Question:
Can someone practice muraqaba without having taken a bayah into a tariqah. Who should they think of and imagine if they do not know who their shaykh is.
Answer:
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani says there is a general muraqaba that may be performed by visualizing the Ka`ba. Allah knows best.
Taher Siddiqui
Prayer Request:
Help me and save me from all diseases and from all sickness and from all
illnesses and from the death and from all dangers
Answer:
HasbunaAllah wa na’m Al wakeel.
May Allah keep you safe with the Lovers from Ummah of Muhammad saws.
Ameen,
Kamau Ayubbi
Question:
To what extent did Sufis or the Fuqaha accept the scientific method of the Islamic ‘Golden’ age?
Answer:
For us the Golden Age is as spelled out in the hadith:
خيرُ النّاسِ قَرْنِي، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُم، ثُمَّ الَّذِينَ يَلُونَهُم
“The best of people are my time, then those that follow them, then those that follow them.”
The rest of the hadith mentions that, after that, lying and liars will spread everywhere. So the Islamic Golden Age means the first three generations (an-Nabi (s) and the Sahaba, the Tabi`in and the Taba`a al-Tabi`in). The other definition is borrowed from the western over-veneration of material science and man-made systems of knowledge, like the term Renaissance referring to a Rebirth; of what? of Greek and Roman knowledge. As long as science and logic bow to revealed knowledge they are fine. But insofar as they divorce themselves from revealed knowledge they go against fitra and are hollow tin rather than a golden age.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Question:
Asalamu alaikum. My two questions are for Sayidi Sheikh Gibril
1. Will the 72 unsaved sects be in the hellfire temporarily or forever?
2. Is the al-Sawad al-Azam referring to majority of Muslims or only majority of Sunni scholars?
Answer:
Waalaykumussalam warahmatullah,
1. Allah forgives all that is other than shirk (polytheism), so it is temporary for whatever sect did not follow something that qualifies as shirk.
2. It refers to both because the majority of Muslims follows the majority of the Sunni scholars and Allah knows best.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Question:
Salam sheikh
You gave interpretation of my dream some time back you told me i am indecisive of fighting my ego to fight it and i will have the support of Hazrat Ali RA could you help me understand the ego so i can change thankyou
Answer:
Audhubillahiminashaytanirajeem
BismillahirRahmanirRahim
Wa alaikum Salaam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,
In Surah Yusuf 53 Allah reveals:
And I do not acquit myself (nafsi/ego). Indeed, the soul (nafs/ego) is a persistent enjoiner of evil, except those upon which my Lord has mercy. Indeed, my Lord is Forgiving and Merciful.”
This ayat explains that the nafs/ego/self enjoins evil except those upon whom Lordly Mercy helps. So through studying, practicing, receiving the mercy of Allah through zikr, prayers and being with the righteous Awliya Allah in your heart, the faults of the self will be revealed to that you can turn to Allah consciously and overcome negative characteristics and embrace the good manners of the Prophet saws. Our Beloved Muhammad (saws) is the greatest manifestation of Mercy to All Creation, his presence is Mercy, his Way is Mercy so through the mercy we can face and overcome the lower self day by day and graduate from the evil commanding ego Nafs Ammara bi su’, to the self reproaching ego Nafs Lawwamah, to the inspired soul Nafs Mulhama, the tranquil soul Nafs Mutma’inah, the content soul Nafs Radiyya, the soul receiving Divine Pleasure Nafs Mardiyya in presence of the Perfected soul –Nafs Kamilah saws. These stations of the soul are explained through Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and Mawlana Shaykh Hisham’s talks on Sufilive.com our youtube Sufilive.
Wa Allahu Alam,
Kamau Ayyubi
Question:
Assalamualaikum waramotullah wabatakatuh,
Please I dreamt that I went underground with some people to pray in a mosque where I met my grandfather whom I wasn’t opportuned to see when I was born, so people kept asking me so this Imam is your grandfather.
Answer:
Alhamdulillah Allah Blessed you to meet your grandfather who was shown to you to be among the Righteous.
Make Dua for him.
Kamau Ayubbi
Question:
Many years ago before I joined the Naqshbandi I saw Shaykh Nazim in my dream. Mashaa Allah he was with many many Mureeds. As I pass the doorway he smiles and puts his hand on my head. he tells me this paper you give to you husband.
Answer:
Mashallah,
May Allah keep you with the spiritual support of Shaykh Nazim in the life and the next. And if you are not married may you have a life partner who brings you nearer to Allah and His Messenger saws.
Fi amanillah,
Kamau Ayubbi
Question:
Suddenly I had a baby boy though i didnt see myself giving birth to him. My mum was angry and asked me who the father is because I`m not married but a 16 yr old student. I was crying and telling her that I`ve never gone near any man. I awoke really scared.
Answer:
Dream points to relief, safety, health, freedom from debt and good things. Also, in dream, giving birth to a boy means giving birth to a girl and vice-versa.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
