheism) and Spirituality of Islam. Sufis are the heirs of the Prophets, they inherit the Prophetic mantle adorned with Light (Noor) ,Spirit (Rooh) and Word (Kalimatu-Allah) of the Most High. They are not the payroll Imams and Shaykhs. They are those whom the Quran described as "Ulil ilm (Quran 3:18,people of knowledge), Ulil amri (peop...

SHAYKH ABDUL QADIR AL-GEYLAI (Q.S) MEETING WITH KHWAJAH HAZRET SHAYKH YUSUF AL HAMADANI (R.A)  In the Name of Allah Most Merciful Most Beneficent  Peace and blessings of Allah be upon the Prophet Muhammad and his noble family. In an earlier post I mentioned Ghujdawani (d.1179), the first of the Seven Khwajagan of the Bukhara Oasis. The 9th Grand Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Osmanli Sufi Way. Al-Ghujdawani’s  (R.A) (the Imam of the Khwajgan way),teacher was Abu Ya`qub Yusuf ibn Ayyab ibn Yusuf ibn al-Husayn al-Hamadani (to give his full name).  Yusuf al-Hamadani  (May Allah's Blessings be upon him)) was born in 1062 in a village near the city of Hamadan in what was then Khorasan, now Iran. At the age of eighteen he moved to Baghdad where he quickly attained the reputation as one of the leading scholars of his time. According to a biographical Sketch of Hamadani: Later in his life he secluded himself and left the world behind. He became an ascetic and engaged ...

HAZRET SHAYKH ABDUL KHALIQ GHUJDEVANI (Q.S) AND KHIDR (A.S) In the Name of Allah Most Mericul Most Beneficent Hazret Khwaja Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (qaddas-Allahu sirrahu)was born on 22 Sha’ban 435 AH in Ghujdawan near Bukhara (modern-day Uzbekistan). He is the 11th grand Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Sufi Way and Imam of the Khwajgan Way (previous name of the Naqshbandi Way)He received the silent recollection (Al-dhikr Al-Qalbi) in his youth from Al-Khidr (peace be upon him), and persisted with the said recollection. Al Khidr (ala ihissalam) accepted him as a son and commanded him to become absorbed in it and to say in his heart under the water "there is no god but Allah and Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah". The Khwajah did it. He learned this from him and engaged himself with this there, until all sorts of openings and elevations occurred to him beyond the perception of discernment. The Manner of his engagement , his goal , and hi...