Question:
Assalamu Alaikum Dear Shaykh,
I was looking at the names in the Naqhbandi Taweez, and specifically this list:
Shahamatul Fardani,
until Just before al-Mahdi
Would it be possible to shed some light on who they are?
Answer:
Waalaykumussalam warahmatullah,
The Fardani is the “solitary one”. This type of wali is mentioned by al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī in his book Khatm al-Awliyāʾ (section 7, khiṣāl al-wilāyat al-ʿashr; section 13, khātam al-awliyāʾ; section 20, al-walī wal-khaṭīʾa). Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī mentions dār al-fardāniyya (the abode of exalted solitary rank) among the levels reached by the Sufi in the “Book of the manners of the murids” in his Ghunya. In Akbarī terminology the fard is the one who lies beyond the gaze of the quṭb.
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