Question:
Asalam alaykum. I saw perhaps Shaykh Nazim Haqqani sitting there and call me and advise me to decrease my wird wazaif numbers like lower down my immense wird and than you will get more benefits .. What does this dream means?
Answer:
Assalamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
This is indeed a haqqani haqiqi (real) advice from the spirit of Sultan al-Awliya to your heart. It is an advice that was given by previous awliya like Sidi Abdul Aziz al-Dabbagh in the Ibriz (The Pure Gold). The reason awliyaullah want the murid to decrease their awrad is for two reasons:
1) they don’t want the murid to become overburdened, overwhelmed which can lead them to get burned out and stop doing any awrad altogether
2) more importantly, they don’t want the murid to become dependent on the wird and get deceived into thinking that his reading of the awrad is what is providing benefit and bringing them closer to Allah (swt), because only Allah (swt) brings you closer, from the niche of the Prophet, salla Allahu `alayhi wa sallim, through the station and status of our shaykhs, not our own actions.
Having said that, in order to put this dream into action, one would have to ask one’s shaykh directly as to what awrad they should do on a daily basis and it is very very important not to either increase or decrease one’s awrad without ithn (permission) from the shaykh, because all the benefit and barakah is in the shaykh’s permission, not our actions.
Wal hamdulillah rabbil `alemeen
Ali Hussain
