ATTAINING QUALITY OF IHSAN IS THE REQUIREMENT OF SHARIAH
What is Ihsan???
Famous Hadith of Jibraeel that is in Bukhari Shareef and Muslim shareef both.............Then he further asked,
"What is Ihsan (perfection)?" Allah's Apostle replied, "To worship Allah as if you see Him, and if you cannot achieve this state of devotion then you must consider that He is looking at you."................
Sahih Bukhari Volume 1, Book 2, Number 48:
Quality of Ihsan is the requirement of Shariah that has to be attained by all Muslims..........HOW TO to attain it ........Tasawwuf is a science/ MEANS to attain it
Every principle and Practice in Tasawwuf is according to Quran and Sunnah. Anything away/other than Islamic shariah and sunnat of beloved prophet is not Tasawwuf.
Tareeqat IS Under the ambit/ boundary of shariat.If
someone saying /practicing something other than shariat on the name of tasawwuf /Tareeqat he /they are cheating themselves and others on the
name of Soofism.
........For detail refer to
writing of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani Rahimullah of Baghdad and
Malfoozat of Maulana Ilyas Rahimullah,Makatib of Sheikh Ahmad Sarhindi (Mujaddid Alfasani of India) Rahimullah which has recently published in Urdu.
...........If you like Tasawwuf it is YOUR CHOICE.........IF YOU DONT LIKE IT IS YOUR CHOICE .........NO ONE IS COMPELLING YOU .......YOU CAN CHOSE YOUR OWN WAY FOR ATTAINING QUALITY OF IHSAN........
...... BUT UNFORTUNATELY THERE ARE CERTAIN................GROUPS and ..........Websites ......... giving blanket statement against Tasawwuf SOOFISM ......They blame Tasawwuf as Bidah......,Innovation...... spit Venom and Poison of their choice
These website/group will always take the name of Kitab o sunnat but will violate qurani and hadith rule of not telling lie/allegation on other muslims................Their have been /are some people in history doinbg wrong on the name of tasawwuf but ..........95 % of Soofis are Pious people and completely following shariah and sunnah........
.......NOW LETUS SEE.................................
What Great Scholars Imam Salafus Salehin say/ Have opinion about Sufism Tasawwuf Tareeqat
Taken with jazakallah o khair http://www.central-mosque.com/index.php/Spirituality/fundamentals-of-tassawuff.html
Islamic Scholars on Tassawuff
The
following quotations of the scholars of Shariah regarding the precedence
of the knowledge and science of Tasawwuf (Purification of the Self).
Imam Abu Hanifa (85 H. - 150 H)
"If it were
not for two years, I would have perished." He said, "for two years I
accompanied Sayyidina Ja'far as-Sadiq and I acquired the spiritual
knowledge that made me a gnostic in the Way." [Ad-Durr al-Mukhtar, vol
1. p. 43]
Imam Malik (95 H. - 179 H.)
"whoever
studies Jurisprudence [tafaqaha] and didn't study Sufism [tasawwaf] will
be corrupted; and whoever studied Sufism and didn't study Jurisprudence
will become a heretic; and whoever combined both will reach the Truth."
['Ali al-Adawi , vol. 2, p 195.]
Imam Shafi'i (150 - 205 AH.)
"I accompanied
the Sufi people and I received from them three knowledges: ...how to
speak; how to treat people with leniency and a soft heart... and they...
guided me in the ways of Sufism." [Kashf al-Khafa, 'Ajluni, vol. 1, p
341.]
Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (164 - 241 AH.)
"O my son, you
have to sit with the People of Sufism, because they are like a fountain
of knowledge and they keep the Remembrance of Allah in their hearts.
they are the ascetics and they have the most spiritual power." [Tanwir
al-Qulub p. 405]
Imam Ghazzali (450 - 505 AH.)
"I knew verily
that Sufis are the seekers in Allah's Way, and their conduct is the
best conduct, and their way is the best way, and their manners are the
most sanctified. They have cleaned their hearts from other than Allah
and they have made them as pathways for rivers to run receiving
knowledge of the Divine Presence." [al-Munqidh, p. 131].
Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi (544 - 606 AH)
"The way of
Sufis for seeking Knowledge, is to disconnect themselves from this
worldly life, and they keep themselves constantly busy with Dhikrullah,
in all their actions and behaviors." ['Itiqadaat Furaq al-Muslimeen, p.
72, 73]
Imam Nawawi (620 - 676 AH.)
"The
specifications of the Way of the Sufis are ... to keep the Presence of
Allah in your heart in public and in private; to follow the Sunnah of
the Prophet (s) ... to be happy with what Allah gave you..." [in his
Letters, (Maqasid at-tawhid), p. 20]
Ibn Taymiyya (661 - 728 AH)
"Tasawwuf has
realities and states of experience which they talk about in their
science. Some of it is that the Sufi is that one who purifies himself
from anything which distracts him from the remembrance of Allah and who
will be so filled up with knowledge of the heart and knowledge of the
mind to the point that the value of gold and stones will be the same to
him. And Tasawwuf is safeguarding the precious meanings and leaving
behind the call to fame and vanity in order to reach the state of
Truthfulness, because the best of humans after the prophets are the
Siddiqeen, as Allah mentioned them in the verse:
"(And all who
obey Allah and the Apostle) are in the company of those on whom is the
grace of Allah: of the prophets, the sincere lovers of truth, the
martyrs and the righteous; Ah! what a beautiful fellowship." (an-Nisa',
69,70)
"...some
people criticised Sufiyya and Tasawwuf and they said they were
innovators, out of the Sunnah, but the truth is they are striving in
Allah's obedience [mujtahidin fi ta'at-illahi], as others of Allah's
People strove in Allah's obedience. So from them you will find the
Foremost in Nearness by virtue of his striving [as-saabiq ul-muqarrab bi
hasab ijtihadihi]. And some of them are from the People of the Right
hand [Ahl al-Yameen mentioned in Qur'an in Sura Waqi'ah], but slower in
their progress.... And this is the origin of Tasawwuf. And after that
origin, it has been spread and [tasha'abat wa tanawa'at] has its main
line and its branches. [Majmu'a Fatawa Ibn Taymiyya al-Kubra, Vol. 11,
Book of Tasawwuf, p. 497].
"The miracles
of saints are absolutely true and correct, by the acceptance of all
Muslim scholars. And the Qur'an has pointed to it in different places,
and the Hadith of the Prophet (s) has mentioned it, and whoever denies
the miraculous power of saints are only people who are innovators and
their followers." [al-Mukhtasar al-Fatawa, page 603]. Ibn Taymiyya says,
"what is considered as a miracle for a saint is that sometimes the
saint might hear something that others do not hear and they might see
something that others do not see, while not in a sleeping state, but in a
wakened state of vision. And he can know something that others cannot
know, through revelation or inspiration." [Majmu'a Fatawi Ibn Taymiyya,
Vol. 11, p. 314].
Ibn Khaldun (733 - 808 AH.)
"The way of
the Sufis is the way of the Salaf, the preceding Scholars between the
Sahaba and Tabi'een of those who followed good guidance..." [Muqaddimat
ibn al-Khaldun, p. 328]
Tajuddin as-Subki (727 - 771 AH.)
"May Allah
praise them [the Sufis] and greet them and may Allah cause us to be with
them in Paradise. Too many things havebeen said about them and too many
ignorant people have said things which are not related to them. And the
truth is that those people left the world and were busy with worship.
...They are the People of Allah, whose supplications and prayer Allah
accepts and by means of whom Allah supports human beings" [Mu'eed
an-Na'am p. 190, the chapter entitled Tasawwuf]
Jalaluddin as-Suyuti (849 - 911 AH.)
"At-Tasawwuf
in itself is the best and most honorable knowledge. It explains how to
follow the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) and to put aside innovation."
[Ta'yid al-Haqiqat al-'Aliyya,p 57]
Ibn Qayyim (691 - 751 AH.)
"We can
witness the greatness of the People of Sufism, in the eyes of the
earliest generations of Muslims by what has been mentioned by Sufyan
ath-Thawri (d. 161 AH), one of the greatest imams of the second century
and one of the foremost legal scholars. He said, "If it had not been for
Abu Hisham as-Sufi (d. 115) I would never have perceived the action of
the subtlest forms of hypocrisy in the self... Among the best of people
is the Sufi learned in jurisprudence." [Manazil as-Sa'ireen.]
Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab (1115 - 1201 AH.)
"My father
Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab and I do not deny or criticize the science of
Sufism, but on the contrary we support it, because it purifies the
external and the internal of the hidden sins, which are related to the
heart and to the outward form. Even though the individual might
externally be on the right way, internally he might be on the wrong way.
Sufism is necessary to correct it." [ad-Dia'at mukathaffa did
ash-shaykh ibn Abdul Wahhab, p. 85]
Ibn 'Abidin (1198 - 1252 AH.)
"The Seekers
in this Sufi Way don't hear except from the Divine Presence and they
don't love any but Him. If they remember Him they cry, and if they thank
Him they are happy; ... May Allah bless them." [Risa'il Ibn 'Abidin p.
172 & 173]
Muhammad 'Abduh (1265 - 1323 AH.)
"Tasawwuf
appeared in the first century of Islam and it received a tremendous
honor. It purified the self and straightened the conduct and gave
knowledge to people from the Wisdom and Secrets of the Divine Presence."
[Majallat al-Muslim, 6th ed. 1378 H, p. 24].
Maulana Abul Hasan 'Ali an-Nadawi (1331 AH b.)
"These Sufis
were initiating people on Oneness and sincerity in following the Sunnah
of the Prophet (s) and to repent from their sins and to be away from
every disobedience of Allah 'Azza wa Jall. Their guides were encouraging
them to move in the way of perfect Love to Allah 'Azza wa Jall. "...In
Calcutta India, everyday more than 1000 people were taking initiation
into Sufism. "...by the influence of these Sufi people, thousands and
thousands and hundreds of thousands in India found their Lord and
reached a state of Perfection through the Islamic religion." [Muslims in
India, p. 140-146]
Maulana Abul 'Ala Maudoodi (1321 - 1399 AH.)
"Sufism is a
reality whose signs are the love of Allah and the love of the Prophet
(saw), where one absents oneself for their sake, and one is annihilated
from anything other than them, and it is to know how to follow the
footsteps of the Prophet (s). ..Tasawwuf searched for the sincerity in
the heart and the purity in the intention and the trustworthiness in
obedience in an individual's actions."
"The Divine
Law and Sufism: "Sufism and Shariah: what is the similitude of the two?
They are like the body and the soul. The body is the external knowledge,
the Divine Law, and the spirit is the internal knowledge." [Mabadi'
al-Islam, p. 17]
