Question:
assalamualikum, I have once taken online baya with Shaikh Nazim but I couldn’t feel it as an acceptable baya since I took baya before so many people recently I have started a love for reading about tariqa a lot. I spent most of my time in it. I try to find out various wazifas and duas but the problem is when I find I feel very very happy and try to keep it but not able to maintain its recitation. I soon lose heart in it. Since I spend so much time in finding out Sufism & tariqa people unnecessarily see me as a very pious person but in fact I m very weak with my iman. Please help me. Now should I take another baya?
Answer:
wa `alaykum salaam wa rahmatullah, peace of Allah be upon you and His Mercy and Blessings!
Congratulations on your initiation (baya`) which Mawlana Shaykh Nazim is accepting insha-Allah. We recommend you keep connection with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and his deputy Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani via the websites sufilive.com, haqqanisoul.com and naqshbandi.org.
It is not necessary to see any dreams of the shuyukh to confirm your baya`. Rather most important is to begin your wird/awrad and stick to them without fail.
If you are able to visit the Shaykh this is also recommended, but you must inform us before traveling. We have daily transcription of the Shaykhs’ talks in 10 languages at sufilive.com.
Please begin to practice daily the awrad for the beginners, at the Naqshbandi website.
If you have questions that need addressing, post them at eshaykh.com. You may seek to attend congregational Dhikr at the nearest location to you (look up at sufilive.com/centers).
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and Mawlana Shaykh Hisham have a number of books in English language which you may obtain from isn1.net.
Taher Siddiqui