Question:
Assalamu’alaikum dear Shaykhs.
1) I have been doing the daily awrad without fail (although it sometimes feels difficult) since February this year and would like seek permission to progress to the awrad for the prepared. I attend weekly zikir here in Singapore but feel shy to ask the shaykh.
2) I have two aunts who are interested to perform non-obligatory prayers other than salat Tahajjud and Tasbeeh but my mother frowns when I teach them salat like Najat, Shukr, and a few others I learnt as a mureed of Shaykh Nazim. She also said, “My Ustaz taught us just to perform the prayers done by the Prophet (Tahajjud and Tasbeeh) and nothing else that are new inventions.” None of my family actually know that I learnt all this from the Naqshbandi. My aunts are eager to learn and receptive but I need advice how to reply to my mother.
Answer:
Wa `alaykum Salam,
1) Yes you may but after ‘Eid al-Adha.
2) Tell her kindly and respectfully that those prayers are not innovation. This have been passed on from one Shaykh to another Shaykh via a direct chain of transmission from the Prophet s.a.w., with the ijazah or permission been given by the Mufti and Shaykh al-Islam of Cyprus the ‘Arif billah, Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Hanafi al-Haqqani who is renown in the Middle East as a Faqih in Hanafi Fiqh as well as in Shafi’i Fiqh.
Abdul Shakur
