Question:
Assalamu alaykum Sayyidi,
3 murids from the Shadili Tariqah have been attending our weekly Majlis Adh-Dhikr and they also explained to me that they are not growing spiritually and more attracted to Naqshbandi Tariqa. I am currently leading the dhikr and would like Mawlana Shaykh Hisham’s guidance on this please.
Shukran
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
It is OK for them, no problem. It will be like wudu over wudu, light over light.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Question:
Assallaamu Alaikum Warrahmatullaahi Wabarrakatuhu,
Dear beloved Sheiks,
What is the best way to introduce the teaching of Maulana Sheikh Nazim in Twitter or similar media? Can we simply share our own personal experience or is there any official and authoritative website to which we could refer in order to introduce people to Naqshbandy Haqqani?
Many thanks.
Wassallaam
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam
You can refer them to sufilive.com, islamicsupremecouncil.org, naqshbandi.org, eshaykh.com and Haqqani Fellowship. You can of course create your own blog or other personal site as well.
eShaykh has a twitter account, as does Sufilive.
Taher Siddiqui
Assallaamu Alaikum Warrahmatullaahi Wabarrakatuhu,
Très Chers Shaykhs,
Quelle est la meilleure manière d’introduire les enseignements de Mawlana Sheikh Nazim sur twitter et autres medias similaires? Pouvons-nous juste partager notre expérience personnelle ou existe-t-il des sites officiels auxquels nous pouvons nous référer pour introduire d’autres personnes à la tariqa Naqshbandi Haqqani?
Merci.
Wassallaam
Réponse:
wa `alaykum salam
Vous pouvez les référez à sufilive.com, islamicsupremecouncil.org, naqshbandi.org,eshaykh.com et Haqqani Fellowship. Vous pouvez bien sur aussi créer un blog ou site personnel.
eShaykh a un compte twitter de même que Sufilive.
Taher Siddiqui
Request:
Dear Beloved Shaykh Hisham, May Allah SWT be pleased with you and make you pleased forever,
May I humbly and politely make a special request to you to please pray for my recovery from Schizophrenia and Manic Depression?
We mentally ill people are not liked by anyone; this is heart-breaking for me and I apologize once again for giving you any cause to be upset by me.
Lastly, may I wish you ‘Wa alaykum assalam’ for wishing ‘Salam Alaykum’ to me in an earlier message? Thank you for all the good which you do, maashaAllah. I will donate again, happily.
Response:
wa `alaykum salam,
Thanks a lot. May Allah bless you.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Question:
assalamualaikum yaa Mawlana Shaykh Hisyam, could you give me a way out about my condition at my office. My boss always taskil me for 3 days or 40th days for iktikaf because my bos is Jamaah tabligh. I’ve already out 40th days in 2010. I’m sorry yaa Mawlana, I don’t ask you first for iktikaf. My heart is empty for that, I’m enjoying dzikir khatm kwajagan on every Thursday. How can I posturing this situation? jazakallah yaa Mawlana.
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
I will pray for you to get out of it.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Prayer:
Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani,
As salaamu Alikium thank you so much for your endless Blessing and Prayers, I Pray Allah give Strength, Good Health and Long Life to Mawlana Nazim, and I pray Allah give Strength, Good Health and Long Life to You Shaykh Hisham and Your wife and Family. May Allah continue to keep me close to you, keep me learning and giving. Ameen
Response:
Thanks a lot. This email shows how much faithful you are. May Allah bless you.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Dream:
Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh,
I have this dream from time to time which essentially stays the same but the scenario changes a bit. It starts off with me on a quest for knowledge and physical training on top of a snowy mountain, where I train my mind and body with spiritual knowledge as my guide. I feel that I should live my life like that. I think about this all the time in my daily life. O my Shaykh what does this mean? Sometimes I want to move away from this life of mine and start a new life in Cyprus at the will and command of Maulana Sheikh Nazim. I am not sure if that is the right thing to do and what exactly it means. I have always been a thinker and seeker of knowledge and every time I am in that mode, this situation arises.
Please help me.
Interpretation:
wa `alaykum salam,
Al hamdulilah it is a good sign to see snow because it signifies angelic support and knowledge. It is also a good sign to yearn to devote your life to asceticism and to leave worldly desires. However, it is best to “take it slow” and be consistent by everyday devoting some time to sincere worship and still maintaining your worldly commitments. It is our way to be in this world but not “of this world”.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Question:
Dear Sheikh Hisham,
Assalammualaikum.. Allah love you more and more. Thank you for answering my question about some awliyas who I see have Muslim jinn in front of him.. Now I make intention to visit and musafahah with Molana Sheikh Nazim this year.. I’m asking for the permission.
Now im involved in work of dawah with tabligh jamat.. InshaAllah when Mahdi a.s. come, all the haqq Islamic movement will be united under his flag.
Ya Sheikh, is kaabah under MSN’s protection? Because I always see him in kaabah during solat and every time.. I believe he has the power to make his body smaller than the atom..
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
May Allah bless you. Ka`aba is under Allah’s protection. Awliya meet there in their spiritual life.
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Dream:
aslamualaikum Shaykh Hisham
I dreamed the following dreams over 10 years ago at different times. I was a mureed of a different Shaykh then.
1. God is beautiful and loves beauty
2. During itikaaf, last 10 days of Ramadan, I wanted to see Prophet. I was doing zikr of a salawaat and not able to finish it, I was overcome by sleep. I saw in a dream a beautiful young man dressed in white jubba, neat/short black beard. As he came in I felt peace. He looked me in the eyes. I was kneeling down with a book with Quranic surahs, which I used in reality. He then left and I saw a tangerine in my hand. I ran after him to give it to him and he had gone. I went down the house, one level had a room being decorated. At the bottom level, my father was talking to some religious bearded man. (This dream was when I was unmarried)
jazakallah khair.
Interpretation:
Alaykum as-Salam,
The first dream represents the literal Prophetic hadith to that effect. In the second dream the holy person is a representative of the Prophet (upon him blessings and peace) in answer to your wish. The tangerine represents your pious state as a reader of Qur’an, also in illustration of the hadith to that effect.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
Question:
Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakutuhu,
We live in a city apartment and sometimes there is a shortage of water (lasting several hours to a day). Is there some sort of modern-day tayammum in this case to replace gushl? Sometimes water is not enough for wudhu, as we first need to conserve drinking water. What could be done then?
In the winter there is the same problem that sometimes there is no warm water for hours and if we should take gushl with cold water we might catch cold. Also if I already have the flu, taking bath even with warm water might make me more ill, as there is no heater and winter air is very cold. In these cases, may gushl/prayer be delayed or is there some sort of alternative? Thank you, Salaam
Interpretation:
Alaykum as-Salam,
In all of the cases you described, tayammum is permissible, and Allah knows best.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
