Some sayings of Hadhrat Khaja Baqibillah (May Allah shower His Mercy on him)

 

Some sayings of Hadhrat Khaja Baqibillah

(May Allah shower His Mercy on him)

 

1.   The Shaykhs instruct people due to any of these 3 reasons:

 

On being inspired to do so by Almighty Allah

On the orders of their spiritual mentors

Affection for the populace

 

Affection here means that when they see that the populace will be hurt by their misguidance, then as a form of mercy they guide them and instruct them to follow the Shariah.  However, uniting them with the Lord Almighty is not the demand of affection.  It is over and above that.

 

2.   Correct beliefs, following the commands of the Shariah, sincerity and absolute attention to the Lord Almighty, this is the greatest bounty.  Nothing else can be the equal of this.

 

3.   Even the saints are not free of grave sins.  Considering someone rejected from sainthood because of accidentally committing a grave sin is ignorance.  What one should consider is the state they are in most of the time.  If they err as humans, that should not be held against them.

 

4.   Our order is based on 3 things.  Steadfastness on the beliefs of the Ahle Sunnah, constant awareness (of Almighty Allah) and worship.

 

5.   The person who has yearning for this path should first repent, then busy himself/herself in remembrance of Allah Most High along with leading one’s life with asceticism, reliance on Allah, patience and awareness.  This is what is called as Safar Dar Watan.

 

6.   If someone has such love for the Shaykh of this order that even in the Shaykh’s absence the face of the Shaykh is before one’s eyes, then that person should use the method of Rabita….The way cotton is placed before a magnifying glass and heats up, the Shaykh and the disciple are like the magnifying glass and cotton.  This is the method of Hadhrat Abu Bakr Siddiq (May Allah be well pleased with him) as he had perfection in the love of the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam)…

 

7.   Love is of 2 types.  One is love of the attributes.  For example, someone loves someone because that person is a scholar or because that person is brave.  If these attributes vanish, love for that person will also vanish.  The other is love for the person’s being which means to love the person without any regard for that person’s attributes.

 

8.   It has been proved without doubt that there is another path apart from Wahdatul Wujood and Wahdatul Wujood is like a narrow lane compared to that highway.

 

9.   Walayah is closeness…which is related to the Lord Almighty.  Wilayah results in popularity among the populace.  Miracles are related to the second kind.  A person capable of it receives blessings through the first kind.  Some receive blessings through both kinds.  There are some who have both these but one is stronger and other is weaker.  In the Shaykhs of the Naqshbandi order, the first kind is always dominant over the second kind.  At the time of demise, the Shaykh takes the first kind with him and leaves the second for the successor.

 

10.   Hadhrat Ibn ‘Arabi (May Allah shower His Mercy on him) said:  If a person acts on the Shariah with correct beliefs and sincere intention and that person does not get yearning and ecstasy, then that person is given these things after death.  The Khaja related this saying and said:  In fact, such a person is granted that bounty in this world itself in the throes of death.

 

11.   One can see Almighty Allah with one’s physical eye only after death, as seeing means disclosure and unless the soul is connected to this body, there can be no disclosure.  No matter how indifferent the soul is to the body, at the very least the connection of life remains.

 

12.   Reliance on Allah (Tawakkal) is not to abandon external means, as abandoning them is a form of disrespect.  One should use permissible means, but one should not look at only the means.  The means are but a door which the Lord Almighty has created.  Closing it and jumping over the wall is a kind of disrespect.

 

13.  Remembrance of Allah (Dhikr) is to come out of the remembrance of everything other than Allah and the perfection of Dhikr is to come out of it and to become a manifestation of the secret of Huwadh Dhakir Wal Madhkoor.

 

14.  Reclusion is to come out of meeting people and the perfection of reclusion is to come out of seeing the creation.

 

15.  Meditation (Muraqaba) is to come out of one’s strength and abilities and wait for the grant of Almighty Allah…

 

16.   Acquiescence (Raza) is to come out of the acquiescence of the Self (Nafs) and enter the approval and pleasure of Almighty Allah and to accept His commands and surrender one’s affairs to Him.

 

[Excerpted from Tarikh Mashaikh-e-Naqshband]