Important texts in Naqshbandiyya Tariqa

Question:

Assalamu alaykum

I am looking for the following important text of our tariqa. Can you please tell me where I can source it?

Allāh Šāh Ûulām §Alī al-Dahlawī (1240/1824), Makātib-i šarīfa, lytographie, Istanbul, 1976

Many thanks wa salams

Answer:

Alaykum Salam and Eid Mubarak.

These are letters in Persian by Shah Abd Allah al-Dihlawi (qs) the shaykh of Mawlana Khalid al-Baghdadi (qs). Hollis at Harvard ) has two editions:

Title: Makātīb-i sharīfah
Attribution: Shāh Ghulām ʻAlī Dihlavī.
Author / Creator: Ghulām ʻAlī Dihlavī, 1745-1824.
Published: Madrās : Maṭbaʻah-i ʻAzīzī, 1334 [1916]
Description: 225, [5] p.
Language: Persian, Arabic
Notes: Photoreproduction. [116] leaves; 2 pages per leaf; 23 x 34 cm.
In Persian, with citations in Arabic.

Title: Makātīb-i sharīfah
Attribution: Shāh Ghulām ʻAlī Dihlavī.
Author / Creator: Ghulām ʻAlī Dihlavī, 1745-1824.
Published: Lāhūr : Ḥakīm ʻAbd al-Majīd Sayfī, [19–]
Description: [8], 168 p. ; 27 cm.
Language: Persian
Notes: Photoreproduction.

You will find a third edition here.

The latter is followed by a biography of Mawlana Khalid, al-Majd al-talid (pp. 249-261 of the PDF), then letters in Persian and Arabic by Mawlana Khalid.

Wassalam,

Hajj Gibril

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Zakat al-Mal

Question:

As salami alaikum,

How are you in this month of full blessing, Ramadhan Karim?

I have a question, I hope you can help me find the correct answer. Can I use my zakat mal to help the ustadz, whom  I assigned to take care of the small masjid, which also the class room for teaching young children to read and write Al Qur’an, so he can start the process of owning his dwelling place?

Thank you so much.

Salam 

Answer: 

Salam alaykum,

The categories of zakat eligibility are:

1. The poor (al-fuqarâ’).
2. The needy (al-masâkîn), meaning has difficulty meeting financial needs.
3. Zakat administrators.
4. Those whose hearts are to be reconciled, meaning new Muslims.
5. Those in bondage (slaves and captives).
6. The debt-ridden.
7. In the cause of God, meaning military expenditures.
8. The travellers.
Accordingly, the zakat cannot be used to help a Qur’an teacher since they do not fall into any of the above categories.

Wassalam.

Hajj Gibril Haddad

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My wife got a dream about Quran

Question:

One of family relatives used to read Quran after completing reading they placed aside.
But my wife look over and asked why you kept beside you It should place at neat place then lifted up Quran and kept at neat place What is the sign this all happened drm

Answer:

It means give respect to the Quran, raise its reverence, by obeying its commands and avoiding its prohibitions and reverencing the Prophet (s) on whom it descended. Allah knows best.

Taher Siddiqui

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Cave – Heaven & Hell

Question:

I was in a cave, my sis was there, i said to her you think this is heaven but its not, i was worried for her. I then see im in another cave, that cave felt like heaven to me,inside shaykh alyaqoubi was sitting, i was sitting in front of them with other pp

Answer:

The meaning is that sitting with Awliyaullah is heaven for believers on earth, because, as  Ibn `Umar reported that the Prophet (s) said: “When you pass by the Gardens of Paradise, avail yourselves of them.” The Companions asked: “What are the Gardens of Paradise, O Messenger of Allah?” He replied: “The circles of dhikr.” (Tirmidhi)
Hearts of the Awliya are always in constant Dhikr, so attending them is entering one of the Gardens of Paradise on earth. Allah knows best.

Taher Siddiqui

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Permission for dua saifi

Question:

Assalam o alaikum,
How to do online baya?
Secondly, I want permission to recite dua saifi for my husband’s job problem n financial crisis. When should I recite it ,morning or evening? And how much?

Answer:

wa alaykum salam,

For Baya go to Sufilive.com/baya.

See Post “Permission for Dua-e-Saifi

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Ants disturbing dream

Question:

I had a dream that I was walking in the graveyard barefooted singing Salawat. I went to my dead baby’s grave where I saw lots of ants coming out of the grave and near my feet. I saw a queen ant and soldiers ants near my feet and a woodlouse.

Answer:

You will receive a great deal of money inshaAllah. Allah knows best.

Taher Siddiqui

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Beggar

Question:

I am sitting outside someplace (like a beggar) with my baby boy in my lap, i see a hand (dont see the face) put a small peice of food in my babys mouth & i was so happy that my baby was fed,i lift my hands up to the sky &do dua. That dua felt so special

Answer:

Allah is showing you how we are in reality all fuqara, poverty-stricken ones, in His Divine Court and He is providing us with our requiring anything from us.

Taher Siddiqui

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Terrorist attack in masjid Al-Nabwi

Question:

Salam shaykh,

Please interpret the following dream:
I am in Masjid al-Mabawi Medina and somebody opens fire at people, killing masses of people

Waslam

Answer:

It means the elimination of the Sunnah and love of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) in this time by the ‘terrorists’ of aqidah, which is destroying the faith of people in masses, and Allah knows best.

Taher Siddiqui

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Electric tasbih

Question:

I went to an unknown place with my uncles to have ihram made. Mawlana Shaykh Hisham came in and was holding a tasbih of white light, it was like electricity. He told me put something into his brown bag but it wouldn’t fit. Then the bag absorbed it.

Answer: 

Ihram means to purify oneself for akhira. With your sincere intention Mawlana Shaykh Hisham came to purify you and grant you what cannot be measure or imagined in this life or the next of Divine lights, and Allah knows best.

Taher Siddiqui

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Surah Luqman and Yaseen

Question:

In my dream someone like an Imam asked me, I’m here to see him for family problems. I said yes. Then on a piece of paper handed to me had the name surah Luqman and Yassen.
My situation is I’m divorced with a young child. Father refuses to see child.

Answer:

Recite (or read) these two suras as much as possible and blow over your child after. Allah knows best.

Aziz Hussein

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